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 (0 Likes)  The death toll in Saturday herders attack on the Island community of Epogi, Gbara ward in Mokwa local government area of Niger state has risen to 27, Daily Trust learnt on Tuesday. Director General of the state emergency management agency, Malam Ahmed Ibrahim Inga said report from the native indicated that four bodies were recovered floating on the river on Sunday. Inga also said that two among the six natives wounded during the attack died on Monday thereby bringing the casualty figure to 27. It would be recalled that 20 people were killed, when herders attacked the community, while seven people sustained various degrees of injuries and were taken to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Bida out of which one died the same day thereby bringing the figure to 21. Inga said the community leaders were still unable to account for many natives especially children. “From their account some people especially children are still missing”, he stated. Meanwhile ...

The Chief Medical Director, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof Akeem Lasisi, has testified that the late senator representing Osun-West senatorial district, Chief Isiaka Adeleke, died of an overdose of banned injections. Testifying before a coroner, Mr Olusegun Ayilara, in Osogbo, on Monday, Lasisi, who spoke from the witness box, said the Chief Medical Director of Biket Hospital, Osogbo, Dr Adebisi Adenle, called him on the telephone on April 23 to tell him that Adeleke had died. Lasisi, who said he saw Adeleke’s corpse on a table at LAUTECH’s morgue, added that a pathologist, one Dr Solaja; two resident doctors, who are also pathologists; the Officer in Charge of Homicide, Osun State Police Command; Divisional Police Officer, Dugbe Police Station, Osogbo; and the Consultant Pathologist, LAUTECH, were all present when an autopsy was carried out on Adeleke. The CMD told the court that one of the aides of the late senator told him that...

Chelsea FC celebrated their English Premier League title triumph with a hard-earned 4-3 victory over Watford on Monday at Stamford Bridge. Antonio Conte and his players were able to take the acclaim on a lap of honour after the final whistle in an ill-tempered but thrilling encounter. But they were made to work for the win by a fired-up and physical Watford. John Terry, who will leave at the end of the season after more than two decades at the club, set the ball rolling with an unusual event. He celebrated his first league start since September by scoring Chelsea’s 100th goal in all competitions this term after 22 minutes. Terry then gifted Watford’s Etienne Capoue an instant equaliser with a poor header. Cesar Azpilicueta then saved him the blushes when he restored Chelsea’s lead with a crisp finish before half-time. The contest appeared to be over when Michy Batshuayi, whose goal at West Brom on Friday kept the title in the bag, added a third just after the b...

A Nigerian-born neurosurgeon, Prof Wale Sulaiman, on Saturday, said he had successfully performed a minimally invasive spine surgery. Sulaiman, who is from Ajase-Ipo, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, added that it was the first time the MIS technique had ever been performed in Sub-Saharan Africa. The medical practitioner told our correspondent in Ilorin, the state capital, that the surgery was performed at EuraCare Specialist Hospital in Victoria Island, Lagos State. He said, “The surgery went successfully and the patient had immediate relief of his symptoms, walking on day one after surgery.” Sulaiman, a world-renowned professor of neurosurgery from Ochsner Health System in the United States, explained that MIS surgery was a modern surgical treatment of back/leg pain and neck/arm pain. He added that patients recover quickly and can return to their daily activities faster. The neurosurgeon described minimally invasive technique as the future of spine surg...

As the three-man Committee set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to unravel the circumstances surrounding the placement and discovery of $43million, N23m and £27,000 from an Ikoyi apartment is set to submit its report tomorrow,  information suggests that, whereas Mrs Folasade Oke, wife of the   suspended Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA,   Ambassador Ayo Oke, paid  $1.6m cash for Flat 7B, Osborne Towers, the apartment was immediately transferred to the intelligence agency. The disclosure about the nature of payment by Mrs Oke was made in an affidavit, in support of the application for final forfeiture of the sums, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. During one of the Committee’s sessions, according to sources close to its activities, members were  made to understand that Mrs Oke may not have had knowledge of the details of the contents of the flat she allegedly bought for the spy agency. Headed by ...

