Two suspected dealers in human parts have been arrested in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State by the state police command. The suspects were arrested  Thursday  for allegedly attempting to cart away parts of decomposed of corpses of people from their graves for sale to spiritualists. Saturday Vanguard  reliably gathered that the suspects were caught by residents around Ajia compound in Gambari area of the town ...

Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states may have been bolstered by United States drones stationed in Niamey, Niger Republic. The Nigerian government had deployed thousands of troops to the three states after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in their territories on May 14, 2013. A top intelligence official, who declined to be named due to the ...

In the statement, Mr Abati said President Jonathan “conveys his sincere condolences to the British Prime Minister David Cameron and the British people over this senseless and barbaric act, and shares their grief at this moment.” According to the statement President Jonathan said “a terrorist attack anywhere is an attack on the way of life of all free nations and must be collectively condemned by all persons ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Benue State chapter yesterday flayed President Goodluck Jonathan for giving a directive to the military authorities to release Boko Haram members in detention in a bid to tackle the gradually reducing insurgency in the country. Addressing a press conference in Makurdi, CAN chairman, Archbishop Yiman Orkwar wondered why the president initiated a process he could no ...

A former student of Achebe at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Chief Yemi Ajayi, recalls his lifestyle in a tribute, ‘The Achebe I knew’ I received the news of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s death with  a mixture of sadness and joy. Unlike most people, I wasn’t shocked. What shock could have overwhelmed one at the death of a man who lived for 82 years in a country whose life expectancy for men was recently put at ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a 43-year-old man, Adewale Faboade,  at Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, for the alleged kidnapping and subsequent murder of two missing toddlers in Ketu, Toheeb Adedokun and Falilu Moshood. Faboade and the victims lived at 18, Taike Street, Ikosi, Ketu. Three counts of conspiracy, kidnapping and murder were preferred against Faboade on Monday. The charges were read bef ...

THE federal government, yesterday, disclosed that plans had been concluded to move from the present position of power generation of 4,500 to 10,000 megawatts by December. Speaking when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, led by Senator Phillip Adudua, PDP, FCT, Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab Kuchi, told the senators that the federal government had ...

Facts have emerged as to why the United States president, Senator Barrack Obama, decided not to put Nigeria in the list of the African countries that he will be visiting, as earlier scheduled. These facts came barely forty-eight hours that the White House in Washington, DC released to the press, the details of President Obama’s travel to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. The American president was initial ...

The Kwara State government is  to boost industrialisation and commercialisation with the generation of 100 megawatts of electricity through an IndependentPower Project (IPP). The state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed who made the revelation in a statement by his senior special assistant on media and communication, DrMuyideen Akorede, said the IPP project was the highlight of a package of socio-economic pr ...

The federal government yesterday accused private jet owners of not paying charges they are mandated to pay to the aviation industry, insisting that they must pay their dues according to global standards. “The question is not of taking advantages, it is a question of doing the right thing. Are they paying what they are supposed to pay? The response is no. They are not. But we want to make sure that they do p ...

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, on Wednesday said some soldiers and officers of the Nigerian Army had been arrested for conspiring with insurgents in the ongoing face-off between the military and militants. The COAS however did not give the number of soldiers that were arrested. Ihejirika said that the affected troops were caught while posting comments he described as “negative” and conver ...

The Senior Special Adviser on Public Affairs to the President, Doyin Okupe, said in a statement on Wednesday that the release is part of the recommendation of the Presidential Committee on dialogue and peace in Northern Nigeria. Many Nigerians including the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria had questioned the continued sustenance of the amnesty committee despite the declaration of a State of Emergency i ...

Only one in every five Nigerian spends less than one dollar a day on food, claims new polls by NOI polls. The indigenous polling outfit has also questioned the use of the one-dollar-a-day benchmark to measure standard of living in Nigeria. It said its research indicated that 80% of Nigerians actually spent more than $1 on food. Only 19% fit the dollar-a-day description, said NOI. Researchers in the survey a ...

The Kano State have given reasons for its decision to bring to an end the city’s age-old notoriety as a beggars’ haven. This was disclosed to LEADERSHIP in an exclusive interview with the Commander-General, Kano State Hisbah Board, Ustaz Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, yesterday in Kano. Alhaji Daurawa said that the ban became necessary considering the shocking statistics before the board that 65 percent of the begg ...

Five persons are currently being quizzed by detectives in Lagos for their alleged involvement in human trafficking, including sales of human heads and hands. The five suspects, Jamiu Adeleke, Ajibade Rafiu (aka Dudu), Fatai Akiwowo, Kazeem Sanni and Agboola Kolawole, were arrested on May 15, 2013 in Owode-Yewa, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun state by the detectives attached to the Sepcial Anti-Rob ...

Two crew members of Airk Air were on Monday arrested by the United Kingdom Border Force  for being in possession of substances suspected to be cocaine. A statement by the Head of Press and Public Affairs Section, British High Commission, Rob Fitzpatrick, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of the crew members. He said, “The two, Nigerian women aged 37 and 32, who worked for the airline Arik Air, had arrived on ...

A 40 year-old man, Agboola Kolawole, who was alleged to have sold the heads of four of his late relations at the rate of N8000 each, is among the five suspected human parts sellers that were arrested by the police. The suspects were all rounded up from their hideout at Owode area of Ogun State while trying to sell human hands to police detectives attached to Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). The suspect al ...

A solemn ceremony was held for the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe, at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus on Tuesday where members of the university community said their final farewell to him. Achebe became a professor of English and Literature at the university and remained an emeritus professor there till he passed on last March 21. But the Night of Tributes organised by Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the ...

Emotions ran high, Tuesday, at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, following startling revelations by suspected members of three syndicates, who specialised in selling human parts to herbalists and persons suspected to be clerics. The suspects told a bewildered crowd that human heads were sold for N8,000; hands, N4,000 and private parts N10,000. One of them, Agboola Kolawole, who blamed his indulgence on pov ...

The Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, has said that the FCT administration would sponsor 1,500 pilgrims for the 2013 Christian pilgrimage. Akinjide disclosed this during a sensitisation visit to her office by the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Mr JohnKennedy Opara and his management team. She commended the leadership of ...