Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Monday said troops of Operation Fansan Yamma killed terrorist kingpin Bello Turji’s son and many of his fighters during clearance operations. On January 17, actions along the Shinkafi, Kagara, Fakai, Moriki, Maiwa, and Chindo axis resulted in the elimination of the terrorists’ logistical base. Major General Edward Buba, the outgoing Director of Media Operations, stated that Turji’s son was killed on the Fakai high ground, where the terrorists were hiding. He also called Turji a coward for abandoning his son and warriors during the operation. Chronicle NG reports that Turji had repeatedly taunted the military…

A fire broke out early Monday at a retirement home on the outskirts of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, killing no fewer than eight people and injuring seven. Luka Causic, a police officer overseeing the emergency response, stated that there were around 30 people inside when the inferno broke out at 3:30 am (02:30 GMT). “Unfortunately, eight individuals lost their lives in the fire. I must say that members of the emergency response sector reacted very promptly and successfully rescued, or rather evacuated, 13 people,” Labour Minister Nemanja Starovic told local media. Earlier, rescue officials disclosed that at least six people…

China executed a man on Monday for killing 35 people in a car rampage in the southern city of Zhuhai in November 2024, the country’s bloodiest mass attack in years. On November 11, Fan Weiqiu, 62, intentionally drove a tiny SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex, injuring 45 people in China’s deadliest such incident since 2014. He was condemned to death last month, with a court ruling that his motivations “were extremely vile, (and) the nature of the crime extremely egregious.” CCTV reported Monday that a Zhuhai court “executed Fan Weiqiu in accordance with the execution…

Gunmen suspected to be paid assassins shot and killed the Shepherd-in-Charge of a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area, Ogun State. Yomi Adetula was assassinated inside his church on Sunday morning at about 11 a.m. on Sunday while preaching. It was reliably gathered that Adetula’s assailants, who were six in number and armed with AK-47 rifles, stormed the church, the ‘Hebrew Celestial Church’ located at the Odo Eran area of the Old Baggage road in Idiroko, where they rained bullets on him and waited to certify him dead before dismembering him inside the church before…

The Catholic Diocese of Warri, Delta State, has suspended Rev. Fr. Daniel Okanatotor Oghenerukevwe from priestly duties following his purported marriage in the United States of America. This was said in a document headed ‘Decree of Suspension’ dated Thursday, January 16, 2025, and copies of which were distributed to journalists in Warri on Sunday. The statement, which was jointly signed by the Bishop of Warri, Rt. Rev. Anthony Ovayero Ewherido, and the Chancellor/Notary, Very Rev. Fr. Clement Abobo, alleged that “Fr. Oghenerukevwe entered into marriage with Ms. Dora Chichah on December 29, 2024, at the Streams of Joy Church in…

The Imo State Police Command has arrested 40-year-old Uchenna Okpara for reportedly stabbing his in-law, Uchenna Unakalamba, to death over a child custody dispute. Henry Okoye, the state police spokesperson, confirmed this in an Owerri statement on Sunday. Okpara was accused of stabbing his in-law to death with a broken bottle on Thursday after a fight between his children and those of Unakalamba in Ubomiri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area. According to Okoye, the anti-kidnapping unit detained Okpara and retrieved the weapon. The statement read, “The anti-kidnapping unit arrested a 40-year-old man, Uchenna Okpara, on January 16, 2025, for allegedly stabbing…

Dr. Bisi Onasanya, a former Group Managing Director of FirstBank, has denied any involvement in a commercial loan deal that occurred 12 years ago at the company. Onasanya disputed the allegation in a statement signed by his communication advisor, Mr. Michael Oshunuyi, on Sunday, calling the claims unfounded and an attempt to damage the former banker and chartered accountant’s name. On Thursday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission charged Onasanya and three individuals at the Federal High Court in Lagos with receiving a N30 billion loan under false pretences. According to the anti-graft agency, the accused will be arraigned on…

At least three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel, Reuters reports. Armed Hamas fighters drove through the southern city of Khan Younis, where crowds cheered and chanted. People navigated narrow roads through a shattered landscape of wreckage and twisted metal in the north of the region, which had been blasted into oblivion during the war’s most fierce combat. “I feel like at last I found some water to drink after being lost in the desert for 15 months,” Aya, a displaced woman from Gaza City who has been sheltering in Deir Al-Balah in the…

Bashir Ahmad, a former aide to ex-president Muhammadu Buhari has called for the continous detention of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB. In a statement on his X page on Sunday, Ahmad called those seeking for Kanu’s release ”enemies of the state.” He described the detained IPOB leader as a ”terrorist” who should remain behind bars. ”Anybody advocating for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, a terrorist and the leader of the proscribed terrorist organisation IPOB, should be considered a sworn enemy of this country,” Ahmad stated. He has been detained in DSS custody since June 2021,…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has refuted claims that its operatives was killed while scaling the fence of a suspected internet fraudster. The EFCC, in a statement signed by Dele Oyewale, Head, Media & Publicity of the commission on Sunday, described as false the narrative widely spread on social media about the incident that resulted in the death of its personnel. Chronicle NG reports that a suspected internet fraudster, Joshua Chukwubueze Ikechukwu, shot and killed an operative of the EFCC, Aminu Sahabi Salisu, during a raid carried out by its operatives in Awka, Anambra state, on Friday, January…