Author: Vincent Osuwo

The Zone 16 Police Command has detained 14 people in connection with the suspected vandalism of 132KV transmission towers in Bayelsa and adjacent Rivers States.  Mr. Emonena Gunn, the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, stated on Monday that their detention was the result of a plea to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 16, by the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Power, Kharin Komuko. Gunn stated that on September 11, 2024, agents from the Surveillance and Intelligence Section of the Criminal Investigation Department responded to the plea by arresting 14 individuals. NSCDC arrests 11 pipeline vandals in Benue The suspects…

Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen says he is enjoying life in his new home in Istanbul, where he is playing for Galatasaray on a season-long loan from Napoli. The former Lille player was met with thousands of Galatasaray fans who thronged the Istanbul Airport, Turkey, to welcome him as he arrived in the country at 3:30 am to complete his loan move. Osimhen reciprocated the fans’ adoration by updating his bio, quickly eliminating any traces of his parent club, Napoli, from his social media page, and flaunting Galatasaray images and colours. Osimhen’s updated bio now reads, “Professional football player for Galatasaray…

A double-decker bus carrying no fewer than 40 schoolchildren has crashed in County Down. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) reported a “major incident” but later downgraded it. The incident occurred on the Ballyblack Road East near Carrowdore after 16:00 BST and involved 43 schoolchildren and the driver. Four children were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The bus was carrying students from Strangford College to Ban. According to a statement from the PSNI, NIAS treated and discharged 33 people at the site. Several patients self-represented at Ulster Hospital. School…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that it is not concerned or threatened by a potential partnership between Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) ahead of the 2027 presidential election. In an interview with The Punch on Monday, the APC’s National Publicity Director, Bala Ibrahim, claimed that the much-touted Obi-Kwankwaso alliance would collapse again, as it did before the 2023 presidential election. According to him, a lack of trust will always exist between Obi and Kwankwaso, and neither will be willing to give up their desire to…

Two medical doctors, Dr. Michael Atiba and Dr. Michael Ugbeye, are standing trial at the Ikeja High Court of Lagos State, presided over by Justice Oyindamola Ogala, for the death of a patient, Ejiro Ugorobi. Chronicle NG gathered that the Lagos State Government had on March 25, 2024, arraigned the medical doctors over their alleged involvement in the involuntary manslaughter of the deceased patient, to which both pleaded not guilty. According to the prosecution counsel, A. O. Azeez, Atiba, a doctor at Gbagada General Hospital, and Ugbeye, a consultant at the National Orthopaedic Hospital in Igbobi, Lagos, are charged with…

A father of nine children, simply identified as Mr. Charles, reportedly committed suicide in Delta State’s Jeddo town.  Chronicle NG gathered that the gruesome tragedy occurred in the early hours of Monday. The man apparently killed himself after drinking pesticide. Dung: 17-year-old boy discovered dead one week after suicide According to sources familiar with the incident, Mr. Charles, who lived in the Jeddo town of Okpe Local Government Area, drank the poison at home before going to his in-law’s house in adjacent Ugbokodo, where he eventually passed away. Before the suicide, Charles, a Jeddo Community Vigilante member, reportedly had a…

The police have arrested a commercial sex worker, Joy Kelvin, who allegedly stabbed a 48-year-old man identified simply as Okafor to death at the Jakande Housing Estate in Lekki, Lagos State. The incident, according to the report, occurred on Monday morning at about 5:30 am. Chronicle NG gathered that the late Okafor had brought Joy to his house to spend the night, but an argument broke out between them the following morning over payment. Serial killer Philip Ogunnaike begs for death sentence after murder of three girls A police source who spoke to our correspondent, under anonymity as he was…

Philip Ogunnaike, a suspected serial killer apprehended in Ogun State, has appealed for the death penalty for himself and his accomplices. Ogunnaike made the plea in an interrogation video published by Omolola Odutola, the state police public relations officer, on her X page on Monday. According to the suspect, he was enticed into the killing by Danjuma and others who allegedly initiated him into the unlawful Eiye confraternity. #JusticeForChristianah: Nigerians demand justice as serial killer Adeleye Ayomide kills 300L FUNAAB student While encouraging the police to capture Danjuma and other accused accomplices, Ogunnaike insisted that his sole plea was to…

A 17-year-old boy simply identified as Dung has been discovered dead one week after committing suicide. Dung’s corpse was discovered hanging on a mango tree in his compound in the early hours of Monday, at the Busa Buji Area of Jos, Plateau State. Our correspondent, who visited the scene where he hung himself, was informed that the boy who stays with his grandmother was discovered dead after the smell of his corpse disturbed the entire neighbourhood. Suicide: 40-year-old man hangs self in Jigawa According to his neighbours, the boy committed suicide after having a fallout with his grandmother. A neighbour…

At least one person has been feared dead following a protest by aggrieved protesters in Bori, the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Monday. It is unclear whether the event is related to the protest that erupted in several LGs over the police order to unseal the secretariats of the state’s 23 LGs, which have been under lock and key since July. A person who requested anonymity told our reporter that a gunshot was heard near Bori and that people began rushing in various directions. He said, “It was near Bori, but I can’t say exactly where. A…