Police authorities on Thursday presented cheques of N5.1 million to families of five policemen who died in Zamfara State. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Ayuba Elkanah,...
Justice Augustine Odokwo of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Ikot Ekpene, on Thursday, sentenced one Ekerete Michael Ukpong to death for kidnapping a four-year-old boy...
At least two persons were confirmed dead on Wednesday when a vehicle plunged into the Ososa River along the Ijebu Ode-Sagamu Expressway in Ogun State. The...
At least 13 persons were convicted for internet fraud in Oyo State and Osun States on Wednesday. The convicts were – Akintokun Olalekan, Sheriff Hadinan, Ayojide...
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Wednesday sentenced one David Osigbe Irumekhei to six months imprisonment for a contract scam. Economic...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned the Deputy Bursar at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, IIyasu Abdulrauf Bello, at the Kaduna State...
Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on Wednesday sentenced one Abba Yahaya Kawu to 10 years imprisonment for forgery. The Economic and Financial...
The Oyo State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Wednesday sentenced one Saheed Olapade to two years imprisonment for possession of a human head. The...
Some secondary school students in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday attacked the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Obantoko Division, Alimeke Ignatius and broke his head in...
Police operatives in Ogun have arrested five suspected members of a kidnap gang terrorising residents of Obada-Oko, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. The...
A husband and wife have been arrested by the operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), for...
The Controller of Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Dera Nnadi has said the Ogun and Yewa area of the state were...
Police operatives in Zamfara have rescued 24 persons, including five students writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Shinkafi Local Government Area of...
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Calabar, Cross River, on Tuesday convicted four internet fraudsters in the state. The defendants – John Stephen Oluebube,...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) South-West zone has called for justice and speedy investigation in the case of the murder of a Master’s student...
The Imo State Police spokesman, DSP Micheal Abattam, has confirmed an attack on a police station by unknown gunmen at Arondizuogu in Ideato Local Government Area...
Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association has embarked on a two-day warning strike following the death of their colleague, Aniekan Effiong Inuk, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...
Armed bandits reportedly returned to the Abuja Kaduna Road and abducted many travellers on Monday. Prior to this, the gunmen had attacked people on the same...
The Police on Monday commenced autopsy on the remains of Timothy Oluwadare Adegoke, a Master’s degree student at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who was found...
Fire on Monday destroyed 41 temporary shops at Kasuwar Kurmi (Yan’ littafai) Market in Kano. The spokesman of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed...
Gunmen on Monday reportedly killed a soldier during an attack on military personnel in Awo Mmamma in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State. Eyewitnesses...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Monday released the results of this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for candidates in Nigeria. The Head...
Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Friday attacked fishermen and carted away four outboard engines at Ibaka in Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom...
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, re-arraigned the duo of Ope Saraki, a cousin to former Senate President,...
Suspected ritualists have killed an 11-year-old Almajiri pupil simply identified as Yunus in Bauchi State. The spokesman of the state police command, Ahmad Wakil, who confirmed...
The Osun State police command said on Sunday the autopsy on the slain post-graduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, was delayed because...
Police operatives in Delta have arrested a suspected armed robber and a gunrunner in the state. The Spokesman of the state police command, DSP Bright Edafe,...
Fire on Sunday razed five offices at the School of Sciences, Kano University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil. The spokesman of the State Fire Service,...
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil-based drug dealer, Okafor Okwudili Moses, over 2.55 kilograms of cocaine recovered from a...
The Nasarawa State Police Command has foiled an attempt by suspected kidnappers to abduct the Nasarawa-South Zonal Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mr Umar...
The Imo State Police Command has confirmed that it gunned down a suspected gunman and arrested another during a gun battle at the Owerri-Onitsha Road. The...
The family of late Jumoke Oyeleke, the 25-year-old salesgirl who was killed by a police stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on July...
Ex-agitators under the Phase III of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) in Delta State have asked the Federal Government to return their guns and other weapons,...
Dr. Rahmat Zakariya, a lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin, has detailed how a student who assaulted her and was eventually rusticated, Waliyullah...
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three men for allegedly beheading a nine-year-old boy identified as Destiny Peter, for money ritual purposes....
At least seven girls died on Friday in a boat mishap at River Gasanya, Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The spokesman of the state...
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital has remanded two male students of Okporo Secondary School in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area...
The Ondo State Police has arrested a self-acclaimed prophet, Festus James, for allegedly raping an eight months pregnant woman during a private deliverance session. According to...
The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) on Thursday pledged to ensure thorough investigations into the reports of victimisation of a Muslim student by a lecturer...
A 25-year-old lady, Chioma Okocha, has been convicted for trafficking 200 grams of crack cocaine. Ms Okocha was convicted and jailed for 15 years by Justice...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested one Buba Mai Bindiga for allegedly attacking a man with a machete in Kwara State. The...
Police operatives in Imo on Wednesday arrested three suspected armed robbers terrorizing the people of the state. The spokesman of the state police command, Michael Abbatam,...
At least four persons have been confirmed dead after a two-storey building collapsed at the Flour Mills Estate, Magbon in the Badagry area of Lagos State...
There was tension in Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday, after a woman and a policeman accidentally killed three persons. The victims include two commercial motorcycle riders...
At least five persons were confirmed dead in a tanker accident on Wednesday along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety...
Five persons were burnt beyond recognition in the early hours of Wednesday, after a petrol tanker exploded on the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The mishap, according...
The Lagos State Police Command’s Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the murder of a Chief Superintendent of Police, Kazeem Abonde....
Five people have been confirmed dead following the gas explosion that occurred at Ladipo in the Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State. The spokesman of...
The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa, of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of...
The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed a gas explosion at 21, Ojekunle Street, Ladipo, Mushin in Lagos State. The development was disclosed in...
