Documents indicate Mr Yohanna’s Boko Haram background was detected after he displayed dexterity in gun handling during training. On February 18 this year, an alarm was raised at a correctional centre in Adamawa State. A former Boko Haram fighter, Wilberforce Yohanna, had just been recruited as a staffer of the Yola New Custodial Centre in…
Rotary club of Ikeja became the first Rotary club in Rotary International District 9110 to host the Imaginative District Governor, Omotunde Lawson last Monday during the first business meeting of the club in the 2022/2023 Rotary Year which took place at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja According to a press release issued by the Director,…
The Police Area Commander for Dutsinma, Katsina State, ACP Aminu Umar, was on Tuesday killed in an ambush by terrorists in Safana Local Government Area of the state. One other officer whose name was not revealed also lost his life. The Spokesman for the Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah confirmed the incident in a…
NATIONAL WAVES Newspaper/Magazine is celebrating its 14th year on the newsstands. This was disclosed in a statement issued to the media by the Publisher of NATIONAL WAVES, Jimmy Enyeh, on Tuesday. Enyeh said to commemorate the anniversary, the management of NATIONAL WAVES has concluded arrangements to honour the Minister of State for Labour and Employment,…
The Governor of Ondo state, His Excellency, Rotimi Akeredolu will be leading other eminent personalities including Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Troyka Group, Dr. Biodun Shobanjo, Founder, Elizade University, Chief Michael Ade-Ojo as well as His Royal Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Victor Ademefun Kiladejo, the Osemawe of Ondo kingdom to the investiture of…
Two developers, Oluwasegun Adewara, and one Okeowo, have gone into hiding after allegedly defrauding no fewer than 70 prospective tenants at Lawanson, in the Surulere area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the prospective tenants visited the building, which was under construction, to inspect its premises and afterwards made payments to the developers. After confirming…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has listed the conditions under which political parties can substitute candidates whose names have been forwarded to it. The electoral umpire noted that the law does not give any political party the right to replace a validly nominated candidate, as it is the prerogative of the individual to be…
A 33-year-old man, Mr Volt Blessing Gabriel, has been arrested by operatives of Delta State Police Command for using a hand saw to cut off the head of his one-year-old child for ritual purposes. Gabriel, who killed the child, identified as Godspower, in a bush in Benin-City, Edo State, buried the deceased’s head by a…
Jonathan Ukpo Nwanmini, the younger brother of David Ukpo Nwanmini, an alleged victim of organ trafficking involving Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in the United Kingdom, has opened up on his real age. Jonathan noted that his sibling is 25 years old, as against 15 claimed by the British Police.. But the brother,…
The Nigerian couple arrested on suspicion of plotting to harvest the organs of a child in the UK are one of the west African nation’s most high profile politicians and his wife, MailOnline can reveal today. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a People’s Democratic Party politician for 19 years who was once Deputy President of the nation’s senate, was held with…
