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A suspected Improvised Explosive Device, IED, yesterday detonated beneath a parked vehicle in the Oke Mushin area of Lagos, injuring the owner and causing panic among residents. The explosion occurred around 6 a.m. at 22, Wey Street, Oke Mushin, when the owner of a gold Toyota Sienna, with registration number AAA11FX, attempted to start the vehicle after it had been parked overnight. The blast triggered a swift response from security agencies, including bomb disposal experts and senior police officers, who cordoned off the area and launched an investigation. Speaking at the scene, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Tijani Fatai, confirmed that preliminary findings showed the explosive device had been planted underneath the vehicle. “The substance that exploded has been confirmed as an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The owner sustained minor injuries and has been taken to hospital for treatment,” he said. Fatai disclosed that Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operatives thor...

*Protests rock Ibadan *Panic in Owo as gunmen abduct mother, 2 kids; attack pastor’s home in twin raids *Catholic Bishops condemn reintegration of repentant terrorists, demand justice for victims *Protesters lock down major streets in Ibadan over kidnapping *Security’s national duty, not ethnic battle, Igboho fires back at critics  NO fewer than 22 persons, including health workers and security personnel, were killed by gunmen in Sunday night attack on Kawel village in Mushere District of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. Several others were also injured in the attack, as protests yesterday rocked Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, over the persistent kidnapping of residents of the state. It will be recalled that over 40 pupils, students and teachers of three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of state, kidnapped on May 15,2026, are yet to regain their freedom. But the South-West Coordinating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Adegoke Fayoade,  assured that ...

 By Olu Fasan THE decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to name June 12 as Nigeria’s “Democracy Day” was motivated by self-serving politics, not principled conviction. Before he became president in 2015, Buhari never once publicly condemned the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. However, in 2018, as he prepared to seek re-election the following year and faced deepening unpopularity in the South-West, Buhari changed the annual “Democracy Day” from May 29 to June 12 to curry favour with the South-West, which had turned the annulment into an ethnic issue. Professor Wole Soyinka said at the time that Buhari took the decision “with an eye on electoral fortunes, undoubtedly.” He was right! Equally opportunistic were the so-called pro-democracy politicians. Most of those parading themselves as democrats today, including those in the ruling APC who rode on the coattails of June 12 agitations to advance their political careers, are by no stretch of the imagination true ...

*Father demands justice AN 18-month-old baby girl has been reportedly beheaded for suspected ritual purposes at Agoti farm settlement in Idanre, Ondo State. The incident occurred on June 8, 2026, according to the father of the deceased, Bright Kalu, a peasant farmer from Abia State. Narrating the incident, Kalu said he left the baby in the care of her mother at their farm camp while he went to a nearby farm to buy food items. According to him, “On June 8, 2026, I was returning from a nearby camp where I had gone to buy food items when I met my wife looking troubled and distressed. “When I asked what had happened, she told me that someone had come to the camp and attacked her, and that she was able to rescue three of our children, but one was missing.” Kalu said he and his elder brother, Ifeanyi, immediately searched the area. They did not find anyone but later discovered the lifeless body of his daughter behind their house with her head severed. The farmer has appealed to the Ondo Stat...

*Says suspect planned father’s  death for years  A  family in Calabar, Cross River State has been thrown into mourning after 74-year-old Okon Ansa was found dismembered in Ukim Ita, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, with his daughter saying the suspected killer kept her father’s photos “like a trophy.” The man’s daughter, Basseyanwan, told Vanguard the last time she heard her father’s voice was when he called her “Mma Teacher,” his favourite name. According to her, “He had complained of waist pain and had run out of medication. I arranged food and medicine before leaving on a trip and did not see him alive again.” On returning to the community, she said: “Seeing my father’s lifeless body dismembered into pieces made me faint several times, I was not myself.” Police discovered the elderly man’s head buried in a shallow grave and his body in another, both concealed beneath plantain and pineapple suckers in a neighbour’s compound.  Recall the suspect ...

T RAGEDY struck at Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday, as six persons were reportedly crushed to death and several others severely wounded by a tipper truck. The incident which occurred around the College Junction threw residents into confusion. Sources said the heavy duty vehicle was conveying sand to a building construction site when the driver lost control and rammed into motorcyclists, pedestrians and other road users. A source in the community said six persons died on the stop while those that sustained varying degrees of injuries were rushed to a nearby hospital. “The vehicle suffered break failure and the driver lost control at the College Junction axis of the town. “The vehicle rammed into commercial motorcycles, vehicles, passersby and started killing people. “The number of persons counted that had died before they were rushed to the hospital were about six,” the source said.