Author: Vincent Osuwo

Suspected armed herdsmen killed a mother, her son, and two others in the Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. According to locals, the herdsmen attack  occurred on Wednesday in the Egwuma and Ogbai communities of the LGA. Chronicle NG gathered that two people were reported missing at the time of the attack by the herdsmen. On Wednesday, a local from Egwuma named Inalegwu told our correspondent over the phone that suspected armed herdsmen raided the two communities and attacked the innocent inhabitants. Inalegwu said, “Some Fulani herdsmen attacked the Egwuma and Ogbai communities today. They killed a woman and…

Nigeria’s senior men’s team, the D’Tigers, has been eliminated from the ongoing 2025 FIBA AfroBasket competition after losing 91-75 to Senegal in the quarter-finals on Wednesday at the Pavilhao Multiusos de Luanda in Angola. Both nations met for the ninth time in history, with Nigeria winning five of the previous eight meetings. The 2015 champions won all three round-robin games against Madagascar, Tunisia, and Cameroon to finish first in Group B, while Senegal had to play a playoff against South Sudan to get to the last eight. Head coach Mohammed Abdulrahman’s team led 24-23 in the first quarter, but they…

The Anambra State Government has fired eight vigilante operatives for brutally assaulting and publicly stripping a female corps member, Miss Jennifer Elobor. Ken Emeakayi, the Special Adviser to Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Community Security, made the announcement at the agency’s headquarters in Awka on Wednesday. Emeakayi stated that the government responded quickly after receiving information of the incident and that the vigilante operatives will be turned over to the police for punishment. According to him, the discharged vigilante operatives were pursuing suspected cultists on Tuesday when they attacked the corps member, which he described as “totally outside the mandate of…

Popular Nigerian artist Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, has spoken out about the death of his former signee, Promise Aloba, also known as Mohbad. Naira Marley revealed the information in a two-hour documentary on Wednesday, detailing how his ex-signee began his musical journey with his label and eventually died. He claims he never bullied or killed Mohbad, the ‘Ask About Me’ and ‘KPK’ singer. Mohbad passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at the age of 27. In February, a Magistrate’s Court in Yaba, Lagos, found Naira Marley and music promoter Sam Larry (Samson Balogun) not responsible for…

The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, has banned final-year students from participating in examination signing-off celebration. According to a press release on Tuesday, signed by the Registrar, Dr Chinenye Okeke, the ban takes immediate effect. Okeke blamed chaos, violence, and disruption of normal university activities as the reasons behind the directive. The statement read in part, “The university management wishes to inform you that, effective immediately, all forms of orchestration (‘signing off’) related to final examinations by final-year students are completely and indefinitely banned from the university premises. This decision responds to recurring incidents of chaos, violence, and…

Nathalie Rose Jones, a 50-year-old woman from Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested on August 16, 2025, after going to Washington, D.C., allegedly with the intent to “kidnap and assassinate” President Donald Trump. According to a press release issued by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia on August 18, 2025, Jones made graphic threats on Facebook and Instagram, including one that read, “I am willing to sacrificially kill this Potus by disembowelling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present.” She also mentioned an “arrest and removal ceremony” planned for Trump. The…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to deny bail to five men standing trial over their alleged involvement in the June 5, 2022, terror attack on St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, which left about 40 worshippers dead and over 100 injured. In a counter-affidavit to the defendants’ bail application, the DSS cautioned that the men had purported contacts to foreign terrorist combatants affiliated with the Al-Shabab terrorists and could flee if released. The defendants are Idris Abdulmalik Omeiza (25), Al Qasim Idris (20), Jamiu Abdulmalik (26), Abdulhaleem Idris (25),…

The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday suspended a former governor of the state and senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel, alongside one of his loyalists, Kunle Folarin. The Gbenga Daniel and Folarin were suspended for alleged anti-party activities. Nuberu Olufemi, the Director of Publicity of the state chapter of the ruling party, disclosed this in a statement issued to journalists on Tuesday. According to the statement, the move to suspend Daniel and Folarin, both members of the APC from Ward 4 and Ward 6 in Sagamu Local Government Area, respectively, was made at the…

The Northern Ethnic Nationality Forum has encouraged President Bola Tinubu to replace Vice President Kashim Shettima and avoid running on the Muslim-Muslim ticket again in the 2027 presidential election, arguing that inclusivity is critical to Nigeria’s unity. Dominic Alancha, the group’s head, said in a statement on Tuesday that balanced representation was the best way to create national cohesiveness. Despite tremendous opposition during the 2023 campaign, Tinubu, then the APC presidential candidate, chose former Borno State governor Shettima as his running mate. The couple went on to win the election under the APC banner. Despite predictions that Tinubu may not…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained two senior officials of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria over alleged fraud linked to the 2025 Hajj exercise. Top EFCC management sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the arrests and stated that both officials are still in detention. They declined to reveal the suspected misappropriated funds. “They are with us. We asked them to return the money they took, but they have yet to do so. That is why they remain in our custody,” one of the sources told our correspondent. NAHCON emphasised its commitment to accountability and…