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A baby The Egyptian Governorate of Aswan has witnessed a rare birth, when a woman delivered a baby with two heads, one heart, two spines and one intestine. The Egyptian newspaper Al Watan reported that the 25-year-old mother gave birth to the child, called Baby Nadra in a private clinic, a representative from the Ministry of Health in Aswan, Ehab Hanafi said. The newborn was transferred to a hospital to follow up on his health condition. Hanafi stated that this is an extremely rare case. An official confirmed that the baby’s health is stable and he will be transferred after a couple of days to the National Research Center in Cairo to monitor his condition. The couple has another healthy one-year old. Mohammed Farag Ahmed, 37, father of the child said his wife had undergone a caesarean section to deliver the baby.

                                    Armed bandits riding on motorcycles descended on a village in Kaduna State on Saturday, killing, kidnapping and injuring residents before setting their properties on fire, PRNigeria reported on Sunday. The police in Kaduna told PREMIUM TIMES Sunday afternoon that two police officers were killed in the attack. They were identified as Aliyu Mohammed, an inspector, and Rabiu Abubakar, a sergeant. The police also said another sergeant, Ibrahim Nasir, was injured alongside six residents. All the injured had been taken to the hospital while search and rescue for those feared abducted had commenced. Witnesses who spoke with PRNigeria in the wake of the attack said the bandits entered Kakangi village in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area at about 5:00 p.m. The attackers went on a rampage that included shooting at a police station and burning of homes and marke...

                                     The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced a total ban on mining activities in Zamfara State and its environs. The decision is part of fresh measures to restore peace to the state bedevilled by banditry. Hundreds of people have been killed or kidnapped by the bandits in Zamfara in the past year. There have been suspicions that the criminality is a fallout of the artisanal mining of gold and lead in the state. The new measure banning mining was announced by the Inspector General of the Police, Mohammed Adamu, while briefing State House correspondents on Sunday in Abuja. Mr Adamu said the government took the decision because it found out there was a relationship between the bandits and illegal miners. Mr Adamu also announced that “all foreigners within mining sites are to leave immediately.” He said all the sites will be taken over...

                                     Indigenes of Zamfara resident in Abuja have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently intervene and stop the killings and kidnappings currently going on in the state. The indigenes, who held a protest in Abuja on Saturday, decried the insecurity in the state which has resulted in apprehension, displacements of communities and loss of lives. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, an organiser of the protest, Fatimah Mustapha, said their action was to call the attention of government to the gruesome killings and cases of kidnappings going on in Zamfara. According to her, perpetrators of these evil acts are getting bolder day by day with little action taken by the authorities to arrest the situation and stop the act. She said the government of Zamfara was not doing anything to arrest the situation hence the protest in the nation’s capital, ...

                         Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, has said that ending banditry remains a key priority of his administration and he would do whatever it takes to save lives. Reacting to the recent spike in killings and kidnappings in Zamfara and Kaduna States, Mr Buhari described himself as one of the “unhappiest” leaders in the world. Mr Buhari has been criticised for his failure to check the deteriorating security situation in Zamfara State. Nigerians on Saturday staged a peaceful protest calling for the attention of the government to the killings in Zamfara State. The president on Saturday, in a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said the rise in banditry has made him an unhappy man. “How can I be happy and indifferent to the senseless killings of my fellow citizens by bandits? I am human and I understand the pains of the victims and their families who have been traumatized and impove...

                                  The petition, which was obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, was also copied to the state director of security service and the area commander of Moore Area Command in Ile-ife. The incident, the university claims, occurred at about 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3. It said those involved described themselves as members of a non-existent Great Ife Development Board. The petition, which was entitled; “Complaint of Criminal Pollution of Opa Dam, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,” noted that the assailants gained access to the dam through a portion of the university land adjoining Parakin Area. The petition reads in part; “I wish to formally make a complaint of criminal pollution of Opa Dam in the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife by some murderous members of the Ife Community. “On 3rd April 2019 at about 1500hours, a report of invasion and pollution of the University Dam ...

File photo of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo arriving at an airport                                  Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has departed Nigeria to join other world leaders and top dignitaries to participate in the ceremonies marking the 25th National Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The event holds on Sunday in Kigali, Rwanda. According to Mr Osinbajo’s spokesperson, Laolu Akande, in a statement, some of the activities lined up for the event include the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the wreaths laying ceremony and lighting of the flame by the President of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame and special guests invited for the event. April 7, 1994, marked the beginning of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda perpetrated by the Hutu extremist-led government. Violence over a three month period from April 7 to mid-July 1994 led to the killing of an es...

The General Manager (Public Relations) of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMET), Mr. Muntari Yusuf, who was reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday along the notorious Kaduna-Abuja expressway was released on Friday evening by his abductors on the eve of his daughter’s wedding. The NiMET’s spokesperson who recently survived a ghastly motor accident with multiple fractures, also successfully gave out his daughter, Hassana Mukhtar Yusuf, to Saifullah Abdulaziz, in marriage this Saturday. It was learnt that family members and well-wishers of the NiMET senior staff, rallied round to raise the money for the kidnappers, four days he was taken into hostage. It was learnt that family members and well-wishers of the NiMET senior staff, rallied round to raise the money for the kidnappers, four days he was taken into hostage. On how Mr. Yusuf was abducted, a reliable source disclosed that the kidnappers came with two cars with the first blocking the front that forced the NiMET’s spokesperson ...

Court Gavel By Paul Iyoghojie A 25-year old security man, Bright Ekwo attached to Jubilee Life Mortgage Bank, Victoria Island, Lagos has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court for allegedly stealing 31 pieces of inverter batteries valued N310,000 belonging to the bank and escaped with it. The accused, a resident of Ikorodu and employed by Prime Guard Security Company was arrested by the police at the Bar Beach Division, Victoria Island and charged before the Igbosere Magistrate Court on a two-count of conspiracy and stealing. Police Counsel, Inspector Reuben Solomon told the court in charge No M/18/2019 that the accused committed the alleged offense between February and March 2019 at Jubilee Life Mortgage Bank at 790, Adeola Hopewell Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Solomon informed the court that the accused betrayed his employer and connived with others still at large to steal about 31 pieces of inverter batteries they were employed to guard and protect belonging...

Nigerian Air Force Alpha jet The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Task Force (ATF) for Operation DIRAN MIKIYA has successfully destroyed a bandits’ logistics base at Ajia in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja. He said the ATF also neutralized dozens of the bandits at Ajia and Wonaka in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara. Daramola explained that the operation was executed sequel to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports indicating that the bandits were using a compound within Ajia as a logistics store to support their operations. “Consequently, the ATF dispatched a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet, supported by an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, to attack the compound scoring accurate strikes on the target and causing it to erupt into flames, which engulfed the structures and resulted in t...