Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday abducted 13 passengers at Konar Barau village, Rafi local government area of Niger State. The state’s Commissioner of Police,...
Police on Wednesday arraigned two men, Terungwa Achin and Anhwange Avalumum, at the Makurdi Upper Area Court in Benue State for alleged child defilement. The police...
The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, October 18, 2021, secured the conviction of five fraudsters before Justice S....
The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, has justified the use of tear-gas on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on Wednesday. Odumosu, who spoke...
Police on Tuesday arraigned the Education Secretary of Mubi South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Jibrilla Babale, and four others at the Yola Criminal Area...
Gunmen on Tuesday killed three traditional rulers in Imo State. Eyewitnesses told journalists the hoodlums stormed the venue of the monarchs’ meeting at Njaba local government...
Police operatives in Kano have arrested two suspected suppliers of fuel to bandits in the state. The spokesman of the state police command, Abdullahi Haruna, who...
One person has been confirmed dead while three persons are reportedly trapped in a fresh building collapse on Monday night in the Ikorodu area of Lagos...
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry investigating cases of brutality and human rights violations perpetrated by operatives of the Nigerian Police Force and the dissolved...
Police on Monday arraigned one Kasali Agbeleye at the Osogbo Chief Magistrate’s Court in Osun State for allegedly defiling a three-year-old girl in the state. Kasali,...
The trial of Fred Ajudua for allegedly obtaining money to the tune of $8.4m could not continue on Monday, as his lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, SAN, sought...
An attack by bandits on a village market in the Goronyo district of Sokoto State on Sunday has left about 30 people dead, the state government...
Tragedy struck at the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State as suspected gunmen attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters freeing some detainees in the process. Ripples...
A trader, Abdulhamid Yakubu of Bakin Dogo has been ordered to be given 80 strokes of the cane, for denying the paternity of his sixth child....
Gunmen on Saturday abducted two students of the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. Eyewitnesses told journalists on Sunday the hoodlums stormed Mararaba, the university’s host community,...
At least 11 persons were confirmed dead in a motor accident along the Bode Saadu-Jebba Road in Kwara State on Sunday. The Sector Commander of the...
Police operatives in Kwara have rescued the abducted twin girls and three domestic staff of Oba Samuel Adelodun, the Owalobo of Obbo Ayegunle, in Ekiti local...
Two persons were confirmed dead and four others injured in a boat accident in Iyasan and Ugbonla areas of Ondo State on Saturday night. The state’s...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a fake police officer, a soldier, and other 663 suspected drug traffickers and users during...
The Nigerian Force on Sunday dismissed reports that it N20million to bandits operating in Katsina States in a bid to recover an anti-aircraft gun seized from...
After 32 days in the hands of kidnappers, the abducted Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, has regained his freedom. The development was...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a herdsman, Bugi Juli, for attacking a farmer, Abubakar Sulade, with a machete in Kwara State....
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted an order of interim forfeiture of 11 high-end designer items confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes...
No fewer than 12 people have been killed in an attack by bandits who invaded Sakajiki village in Kaura Namoda Emirate in Zamfara State. The incident...
The Nigerian Army has urged residents of Calabar, Cross River State, not to panic following a loud explosion that rocked some parts of the city on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 12 suspected internet fraudsters in Ibadan, Oyo State. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren,...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Friday ordered that a 33-year-old man, Kabiru Garba be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a...
The Nigerian Navy on Thursday arrested 22 Thai nationals for allegedly smuggling 32.9kg of cocaine into Nigeria. The foreigners were arrested onboard a cargo vessel sailing...
The three kidnapped students of Christ the King Major Seminary at Fayit Fadan Kagoma in the Jemaa Local Government Area of Kaduna State have regained their...
Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu of the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, sentenced a 27-year-old man, Jeremiah Edet, to 14 years imprisonment for sexual assault of...
Gunmen on Wednesday abducted the Catholic Priest with the St. Theresa Parish in Umuahia, Abia, Rev. Fr. Godfrey Chimezie, and a lady in the state. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 22 suspected internet fraudsters in Oyo State. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed...
At least seven suspected smugglers of petroleum products were on Wednesday burnt to death in a fuel tanker fire in Mubi local government area of Adamawa...
A catholic priest, Rev Fr Godfrey Mark Chimezie of St Theresa’s Parish, Umuahia, was on Wednesday morning, kidnapped along the Enyiukwu Road, Ohokobe Afaraukwu community, in...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old man, Godwin Matthew, who allegedly macheted his 64-year-old father, Matthew Audu to death in Akure, for giving...
Three men, Oluwafemi Adeniji, 22; Olatunji Adeoshun, 27; and Peter Oladipupo, 24, were on Wednesday arraigned at the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, for...
Gunmen on Monday night killed a police inspector at a checkpoint in Kolo, Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State. The six-man gang attacked the checkpoint...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Monday night abducted three seminarians at Christ the King Major Seminary in Fadan Kagoma, Jema’a local government area of Kaduna...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 52-year-old man, Sunday Anthony, should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly raping his 17-year-old...
The trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, continued on Tuesday as she pleaded not guilty to the murder...
A human rights group, Take It Back Movement (TIB) has slammed the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, over his statement warning citizens not...
The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed an attack on its divisional headquarters in the state by unidentified gunmen. The incident was disclosed in a statement...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Monday arrested 11 suspected bandits and food suppliers in Sokoto State. The NSCDC Commandant in the state,...
The Lagos State Police Command has warned against staging an #EndSARS anniversary protest in the state after it claimed intelligence report revealed plans by some groups...
The Police on Monday arraigned a 35-year-old man, Kolawole Damilare, in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly obtaining N1 million under false pretence. The...
There was tension on Monday at the Ilesa area in Osun State, after a commercial vehicle ran over three siblings who were on their way to...
Gunmen on Thursday kidnapped the Coordinator of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) in Odogbolu local government area of Ogun State, Olamilekan Okunuga. Eyewitnesses told...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s 13-year-old daughter in the state. The spokesman of the state police command,...
The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed that gunmen, in the early hours of Sunday, attacked Ngurore Police Station and a house in the Yola South...
No fewer than 18 persons are feared dead, with others injured after a ghastly motor accident that occurred along the Iseyin-Moniya road in Oyo State on...
