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Omolayo Ojo, a worker of Chimola School, Oba Ile Estate, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo state, who was whisked away after gunmen hijacked a bus belonging to the school on Thursday morning, has been freed.Some gunmen had on Thursday morning hijacked the school bus, abducted Ojo who was on duty to convey students to school. The incident occurred around 7am while the driver and the abducted staff were moving round to pick up the pupils.The gunmen numbering about eight who were on motorcycles, stopped the vehicle with registration number Lagos LSD 853 FJ.PmReporters gathered that Ojo returned to…

Gunmen riding motorcycles on Thursday hijacked a school bus at Oba Ile Estate in Akure North Local Government.It is not yet clear how many pupils were inside the bus.Some eyewitnesses said pupils were inside the bus while others claimed only the attendant was taken away by the hoodlums.It was learnt the incident occurred around 6:45am when the driver and his attendant went to pick pupils of Chimola School.The gunmen were said to have dragged the driver out and drove away.Ondo Police spokesman, ASP Tee-Leo Ikoro, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.Details shortly…

President Muhammad Buhari Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, has commended Twitter for deleting a controversial post by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Nigerian  Civil War from 1967 and 1970.The tweet, which was posted on Tuesday, read in part, “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.”The tweet attracted strong criticisms with many Nigerians saying it…

Nigeria’s minister of information, Lai Mohammed, has accused Twitter of bias against President Muhammadu Buhari.The official was reacting to Twitter’s deletion of a tweet made by the President on Tuesday, threatening to rain ‘civil war-like attention’ on those promoting insurrection and attacking national assets.“Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” the now deleted tweet posted via his official twitter account read…

Five suspected gunmen have been arrested after they launched an attack on a residence around Arulogun area of Ede in Osun State where they killed two persons.It was gathered about 30 gunmen invaded the Arulogun area to attack a house that belongs to Wakili Olayiwola around 5:00am last Thursday.They were said to have rained bullets on the residence.A resident, who preferred anonymity, said: “Those gunmen got to the house and started to fire bullets on the building for minutes after that they razed the car belonging to the house owner.“We are still in shock over the incident because we don’t…

Mrs. Remi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said she didn’t call an educationist, Arinola Oloko, a thug at the venue of a public hearing on constitutional review on Wednesday.According to her, she asked Oloko if she was a thug and not that she called her a thug.The Senator representing Lagos Central made this known on Friday while featuring on TVC breakfast show, ‘Your View’ monitored by The PUNCH.The PUNCH had earlier reported that viral video showed that Mrs. Tinubu was involved in a shouting match with some Nigerians who attended the event at the Marriot Hotel…

The leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Lagos State has expressed regrets at “cases of skirmishes” which characterised the party’s local government election primaries in some parts of the state on Saturday.The APC Spokesman, Seye Oladejo, in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, urged the security agencies to conduct thorough investigations to bring the culprits to book.“We acknowledge with regrets the reported few cases of skirmishes in a few wards with the attendant fallouts. We empathise with the victims of the unfortunate incident.“While we await the formal reports of the electoral officials, we wish to admonish the security…

President Muhammad Buhari Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari  says those who want to destroy his government will be receive the shock of their lives as his administration will do everything possible to ensure they fail.He spoke on Tuesday after meeting with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu; and other electoral commissioners in Aso Villa, Abuja, over the series of attacks on INEC facilities especially in the South-Eastern part of the country.Rampaging hoodlums had razed no fewer than 11 INEC offices, 13 vehicles, 429 generators, others in over 41 attacks in the last few months. Scores of police…

The minority caucus in the House of Representatives has said it is alarmed by the gruesome killing of Adamawa State-born Ahmed Gulak, a former Special Adviser on Political Matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan, by gunmen in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Sunday.According to the caucus, insecurity is now worse in Imo State after the All Progressives Congress began to govern the state.The caucus, in a statement issued by the Minority Leader of the House, Ndudi Elumelu, described the assassination of Gulak as “wicked and barbaric”, urging the police and other security agencies to fish out the assailants.The statement…

Imo Police Command said it has neutralised killers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Ahmed Gulak,Its spokesman, Bala Elkana who disclosed this in a statement, said the suspects met their waterloo at Afor Enyiogugu junction in Aboh-Mbaise Local Government Area.According to him: “Police Special Forces made of Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Tactical Units from the Command were deployed to the scene at Obiangwu Junction at Ngorokpala LGA of Imo state.“The teams were given a clear instruction to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of the act with a view of bringing them to justice.“Eye witnesses…