Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

Three people were shot and another stabbed in a wild family fight at an Arizona airport on Christmas Day — with another man later busted for turning up with guns thinking there was an active shooting, according to cops. The violence erupted at a pre-security restaurant in Terminal Four of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around 9:45 p.m. when someone pulled out a gun during a fight and opened fire, according to ABC 15. Three people were found with gunshot injuries, including a woman left fighting for her life, police said. Phoenix police arrest a man on Dec. 25, 2024,…

Hundreds of skiers had to be rescued by helicopter on Christmas day after chairlifts at two different resorts in the French Alps broke down. Dramatic video shows skiers at SuperDevoluy resort in Dévoluy hanging below a helicopter near a motionless chairlift. One of the resort’s chairlifts broke down around 1 p.m. local time Wednesday due to an electrical problem with one of its motors, reported Nouvelle Republique. About 240 skiers were evacuated from the lift by around 5 p.m. local time at the resort in France’s Southern Alps, where the elevation ranges from 6,000 to 8,200 feet above sea level.…

The passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines which crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, was attacked by Russian air defence, Euronews reports. According to Azerbaijani government sources, the Russians hit the plane with a surface-to-air missile. Euronews’ interlocutors clarify that the missile was fired at the plane while it was flying over Grozny, where drone activity was recorded. It exploded near the plane, and its fragments hit passengers and crew members. Also, according to journalists’ sources, the damaged plane was not allowed to land at Russian airports when the pilots requested an emergency landing. The plane was ordered…

The Police have arrested a man, identified as Theophilus Osazuwa, who was alleged to have killed his four-year-old son while under the influence of hard drugs in Edo State. Disclosing the baffling incident on Wednesday night, the Edo State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu said the suspect killed his son at about 12:30 pm on Tuesday at his home located at Ogbeson Quarters, off Benin-Agbor Road in Benin City. The PPRO said Osazuwa fell into a trance and was screaming ‘Holy Ghost fire’ before slamming his son against the wall, killing him in the process. He said,…

Troops of the Nigerian Army have neutralized a notorious bandit, “Al’jan,” in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Al’jan’s death has brought relief to the residents of the area. The deceased had long been terrorizing communities in the local government area. Originally from Niger Republic, “Al’jan,” whose real name remains undisclosed, settled in Tsafe LGA after working as a motorcycle taxi operator. Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, explained that working as a taxi operator connected Al’jan with Fulani herders, leading him down a path of criminality. The publication stated: “Over time, he forged…

A Federal High Court in Lagos has jailed four drug kingpins whose 2,139.55 kilograms of cocaine at an Ikorodu residential estate, was seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in 2022. The convicts were Soji Jubril Oke, 71; Wasiu Akinade, 55; Emmanuel Arinze Chukwu, 67; and Kelvin Christopher Smith, 44, a Jamaican. The drug kingpins, who were nabbed by NDLEA operatives in various locations across Lagos were charged with six counts under charge number FHC/L/607C/2022 in October and December 2022. In a statement on Thursday, the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said that they were jailed by Justice Yellim…

Predators beware! The world’s deadliest rat carries enough toxin to kill an elephant Did you know there’s a rat poisonous enough to kill an elephant? Lophiomys imhausi, also known as the crested rat, the maned rat, and the African crested rat, is a deadly rarity says Aoife Glass. The crested rat is the only known poisonous rodent, and the only known mammal to sequester plant toxins for use as a defence mechanism. One bite is enough to kill. What does the crested rat look like?Adult crested rats grow to between 360mm and 530mm head to tail. The small head is…

The Federal Government has outlined plans to set up annexes of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) in five geopolitical zones of the country. Towards this end, the government has made a budgetary provision of N3,680,000,000 towards the actualisation of the project. NCAT is the foremost aviation training institution in Nigeria established in 1964 and it is a Regional Training Centre (RTC) designated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Since its establishment, the college only has an annex in Lagos, the country’s commercial capital and the hub of aviation in Nigeria. Sources said the plan to decentralise the…

Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command on Wednesday engaged armed bandits in a fierce gunfight on the Katsina-Magama Jibia road, rescuing 10 victims in the process. The incident occurred on the evening of Wednesday, December 24, 2024, when the bandits, armed with dangerous weapons, attacked a commercial vehicle, firing at its occupants and attempting to abduct them. In a statement, the Command’s spokesperson, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, revealed that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Jibia promptly led a team of operatives to the scene upon receiving a distress call. The officers engaged the assailants in a gun duel, successfully…

The widow of the late former governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, Betty, has dissociated herself from the memorial lecture being planned by the state government in honour of her husband. The state government had scheduled the lecture, which is part of a series of activities to commemorate the first anniversary of Akeredolu’s death on December 27, 2023, for Friday in Akure, the state capital. Renowned lawyer, Femi Falani (SAN), was to deliver the lecture, with Bashorun Seinde Arogbofa serving as the chairman of the Akeredolu Leadership Lecture Series, as announced by the state government.However, taking to her X account…