DAVAO CITY – A university professor was gunned down in Cotabato City on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 25. City police chief Police Col. Jibin Bongcayao identified the victim as Engr. Israel Angas, 29, a professor at the Notre Dame University College of Engineering and Computer Studies and a...
A man caught his wife and her lover in a motel on Valentine’s Day in Cotabato City. Police said the 22-year-old woman decided to meet up with her 18-year-old lover from South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur to celebrate the occasion. However, her husband found out their plan and he proceeded to...
DAVAO CITY – Six years since being at the helm of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, interim Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim reiterated that education remains as among the keys in solving peace and sustaining development in the region. BARMM officials during the...
A Moro Islamic Liberation Front member was killed and four others, including two MILF commanders, were wounded in an ambush in Cotabato City on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 8. Police identified the victim as Ahma Utto, 25, a resident of Barangay Barurao, Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao del Sur....
DAVAO CITY – Politics is heating up in Cotabato City as its two top executives traded barbs that may have led to the termination of approximately 3,000 contractual employees effective Oct. 17. Mayor Bruce Matabalao and Vice Mayor Johari "Butch" C. Abu, who are both vying for mayor in the...
Gunmen shot and killed a field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Cotabato City on Sunday, October 13. Police identified the victim as Norodin Mama. Investigation said Mama, of Barangay Semba, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Sur, was driving a multi-cab going to Sultan Kudarat,...
A member of an Indigenous People's group was gunned down in Cotabato City on Monday, October 7. Police identified the victim as Jun Quimbo, 40, of Barangay Darugao, North Upi, Maguindanao del Norte. Investigation said Quimbo was with his wife and daughter at the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’...
Reelectionist Mayor Mohammad Bruce Matabalao of Cotabato City and his running mate, former Barangay Poblacion 2 chairman Johair Madag, filed their Certificates of Candidacy before the Commission on Elections on Saturday, October 5. MATABALAO (FB) Also submitting their candidacies was their complete...
ILIGAN CITY – Two drug pushers were arrested and suspected shabu worth P6.8 million was seized in a buy-bust operation here on Tuesday, August 20. TWO suspected drug pushers were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Cotabato City on August 20. (PDEA photo) Philippine Drug Enforcement...
Cotabato Archbishop Emeritus Orlando Cardinal Quevedo on Tuesday, May 21, condemned the weekend grenade attack at a village chapel in the southern city of Cotabato. (The grenade attack at the Sto. Niño Chapel in Barangay Rosary Heights 3 in Cotabato City on Pentecost Sunday, May 19 / Photos from...
Authorities conduct an investigation at the Chapel of Senior Sto. Nino in Cotabato City after a grenade went off on May 19, 2024. The blast injured two churchgoers. (Photo courtesy of Public Safety Office Cotabato City) The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity...
ILIGAN CITY – Authorities seized suspected shabu worth P3.4 million and four drug pushers were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Cotabato City on Thursday, April 18. The suspects were identified as Sampulna Amboto Mague, alias Sampulna, 52, male; Tammy Slaiman Mague, 23, male; Armran Abdullah...
