The negotiations between the Federal Government and the abductors of no fewer than 68 Abuja-Kaduna train passengers may have deadlocked following the insistence of the gunmen on the release of their commanders in exchange for the abductees. It was learnt that the gang insisted on a swap of their men in custody with the passengers kidnapped during an attack on the train at Katari, Kaduna, on March 28. According to The Punch, the Federal Government...

ABUJA — The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)  Director of Public Affairs (DPA), Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde has alerted telecom consumers and members of the public on an ongoing cyber-vulnerability that allows a nearby hacker to unlock vehicles, start their engines wirelessly and make away with them. Adinde who made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja quoted the latest advisory released by the Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) established by the NCC. The...

By Emmanuel Chigbata ( Staff Reporter) Suspected arsonists have burnt down Idemili North Local Government secretariat in Ogidi and a Magistrate Court in the area too. Sources said the arsonists entered the premises on Sunday night to perpetrate the act, burning down all files, and properties in the secretariat, including the secretariat building. Videos and pictures circulating online also showed that the entire buildings were reduced to rubbles, while vehicles parked inside the local government...

A man has shared his personal experience of how he was almost killed for blasphemy in Sokoto as a junior secondary school student in 2007. This comes in the wake of the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, over blasphemy in the early hours of Thursday, May 12. Taking to the microblogging platform, Twitter, the man, with the handle @ChinonsoOK, narrated that he was almost...

YOLA — Three suspected kidnappers have been killed in a gun duel with Police and the Hunters at Husa Mountain of Kulinyi district in Hong local government area of Adamawa state. HUSA Mountain connects part of Kala’a, Mijili, and Mutuku Villages in Hong local government area. It was gathered that two other suspected kidnappers were arrested alive by the Hunters. It was further learnt that before they encounter a member of the hunter called Ayaga...