Police on Monday arraigned a sales representative, Kelechi Amuchi, at the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing his employer’s money and clothes worth...
The Police Command in Kaduna State on Monday stated that its operatives had rescued four persons kidnapped on a highway in Jema’a Local Government Area of...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has disclosed that it busted an unemployment insurance fraud ring based in Maryland that targeted California and numerous other states...
At least 13 people were killed on Sunday and many others seriously burned when a fuel truck overturned and exploded in western Kenya as crowds thronged...
The police in Kano State has confirmed the arrest of eight men and two women for allegedly belonging to a syndicate that specialises in hacking individuals’...
Five suspected kidnappers met their waterloo on Sunday in Edo State as angry youths set them ablaze after they were apprehended along the Afuze-Uokha Road in...
The Zamfara Police Command has confirmed the killing of 13 officers with seven others injured by bandits during a recent attack. SP Mohammed Shehu, the command’s...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives on Saturday arrested a suspected drug baron, Okeke Chijioke, in Anambra State. The state’s command of NDLEA confirmed...
The Nigerian Air force on Sunday dismissed a report that one of its fighter jets had crashed in Kaduna. An unconfirmed report had claimed that a...
One person was killed when a 40-feet container crushed two cars on the Otedola Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday. The driver of the truck...
Two persons died in a ghastly auto accident along the Gbongan-Osogbo expressway in Osun State on Sunday. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in...
Chaos reigned in the Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State after notorious bandit leader, Turji went on a rampage holding a lot of villages as...
Fire on Saturday night razed the multi-million naira Ebeano supermarket in Lokogoma area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). However, the cause of the inferno has...
Police operatives in Delta State have arrested 36 suspected cultists in the state. The spokesman of the state police command, Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Saturday recovered five vehicles involved in multiple accidents in the Maryland area of the state. The agency’s Director-General,...
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of defiling a five-year-old girl in Kebbi State. The...
In the battle against smuggling, about three Customs officials and one soldier were allegedly injured when they were attacked by smugglers in the Igboora area of...
The town of Igangan was in chaos on Friday, as unknown gunmen masked in military fatigues attacked the ancient town, killing four residents. Ripples Nigeria gathered...
The Imo State Police Command says it has constituted a committee to arrest fake and quack lawyers in the state. Speaking when a team from the...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has rescued four female victims of human trafficking in Jigawa State. The Comptroller of NIS in the state, Isma’il Abba, told...
Justice E. I. Mark of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday sentenced one Henry Frimenjibo to four years imprisonment for illegal dealing...
Justice Eno Isangedighi of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Ikot-Ekpene, on Friday sentenced two police officers and three others to death for kidnapping in the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 20 suspected internet fraudsters in Dutsinma local government area of Katsina State. The EFCC’s Head of Media...
A boat carrying five passengers capsized in Lagos on Friday. An official of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) who confirmed the incident to journalists said...
Men of the Katsina and Jigawa states Police Commands have killed a leader of a kidnapping gang, identified as Abdullahi Bummi, in Jigawa State. Ripples Nigeria...
A 43-year-old woman, Sharon Williams, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly locking up and assaulting her five-year-old nephew for six months....
Gunmen have killed a Major General of the Nigerian Army, Hassan Ahmed, and abducted his wife in an attack in Abuja. Ahmed, who was recently appointed...
A journalist, Olubunmi Afuye and two others were killed in a bank robbery at Ilara-Mokin, Ifedore local government area of Ondo State on Thursday. The spokesman...
Police operatives in Edo State have arrested a security guard over an alleged plan to abduct the Manager of a Zenith Bank branch in Ekpoma, Esan...
The Nigerian Army has stated that it has launched a manhunt for the soldier who allegedly killed his lover, one Miss Jennifer Ugadu, an undergraduate of...
There was drama at Ikoroku village in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State when members of a family clashed over who would inherit the...
Police on Wednesday arraigned a 35-year-old petrol attendant, Chinonso Elijah, at the Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun for alleged N550,000 fraud. Police arraigned the defendant on...
Gunmen on Tuesday evening abducted the Adogu of Eganyi in Ajaokuta local government area of Kogi State, Mohammed Adembe. The monarch was abducted along Okene-Adogo road...
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Ayeni Emmanuel...
The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday disclosed the arrest of more suspects in connection with the murder of the SuperTV boss, Usifo Ataga. The Commissioner...
There was tension in Asaba, the Delta State capital on Tuesday, following the alleged killing of six suspected cultists, in what seemed a reprisal attack. Ripples...
The Imo State Police Command on Tuesday paraded suspected members of Eastern Security Network (ESN), a military arm of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)....
The police in Bayelsa State has commenced a ”discreet” investigation into the alleged killing of an undergraduate of the Niger Delta University (NDU) murdered by her...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 arraigned Omosebi Fred Adeola before Justice A.O Otaluka of the Federal High Court sitting...
Police operatives in Osun State have arrested an herbalist with a human skull in the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, disclosed this when...
The troops of Sector 1 Operation Hadin Kai, deployed at the Forward Operational Base (FOB) along Maiduguri-Damaturu road, have rescued 17 civilians from being kidnapped by...
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested five men for alleged homosexuality at Sheka Barde, Kumbotso local government area of the state. The Commander-General of the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned one Naankang Dawan at the Federal High Court, Jos, Plateau State, for alleged money laundering. Dawan...
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three bankers for an alleged case of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and obtaining...
Bandits who abducted the provost of the College of Arts and Animal Science, Bakura, Habibu Mainasara, in Zamfara State, have demanded a ransom of N5 million...
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Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, who was arrested for the alleged murder of the CEO of Super Television, Usifo Ataga has changed her statement, saying she is not...
Abductors of the Emir of Kajaru, Alhassan Adamu have issued a demand of N200 million ransom payment for his release. Ripples Nigeria had reported that the...
The Kaduna State government has deployed a joint patrol team of the Police Mobile Force (PMF), conventional police and the Nigerian Army to rescue the abducted...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Sunday, the state is on the verge of experiencing the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sanwo-Olu, who stated...
The two abducted students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have regained their freedom. The victims, who are law students at the institution, were kidnapped on...
