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  Of recent the adamawa state police command has paraded 1,184 suspects arrested for various offences. Among the suspects were 21 who were arrested at Dason watiye village of Fufore local government area of Adamawa state for killing 7 people whom they believed were practicing    witchcraft. All that were killed were above 50 years, surprisingly two of the victims suffered more in hands of their biological sons.   The suspected witches were beaten to dead by angry youth of the community after series of timely deaths falling on their youth and well to do in the community. As a result prevent prayers and fasting were observed and a pointer shows that act witchcraft is genesis of mysterious deaths suffered by the community. Confessing before the press the leader of the suspects arrested said they lost over 80 promising members of community within few months, thereby forcing them to look for a solution. The suspected witches were beaten to death with big sticks. 21 ...

Operatives of the Enugu Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested 16 suspected internet fraudsters in three separate sting operations in the Monarch area, New Haven Extension and Castle Majestic Hotel, Ogui Road, Enugu. The suspects were arrested following verified intelligence on their alleged involvement in internet-related fraud activities. Part of the intelligence indicated that suspected internet fraudsters were operating from Castle Majestic Hotel, Enugu. Based on the intelligence, and weeks of surveillance, a search warrant was executed on the facility on Thursday September 16, 2021. In the course of the operation, the operatives encountered a group that identified themselves as members of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS and Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Youth wing. The leaders of the group duly identified their members and carried on with their activities. But the target of the sting operation were arrested and brought to the Enugu Zonal...

  Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, continued their nationwide offensive action against drug traffickers in the past week, seizing hundreds of kilograms of illicit substances at the airports, courier firms, hideouts and destroying hectares of cannabis farms in the remote forests. Attempts by a female passenger, Isesele Obehi and one Emmanuel Chibuzor Omebere to export illicit drugs to Europe through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja were thwarted by narcotic officers who arrested them shortly before they boarded their flights. While Isesele was nabbed on Saturday 11th September, 2021 during outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight at Gate B departure hall of the Lagos airport on her way to Milan, Italy with three hundred and twelve (312) sachets of Tramadol, weighing 1.5kg, concealed in crayfish and dried vegetables, Chibuzor was equally caught with 137.45 grams of the same drug...

Followers of the popular Hausa series LABARINA showing on the famous Arewa 24 have recently been bombarded with what some described as degrading   journalism profession where one of the producers of the series Who also featured as Sarkin Waka directed his aid to give a journalist a fare after an interview. His action was condemned by many. After the show of the episode 11 of season 3 of the series attacks and counter attacks dominated the air all over the Hausa speaking areas and some journalists even threaten to sue the producers of the series for deformation of character. The question is are journalists not receiving gratitude to either kill a story or turn black to white?   The   answer is, some do accept that. That is why journalists called it brown envelope or Roger or choppe. As there are bad journalists so also bad actors. Bag eggs are every where. The producers should have portraits the good side of the job rather than the bad. After all the journalist fea...

A child is about to be circumcise during Nyonepah festival 2021   Male Circumcision  is an old tradition being practice  for centuries  all over  the  world.   Africans  honor   circumcision to the level that he who that is not  circumcise is considered as an out cast.  He can’t be free within his pares, some  can even den y him  marriage  privileges  or  even deny  him position on spiritual  or political  matters.  This is to tell you how important the age long  practice is to Africans    In Adamawa state many tribes  practice male circumcision because of it’s importance  it took years for parents to  prepare their  sons  for it. One tribe  that practice it in the state is  Chamba   Leko  community  of Mayo  Belwa  Local government area.   They called their male  circumcision festival  Nyonepah . It...

  A student Promoting The Use Of Local Language For Our Educational Development In Nigeria It is common to see or to hear people laughing at someone because he can’t speak good English. That he is being considered not intelligent for poor pronouncements of some words in English. In the southern region of the country some men or women don’t get the respect they deserved in life because of their tongue tune to English pronouncement. No wonder some parents prepare their wards early to learn and speak only English than their mother tongue. As a result many languages were endangered. Picture from google However such attitude has immensely affected our socioeconomic development because our youth can’t produce anything that can improve the nation’s well being Today China and the rest of the Asian Tigers have dominated African markets with their goods. Goods that they produced through learning technology by their languages forcing us to buy the products because of high demand from ou...

Of recent the Adamawa state government has directed for DE-boarding of 30 secondary schools, to protect the students and the schools against any security challenge that may arise as a result of the activities of insurgents or kidnappers as being experienced some parts of the country . In some states in the north east, north west and the north central students were kidnapped in Mass to the level that analysts say the crime has gotten out of hand. Students Of  Aliyu Mustafa College Yola writing SSCE  All kidnapping targeted one thing that is demanding for Ransom. In 2014 chibok school girls were kidnapped, in 2018 was Dapchi girls. From 2020 to date not less than 10 schools were attacked and students were kidnapped in Mass from all level of educational pursuits. In kankara, katsina state it was secondary School students so also in Niger state. In Zamfara and Kaduna high levels of learning were attacked, students of the schools were kidnapped. In most occasion money was p...

Barely a week after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA intercepted N6 billion worth of Amphetamine, popularly known as jihadists drug at the Apapa port in Lagos, operatives of the Agency have again seized over 24, 311 kilograms of heroin, codeine as well as Arizona and Colorado variants of cannabis in fresh drug busts at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja and the Tincan seaport, Apapa, Lagos state. The first seizure came on Friday 3rd September, 2021 at the SAHCO export shed of the MMIA where two consignments containing 10.350 kg heroin and 25.2 kg cannabis from South Africa were intercepted. In series of sting operations between Saturday 4th Sept and Monday 6th Sept, in different parts of Lagos, four suspects were arrested including Mrs. Bello Kafayat Ayo who was picked from Shino Street, Palmgroove area of the state. At the Tincan seaport, Apapa, narcotic officers intercepted a 40ft container loaded with 22,590 kilograms of Barcadin Codeine syrup on Monday...