On the banks of the Rio Grande, Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber pointed at the spot where just a day earlier a 3-year-old boy had drowned.  "Medical attention (was) provided," Schmerber said. "He died anyway." The boy's white t-shirt had a murky tinge in a post-mortem photo. Schmerber pointed down river and said "three or four" adult migrants recently drowned there. He pulled out his phone and showed CNN some of the most recent post-mortem and scene photos of migrant deaths in his county. "I feel sad for the families," said Schmerber. The sight of migrant bodies floating onshore or turning up in the surrounding ranchlands has become an almost everyday occurrence recently, Schmerber says. The number of migrants attempting the crossing has continued to rise, and the increase in arrivals is leading to more deaths, according to Schmerber. Some of the deaths are also due to migrants taking more and more risks to evade detection by federal au...

The Nigerian Army has dismissed two soldiers accused of killing an Islamic cleric in Yobe State, identified as Sheikh Goni Gashua. The dismissed soldiers are identified as; Lance Corporal John Gabriel and Lance Corporal Adamu Gideon. The cleric, who was traveling from Kano State, was said to have given Gabriel a lift. On getting to Jaji-Maji, a village along Gashua town, Gabriel was said to have told the deceased that there was an unusual noise at the rear tyre. The cleric, it was gathered, stopped to check the tyres. Gabriel was said to have allegedly brought out his rifle concealed in a camp bed and shot the cleric dead. He, however, called Gideon on phone to assist him to tow the vehicle. The Nigeria Army set up a board of Inquiry to investigate the alleged murder of the Islamic cleric by soldiers who had been arrested by the police. A military source on Saturday told our correspondent that the board recommended the soldiers should be we court martialed. The source added that they w...

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions on Saturday announced the suspension of their ongoing strike for a period of two months, WEXERES reliably gathered. SSANU’s national president, Muhammed Ibrahim disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja. “Yes, we have suspended the strike for a period of two months”, Ibrahim told our correspondent via a telephone call. Like the Academic Staff Union of Universities, SSANU and NASU had also embarked on strike. The unions had called for the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment of earned allowances, usurpation of non-academic career positions by vice-chancellors, the inclusion of university staff school into the university community, non-payment of minimum wage arrears, and funding of state universities. A committee set up by the Federal Government and headed by the Emeritus Professor, Nimi Briggs had engaged in negotiations with the two un...

  EXCLUSIVE: 243 Nigerian Soldiers Tender Resignation Letters To Chief Of Army Staff, Yahaya Over Corruption, Low Morale, Others.

Police personnel along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway helped Nigerian man with flat tyre despite the heavy rainfall.

The show promoter of the Tanzanian event Nigerian singer, Kizz Daniel failed to perform at has given his version of what transpired. The “Buga” singer was arrested by the Tanzanian police on Monday after he failed to perform on a show on Sunday, August 7, after being paid.. In an interview with Daddy Freeze, the show promoter who gave his name as Stephen Uwa, revealed that the singer refused to perform because the airline failed to bring his bag containing his gold chains and insisted he will not perform without wearing all his gold chains. “He said the airline didn’t bring his bag that is why he cannot perform because his gold chain is not there and he had a gold chain on his neck. He wanted everything.” Uwa revealed that he spent nothing less than $300,000 on the show including $60,000 to Kizz Daniel as performance fee. However, the singer flopped everything for failing to show up. He revealed he was on his knees weeping and begging Kizz Daniel to perform but he refused. “My company ...

A Nigerian soldier, identified as  Daniel Odih , has been killed by Boko Haram terrorists in Abuja just four days after his mother was murdered in Benue State. Daniel was one of the soldiers killed during an attack on a military checkpoint near Zuma Rock on Thursday night, July 28. It was gathered that the terrorists arrived Zuma Rock around 8:30pm and opened fire from different angles at the soldiers stationed at the checkpoint between Abuja and Niger State. Sadly, Daniel was one of the victims of the attack. Writing in his tribute to the slain soldier, one  Clement Excel  said the deceased’s mother was killed by suspected herdsmen on her farm in Benue state on Monday, July 25. He wrote, “DOUBLE TRAGEDY BEFALL THE FAMILY OF LATE MR. SIMON ODIH OF OTUKPA. On Monday 25th July, 2022. His mother was gruesomely murdered in coldblooded by yet unidentified assailant right in her farm at Adumu Otukpa. “Community and sympathies were thrown into mourning to unravel circu...