The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini Gumel, has ordered the arrest of the inspector who killed Salisu Player, a Kano resident, during a clash between two rival street groups in the state. At least two residents of Kano were shot when the police were invited to quell an outbreak of violence between the gangs at Kurna Asabe area of Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State. One of the residents shot by police died, causing aggrieved …
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Two hoodlums have been paraded by Katsina state police command for threatening a resident of the state with kidnap and demanding for N250,000 from him. The suspects identified as Usman Abubakar, 22, and Yusufa Ibrahim, 30, were arrested on February 9, 2022, after they made phone calls to one Abdulbasiru Salisu of Shema village, in the Dutsinma Local Government Area of the state. They were nabbed after telling Salisu to deposit N250,000 into a bank account number or risk being kidnapped. …
A 32-year-old man, Saheed Sanni, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a Lagos State High Court sitting at TBS for stabbing one Jide Felix to death. Saheed was arrested in December 2015 for stabbing Felix in the neck with a broken bottle during an argument at LUTH Junction in the Agege Motor Road area of Mushin. Sanni, who had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charge when he was first arraigned on January 18, 2021, later pleaded guilty to …
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has rejected the court which ordered suspension of their ongoing strike. LIB reported that Justice Bashir Alkali gave the ruling on Friday September 17, following an interlocutory application brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Health against the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). However in a statement signed by NARD’s President Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, and Jerry Isogun, the group’s secretary-general, the National Industrial Court in Abuja was accused of denying the doctors fair hearing by …
The Ondo state government has made a clarification on report of sack of resident doctors in the state. Ondo state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo in a statement he released, insisted that the suspension of Residency program at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital does not amount to sacking of medical doctors. Ojogo who disclosed that the UNIMED Residency arrangement was the first since the establishment of the nation’s premier medical university, added that it must not be politicised …
The National Association of Resident Doctors has announced the suspension of the nationwide strike with effect from Monday, June 22, 2020. The strike commenced on Monday, June 15, after the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum (read here). The union took the decision to go on strike after a series of meetings between the doctors and the Federal Government ended in an impasse. However, the union has now announced that the strike has been suspended less than one week after it …