GLOBAL COMMUNITY REPORTERS

By Ibrahim Mohammed Armed men on Monday attacked a school in Kaduna, killing one person and kidnapping seven students and a teacher, residents said. The armed men killed a man and abducted seven students and a teacher of Prince Academy, located at Damba-Kasaya village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The incident happened around 8 a.m. on Monday when the gunmen stormed the rural community while the students were preparing for their Junior secondary school examination‎. It gathered that the abducted students are JSS3 students who were among the exit students asked to resume by the federal and state government. The kidnapped female teacher was identified as Christianah Madugu while the man who was reportedly shot dead was identified as Benjamin Auta, whose house is close to the school. ‎A youth in the area who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES, Akila‎ Barde, said the assailants arrived on motorcycles well armed. “They came into the village shooting before they went to the scho...

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday approved N740,461,432 as compensation for host communities of Parcel B, comprising Yegunda, Abomiti and International Airport site of the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ).

An explosion in an apartment building that came under fire from a Russian army tank in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka—AP BY MSTYSLAV CHERNOV AND YURAS KARMANAU / AP MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Russian forces pounding the port city of Mariupol shelled a mosque that was sheltering more than 80 people, including children, the Ukrainian government said Saturday. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and Russia kept up its bombardment of other resisting cities. There was no immediate word of casualties from the shelling of Mariupol’s elegant, city-center mosque. The encircled city of 446,000 people has endured some of Ukraine’s worst misery since Russia invaded, with unceasing barrages thwarting repeated attempts to bring in food, water and medicine, evacuate trapped civilians and even bury the dead. “They are bombing it (Mariupol) 24 hours a day, launching missiles. It is hatred. They kill children,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said d...

By Mahmut Atanur  At least two people were killed early Thursday in Indonesia’s West Java province in a landslide caused by heavy rains. Two died as result of house being swept away According to the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), the two were killed as a result of a house being swept away by the landslide. Search and rescue efforts are continuing in the region, it added. In Indonesia, which has a tropical climate, floods and landslides frequently occur due to heavy rains. Thank you for reading. Kindly share also.

Police in the Indian city of Bangalore have arrested the driver of a van carrying cash for ATMs who is accused of stealing 9.2m rupees ($134,000; £107,000) in new 2,000 rupee notes.

A suspected cannabis trafficker, Mr. Sylvester Gbenga has been arrested by the Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS. Gbenga was arrested at Gbaji Customs checkpoint along Lagos-Badagry expressway on Wednesday and handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday. In a statement by the Customs Public Relations Officer, PRO of the Command, Taupyen Selchang, the suspect was arrested with about 106 parcels of hemp. The statement said, “The arrest of the suspect was possible through intelligence gathering by the seizing officers, led by A/C Abubakar Hamza, who trailed the suspect from neighboring Benin Republic.

By Afeez Hanafi A 42-year-old livestock farmer, Segun Onagunwa, has drowned inside a well on his farm on Joe Arubiewe Street, Mosan, in the Egbeda area of Lagos.

The Controller General of Prisons, Dr Peter Ekpendu, (mni) has promised to strengthen capacity development of his workforce to enable the Prisons address some of the perennial problems facing the Service. He said this during a national retreat on Development of the Nigerian Prisons Service Training and Capacity Building Strategic plan for 2015 – 2020 held in Rockview Hotel Abuja.

By Michael B. Some rather weird photos that’s begun trending on the web, show a newborn baby holding his mum’s contraceptive coil which failed to stop her falling pregnant with him. The newborn baby boy is seen clasping his mother’s yellow and black intrauterine device in his hand at Hai Phong International Hospital in the city of Hai Phong in northern Vietnam. Obstetrician Tran Viet Phuong said the device had come out when the baby was born. The infant had it held firmly in his hands when the picture was taken, it is claimed. Dr Phuong told local media, “After delivery, I thought him holding the device was interesting, so I took a picture. “I never thought it would receive so much attention.” The baby’s 34-year-old mother claims she had the coil inserted two years earlier but it did not work because she later discovered she was pregnant. Dr Phuong said the device may have been moved from its original position, becoming an ineffective form of contraception and allowing the mother t...

Chairman of the Special Committee on Clean-Up of Ikoyi,Victoria Island and Lekki, Mr. Tunji Bello recently said the progressing exercise has already cleaned up seven major streets in Victoria Island and five in Ikoyi.