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Police Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team have arrested two suspects for the kidnap and murder of a Medical Doctor, Audu Benedict, his son and one of his associates in Katsina-ala LGA, Benue State while travelling from Taraba State to Abuja on  March 10, 2019.   According to a statement from the spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, Frank Mba, the suspects, Henry Terkula Gwa, 25, from Donga LGA of Benue State and Terhile Tsavbe, 30, from Gawa village, Katsina-ala LGA of Benue State were arrested on June 6 and 11, 2020, following intense search for the victims and manhunt for the perpetrators by the Police team. Mba said investigations by the police revealed that the criminal gang collected 7.5million naira as ransom from the families of the victims as a condition for their release. The suspects forced the late Dr Audu Benedict to issue them a cheque of N500,000.000 which they cashed in a commercial bank in Gboko town, Benue Stat...

Award-winning dancer,  Kafayat Shafau-Ameh better known as Kaffy, turns 40 years old today June 30. To celebrate her birthday, the mum of two had a photo session with her husband and their two children. She shared the lovely new photos on her Instagram page this morning. See more photos below...   The post Dance Queen, Kaffy shares new photos as she turns a year older appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

Seven-year-old Adamu Haruna has been declared missing in the Kagini area of Abuja. According to family sources, Haruna who lives with his Uncle, Aliyu Usman, was playing in their compound when he went missing on Friday, June 19. Efforts to find him since that day have proved abortive. The family has printed fliers with his face and name on it but no one has contacted them yet.  Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the FCT police command, Anjuguri Manzah, said efforts are being made to find the boy and reunite him with his family.The post Seven year old boy goes missing while playing inside his compound in Abuja appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

566 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria on Monday, June 29. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 166 new cases, Oyo-66, Delta-53, Ebonyi-43, Plateau-34, Ondo-32, FCT-26, Ogun-25, Edo-24, Imo-15, Bayelsa-13, Benue-12, Gombe-11, Kano-11, Kaduna-11, Osun-8 , Nasarawa-7, Borno-5, Katsina-2, Anambra-2. Nigeria has now recorded 25,133 cases of COVID-19 with 573 deaths, while 9,402 patients have been discharged from various Isolation centers across the country.    See a breakdown of cases in the different states below.  The post 566 new cases of Coronavirus recorded in Nigeria appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog .

                                      Chinese scientists have warned that pigs are a 'key intermediate host' or 'mixing vessel' for viruses spreading from wild animals into humans and could cause another pandemic if not taken seriously.Experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been studying outbreaks of swine flu in pig farms across the country and say the latest strain can pass to humans even though only two people are confirmed to have caught the virus, dubbed G4 EA H1N1, since the first outbreak in 2016. The researchers who say the disease is 'highly adapted' to infect humans are now calling for monitoring of farms and people working on or near them as further transmission could cause the virus to 'adapt and become a pandemic'.  The two cases of a G4-like EA H1N1 virus were of a 46-year-old and a 9-year-old.'Epidemiological survey found that the two patients had neigh...

Chinese social media app, TikTok, is still able to access notes on iphone users' clipboard, Apple's beta iOS 14 release has revealed, showing that the app has not kept to its promise early this year to stop accessing sensitive information on customers phones.TikTok came under fire earlier this year for accessing devices’ clipboards, and in a statement promised to end it's snopping actions, but users testing the new operating system of Iphone have found TikTok has not kept its promise. When the TikTok app accesses the clipboard on a device with iOS 14, a notification appears at the top showing that TikTok was looking at the clipboard every free strokes even when it was running in the background, the Telegraph reports.   A video shared on Twitter shows a user typing a comment in the app and every few seconds a banner alert appears, letting him know that TikTok has accessed his clipboard. However, this app is not the only one sneaking in the shadows....

                                   Former Liverpool and current Derby County defender, Andre Wisdom, was admitted to a hospital on Monday night, June 29,  after being stabbed and robbed while he was getting out of his car when visiting a relative in the Toxteth neighbourhood of Liverpool.  According to reports, the unprovoked attack happened after Derby’s 2-1 win over Reading.Wisdom was involved in the full match and after the game was going to see a relative when the attack happened.   His sister told The Sun: 'He's been stabbed and is in hospital. He's stable and my other brother is on his way there. It's crazy. I can't believe it' The club tweeted on Monday night: ‘Get well soon, Wis.’  A source told The Sun: 'It's awful news. He must have been on a high after his team played so well. To then have something like this happen is just tragic. It was tota...