A court in India has sentenced to death a record 38 people for a deadly terror attack in the Indian city of Ahmedabad in 2008, in which up to 20 bombs were set off across the city in hospitals, shopping centres and parks, leaving 56 dead. It was the first time so […]
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Anambra Police Command Reacts to Fatal Accident at Police Check-point, Ihiala
The Anambra State Police Command has reacted to the fatal accident which occurred at the Ihiala axis of the Onitsha-Owerri Road, Ihiala local government area of the state, on Friday, 18th February, 2022. Two lives were lost while 9 other persons sustained various degrees of injury in the road crash […]
Anambra Police Commissioner Seeks Traditional Rulers Support Assist Police in Combating Insecurity
Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Echeng Echeng, says traditional rulers have vital roles to.play in the fight against crimes and criminality. The Police Commissioner said one of the ways of doing this is for the traditional rulers to use their positions to open channels of communication to their subjects in […]
Nigeria Sprint Star, Okagbare Banned for 10 Years for Doping
Nigeria’s Olympic sprinter and 2008 long jump silver medallist, Blessing Okagbare has been banned for 10 years for doping.The disciplinary tribunal of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced this in a statement on Friday.According to the AIU, Okagbare got a five-year ban for the presence and use of multiple prohibited […]
Canadian Police Begin Operation to Clear Covid-19 Trucker-Protests
Weeks after ‘trucker-led” protests against Covid health rules broke out in Canada, the Canadian police on Friday began a massive operation to clear the protest – which had been clogging the capital, Ottawa for three weeks – with several arrests made and trucks towed away. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” started […]
Nigeria Records 39 new Cases of Covid 19
Nigeria yesterday recorded 39 new cases of Covid 19. According to the Nigeria center for Disease Control, the new cases were reported from 3 states and the federal capital territory. A breakdown of the cases show:Lagos recorded 25 cases,Rivers-6Delta-4FCT-4 Till date254,221 cases have been confirmed,230,549 discharged and3,142 deaths recorded.
Nigeria, Five Other African Countries Selected for Production of Covid-19 Vaccine
Nigeria has been chosen, alongside five other African countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) to begin production of COVID-19 vaccines. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made this announcement at the African Union summit in Brussels, Belgium on Friday. According to Tedros, the move was part of a global mRNA […]
Lagos Shuts Down School Over Flogging of 2-Year Old
Just days after the Delta State Government shut down a primary school in Asaba owing to the death of a 19-month-old pupil, Obinna Udeze, who died after being flogged by his teacher, the Lagos state government has sealed “Unic Vilos Montessori School,” Maza Maza, over the flogging of a two-year-old […]
Two Persons Killed as Truck Rams into Cars at Filling Station
Two persons – an adult and a little child have lost their lives after an unidentified driver of an orange Mercedes 911 truck with registration number: UWZ556XA, rammed into six other vehicles at Ken Maduako’s oil and gas filling station along the Ihiala-Onitsha road in Anambra on Friday. The accident […]
Anambra Court Reinstalls Chief Oliver Afamuefuna as President General, Agulu People’s Union
Months after the installation of a caretaker committee by the government to oversee activities in Agulu, the court sitting in Neni, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra on Friday (18th February) reinstalled Chief Oliver Afamuefuna as the authentic President General of Agulu People’s Union (APU). According to the court’s judgment, […]