ZAMBOANGA CITY – A Bureau of Internal Revenue employee tagged as a person of interest in the recent murder of two BIR security guards in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay was shot dead on Friday night. The Ipil municipal police identified the victim as Ian Jude Soriano Nario, 47, Revenue Officer II and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two security guards were found dead with multiple bullet wounds at the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) office in Ipil municipality, Zamboanga Sibugay province on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The Ipil Municipal Police Station identified the victims as 52-year-old Jamie Dante, a resident of...
ILIGAN CITY – Col. Samuel Yunque on Tuesday assumed as head of the 102nd Infantry (Igsoon) Brigade of the 1st Infantry (Tabak) Division. Yunque, who led the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion during the Marawi City siege in 2017, succeeded Col. Eddie M. Pilapil during a change of command ceremony at the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities recovered suspected shabu valued at P4.4 million and arrested three drug pushers in a buy-bust operation in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay on Wednesday, September 11. The suspects were identified as Arman Aljas Estrada, 24, of Barangay Cayamcam, Tungawan, Zamboanga...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 59-year-old school teacher was nabbed in a buy-bust operation in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay on Friday, September 6. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 identified the suspect as Gemma Lahaman Isnain, 59, of Laminusa, Siasi, Sulu. Isnain yielded three packs of suspected...
With the Philippines being a hot pot of different cultures and languages, it is easy for the names of plants to get mixed up. A name could refer to a certain plant in one region but mean something else in another. A single plant can be referred to by different names but they actually mean the same...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – An official of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) was killed in an accidental firing at his rented home in Zamboanga Sibugay, police said Monday, July 25. Police Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office- Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director, said Akmad...
The upgrade of the four-kilometer (km) road covering the towns of Liloy and Ipil in Zamboanga is nearing its completion, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced on Thursday, May 27. ALMOST DONE-- Traveling from Zamboanga del Norte to Zamboanga Sibugay will be faster by 15...
Environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) has sided with the Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) on the issue of whether or not a mega vaccination facility should be build on the latter’s property. A healthcare worker preparing to administer a COVID-19...
