The Plateau state police command has announced a ban on Eid prayers at the popular Eid praying grounds in the state and issued guidelines for a hitch-free Sallah celebration. This is contained in a press release signed and made available to journalists by the command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Ubah Gabriel Ogaba on Thursday. He said “the decision is a sequel to meeting held today with security chiefs, religious leaders and other relevant stakeholders in...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has warned against large purchase of Hydrxoychloroquine to treat the novel Coronavirus, saying the drug had not been certified for use. Mr Mustapha Boss, the Chairman of PTF and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), said this at the PTF COVID-19 daily press briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He said through the surveillance system set up by the PTF, it had received reports that Nigerians...

Disturbed by the heinous activities of Shila Boys, a notorious criminal, and cultic group, residents of Yola, Adamawa state capital resorted to jungle justice as a  suspected Shila gang member who was lynched and set ablaze by an angry mob in Jambutu, was rescued by the police on Wednesday. The Shila Boys, are notorious in gang-raping, seizing of phones, and attacking young women collecting their valuables using tricycles. An eyewitness told our reporter that the...