The Edo State Police Command has paraded 18 fleeing inmates who had escaped after the recent jailbreaks at the two Medium Security Correctional Centres in Benin...
The Nigeria Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 5,371kilogram of cannabis worth N15 million in Lagos. The NDLEA Commander in the state, Ralph Igwenagu,...
The Lagos State government said on Wednesday the ban on commercial motorcycles (Okadas) and tricycles (Keke Napep) in 15 local government areas in the state is...
Soldiers convicted by military courts at different times for various offences on Wednesday challenged their illegal detention at the Federal High Court, Lagos. In a fundamental...
The family of a 19-year-old boy, Friday Arunsi, who was allegedly murdered on April 17 by a drunken police constable in Abia State on Wednesday demanded...
Chairman, Aliko Dangote Foundation, Aliko Dangote, has urged all operators in the private sector to commit one per cent of their profits to fund the health...
The Zamfara State Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Dr. Nuruddeen Isa, said on Wednesday the state government was not directly involved in mining activities or own goldfields...
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday launched a manhunt for the mastermind of Monday’s abduction of some commuters along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway. The troops had identified the...
The Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Wednesday sentenced a 39-year-old man, Musiliu Owolabi, to death by hanging for killing his lover, Afusat Idowu. The state’s...
A socialite, Olajide Kareem, popularly known as Seun Egbegbe, alongside four others, have been ordered by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to open defence...
A 39-year-old auto mechanic, Musiliu Owolabi has been sentenced to death by hanging by an Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta for killing his lover,...
A 41-year-old man, Ame Edjeket, who caged his wife, Gladys, for four years in a community in Delta State on allegations of being a witch, has...
The son of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Bashir, has been taken through the grinder by Muslims for sharing loved-up photos of himself and his newly...
Following the death of no fewer than 50 persons, caused by a strange disease in Olamaboro Local Government Area in Kogi State, the State’s House of Assembly...
A 24-year-old suspected kidnapper, Habibu Sale has been arrested by the Kano State Police for the alleged kidnap and death of an eight-year-old girl, Asiya Tasiu,...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday described as fake news reports on the crash of a United Nations helicopter in Maiduguri, Borno State. Reports had...
The Lagos State government has shut down 16 health facilities across the state for quackery and non-compliance with other regulatory standards The Executive Secretary of the...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested five persons for alleged graft. The ICPC spokesperson, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, who disclosed this...
The Zamfara State High Court, Gusau, on Tuesday sentenced a Deputy Director in the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Ahmad Balarabe, to 14 years imprisonment for N7million...
Suspected bandits had kidnapped 12 police officers on a special assignment in Nigeria’s North-West. The BBC reports that the officers were abducted along the Katsina-Zamfara highway...
A petitioner, Mrs. Esther Tanko, on Tuesday, begged the Independent Investigative Panel probing the activities of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to help her to...
A woman simply identified as Gladys who was locked up in a cage in Delta State for four years over an alleged witchcraft has been rescued....
Police on Tuesday arraigned a 19-year-old motor boy, Akeem Toheeb, at the Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, over alleged unlawful possession of a...
A 50- year-old man, Dahiru Buba, who trekked from Gombe State to Abuja in honour of President Muhammadu Buhari following his victory in 2015, has been...
A 30-year-old trader, Onyendu Eze, has been arraigned at an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, on Tuesday, for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl. It was learnt that the...
Men of the Nigeria Police Force have besieged the Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos with reports revealing that their mission is to prevent a meeting on...
The police in Rivers State have arrested a councilor in the state, Blackson Nwanyawu (JP), from Etche local government area for allegedly battering his brother’s wife,...
Not less than 11 persons have been reportedly killed and many others injured by unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers at Albasu village of Sabon Birnin...
Haruna Kuye, district head of Gidan Zaki, Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna state, has been shot dead alongside his son. The state commissioner for...
Following the continuation of the ongoing rehabilitation of the Ikorodu road, the Lagos State Government has announced a six weeks partial closure of the service lane...
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has announced that his administration is partnering with telecommunications service providers to provide free internet service to students for e-learning...
The Edo State government has trained 877 special police constables for community policing in the state. The constables, trained under the Governor Godwin Obaseki’s Community Police...
The Rivers State government led by Governor Nyesom Wike has approved Monday, November 23, as date for the reopening of Nursery and Primary Schools in the...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Monday night described as untrue claims of COVID – 19 infections among corps members. The NYSC Director of Press...
Gunmen had abducted five staff of Benue State Internal Revenue Service at the Vandeikiya local government area of the state. The media aide to the Executive...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, on Monday, urged the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)...
The state Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in Ebonyi, Mrs. Mercy Bamai, said on Monday no corps member deployed to the state had...
Police on Monday arraigned at the Owerri Magistrate Court a lawmaker representing Ohaji Egbema State Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly, Hercules Okoro, for...
An independent panel of inquiry on Monday summoned the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Garki General Hospital, Abuja and the Registrar, Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (MDCN)...
Five members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) had tested positive for COVID-19 in Abuja. The Coordinator of the NYSC in the Federal Capital Territory...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination results, pegging the national cut off marks at 142. The results were presented...
The man who was given a donkey by a Special Adviser to the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Murtala Gwarmai, has come out to clear the...
A young makeup artist identified as Ijeoma Neke, has been reportedly found dead in Enugu days after her family and friends declared her missing and asked...
As fears of a second coronavirus wave intensifies, another deadly infectious disease spreads to three more local government areas of Enugu State. An outbreak of Yellow...
Following an attack by armed bandits on the Kaduna-Abuja Express Road on Sunday afternoon, no fewer than nine kidnapped persons have been rescued by troops carrying...
Unknown gunmen have abducted a lecturer attached to the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State and two children of a member of staff on Saturday. The...
The Benue State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the death of two persons from domestic violence in Makurdi, the state capital. The command’s Spokesperson, DSP Catherine...
Police in Lagos on Sunday carried out simultaneous raids on areas suspected to be harbouring criminals across the 14 area commands in the state. The spokesman...
The Defence Headquarters said on Sunday the troops of Operation Fire Ball had killed two suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East. The Acting Director, Defence...
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Saturday night abducted three persons at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna State. The Rector of the polytechnic, Kabir...
