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Again, the security circle in Calabar, capital of Cross River State in Nigeria’s South-south, has been thrown into grief following the killing of four police officers by unknown gunmen on Thursday. Cross River police spokesperson, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the killing of the officers, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported. The officers were reportedly killed along MCC Road, Calabar, though their identity and details surrounding the killings are not yet known. In December 2020, an assistant commissioner of police, Egbe Edum, was brutally killed with a machete by some yet-to-be-identified hoodlums in Calabar. Ms Ugbo, a deputy superintendent of police, said…

The whereabouts of Salihu Tanko Yakassai, Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State, remains unknown. Yakassai was relieved of his appointment over what government alleged as his continued unguarded comments and utterances which are deemed contrary to the stand of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government which he is serving. Recall that he had on Friday, February 26, via his Twitter handle, called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to either deal with bandits in the country or resign from office. He stated this on Twitter while reacting to the abduction of 317 schoolgirls in…

An Akwa Ibom-born educationist, Emmanuel Abraham, says he has helped in curbing rural-urban drift bedevilling many Nigerian communities owing to dearth of basic social amenities coupled with white collar job. Abraham, the proprietor of Topfaith University, Mkpatak in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, talked boldly that he has reversed the trend from rural-urban drift to urban-rural drift through establishment of top-flight schools in his village. Abraham, a PH.d holder bared his mind at the book launch, Village Boy by Anietie Usen, multiple-award winning journalist held at Sheergrace Arena, Uyo in Akwa Ibom on Friday, February 26.…

Ivory Coast has become the second country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines via COVAX, the global vaccine-sharing programme. The vaccines, 504,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India, arrived on Friday in the commercial capital, Abidjan, paving the way for the West African nation to launch a vaccination campaign next week. Ghana received the first COVAX shipment on Wednesday, marking the start of what the WHO and UNICEF call the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. By the end of 2021, COVAX plans to deliver nearly two billion doses to more…

A Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho, Friday, escaped purported arrest by a detachment of security operatives. The ambush led by a team of 40 security operatives comprising of officers of the Department of Security Service (DSS), Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police along Lagos/Ibadan expressway. As the security operatives wanted to waylay him on his way to Lagos, but Igboho was seen pulling off his shirt and going bare on the Lagos-Ibadan Highway. Some hefty youths were seen escorting him while the security men stood aghast looking as the man was led away from the scene. Femi Fani-Kayode revealed the failed ambush…

A Benue man in Nigeria has regretted cutting off part of his genitals to stem his libido. Terhemen Anongo, popularly called Doc K or Bob Korna, is a resident of Gboko in Benue State. He thought since he could not control his insatiable thirst for women, he had to heed the Biblical advice by cutting off what causes him to commit fornication. Anongo is popularly called Doctor K since he was a student of the University of Ibadan Medical School. He dropped out in his final year in 2007 owing to psychiatric reasons and has been living alone in his father’s…

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Thursday, showed profuse excitement for pioneering herbal cure for the deadly COVID-19. So far, the pandemic has killed more than 2.5 million people globally and 1891 Nigerians. As a result, some advanced countries depending on the variants of COVID-19 have proffered COVAX, MODERNA and other vaccines to curb the ravaging virus. However, Ooni while unveiling herbal drugs for the treatment of Coronavirus said the Federal Government is aware of the drug and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved it.  The drugs were researched and produced by…

Fear has gripped the people of Zamfara State in Nigeria as 317 girls were abducted by unknown gunmen early Friday, February 26, Zamfara Police Command has confirmed. The girls were abducted from Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe in Jangebe, Zamfara State in Nigeria. Straightnews had earlier reported Friday that more than 200 school girls were abducted by the suspected gunmen. Zamfara State Police Commissioner, Abutu Yaro  said a joint search and rescue operation is already underway with a view to rescuing the 317 students kidnapped by the gunmen. The team comprises the Force Commander of Operations, Hadarin Daji; Major-General…

Nigeria, one of the populous African countries, is said to be on its knees due some challenges facing her. Ray Ekpu, a one-time Chief Executive Officer/Editor-In-Chief of Newswatch magazine, stated this at a book launch, Village Boy written by Anietie Usen in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Friday, said some people have ganged up to bring the country to its knees. Ekpu, a frontline journalist and a one-time world-acclaimed editor, lamented that some leaders especially politicians have brought hoodoo on Nigeria. ”Politicians have brought down Nigeria. The country was not like this. I was born at a time the country…

Courage Mbon Roll the drums people, because on this day, about 21,900 days ago, Aniekpeno  Mkpanang was born. So, raise a glass. Join me and celebrate a man whose 720 months on earth are worth a million light years in space. Celebrate with me, a man whose 3,120 weeks on Earth have been dedicated to excellent service. I remember him from the late 90s, before the glitz and glamour, before his culture of excellence conferred immortality on his works, and by extension, him, I remember vividly. I remember his velvet voice filtering through our four battery radio and filling up…