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  During the operation, troops also recovered a cache of arms and ammunition, including two AK-47 rifles, eight AK-47 rifle magazines, 374 rounds of 7.62mm x 39 special ammunition and 88 rounds of 7.62mm x 54 NATO ammunition.    Other items recovered were one Infinix mobile phone, medical supplies, clothing, and dry rations.   The success of the operation is …

A man in Memphis, Tennessee, was shot by his dog after the pet accidentally set off a loaded firearm while jumping on the bed, police said Wednesday, March 12.   The man, who was sleeping alongside his female partner, sustained a graze wound to his left thigh in the early Monday morning incident and was treated at a hospital.   …

Swedish electric car battery manufacturer Northvolt has filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure the necessary financing to sustain its operations. The company announced on Wednesday, March 12, that, despite exploring “all available options” and receiving “liquidity support from our lenders and key counterparties,” it was unable to continue in its current form.   Founded in 2016, Northvolt was considered …

Daniel Bwala, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on media and policy, has claimed that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) 2023 presidential candidate, will soon leave the party.   In an interview on TVC on Wednesday, March 12, Bwala stated that Obi would join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 elections.   “Do you know …

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, led his colleagues to a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday, March 12.    Obasa and the lawmakers arrived at the villa in two coaster buses around 3 p.m. The meeting is believed to be linked to the leadership crisis in the …

Former Rivers State governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that Governor Siminalayi Fubara should be impeached if found wanting, stating that impeachment is not a criminal offense.   “Politics is not play. If he has done something to be impeached, let them impeach him. It’s not a criminal offence,” Wike said during a media …

Governor Siminalayi Fubara has expressed dissatisfaction over the action of the Rivers State House of Assembly, denying him entry from the quarters on Wednesday, March 12.   While addressing residents of the Khana Local Government Area of the state during the commissioning of some health facilities shortly after the drama at the Assembly quarters, the governor insisted that he communicated …

A Nigerian man, Chukwuka Nweke, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for r3ping and m8rdering a 61-year-old woman, Rovereto woman, Iris Setti, in Italy.   Nweke attacked the deceased in a public park in the northeastern Italian city of Rovereto in Trento on the evening of August 5, 2023.   ANSA Italy reported that Nweke was found guilty of aggravated …

Sagair Ibrahim Koki, the member representing Kano Municipal Federal Constituency, has lost his daughter.     The deceased, Hauwa Sagir Koki, passed away in Egypt.    Koki announced the sad news in a post on his official X account on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.   “Inna Lilllahi Wa Inna Ilaihir Rajiun! We loves her but Allah (SWT) loves her more. …

Actress Lola Fany has reacted after Ife Luv, the fiancée of skitmaker OluwaDolarz, named her as one of the women her man allegedly cheated on her with.  Ife Luv had gone online to accuse her baby daddy OluwaDolarz of being a serial cheat. She claimed she once caught actress Lola Fany hiding in his bathroom when she visited suddenly.  At …