82 kidnapped Chibok girls have been released. After lengthy negotiations, Nigeria's security agencies have taken back these girls, in exchange for some Boko Haram suspects held by the authorities. The released #ChibokGirls are due to arrive in Abuja tomorrow Sunday May 7, and will be received by the President. In a press statement released by Garba Sheu,  the senior special assistant to the President, President Muhammadu Buhari expresses his deep gratitude to all who played a part in ensuring the success of this operation, as follows: Security agencies, the military, the Government of Switzerland, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and local and international NGOs. The President again repeatedly expresses his total commitment towards ensuring the safe return of the #ChibokGirls, and all other Boko Haram captives. The President received detailed briefings from the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) at every stage of the negotiations/operation...

The Redeemed Christian Church of God has announced the death of the Assistant General Overseer and Pastor-in-charge of RCCG, West African coast, Pastor Olu Obanure. Obanure became the Assistant General Overseer in charge of Establishment following his investiture at the 64th Annual Convention of the church last August. According to a statement announcing Obanure’s demise and signed by the church’s Head, Media & Public Relations, Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, the AGO died on Tuesday May 2, 2017 at the age of 65. He had operated from Ghana. The statement had read: “Pastor Olu Obanure was appointed the assistant general overseer in charge of Establishment during the 64th Annual Convention of the Mission in August 2016. “He had served the Mission in such various capacities as the special assistant to the general overseer (Admin/Personnel) pastor-in charge of West Coast with base in Accra Ghana and as the provincial pastor, Northern Provin...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday joined Muslim faithful to observe the Juma’at prayers inside a mosque located inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari was joined for the two-rakat prayers by top government officials including the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello; and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.

The Police have arraigned the former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, at a Dutse high court on Tuesday over alleged inciting comments. Lamido was on Sunday arrested by the police over an allegation that he made inciting and inflammatory remarks capable of threatening the peace of the state. Read also: Ex governor Lamido detained for inciting comments Lamido was arrested at his Kano residence by police officers from Zone I, Kano. On arrival at Zone 1, BUK Road, Kano, Lamido was allegedly shown the DVD of the purported inciting recording which he allegedly made to his Peoples Democratic Party supporters in Jigawa, in April 2017.

Former delegates to the 2014 National Conference are currently meeting in Abuja. The meeting, which is being chaired by Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, is also being attended by former delegates from the six geo-political zones of the country. The former delegates are currently debating how to convince the Federal Government to look at the reports of the conference and implement them. Former President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the conference whose reports was also submitted to him before the 2015 elections. The All Progressives Congress which defeated the Peoples Democratic Party, did not send delegates to the conference. The APC said then that it would not implement the outcome of the conference, which it described as a jamboree. Details soon… Copyright -The Punch

The Department of State Services says a Federal Government agency is protecting a former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Kingsley Kuku, who is wanted for allegedly sponsoring Niger Delta militants. Top sources within the DSS said Kuku, who had been in the United States since 2015, was being aided by the Federal Government agency to escape justice. According to the DSS, the agency aiding Kuku claims to be probing him but is in fact doing the opposite. Although the intelligence agency did not name the agency, it had been reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had been probing the former presidential aide for sometime. The DSS said, “It is sad to note that, in the course of our investigation, we discovered that an agency, which is also saddled with an investigative authority, is rather creating a platform for criminal fugitives. “We discovered, in particular, a fugitive, who is widely known to have looted our c...

One of Nigeria’s most prominent Muslim leaders is under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement, fuelling rumours that some want him removed after he made a series of comments about the need for social reforms. Anti-corruption investigators are looking into the accounts of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, following allegations of gross mismanagement of royal finances. “We have gone far in the investigation… to safeguard the honour and prestige of the emirate council,” the head of the anti-corruption unit in the northern state of Kano, Muhyi Magaji, said. The treasurer and secretary of the state-funded royal court have been summoned for questioning on Tuesday, he added. A source familiar with the investigation said the probe centred on the use of six billion naira ($19 million, 17 million euros) of palace funds to pay for luxury cars, chartered flights, phone and internet bills as well as other personal expenses. The council has denied the allegatio...