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                                   The Kano State Hisbah Board has seized and destroyed 30 trailer loads of beer worth N150 million. In a statement released on Tuesday December 25th, the board’s Public Relations Officer, Adamu Yahaya, said that the cartons of beer were destroyed on Monday evening December 24th after interception at Kalebawa on Danbata Road in Dawakin Tofa area. “The Kano State Law No. 4 of 2004 has banned the manufacture and use of intoxicants in the state. Furthermore, an order was given by a magistrates’ court for us  to go ahead with the exercise,” the public relations officer said. The worth of a trailer load of beer is between N5.2 million and N5.5 million. The sale of beer and its consumption has been banned in Kano state.

                                          A migrant boy, 8, has died in US government custody, making him the second child to die in detention this month. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the unnamed boy died shortly after midnight on Christmas day. The boy reportedly showed 'signs of potential illness' on Monday and was taken with his father to a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico. There, he was diagnosed with a cold and a fever and given medication. He was released on Monday afternoon but returned to the same hospital in the evening with nausea and vomiting. He died just hours later. The cause of death has not yet been determined. This comes only weeks after a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died after being apprehended by border agents....

                                  A final year Urban and Regional planning student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University identified as Boluwatife Oyeleye was on Christmas Day killed by a hit-and-run driver in Lagos. According to reports, she  had gone out for a Christmas outing and was returning home around 6:30pm, when she was hit by a vehicle while trying to cross the Lekki-Epe expressway at the Ajah-Ilaje axis. It was gathered that she had headphones in her ears before the incident happened on Ilaje Road. The driver however fled. A bike rider later assisted Boluwatife to the roadside and called on passersby to help rush her to the hospital, but no help came until she gave up the ghost.

                                         The Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has confirmed the arrest of two Ghanaians for allegedly robbing a truck driver of his vehicle and goods with acid. The Force spokesman, DCP Jimoh Moshood confirmed the arrest to newsmen in Lagos, stressing that the suspects carried out the crime in Edo on December 9, while they were arrested in Enugu State. Moshood said that the suspects allegedly poured raw acid on Taiwo Adesanya after robbing him at the Olukwu area of Benin City of his truck with goods. He said that the suspects, Eric Aidan and Matthew Kwasha, are notorious criminals who specialise in killing their victims with raw acid after dispossessing them of their belongings, especially vehicles. The image maker of the force, who ...

                        Natalie Dempsey, a volunteer firefighter died in a car crash while she was on her way to help others on Christmas Day in New Jersey, U.S. Police say the 21-year-old Dempsey was driving her black 2001 Honda Accord in Hamilton Township about 6:20 a.m. Tuesday when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a guardrail. Mizpah Volunteer Fire Company announced Dempsey’s death on Facebook and said the 21-year-old was the vice president of the South Jersey volunteer fire squad. “At this time the Mizpah Fire Company has to announce the passing of Firefighter/Vice President Natalie Dempsey. Please keep her family in your prayers. We will keep you all updated on any funeral arrangements. This will be a funeral with full honors due to it being a line of duty passing,” the company said in the post. Chief Jay Davenpor...

                                     An earthquake triggered by Italy’s Mount Etna volcano has jolted eastern Sicily, injuring 10 people and prompting frightened Italian villagers to flee their homes. Italy’s Civil Protection officials said the quake, at 3:19 a.m. Wednesday, was part of a swarm of some 1,000 tremors, most of them barely perceptible, that are linked to Etna’s ongoing eruption this week. The 4.8 magnitude earthquake early Wednesday damaged some rural homes, including structures that had been abandoned years ago, toppled a statue in a church in the town of Santa Venerina and opened up cracks on a highway, which was closed for inspection. The Italian news agency ANSA said an 80-year-old man was extracted from the rubble of a house. Government undersecretary Vito Crimi sai...

                                A young lady is currently nursing an injury she sustained after her 22-year-old brother stabbed her in the back because she was slow in making his food at their home in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Their older sister, Sonia Joy Esego, who shared the story online, says she has reported the matter to the police. ''My younger brother did this to my little sister because he ask her to make him food which she was doing he said she was slow dats d reason he stabbed her.we lost our father last year November ever since dis boy has been hurting my siblings I reported dis case to the police station and now my father family is asking my mum to tell me to withdraw the case the boy in question is just 22 and his the first son was I wrong in reporting the case?       ...

Saidu Dansadau The incessant killings in Zamfara State has led to a disagreement among politicians on whether or not a state of emergency should be declared in the North-west state. A state of emergency could mean the federal government taking over governance in the state and massively deploying soldiers to maintain peace there. The federal government could also choose to appoint an administrator to govern the state during the period of the emergency rule. The debate over a state of emergency follows the repeated killings in Zamfara in recent weeks by armed bandits. While dozens have been killed in recent weeks, hundreds have been killed in the state in 2018. Many others have been kidnapped for ransom and several houses destroyed. The killings have continued despite the deployment of soldiers and other security operatives to the state. The killings led the governor of the state, Abdulaziz Yari, saying he has relinquished his position as chief security officer ...

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                                 Days after it accused the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) of aiding terrorism in the North-east, the Nigerian Army says it has resolved its differences with the UN agency. The army chief, Tukur Buratai, a lieutenant general, stated this on Saturday in Maiduguri. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the army on December 14  announced that it was suspending UNICEF operations  in the North-east following the accusations it made. The army did not provide any evidence for the accusations and did not state if it had presidential approval for its action. Hours later, the army announced it  reversed the suspension   after a meeting with UNICEF officials. UNICEF is one of the international organisations operating in the North-eastern part of Nigeria to asssit victims of the Boko Haram insurgency. On Saturday, Mr Buratai said the ...

                                              The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Saturday called on the media to support the military to defeat Boko Haram. Mr Buratai made the call during a dinner and interactive session organised for editors and defence correspondents in Maiduguri. He said the call was imperative to check the spate of terrorists’ propaganda inimical to the successful implementation of the counter insurgency campaign. Mr Buratai said terrorists had thrived on publicity to misinform the public, instill fear in the mind of the people and demoralise troops. He lamented the spate of “campaign of calumny” against the military through social media platform by some organisations at the detriment of national security. Mr Buratai described the allegations of human rights abuses against the military by Amnesty International, lack of equipme...

                                   Four men said to be Nigerians have been taken into police custody in the United Kingdom after they tried to reach that country by sneaking aboard a UK-bound ship which set off in Lagos. They were also accused of ‘threatening’ to harm the crew. The Essex Police confirmed the detention of the stowaways on Saturday after 25 members of the British Navy’s Special Boat Service were deployed last night to regain the control of the ship. British Prime Minister Theresa May was said to have sanctioned the operation of the SBS, an elite naval unit in the UK, and the special commandos were flown on a helicopter to the vessel off the coast of Kent near the Thames Estuary. The ship left Lagos on December 10 and the Nigerian stowaways were found four days ago when they allegedly threatened to harm the crew, according to the owner of 71,000-tonne ship Grande Tema, Napoli...