Author: Vincent Osuwo

Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service has disclosed that five people were killed and 92 wounded Monday in Iran’s latest missile strikes on the country, raising the previous toll of four deaths. The casualties were from strikes on four sites in central Israel, the MDA stated in a statement, adding those killed included “two women and two men around the age of 70, as well as one additional fatality”. “So far, MDA teams have evacuated 92 injured individuals to hospitals, including a 30-year-old woman in serious condition with facial injuries, six in moderate condition, and 85 in mild condition,” it…

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, said on Monday that a close Iranian missile strike caused minor damage to an embassy building in Tel Aviv, but there were no fatalities among US staff. Iran launched a salvo of missiles towards Tel Aviv early Monday after Israel targeted military sites deep inside Iran, with both sides vowing additional devastation. AFP photographs showed burnt buildings in Tel Aviv’s seaside core after Israel’s army urged residents to seek shelter from oncoming Iranian missiles. “Some minor damage from concussions of Iranian missile hits near Embassy Branch in @TelAviv but no injuries to US…

The military and the police on Sunday deployed air surveillance over Makurdi, Benue State, and its environs, following Saturday’s killings in Yelwata and Daudu communities in Guma Local Government Area of the state. According to one of our correspondents, the surveillance aircraft has been hovering over the capital city and nearby local government areas such as Guma and Gwer West since Sunday morning. A military officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to comment on the subject, stated that the air surveillance was to monitor the situation in Makurdi and its surroundings. “The air…

Benue State Police Command said it detained 14 individuals for hijacking a peaceful demonstration by some youths in Makurdi, the state capital, on Sunday. According to the command, the suspects obstructed a route in Apir, on the outskirts of Makurdi, forced a truck to stop, and set it on fire, trapping the yet-to-be-identified driver inside. This is stated in a statement released by the command’s spokesperson, Udeme Edet, and made available to journalists on Sunday. She vowed that the suspects would be prosecuted appropriately while investigations were underway to identify more perpetrators and instigators of the violence. The statement reads…

Veteran Nollywood actor Ganiu Nafiu, also known as Alapini, has expressed sorrow for supporting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election. He regretted that he and other Yoruba cinema actors who supported the Renewed Hope campaign have been disregarded since the election. Alapini expressed his dissatisfaction during an interview on the YouTube channel ‘Behind the Fame – African A-List TV’, where he discussed his acting career, health concerns, family issues, and his role in Tinubu’s campaign. Alapini, speaking in Yoruba, expressed frustration that the hope they had during the campaign season had now turned into disappointment. “We were campaigning…

Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and former presidential candidate, claims that all opposition parties in Nigeria, with the exception of his African Action Congress, are influenced and controlled by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Sowore alleged on Channels Television’s Rubbin’ Minds talk show on Sunday that the APC purposefully founded or co-opted the majority of Nigeria’s opposition groups as “special-purpose vehicles” for political convenience. According to him, the AAC, which he created in 2018, is the only legitimate opposition among the country’s 18 registered political parties. Sowore said, ”What we found out in our little research is that…

The Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, South-West Zone, has directed its members to boycott the Lekki-Epe corridor from Monday to avoid embarrassment. The zone’s IPMAN chairman, Chief Oyewole Akanni, directed in a statement sent to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Sunday. According to the chairman, the national office had previously advised its members not to deploy trucks to fill petroleum products along the Lekki-Epe route beginning Monday. Akanni added that this was due to the anticipated intimidation and harassment that would result from the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation’s adoption of the E-Call-up policy. He pointed…

No fewer than five guns, including two AK-47s, one G3, one pumping machine rifle, one PKT gun, and two AK-47 magazines, were said to be submitted during a peace truce with ten bandit leaders terrorising Katsina State who surrendered to government officials on Saturday. The peace agreement was reached in Katsina State’s DanMusa Local Government Area, with the bandits voluntarily surrendering their rifles and releasing kidnapped victims, including a 7-month pregnant woman. According to a source who verified to our correspondent in Katsina, the development is part of the Nigerian army’s continuing arms surrender and disengagement plan, which is being…

Two people have died after an iron bridge collapsed in western India, triggering a major rescue operation. Officials disclosed that six others have been seriously injured, and people rescued from the Indrayani River which runs underneath the bridge in Maharashtra’s Pune district. According to Witnesses, a large group of people were crossing the bridge when it gave way on Sunday at about 15:30 local time (11:00 BST). Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated that India’s National Disaster Response Force had been deployed, adding that “relief work has been immediately accelerated”. “I was deeply saddened to hear the news of the…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, arrested an Italy-bound passenger, Edobor Ambrose Ali, for attempting to smuggle 14,410 tramadol pills concealed in winter jackets. The statement added, “Similarly, NDLEA operatives at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday, June 14, intercepted an Italy-bound passenger, Edobor Ambrose Ali, on an Air France flight. According to a statement released by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi on Sunday, the operatives discovered drug consignments hidden in the suspect’s luggage during baggage scanning at the tarmac. The statement reads, “Similarly, NDLEA…