Various media/news websites reported on Sunday that award-winning author, Chimamanda Adichie lost her sister. According to the reports, a 40-year-old woman, Nkiru Okoye, was attacked and killed by assailants in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The deceased, a wife of a mechanical engineer, Emenike Okoye, was reported to have been lynched while her husband was brutalised, over the ownership of some disputed landed property. The reports making waves on the Internet claimed...

By Anastasia Mbaebie (Staff Reporter)   Governor Chukwuma Soludo has promised to do everything humanly possible to end all activities of human trafficking in Anambra State. He said his administration through the State Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, was already in partnership with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), to achieve the said purpose. Soludo, who made the promise through his Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Hon. Ify...

Thespians, Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel have been reported missing. The Actors Guild of Nigeria’s (AGN) Director of Communications, Monalisa Chinda, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, 29 July. According to Chinda, the families of the victims had confirmed that they didn’t return from a film location at Ozalla Town in Enugu state. Given the spate of insecurity in the country, Chinda said the actors are suspected to have been kidnapped. “Two members of...

The Nigeria Police Force has vowed to continue to sustain the fight against cybercrimes and other related offenses in the country. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi revealed this via the Force Twitter handle @PoliceNG. According to the post, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, made this known while applauding the appointment of DCP Uche Henry, Head of Cybercrime Investigation Unit, INTERPOL NCB Abuja, as the Vice Chairman of Africa Heads of...

By Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)   Suspected bandits have kidnapped no fewer than 36 residents of Keke B Area of New Millennium City in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that the attackers invaded the community around 9:00pm Monday night when many residents were yet to return from work. A resident, who confirmed the attack, told LEADERSHIP said men of the Millennium City Police Division were still in the area...

ABUJA — Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the terrorists’ threat to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari is mere propaganda. The minister said this on Wednesday when he addressed journalists after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting. A viral video was released in Sunday by insurgents suspected to be members of Boko Haram. In the video,the group threatened to abduct the president and Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state. Reacting to this, the minister described the...

A bill seeking to establish the national commission for the coordination and control of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons has been passed by the Senate. The proposed legislation is a consolidation of three bills. It was passed by the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday after Ibrahim Gobir, chairman of the committee on national security and intelligence, presented a report. One of the bills was proposed by the executive and the other two...