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A shuttle bus driver has knocked down a police officer, Anthony Ogbodo in Anambra State. Though the circumstances surrounding the officer’s death are unknown, it was learned that the incident occurred on Saturday. Tochukwu Ikenga, the state Police Public Relations Officer, verified this in a statement on Sunday. According to Ikenga, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ogbodo, a Superintendent of Police, was “killed in a tragic vehicular accident involving his motorcycle and a shuttle bus on Saturday, 16th September, 2023.” “The driver of the shuttle bus that hit the policeman took him to the hospital in Enugwu Ukwu before he…

Ten bandits were killed in the Yankari Forest and 39 hostages were freed from the kidnappers den following a successful combined security operation tagged Operation Sharan Daji. This was revealed in a statement released on Saturday by Ahmed Wakili, the police public relations officer for the Bauchi State Command. According to Wakili, a preliminary investigation showed that on Thursday, roughly 24 kidnappers broke into the Gaji community. Mohbad’s Death: Police assure justice will be served According to reports, the attackers abducted a group of businesspeople who were leaving the Mararaban Liman Katagum Market and took them to a location known…

The Senate on Saturday refuted rumours that certain senators were planning to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio, calling the charges demonic and unreal. “Our attention has just been drawn to syndicated satanic verses in a section of the media, of purported and illusory plots of leadership change in the Senate,” said the upper chamber, in a statement by its spokesman Yemi Adaramodu. “This imaginative composition is in the realm of the fake and fallacious story of N100m per legislator,” it said. “It’s apt to note that the 10th Senate, under the leadership of Senator Godswill Akpabio has carried out its…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo’s, 80th birthday reception on Thursday. In a statement issued Saturday by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, ex-President Obasanjo highlighted a TikTok video erroneously alleging that Tinubu and Obasanjo met on Thursday. “The former president condemned the fake post, which also lifted a banter conversation that took place between the two, when he played host to the former Lagos State governor last year before the country’s general elections this year,” the statement reads. Obasanjo, according to Akinyemi, advises the creator…

Troubled Manchester United plunged deeper into crisis as Brighton swept to a shock 3-1 win at Old Trafford in Saturday’s Premier League clash. Erik ten Hag’s side were rocked by a first-half goal from former United forward Danny Welbeck before Pascal Gross and Joao Pedro put Brighton further ahead after the interval. Hannibal Mejbri’s first goal for the club was no consolation for United, who were booed off at the final whistle. It was United’s second successive defeat after their 3-1 loss at Arsenal before the international break. With three defeats in five league games already this season, United are languishing…

President Bola Tinubu on Friday nominated Olayemi Michael Cardoso as the substantive Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In a statement by president Tinubu’s spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, “President Bola Tinubu has approved the nomination of Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso to serve as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), for a term of five (5) years at the first instance, pending his confirmation by the Nigerian Senate.” “Tinubu also nominated persons to serve as deputy governors of the apex bank in “conformity with Section 8 (1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007, which vests in…

The Transmission Company of Nigeria transmission substation in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State, experienced a fire incident on Thursday night. Although the immediate source of the fire has not yet been identified, the 330 kilovolt (kV) facility is said to have been consumed by it. The tragedy happened just 24 hours after a similar outbreak caused the national grid to collapse. The event was reported to Chronicle NG on Friday by Nafiu Abubakar, the Kebbi State Police Command spokesperson. TCN couldn’t be reached, despite our best efforts.

Following the death of an Area Commander for Dutsinma, ACP Aminu Umar, and another officer, the Katsina State Police Command apprehended 30-year-old suspected renowned armed bandit Saidu Yaro, alias Sabon Jini, of Tsaskiya Village, Safana LGA of Katsina State. The suspect had been on the command’s wanted list for a variety of offences, including kidnapping, cattle rustling, and other horrific crimes, according to the police spokesman, ASP Sadiq Abubakar, who revealed this on Thursday during a parade of suspects at the command headquarters in Katsina. Yaro was reportedly apprehended at 5:30 p.m. on August 30 on the basis of “credible…

The United Nations is urgently seeking more than $71 million to assist those most in need after deadly flash floods swept Libya over the weekend. Hurricane-strength Storm Daniel slammed into Libya on September 10, killing at least 4,000 people, with thousands more still missing. In a flash appeal Thursday, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA said it expects the toll to rise. The city of Derna, one of the hardest-hit locations, was reduced to a wasteland after two upstream dams burst Sunday. OCHA said estimates suggest 30 percent of the city may have disappeared and with most roads collapsed local…

Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen was named for the FIFA Best Player award on Thursday, just a few days after being shortlisted for the 2023 Ballon d’Or award. In the men’s category of the award, Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne, and Lionel Messi of Argentina were also nominated alongside the Super Eagles forward. Julian Alvarez, Marcelo Brozovic, lkay Gundogan, Rodri, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Declan Rice, and Bernardo Silva are more nominees. With his nomination, Osimhen becomes the first footballer from Nigeria to be considered for the FIFA Best Footballer Award, which Cristiano Ronaldo initially won in 2016. Last season, Osimhen…