Tag Archives: Delta State

At least five people are dead and 20 others are still missing following a tragic boating accident in Waeei South Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria. The incident occurred on Monday evening, February 24, when speedboats carrying passengers returning from a burial collided and capsized. According to eyewitnesses, “many of …

A trigger-happy policeman allegedly shot dead a 17-year-old in Ozoro community, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria. The incident occurred when police officers stormed the neighborhood after finding firecrackers in the victim’s possession. According to reports,“efforts by the security operatives to arrest the boy were resisted and while …

A 40-year-old man was shot dead by a policeman as he drove home from work along Azikoro Road in Yenagoa, the capital of Nigeria’s Bayelsa State. The deceased was an electrician from Bobougbene community in Burutu local government area of Delta State, and was carrying a passenger in the front …

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for killing her one-year-old son as she dumped her four month old in a well along the road in the Isoko region of Delta State, Nigeria. “The woman killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the …

The remains of 16 soldiers killed in an armed attack in Nigeria’s Delta State were laid to rest in the capital Abuja on Wednesday, according to reports. On March 17, 16 soldiers, including two majors and a captain, were killed in an attack on soldiers on a peacekeeping mission in …

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered the army to arrest the killers of 16 soldiers who were murdered while on a peace mission in the south of the country last week. The troops were responding to clashes between the Okuama and Okoloba communities in the oil-rich southern Delta state, when …

A suspected yahoo boy has killed three students along the Polytechnic Road, Ogwashi-Uku,delta State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The suspect was driving a Lexus 350 salon ash colour along the Polytechnic Road, just about a pole to the school and  crushed three persons to death,” reports said. The deceades, a …

The Delta State Police Command has arrested a teenager for issuing a false alarm about his missing manhood in Asaba, Nigeria. “The 18-year-old suspect raised a false alarm that an old woman inside a tricycle touched him and his manhood (penis) disappeared,” according to reports. “Over 100 misguided touts gathered …

Gunmen have reportedly attacked army troops and killed four officers in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria, according to reports. The incident which happened Kwale road is currently creating tension as the army personnel was said to have invaded the community. The hoodlums ambushed the army …

A magistrate’s court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a 35-year-old man to jail for child labor and abduction of underage girls for prostitution in the state, Nigeria, according to reports. “They were taken away by the suspect, who promised to secure them jobs in Agbor, Delta State, where …