Mrs. Ibukunoluwa Otesile, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Lekan Babatunde, General Overseer of Jesus Is King Ministries, has regained her freedom days after she was abducted by armed men in the Akobo area of Ibadan, Oyo State. Otesile, who also serves as the 2025 President of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ibadan Elite, was kidnapped on…
Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, was on Thursday rushed to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yenagoa, after collapsing suddenly in his office at the Government House. The incident reportedly occurred in the early afternoon, causing panic among aides, security personnel, and staff within the administrative wing. According to sources at the Government House,…
Eight male students of the University of Jos have been confirmed dead following a fatal road crash involving a trailer and a commercial bus in the early hours of Thursday along Zaria Road, opposite Unity Bank in Jos, Plateau State. The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m., with eyewitnesses reporting that the bus—which had eleven occupants—was…
In a decisive escalation of Nigeria’s Security Strategy, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the immediate training, arming, and Nationwide deployment of Forest Guards in a bid to crush the growing wave of kidnapping, banditry, and terrorist activity that have plagued rural and forested areas across the Country. The directive, issued through a statement by…
A devastating early-morning accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday claimed the lives of a father, mother and their young child, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has confirmed. Two other people were left critically injured. According to LASTMA’s Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment, Adebayo Taofiq, the crash occurred near Secretariat, inward Otedola…
On a calm May evening in 2020, as Nigeria struggled under the tension and uncertainty of a Nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, 20-year-old Rinji “Ceejay” Bala stepped out for a simple stroll with two friends. It was a brief attempt to escape the suffocating monotony of isolation. Instead, it became the final walk of his life. Nearly…
The Nigerian Army has strongly denied swirling reports alleging that soldiers attached to the Commander of the 23 Brigade opened fire on women protesters during a disturbance in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State. In an official statement released on Tuesday in Yola, Capt. Olusegun Abidoye, spokesperson for the 23 Brigade, described the online…
A Private Ambulance Driver was arrested on Monday by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) after a high-speed, against-traffic maneuver left a delivery motorcyclist with a serious knee fracture on the Odo Iya-Alaro Bridge inward Maryland along Ikorodu Road, Lagos. According to LASTMA spokesperson Adebayo Taofiq, the crash occurred amid heavy congestion caused by…
Relief and jubilation swept through Niger State on Monday as about 100 children kidnapped from St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri last month were safely reunited with their families. The children arrived in Minna in a convoy of minibuses flanked by Military vans and armoured vehicles, greeted by parents, Local Officials, and Governor Umar Bago….
Residents of Bayagan-Ile in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State have accused Security Agencies of maintaining what they describe as a “worrying silence” following the abduction of their monarch, Kamilu Salami, the Ojibara of Bayagan-Ile. The traditional ruler was seized by armed bandits on 29 November 2025, an attack that has left the agrarian…
