A bill seeking stringent penalties for perpetrators of domestic violence has scaled through the first reading at the Taraba State House of Assembly. Speaker of the...
Protesting groups stormed Asaba, the Delta State capital on Tuesday, to protest against the creation of political wards and imposition of Chairmanship candidates for the upcoming...
Bandits have once again killed seven people, injured four, while three others were kidnapped in separate attacks in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State in...
The Imo state police command has arrested two suspects for allegedly planting a human head in the home of one of their kinsman, Emmanuel Onuwa Obator,...
The Anambra State government led by Governor Willie Obiano has banned all forms of night club activities in the state from Wednesday, December 23, 2020 to...
An Upper Shariah Court in Kano on Tuesday ordered the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Kwali Quarters to investigate a popular Kano singer, Dauda Kahutu, alias...
The Osun State government on Tuesday banned youth carnivals, New Year rallies and other ceremonies in a bid to check the spread of COVID-19 in the...
At least 17 people died on Tuesday in a ghastly auto crash along the Okene- Lokoja – Abuja highway in Kogi State. The Federal Road Safety...
The Federal Government on Tuesday announced a 72-hour total closure of the Third Mainland Bridge over the ongoing repair works on the bridge. The Federal Controller...
The police in Lagos State on Tuesday dragged two men, Gbenga Adekoya, aged 34 and Abiodun Adesope, aged 35, before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in the...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has warned that government may close the borders which were opened recently again, if there is any “trouble”. This was disclosed...
A female student of the Sule Lamido University, Jigawa State, Zainab Isa Zakari Bosuwa, has been abducted by gunmen from her family residence and a ransom...
Three persons are feared dead after being hit by stray bullets reportedly fired by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service in Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government...
The United Kingdom Metropolitan Police has declared a 25-year-old Nigerian man, Oluwamayowa Akinola, wanted after tracing various cases of assault and bodily harms to him. A...
An 86-year-old widow, Madam Comfort Mmezi, has told the Imo State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality how her two sons were killed by trigger-happy policemen within...
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command have arrested five suspected armed robbers at Wuse Zone 1, Abuja. The names of the suspects are...
Kogi Police Command has banned the use of fireworks ahead of the festive celebration. The Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Ayuba Ekpeji passed the order while...
The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli has died on Monday barely a week after his fifth coronation anniversary. The Olu of Warri who died at 65,...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kaduna State Command, on Monday paraded 148 suspected drug traffickers and peddlers. The acting State Commander, Uche Iyke, who...
11 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have tested positive for COVID-19 at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Sibre, near Jalingo in Taraba State....
The Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel, has ordered an investigation into the alleged case of child abuse at the Deeper Life School in the state....
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given the Federal Government a January 5, 2021 deadline to resolve the dispute with the Academic Staff Union...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has deployed at least 1,200 operatives and 2,000 special marshals have been deployed to improve safety on roads during Christmas...
Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested two men, Damilare Oyeniyi and Emmanuel Okori, for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in the state. The men also...
The Defence Headquarters said on Sunday the troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have raided the hideout of members of a militia gang led Benue State most...
Operatives of the police Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Friday foiled an armed robbery attack in Lagos. The spokesman of the state police command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi,...
The Director-General of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Plateau State, Prof. Habu Galadima, is dead. He died after a brief...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has dismissed four senior police officers for alleged misconduct. The Head of Press and Public Relations at the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani,...
A 27-year-old Nigerian woman, Martha Sherry Anthony, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court after she was found guilty of stealing...
A Nigerian man living in the United States, identified as Benjamin Okigbo, has killed his wife, Theresa, and tried to strangle his 21-year-old twin sons before...
The Ondo State Commissioner for Regional Integration, Prof. Bayonle Ademodi, is dead. Ademodi died on Saturday at the age of 68. The state’s Commissioner for Information...
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday at least six of its nationals were among the crew members abducted by pirates off the coast of Nigeria,...
At least 11 people were wounded when a diesel-laden tanker exploded on the Otedola Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Saturday. The Sector Commander of the...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Saturday abducted the Edo State Head of Service (HoS), Anthony Okungbowa. Okungbowa’s driver was also killed by the gunmen who...
Gunmen on Friday killed seven persons in fresh attacks in two local government areas of Kaduna State. The victims were mostly children between the ages of...
Unknown gunmen on Friday abducted a monarch in Ankpa local government area of the state. The victim, Shuaibu Usman, who is the acting Eje of Ankpa,...
Justice G.O Ollor of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Friday ordered the unconditional release of 150 inmates from the Maximum Port Harcourt Correctional...
The Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on Friday sentenced one Pastor Odenigbo Theophilus to seven years in prison for N1million fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
A tanker loaded with a petroleum product exploded at Iyagankun area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday. Several shops and a car were razed in the...
Mrs. Olamide Erinfolami, the widow of a police inspector killed during the #EndSARS protest in Lagos has demanded justice over her husband’s death. The slain police...
No fewer than nine members of the Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists have been killed in two encounters by troops of...
The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Jimoh, has reportedly died of Covid-19. The late commissioner was said to have died at the University of...
The convoy of Emir of Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State, Alhaji Sanusi Muhammad was reportedly attacked on Friday, with eight people killed, and other injured. Unknown gunmen...
A first class monarch in Kogi State, Shaibu Usman, has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen, in the early hours of Friday. Usman who is currently...
India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has apprehended a Nigerian ‘professor’ Nwagwu Princewill Chika, on Thursday for possession of “intermediate quantity” of cocaine. NCB officers said the...
A 62-year-old man, Olaoluwa Kusimo, has told the Ogun State judicial panel investigating the excesses of the now defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday secured the jailing of two lawyers, Sogo Akinola and Feranmi Akinluyi for N24 million fraud. A Special...
Osun State government on Thursday ordered schools in the state to close for the Christmas and New Year celebrations from Friday. The Coordinating Director in the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of 10 additional national parks in Nigeria. The Minister of Environment, Mohammad Abubakar, who disclosed this at a press...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has approved the promotion of 4,134 traffic wardens to their next ranks. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mbah, who...
