On January 24, rampaging gunmen\kidnappers suspected to be Fulani herders abducted three police officers detailed to respond to a distress call in Delta State. The authorities drafted the police officers at a nipping point in Ohoror community, Ughelli North Local…
Farmers-herders clash: IPOB rejects Tinubu’s call for Govs to donate lands
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday vehemently opposed the call by President Bola Tinubu for governors to donate lands for grazing as a measure to address the farmer-herders’ conflicts. In a swift response to Tinubu’s suggestion, IPOB vowed…
Delta councillor shot by suspected herdsmen dies days after
The Local Government Councillor representing Ward 5 in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Hon. Jude Adjekpogu, who was shot by suspected Fulani herdsmen some days ago is dead. The PUNCH gathered that the councillor died in the…
*Lagos couple ram car into shops, pay for 9 coffins (Punch)*Ataga: Lagos Court told how Chidinma sold late super TV boss’ Laptop (Guardian)
Lagos couple ram car into shops, pay for 9 coffins (Punch) A yet-to-be-identified man and a woman suspected to be his wife, on Monday, escaped death by a whisker after ramming into two coffin shops around the Ikorodu General Hospital,…
Be my Val with AK-47 – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Love at gunpoint. That is the mantra in Nigeria today. It was Valentine’s Day on the Sunday but the news all over the land was of Fulani herdsmen storming from the forests with AK47, kidnapping, raping and killing. How can…
US-based Nigerian escapes from kidnappers’ den, aids gang members’ arrest
A United States of America-based Nigerian has reportedly escaped from kidnappers’ den after turning the heat against one of his captors and beating him to a pulp. The man, identified simply as Chinweizu, was said to have been abducted on…
Fulani herdsmen stab selves over missing cows in Imo (Punch)
There was panic in Agbala in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State on Tuesday after two Fulani herdsmen were stabbed during a quarrel between them. The two herdsmen, who were rushed to the emergency unit of the Federal…
Police arrest suspected abductor of OAU lecturer (Punch)
The Osun State Police Command, on Tuesday, said one of the suspected abductors of Prof. Olayinka Adegbehingbe, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, had been arrested. Adegbehingbe, who was returning to Ile-Ife from Lagos on Sunday, May…
Buhari shocks Nigerians again on herdsmen attack (Punch)
President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrated his cluelessness afresh on Sunday when he blamed herders’ act of horrific violence on the shrinking Lake Chad and alleged biased media reports. His narrow narrative seeks vainly to explain away the campaign of terror and…
Herdsmen planning to kill me – Ortom cries out (SUN)
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has again raised the alarm that Fulani herdsmen were planning to kidnap, torture and kill him. The claimed that the herdsmen’s plan is billed to be hatched along Makurdi-Lafia-Abuyja highway. Ortom disclosed this, on…