Latest breaking city news, emergency reports, civic updates, and metro stories across Benin City and Nigeria’s South-South region.”
The Rivers State Police Command has removed the Abuloma DPO and an outpost officer following public outrage over a viral video—also shared on South-South Echoes’ Facebook page—showing suspected cultists celebrating a station renovation in Port Harcourt.
At least 20 people were injured and about 50 houses razed after a leaking Nigeria Gas Company pipeline exploded in the Aleto community, Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, following weeks of unaddressed gas leaks.
Hundreds of civilian occupants and traders have been displaced following an enforcement exercise by military authorities at the 3 Battalion Barracks in Effurun, Delta State, resulting in severe losses and public outcry.
At least four people, including a military officer, lost their lives while ten others sustained critical injuries following a petrol tanker explosion and subsequent fire outbreak along the Benin-Lagos Expressway in Oluku, Edo State.
Operatives of the Oyo State Police Command have rescued five foreign nationals from the Republic of Congo suspected to be human trafficking victims at Bollarz Hotel in the Araromi area of Ibadan, following an intelligence-led operation targeting transnational criminal syndicates.
A catastrophic explosion was narrowly averted at the Second Rainbow Bridge along the Mile 2 axis in Amuwo Odofin, Lagos, on Wednesday morning after a tanker carrying 33,000 litres of highly flammable ethanol overturned. The emergency response was confirmed in Read more…
Troops of the 195 Battalion (Rear), operating under the 4 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, have killed three suspected kidnappers and rescued a 44-year-old victim during a raid on a criminal hideout in Edo State. The successful anti-kidnapping operation was Read more…
Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo has issued a stern warning against criminality in the state, maintaining that absolute justice will be enforced without exception, even if it implicates members of his own family. The state chief executive delivered this hardline Read more…
Officers from the Cross River State Police Command have apprehended a 29-year-old man, Abashi John, following the alleged abduction of an 11-year-old child in Edor Community, within the Ikom Local Government Area. Reports say the child’s father, Raphael Eyo, reported Read more…
A profound sense of shock has enveloped Mgbakwu community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, following a violent domestic dispute that has left a family shattered. A local resident identified as Ozoekwe Ezeudu allegedly took his own Read more…
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