The Nigerian Army Headquarters on Thursday confirmed the killing of an officer by a soldier serving in 2 Battalion of 21 Special Armoured Brigade in Bama,...
A Middle East Airline passenger on Wednesday was involved in a minor accident with a Turkish cargo plane at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. According...
A senior officer of the Nigerian Army has been shot dead in Borno State by a soldier. This was contained in a statement by Acting Director,...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said that poverty remained one of the reasons many Nigerians got trafficked abroad. The...
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has been given 21 days to pay an alleged debt of $14 million or have their facilities shut down....
A bill seeking to name higher institutions in the state after world’s billionaires, Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote, has been passed into law by the Bauchi...
The Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has announced the setting up of a vigilante group across the country in what they said is a...
The daughter of a trader at Gbagi Market, Ibadan, Mr. Kehinde Omotosho, who died in police custody in Ibadan, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police,...
A pastor, Adetokunboh Adelopo has been arrested by the police for allegedly kidnapping and detaining a dispatch rider, Job Ekpo, in an underground hole inside his...
Gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, on Wednesday attacked a bullion van in Ebonyi State, killing four policemen escorting the vehicle. The incident happened at Ezzamgbo...
An inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Facility in Port Harcourt has accused correctional officers at the establishment of torturing him. The inmate, Gracious David-West is standing...
Suspected armed robbers on Wednesday attacked the branch of a commercial bank in Okeho, Kajola local government area of Oyo State. Eyewitnesses told journalists the robbers...
Police on Wednesday arraigned a middle-aged man, Oluwaseun Olabode at the Akure Magistrate Court in Ondo State for allegedly beating his pregnant wife to death. The...
Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos on Wednesday July 29, 2020 sentenced a serial fraudster, Aliyu Zakari to 53 years imprisonment for...
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday morning killed 14 people in Agbudu community, Kogi-Koton-Karfe local government area of Kogi State. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Ede Ayuba, who...
The Osun State Government has warned owners of private schools in the state against illegal reopening of their schools. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic...
The Oyo State House of Assembly has reduced the 2020 budget appropriation in the state from N213 billion to N174 billion due to the lingering COVID-19...
The selling of telecommunications airtime by banks through their mobile apps and shortcodes, have been described as a way of choking out small individuals who are...
At least 10 persons were rescued alive from a boat mishap in Lagos State on Tuesday. The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA),...
Justice Adekunle Adeleye of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, Monday sentenced a 30-year-old man, Ishau Gruma to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old girl....
The Jigawa State police command on Tuesday confirmed the electrocution of a two-year-old boy, Yahaya Salihu, at Bokkwato quarters, Dutse local government area of the state....
At least two persons died on Tuesday from a gas explosion in the Ajao Estate area of Lagos State. The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency...
The Osun State House of Assembly on Tuesday confirmed the appointments of Brig. Gen. Isah Aderibigbe (retd) as Chairman, Governing Board of the State Security Network...
Justice Sybil Nwaka of the Ikeja S*xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Emmanuel Idoko, to 20 years imprisonment for...
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee in Abia State, Chief Johnson Onuigbo, is dead. A family member told journalists in Umuahia on...
The World Health Organisation has said that people with Hepatitis related complications are more prone to severe cases of COVID-19. The Regional Director for Africa of...
A 25-year old man, Adamu Salisu, has been confirmed dead in a fire explosion incident in Kano, involving a tanker carrying premium motor spirit (PMS). The...
A 24-year-old man, Haruna Mohammed was on Tuesday arraigned in court for allegedly raping a 50-year-old woman, Ibukun Akinlo. Mohammed was arraigned by the Ondo State...
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that a clash between rival cult members in Amadi-Ama community, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of the state...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a firm, Renocon Properties Development Limited, and its Managing Director, Babatunde Morakinyo, for allegedly failing to report...
Two clerics, Pastor Glory Okeoghene Aberefa and Reverend Vincent Okpogo, who are serving 17 years jail terms have been handed additional 26 years in prison. The...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has explained, why wearing face masks is better than being on ventilators amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has distorted...
The Ogun State Police Command said on Monday that it has arrested five robbery suspects, including a herbalist, for allegedly terrorising residents of Osiele and its...
One person was killed on Monday in a gas explosion that occurred inside a one-storey building on Palmgroove Estate, Cappa Avenue area of Lagos State. The...
The abducted former president of Yoruba community in Benue State, Chief Isaac Akinkunmi, has regained his freedom. He was released by his abductors in the early...
The Court of Appeal, Lagos, on Monday upheld the conviction of a former Supervisor of Chrisland School, Adegboyega Adenekan, for defiling a two-year and-11-month old pupil...
Gunmen on Sunday killed a lawyer, Haro Gandu at his residence along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. The hoodlums who broke...
As the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) gets set to resume operations on Wednesday, the corporation declared on Sunday that no passenger would be allowed access to...
No fewer than two persons have been killed while three others were injured when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the...
Commuters travelling to and from the nation’s capital, Abuja, were stranded overnight as two trucks reportedly belonging to a cement manufacturing company collided on the ever...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) Sunday rejected government’s recent rollout of stamp duty rates for tenancy and lease agreements. A statement endorsed by Quadri...
A nurse in Inisa town, Osun State, Tunde Oyeniran, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his wife and two children. He was said...
The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday said two robbery suspects, who were declared wanted a week ago, have been arrested in Lokoja, the Kogi State...
The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) said on Sunday it had deployed measures to ensure maximum safety for commuters using the waterways following the partial closure...
The Osun State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of one Tunde Oyediran for allegedly killing his wife with a cutlass. The command’s spokesperson, Yemi...
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has revealed why he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC)....
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has said that under President Muhammadu Buhari’s government that the laws of Nigeria were not applicable to Boko...
The Kwara State police command on Saturday confirmed the dismissal of two of its officers, Sgt Sola Akano and Cpl. Babatunde Glorious for allegedly extorting N2million...
A two-storey building under construction in Abuja collapsed on Saturday morning and trapped 10 persons with one seriously injured. The incident occurred at 10:40 a.m. behind...
The General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Olajide Oduyoye, on Saturday, warned against impediments by truck drivers on alternative routes following the...
