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In a bitter twist of fate, the gunmen who invaded a Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State, have been trapped by security operatives who are currently at the prison premises. Point News247 reports that some criminal elements had stormed the facility on Sunday evening with sophisticated weapons and were shooting sporadically at the premises. A statement by the spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), C.C. Francis Enobore, said the gunmen have been trapped following heavy fire power of security operatives who immediately cordoned the yard. The statement reads; “The Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State…

Reports just reaching Point News247 studios indicates that a building said to house auto spare parts in the Lagos popular Ladipo market has bursted into flames. The building located on 85 Ladipo Street by Fatai Atere Way, reportedly caught fire the evening of Sunday after an electrical spark at a furniture workshop behind the building. Ibrahim Farinloye, Public Relations Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency, says that officials have tried to put off the inferno but it continued to burn till the early hours of Monday. This is coming barely three weeks after an explosion rocked a near street…

Point News247 reports that a group of bandits has written to the Christian community in Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria, to close churches or risk ferocious attacks. The Zamfara State police command has confirmed the threat to Newsmen, saying, “We are on top of the threat.” Spokesperson for the command, DSP Mohammed Shehu, told reporters that the police were aware of the threat letter. He said, “Yes, I can confirm that it’s true, a threat letter was sent to the Christians in Zamfara State to stop worship and to close churches. “Actually the police informed the Christian leaders about the threat.…

Point News247 reports that Parag Agrawal has just been named Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer. This comes after Jack Dorsey’s announcement of his decision to step down as Chief Executive Officer on Monday. The Board of Directors of Twitter Inc. unanimously appointed Parag Agrawal as CEO and a member of the Board with immediate effect.

The Director-General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mallam Farouk Salim, has charged standards agencies in Africa to harmonise standards and broker mutual agreements to ensure the success of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Point News247 reports that Salim gave the advice recently in a statement at the opening ceremony of the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) 65th Council meeting in Accra. He also urged them to promote faster adoption of the continental standards to facilitate movement of goods across African borders and with the rest of the world without inhibition. This, Salim said, would ensure that standards were…

Reports reaching Point News247 indicates that there was pandemonium as armed EFCC agents on Saturday night stripped, robbed and shot repeatedly to traumatised guests at Conference Hotels, part of a luxury accommodation chain run by former Governor Gbenga Daniel in Abeokuta, witnesses said. The officers reportedly arrived just before midnight on Saturday and operated well into the early hours of Sunday morning, witnesses said. They forcibly broke into guest rooms unannounced and stripped them of any dignity, Peoples Gazette heard, in a description that matches the agency’s recent descent into conduct bereft civil liberties considerations. Scores of guests were said…

Some airport officials caught extorting a passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, have been suspended by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Point News247 reports that theFAAN disclosed this in a statement on its official Facebook page signed by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, on Saturday. The statement noted that the officials are staff of the Aviation Security and Customer Service departments of FAAN, while the On Duty Cards of their accomplice from the Nigerian Immigration Service had been withdrawn. The statement read, “In line with the Management’s determination to rid the nation’s airport of…

Contrary to recent publications,Chukwudumeme Nwamadike alias Evans, has not been convicted in any of the three courts where he is being prosecuted over allegations of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, attempt to kidnap and sale and transfer of firearms for an attempted kidnap. Point News247 reports that the trial of Evans and his co-defendants before Justice Hakeem Oshodi, is at written address stage. His trial before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo is at the stage where prosecution is still calling witnesses while his trial is still ongoing before Justice Adedayo Akintoye. It was also gathered that his cases are before…

Transatlantic military alliance (NATO), has warned Russia that any attempt to invade Ukraine would have consequences, as the Russian military amasses hundreds of thousands of troops near Ukraine’s borders. Ukraine says Moscow kept 90,000 troops near their border following massive war games in western Russia earlier this year. Point News247 reports that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said units of the Russian 41st army remain near Yelnya, about 160 miles north of the border. Moscow denies that it’s planning any invasion and refuses to provide details about troop movements, saying their Army can move anywhere within Russian territory. NATO Secretary-General Jens…

Point News247 reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday, declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19 to be a variant of concern, renaming it Omicron. “Based on the evidence presented indicative of a detrimental change in Covid-19 epidemiology… the WHO has designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern, named Omicron,” the UN health agency said in a statement. Meanwhile, EU officials holding an emergency meeting over the variant agreed on Friday to urge all 27 nations in the bloc to restrict travel from that region. “Member States agreed to introduce rapidly restrictions on all travel into the EU…