Metro

Onitsha residents are currently in fear, as a truck fully loaded with cartons of live bullets fell into a ditch and spilled its content all around the street, in the commercial city of Anambra State. According to a report by Nigerian Tribune, the incident occurred on Sunday morning on Awka Road in the city as early worshipers made their way to churches. The incident attracted heavy security presence to the Awka Road area and Shoprite axis of the city. It was gathered that the truck, a Mercedes Benz 911 model was said to be moving the goods out of Onitsha…

Gunmen have attacked another police station in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-south, in less than 24 hours after the killing of five police officers and a wife to one of the officers in a similar attack in the state. A police officer, who did not want his name mentioned in the report because he was not authorised to speak on the incident, said the attack occurred on Sunday afternoon in a local police station in Abak Local Government Area of the state. No life was lost in the attack, the officer said. Some vehicles were set ablaze by the gunmen,…

The gunmen that have been troubling the Southeast and the South-South parts of the country struck again late on Friday and early yesterday, killing no fewer than 12 policemen in five attacks across Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. An unidentified woman and two of the gunmen were also shot dead during the multiple attacks. The Rivers State Police Command confirmed yesterday that nine persons, including seven of its personnel, died when the gunmen attacked two police stations and a security checkpoint in the state on Friday night. The gunmen first swooped on a police special security checkpoint close to Choba…

Not fewer than 15 people have died in a boat mishap in Tijana, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State while several others are still missing. The boat mishap occurred at about 6:00 pm on Saturday when the villagers were returning from a local market in Zumba, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. The Sarkin Kasuwan (Head of the Market) of Zumba, Mallam Adamu Ahmed, who confirmed the incident to Daily Trust, said the local boat was carrying over 60 people, including women and children when it capsized due to a heavy windstorm. Among the victims were some returnees…

BREAKING: Debris Of Chinese Rocket May Hit Abuja This Weekend There is a tiny chance that the debris from a Chinese rocket could hit Abuja this weekend. Citing experts and officials, NBC, an American news platform, said a piece of a rocket launched by China in late April is expected to re-enter earth’s atmosphere between late Saturday and early Sunday. “It’s 10-stories tall and twice as heavy as a school bus, and it’s set to crash back to Earth this weekend — but no one is quite sure where or when.” “The 98-foot-long, 20-ton section of China’s Long March 5B…

The Ogun State Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abdul-Balogun, who was accused of sexual assault in January when he reportedly fondled the breasts of a 16-year-old girl, Barakat Melojuekun, has secretly resigned from office. The state Attorney-General, Akingbolahan Adeniran, confirmed the commissioner’s resignation to Premium Times, although the case had been put on hold since the embattled commissioner secretly resigned. Adeniran said, “He has resigned his appointment. He is no longer a state government official. The police have indeed sent the case file, including an affidavit from the victim that she is not willing to testify. “We cannot prove the offence…

BREAKING: 14 Passengers Burnt To Death As Bus Explodes On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway No fewer than Fourteen passengers, including three children, have been burnt to death in an accident along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. THE WHISPERER  gathered that a silver Toyota RAV 4 with registration number, LND 13 GS; a silver Toyota Camry marked, GGE 369 GJ and a Mazda bus with unidentified number, were involved in the accident which occurred around 10:20pm on Thursday. A commercial bus said to have wrongly overtaken a vehicle had reportedly hit a stationed faulty vehicle, Toyota Rav 4 parked in the middle of the road. The…

Some men, suspected to be armed robbers, on Thursday evening attacked a bullion van at Elemosho Village along the Akure-Ondo Expressway in Ondo East Local Government Area of Ondo State, making away with an undisclosed sum of money. According to an eyewitness, the robbers waylaid and attacked the bullion van belonging to one of the commercial banks, as it headed towards Akure at about 5 pm. The eyewitness said, in the operation which lasted for about 20 minutes, the robbers shot three people and disappeared into the bush. According to the eyewitness, villagers abandoned their houses and ran into the…

Fire on Thursday night gutted the Cairo Market in the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State, THE WHISPERER has learnt. Cairo market OshodiIt was gathered that the fire, whose cause was yet to be known as of the time of filing this report, affected the fabrics section of the market. Spokesperson for Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Nosa Okunbor, told newsmen  that emergency responders have arrived the scene and are battling to contain the fire

Unknown gunmen have attacked Obosi Police Station in Idemili North local government area of the state and killed two officers. This is coming barely 24 hours after the newly appointed Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Christopher Adetokumbo Owolabi, resumed duty in the state. The gunmen attacked the police station late Wednesday, freeing all detainees before setting the station on fire. A source within the affected police station said the gunmen in large numbers stormed and attacked the station around 11pm. He simply identified the deceased officers as Inspectors James and Awalu. The source said the victims were killed inside a…