GLOBAL COMMUNITY REPORTERS

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.

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.

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...

By Seyi Anjorin Lugbe is one of the popular suburban settlements in the FCT, along the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport road, in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) with more than 20 housing estates developed and still developing, spanning over 15kilometres on the Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua expressway. Since the introduction of the cashless policy in Nigeria and FCT, as a resident of Lugbe, it is safe not to run out of cash with the intention of getting the ATM to dispense cash, particular in an emergency period. A visit to Federal Housing Estate in Lugbe shows that there are only three banks namely Skye, Fidelity and Wema Banks that services the whole of the Lugbe environs until Shoprite Nigeria opened its Novare Gateway mall in Lugbe, housing just two ATM points from Zenith Bank. It has been a nightmare for residents of Lugbe who want to make withdrawals, especially during the weekends as most of the ATMs operated by these banks either run out of cash or are not capab...

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...

Arrangements which were on top gear for survey, engineering documentations and award of contract by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) last week for the rehabilitation of

ABULEADO, a sleepy community in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos State has been hit by uneasy calm since the disappearance of a two-year-old girl, Chinaza Agwa from her parents’ bedside on March 6. Since then, her parents, community leaders and other resi­dents have been in agony.     Saturday Sun gathered that before her disappearance, Chinaza was a cheerful and happy girl. She could play with anybody as long as she had seen the face before. She is the last child of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth and Chinyere Agwa whose 14-year old marriage has yielded four children namely; Emeka, 13, Chioma 9, Obinna, 7 and Chinaza, 2.

By Seriki Adinoyi Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong on Monday, in the company of his deputy, Professor Sonni Tyoden, and Head of Security agencies in the state, DIG Sanusi Lemu, visited victims of recent Jos violence in some hospitals in the city. The Governor was at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Jos and the state Specialist Hospital, where he saw some of the victims of the attack. He was also at Bauchi Ring road where he visited the Redeemed Christian Church of God which was torched by some hoodlums. While speaking to newsmen after the visit, the Governor said the events of recent weeks which include the attacks on communities in Bassa and Riyom, as well as the one on travelers at Rukuba road and others carried out on Sunday morning before the imposition of 24 hour curfew on Jos North, were totally condemnable and unacceptable. He said, “On behalf of the government, I still stand to condemn this act. These are clear acts of criminality and all those who perpetrated these...

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.

There was confusion in the Ibu Amon area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Friday when residents of the area found a newborn baby which was dump close to the Osun River.