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Gunmen ambushed a vehicle and burnt to death 21 passengers travelling from Sabon Birni Local Government Area in Sokoto State on Monday. Some of the passengers including children who were traveling from Sabon Birni to Isa near the Nigerian border with Niger were burnt to death. Sokoto Police spokesperson, Sanusi Abubakar said several others are being treated in a hospital for severe burns. Although another account suggests the number of those killed is around 30 but police are yet to state casualty figures. Some reports said the attackers deliberately set the vehicle on fire burning the occupants alive while another…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has bowed out after 16 years in power, following the election of Olaf Scholz by German parliament as the next leader of the Europe’s biggest economy. Merkel formally handed over the reins to her successor on Wednesday afternoon, in a bittersweet goodbye. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier formally appointed Scholz as Merkel’s successor on Wednesday after the parliament elected him chancellor. “It will be a new beginning for our country. In any case, I will do everything to work towards that,” the 63-year-old said as he took his oath of office in an official handover ceremony in the…

One person survived as General Bipin Rawat, his wife, Madhulika and 11 others on board an Indian Air Force helicopter died in a crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. They were en route from an air force base to a hillside military college in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the Russian-made Mi-17V5 helicopter came down near the town of Coonoor. Local television footage showed rescuers and army personnel carrying bodies up steep slopes from the mangled wreckage. Only one of the 14 people on board survived and was in hospital with injuries. “With deep regret, it…

Tears flowed Tuesday afternoon at Grammar School Bus stop, along Ogba-ojodu Berger Road Lagos when a delivery truck rammed killing some students and injuring others. The truck was chased by officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency LASTMA when the truck driver who attempted to escape from the officials crushed the students and injured others. After the accident, according to an eyewitness, the truck driver fled the scene but was caught at Ogba close to Excellence Hotel, where irate commuters set the truck ablaze. Read also Outrage As Accidental Discharge By NSCDC Official Hits Teenager In Akwa Ibom  Two Women…

Five students and three staffers of Dowen College now police custody are being quizzed over the death of the 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu,has stated. At first Odumosu said two other students of the school linked with the assault, were at large, but another police source has confirmed arrest of eight now in police custody helping the Command to determine the cause of the boy’s death. Oromoni’s death has sparked outrage from many Nigerians, with the Lagos State government announcing the closure and sealing off of the school last week. The Lagos police boss also said that the…

A former Nigerian Ambassador to Russian Federation and Belarus, Chief Assam Assam, SAN, has declared that Nigeria is yet to have political parties geared towards ideological leaning and principles to better the lots of the electorate. Assam who was the Chairman of occasion at the 2021 Press Week by Akwa Ibom Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Monday, December 6 said he was not oblivious of more than 100 political parties in Nigeria that took part in the 2019 General Elections in the country. However, the Ambassador who is a Peoples Democratic Party chief in Akwa Ibom said political parties…

The Executive Director of International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), Dayo Aiyetan has opened up on the reason his organisation rejected grant from a foreign body. Aiyetan who was the lead discussant at the Press Week of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Akwa Ibom State Council on the theme: National Unity, General elections: The role of Journalism on Monday hinted how he rejected a $200,000 grant from a foreign body after the application had been approved for what he perceived as  ‘undue editorial interference.’ According to him, the organization wanted him to always send any investigative story done by his organisation…

The Lagos State Police Command admitted to be investigating the death of eight children, whose bodies were recovered in a Lexus Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) van in the Badagry area of Lagos State. The children, mostly between four and six years old, were reportedly found dead when a parent was looking for her child. Spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, who confirmed the incident to Channels Television via a statement noted that their bodies were found locked in the vehicle parked on Adelayo Street in the Jah-Michael area of Badagry. “Their bodies have been recovered and…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says that it would take action of strike if the Federal Government’s fails to meet its demand in the next 48 hours. Lecturers in the country had threatened to embark on another strike following the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action the federal government signed with the union, upon which last year’s strike action was suspended. The union’s National Executive Council meeting at the University of Abuja on November 13 and 14. ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said despite meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige on  October 14, 2021, on  issues…

The Interim Administrator of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Effiong Akwa says rotational Presidency may not allow for the emergence of quality leadership in the country. Akwa who was a keynote speaker in this year’s Press Week of the Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) said it would not be proper to zero mind on the Presidency with emphasis place, tribe or religion without thinking of good leadership. Speaking on the theme: Politics, National Unity and the Quest for Credible Elections: The Role of Journalism, he said this would lessen the emergence of quality leadership from…