ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesA Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar has convicted and sentenced Uduak Etim Udo, a 39-year-old man, to life imprisonment for raping an 8-year-old girl. Udo was sentenced on Tuesday, 24 February 2026, by Hon. Justice Blessing Egwu of the State High Court. The convict committed the crime in March 2025 in…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Emmanuel Ntekim The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 29-year-old resident pastor of Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel, to death by hanging for the murder of his landlord, Gabriel Bassey Edward. Delivering judgment on Thursday, February 19, 2026, Justice Gabriel Ette convicted Prince Emmanuel…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Emmanuel Ntekim The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has recorded another breakthrough in its ongoing crackdown on violent crime with the recovery of firearms and the arrest of two suspects in Mkpat Enin. Police operatives, acting on credible intelligence, raided a suspected criminal hideout on February 18, 2026, at about 1:00 p.m. in…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesTerrorists kill scores in Niger, abduct many ●Recently freed Papiri School students among abductees Terrorists late Saturday killed no fewer than 40 persons and abducted many others in Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, various media outlets, including Sky News, TheCable, and Premium Times report. Among those kidnapped by the Islamists were…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse – By Soney Antai, serial award-winning columnist Armed Forces Remembrance Day Without any attempt at patronising the military profession, the fact, so far as I am concerned, remains that soldiering is one of the riskiest occupations on Mother Earth. In spite of the prestige of the uniform, privilege of having the license…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares ADC slams FG for allegedly aiding banditry by paying abductors African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Nigerian federal government of encouraging banditry by striking deals with its perpetrators, rather than bringing them before the law. The party’s spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme, Wednesday, alleged that the federal…
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ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNigeria’s insecurity has never been this bad – Afenifere rues The pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, has described the roiling insecurity crisis in the country as the worst since independence in 1960. The group’s leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, said this through Otunba Kole Omololu, the group’s National Organising Secretary, at the 25th anniversary of the Arewa…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesInsecurity escalation: Katsina shuts public schools As insecurity spreads across the country, particularly in the North, the Katsina State Government has, as preemptive measure, shut down all public schools. The State’s Commissioner of Basic and Secondary Education, Yusuf Sulaiman Jibia, disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Katsina. He explained that the measure became necessary…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Kanu: one judgment, 2 opposite reactions ●Justice served – FG ●We are going on appeal – Defence consultant Nnamdi Kanu’s terrorism trial legal consultant, Aloy Ejimakor, has faulted yesterday’s conviction of the leader of the banned Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) on all charges relating to terrorism. A federal high court sitting in…
