Author: Chronicle Editor

The Adamawa State Police Command on Thursday paraded 23 suspected criminals that have been wreaking havoc on innocent people across the state. Recovered from the suspected criminals are three AK 47 rifles, one fabricated Sub Machine Gun, two single barrel guns, 468 rounds of live ammunition, one SIM card, one handset and 25 cartridges. At the maiden press briefing, the new state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olubenga Adeyanju, said that nine out of the criminals were apprehended in April this year after they kidnapped two residents of Gombi local government area and collected N4.5 million ransom. The Commissioner of Police…

At least 11 people have been killed and several hundred admitted to hospitals after a gas leak at a chemicals plant on the east coast of India, officials said on Thursday

Miss Chinenye Iwuoha, a staff of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Pacesetter FM, Umuahia, Abia state who was abducted by some unknown gunmen on Monday night this week, has regained her freedom. Miss Iwuoha was released hail and hearty, and no ransom was paid to effect her release, Chronicle NG reports. Ms. Iwuoha was kidnapped by gunmen near the popular Amakanma Estate in the Umuahia South Local Government Area of the state around 7pm on Monday. It was also gathered that the gunmen shot at the driver of the vehicle conveying the general manager and the other employees before abducting…

The ECOWAS Commission has dismissed reports that its health institution, West Africa Health Organisation had ordered medicine developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research, Madagascar, for COVID-19 treatment. The regional body said it was aware that several claims of COVID-19 cures had been made in different parts of the world but added that it could endorse products that have been shown to be effective through scientific study. Madagascar had touted organics as a cure for the coronavirus disease with President Andry Rajolina celebrating the herbal medicine which contains artemisa at an African Union gathering. Nigerian Judge Sentence Man To…

FRSC says it has turned back 437 vehicles from Ogun and Lagos States’ boundaries within two days while enforcing the ban on interstate movements

The sentencing to death of a Nigerian driver via Zoom is “inherently cruel and inhumane”, Human Rights Watch has said. It comes after Nigeria issued a death penalty ruling using the video chat app because of the coronavirus pandemic. Lagos judge Mojisola Dada sentenced Olalekan Hameed to death by hanging for the murder of his employer’s mother. The hearing lasted almost three hours and was virtually attended by lawyers, including the attorney general. They all participated in Monday’s session from different locations as part of efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19. It was the first day of the easing…

The International Press Centre (IPC) has expressed dismay over the kidnap of Chinenye Iwuoha a female presenter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, (FRCN) Pacesetter FM, Umuahia, Abia State. Ms. Iwuoha was kidnapped by gunmen near the popular Amakanma Estate in the Umuahia South Local Government Area of the state around 7pm on Monday according to a report by The Punch Newspapers dated May 6, 2020. It was also gathered that the gunmen shot at the driver of the vehicle conveying the general manager and the other employees before abducting Iwuoha and making away with their valuables. The gunmen…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna Zonal Office on Wednesday, May 2020 secured a two years imprisonment of one Beegu Tyopav or N150,000 (One hundred and fifty thousand Naira) option of fine before Justice M. T. Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court. The convict faced a one-count charge that bordered on obtaining by false pretence, Dele Oyewale Head, Media & Publicity said in a statement. Beegu’s sojourn to prison began some months ago following an Intel-driven covert operation of the Commission on his fraudulent activities, one of which was the impersonation of a first generation bank staff,…

The Kaduna Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested one Nuhu Musa for allegedly forging bail documents. Musa was arrested recently for forging a Certificate of Occupancy to secure the bail of Bidemi Olorunlere, who ran into trouble for allegedly obtaining the sum of N5,700,000( Five Million Seven Hundred Naira only) by false pretences. His criminal schemes fell flat when the Certificate of Occupancy he presented, was sent to Kaduna Geographical Information Service for verification and was found to be forged. Covid-19 can’t stop anti-graft war – EFCC He later confessed that he forged the…

The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, has cleared the air on the confusion whether media practitioners are exempted from the curfew imposed by the government in the state or not.