The Police in Ecuador have launched a manhunt for a convicted gang leader who has vanished from his prison cell. Adolfo MacÃas Villamar, better known as “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful gang which is thought to have been behind some of the deadly prison riots in recent months. He was being…
A senior commander with the Islamist Hezbollah movement has been reportedly killed in an apparent Israeli drone attack in southern Lebanon According to reports the commander was attacked while driving in the Khirbet Selm area Meanwhile the International Rescue Committee says it has pulled its medics from the only functioning hospital in central Gaza The…
Minutes after President Tinubu approved the suspension of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited Betta Edu, to its headquarters in Abuja. The invitation came less than 30 minutes the President; Bola Tinubu announced Edu’s immediate suspension from office through his Special Adviser to the…
The commencement of police recruitment in Anambra State has prompted the Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye, to emphasize the crucial need for transparency and professionalism in the selection process of new officers. Addressing the recruitment board at the Police Headquarters in Awka, Anambra State he highlighted the significance of maintaining a fair and merit-based…
The police in Abia State have arrested one of the contestants to the Arochukwu traditional stool in Abia State, Godwin Kanu Idei, over alleged impersonation. There has been a raging tussle for the stool between Idei and Pastor Eberechukwu Oji. The tussle has created tension in Arochukwu Kingdom, with youths and women protesting the situation….
Abia State Government says a ban placed on the annual convention of the Apostolic Christian Church Mission in Aba, is still in place. The annual convention of the church, which holds every January in Aba, has not been held in recent times following the leadership crisis that has engulfed the church. Following the crisis, the…
The former Director General of Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organization, Doyin Okupe, has resigned from the Labour Party, LP. Okupe anchored his resignation on ideological differences that emerged after the 2023 elections. He explained that his lifelong alignment with right-wing and liberal democratic principles clashed with LP’s left-of-center ideology, making continued membership untenable. In a…
Except for any last minute intervention, Globacom subscribers may be unable to make calls to MTN lines, due to the non-settlement of interconnect charges. The Nigerian Communications Commission said this on Monday in a notice signed by Director, Public Affairs Department, Reuben Muoka. According to the notice, the commission granted partial approval for the disconnection…
The Okoli’s family of Obiofia Umuenem, Otolo Nnewi, gathered together on Sunday, 7th January in a remembrance service of their Late father. Chief Isaac Okoli(Udeohimili Nnewi) exactly 10years on sunday, left the land of the living, but warmly remembered and celebrated by his wife, offsprings, grandchildren, friends and inlaws as a symbol of the forever…
A court in China ruled on Monday that two youmg men, kung fu coaches who were arrested in 2023 for a 1997 poisoning that killed seven youngsters be given death sentences. Due to a disagreement over business with the school’s boss, the guys poisoned meals at a martial arts school in the eastern Anhui Province…
