The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal of 10 senior police officers for misconduct.The commission also approved the demotion of nine others for a...
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly removed hundreds of accounts, including pages and groups, linked to Ibrahim El-Zakzaky-led organisation, Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). Shelby Grossman,...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed no fewer than 7,079 personnel and 60 sniffer dogs ahead of the Ondo State governorship election....
A Rivers State High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Adolphus Enebeli, has sentenced a suspected serial killer, Gracious David-West to death by hanging. David-West was...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned the chairman of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Ado Local Government chapter, Benue...
The Lagos State Police Command has revealed that the police officer who shot a lady in a viral video which made the rounds on social media...
Twenty-three suspects were on Thursday paraded by the Katsina State Police Command, who were alleged to have committed various crimes including banditry, kidnapping and theft. According...
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammed Bello, on Thursday directed schools in the nation’s capital to resume on October 11. The minister, who disclosed...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday banned commercial activities under the Marine Beach Bridge, Lagos, as rehabilitation works are completed on...
The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday the military has killed several criminal elements including terrorists and bandits during operations in troubled spots across the country in...
A retired Nigerian Army Captain, Prince Adeniran Owen Alao and four others were on Thursday arraigned for alleged land fraud before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has paraded suspected persons supplying fuel to Boko-Harm in parts of Borno and Adamawa states. The suspects were...
The number of casualties from the early morning gas explosion within Baruwa in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State has hit eight. The Eight...
A Port-Harcourt based lawyer, Bisola Paulette Ajayi, who was kidnapped over the weekend has regained her freedom. This was confirmed on Thursday by Rivers State Police...
The Nigeria Customs Area Command in Kano has apprehend one Sanusi Abdullahi Labaran for attempting to smuggle 5,342 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards out of the...
At least five persons have been confirmed dead while three were rescued in the gas explosion that occurred at Baruwa, Alimosho area of Lagos on Thursday....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned three Osun State civil servants in court for alleged N83.5 million fraud. The trio, Adegoke Johnson...
Within the first week of October, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has recovered 179.090 kilograms of various hard drugs in the Federal...
A huge fire is currently raging in Baruwa, Ipaja area of Lagos State. The fire station started in the early hours of Thursday from a gas...
The Ogun State police command on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a prophetess with the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), Oluwakemi Sotonode, for alleged fraud. The...
The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has served warning notices to residents of 30 buildings across the state over alleged contravention of the state’s environmental...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Tuesday abducted the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gamji ward, Bakura local government area of Zamfara State,...
The Borno State government on Wednesday ordered all the schools in the state to reopen October 25. The Director of Schools Management in the state, Usman...
The Federal Government said on Wednesday a section of Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos would be completely closed for three-day repair works. The Federal Controller of...
Four suspected fraudsters were on Wednesday arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on a nine-count charge bordering on...
The Niger State police command said on Wednesday four men had been arrested with a human head in Sabon Pegi, Mashegu local government area of the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, October 7, presented its first prosecution witness against a self-acclaimed social media influencer, Rukayat Adedamola Adewale, aka...
The Kogi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement (NDLEA) has confirmed the destruction of large Cannabis Sativa farms stretching over four KM of land...
The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, has issued fresh directives to curtail the excesses of the much talked-about Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit better known as...
A hacker, Eric Nnamdi Obulo has been convicted and sentenced to jail by a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and presided over...
The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Joseph Mukan, has said the identity of abductors of the 25-year-old female lawyer, Bisola Ajayi, are already known to...
At least 350 cases of rape and sexual assault have been recorded between May and October 2020 in Adamawa State, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social...
Troops of Operation Safe Haven on Monday killed a notorious bandit leader and some of his gang members at Tafawa village in Barkin Ladi local government...
The Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Mrs. Abimbola Akinajo, said on Tuesday the state’s light-rail projects would begin full operation in...
Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Tuesday, sentenced a cleric, Prophet Babatunde Alfa to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a...
The Senior Staff of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) on Tuesday gave the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to address the lingering problems associated with the Integrated Personnel...
Oil workers under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), on Tuesday, picketed the office of a multinational oil company,...
Unidentified gunmen on Monday night killed the acting Village Head of Wereng community in Riyom local government area of Plateau State, Mr. Chungyang Mwadkon. The assailants,...
The Nasarawa State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a suspected human trafficker in the state. The command’s spokesman, ASP Rahman Nansel, who disclosed...
The Ekiti State Police Command has declared one Omotoyinbo Samuel wanted in connection with the Friday robbery attack on a commercial bank in Iyin-Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun local...
The Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, convicted and sentenced one Damilare Tolu Ogunleke to prison for obtaining $5,700 gift cards by fraud. Ogunleke was handed a...
A 41-year-old trader, Adams Bala, has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for receiving stolen items. A Grade I Area Court sitting Kubwa, Abuja, presided over...
Some unidentified gunmen have reportedly killed a monarch and four others in Wereng community of Riyom local government area of Plateau on Tuesday. Several others were...
A traditional ruler in Ogun State, Joseph Ogunfuwa, has revealed that his only regret in life was campaigning for President Muhammed Buhari in 2015. Mr Ogunfuwa,...
The Petroleum Tanker Drivers, an arm of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of Nigeria, on Monday decried the deplorable condition of the...
The alleged recent brutality of innocent Nigerians by Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has forced the Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Centre for Advancement of Civil Liberties and...
A middle-aged man simply identified as Habibullahi Aminullahi committed suicide in Ganmo community, near Ilorin, Kwara State, on Monday. Aminullahi, a grinding machine operator, hung himself...
Unidentified gunmen on Sunday abducted a female lawyer in Rivers State simply identified as Paulette Abisola Ajayi. Eyewitnesses told journalists on Monday that the lawyer was...
The Delta State Police Command on Monday dismissed a video clip alleging that operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) shot dead a man in Ughelli,...
Police on Monday arraigned three men at the Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly exhuming corpses at a cemetery in the state. The defendants —Kola Fatoye,...
