BY GODWIN OBI The Catholic priest in charge of St Anthony’s Parish, Angware community in Jos East Local Government Area of Plateau State, Rev James Kantoma, has been kidnapped by gunmen with the abductors demanding a N50m ransom. Frontline Reporters gathered that the priest was abducted on Sunday night atContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Kanwan Katsina District Head of Ketare Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara has commended a non-governmental organization Voice of the Masses (Murayar Talaka) for organizing its 11th Annual National Conference in Katsina. Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara ‘mni’ was speaking as the Royal Father of the occasion which wasContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The National grid on Sunday Evening collapsed for the fourth time in 2023. A nationwide outage occurred Sunday evening as the power grid crashed to zero with power bulbs fluctuating. This is about the fourth time the country, will be experiencing a system collapse this year withContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Suspected armed herdsman in the early hours of Sunday, allegedly killed about thirty persons in two communities of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State in what has been described as unprovoked attacks on civilians. Police Public Relations Officer for the Benue State Command, Deputy Superintendent ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI At least three persons have died with several others injured following a ravaging of houses by a rainstorm in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. The rainstorm started on Saturday and lasted till Sunday, a situation that forced many houses to cave and their roofs wereContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Bandits have abducted no fewer than 50 wedding guests travelling along the Sokoto-Zamfara road. Those abducted include Telephone Marketers at the popular Bebeji Plaza in Gusau. They were returning to Gusau after attending a wedding of their colleague in Sokoto State when the incident happened between Tureta-BakuraContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Crisis was averted on Saturday at the new Benin market in Edo state as traders clashed with some members of Hausa community in the area. The incident which trended on various social media platforms gave various versions of the story as people were warned not to goContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Ebonyi state governor Dave Umahi, has taken a swipe on the country’s political setting, saying it is skewed against his ethnic Igbo people. Governor Umahi who was one of the presidential aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC but lost in the contest contends that theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation via a live broadcast at 7:00 am on Sunday. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this during a morning briefing at a radio house in Abuja where he detailed activities to mark this year’s Democracy Day celebration. He said theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A Federal High Court in Abuja has acquitted and discharged Mrs. Ochuko Momoh, wife of a former Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Haruna Momoh and five others on money laundering related charges. In a judgment delivered on Thursday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo held that theContinue Reading