Katsina State police command has confirmed the arrest of a 51-year-old man, for allegedly raping five minors. The spokesman for the Katsina police command, SP Gambo...
A 39-year-old convict, Ikenna Stanislaus Ugwunna, who appealed the jail term handed to him by a lower court, has ended up getting an additional two-year jail...
A woman, Nkechi Mercy Ikogwe alongside two companies, Elites Finance Investment Limited and Efinc Global Investment Limited, were on Monday arraigned before Justice E.A. Obile of...
The Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Titus Uba has ordered for the closure of the assembly complex over COVID-19 scare. Uba and one...
An Osun Magistrate Court sitting in Ile-Ife, has sentenced a 35-year-old man, Mafuf Ojo to one month imprisonment for stealing plantain. Ojo, who was accused of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Benue zonal office has arraigned the duo of Victor Gabriel Charles and John Aboyi Omaku before Justice Moris Ikpambese...
A man identified as Fatai Salami has taken his own life by drinking an insecticide suspected to be sniper after an unsuccessful bid to retrieve his...
The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) said on Monday it was speeding up alternative routes repairs to ensure smooth rides and avert gridlock during the closure...
The United States Department of State on Monday selected Nigerian poet and writer, Ms. Wana Udobang, alongside 29 other writers from across the globe for the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday sent a get well soon message to Saudi ruler, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, who has been hospitalised. The Senior Special Assistant...
The Abia State Police Command on Monday confirmed the arrest of one Sgt. Chinatu Onyema, who allegedly killed two persons in the Aba area of the...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, said on Monday a total of 41,863 police personnel had been promoted in the last 19 months. Adamu disclosed this...
The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai has stated that 90 percent of kidnappers, bandits as well as armed robbers are Nigerians. Buratai revealed this on...
The United States of America has reacted to the untimely death of Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria’s first female combat pilot. The US mission in Nigeria issued a...
Tragedy struck on Monday as two persons lost their lives while six others sustained injuries in a road accident along Mike Ajegbo Road, Obosi, Idemili South...
Juwairiyya Murtala, the 17 years old daughter of Kano lawmaker, Murtala Kore, member representing Danbatta Constituency in the state House of Assembly, was on Sunday, abducted...
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested three armed robbery suspects who were said to have dispossessed a businessman of dollar and euro currencies. According to...
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday directed all institutions of higher learning across the country to begin the conduct of the first and second...
At least 16 soldiers were reportedly killed in an ambush by suspected bandits in Katsina State Saturday. Military sources told journalists on Sunday that 28 others...
At least 29 suspected criminals reportedly escaped from the Central Police Station in Umuahia North local government area of Abia State on Saturday night. However, 20...
Barely four days to the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge for rehabilitation, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr. Olukayode Popoola, said on...
The people of Egbema Kingdom in Edo and Delta states have requested for 25 per cent equity holding in all marginal oil fields within the kingdom....
The Katsina State Police Command on Saturday night said the five siblings that died in a bomb explosion on Saturday at Yammama village in Malumfashi Local...
Hassana, the abducted wife of the late former Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Zakawanu Garuba, has been released by her captors. The ex-speaker’s widow...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday abducted Hassana, wife of the late former speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Zakawanu Garba, while they were going for...
A former Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Zakawanu Garuba, is dead. He was 54. Garuba was speaker of the Assembly from 2007 to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the naming of a railway station in Agbor, Delta State, after ex-president Goodluck Jonathan. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who...
The Katsina State Police Command said on Saturday its operatives had rescued 14 kidnapped women and recovered 90 animals in Dutsinma local government area of the...
A Catholic priest in Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Joachim Cabanyes, died from COVID-19 on Saturday. He died from complications resulting from the virus at the University...
Soldiers reportedly burned down some houses and a school in Peva town, a community in Takum local government area of Taraba State Saturday. Residents told journalists...
Disaster was averted in the early hours of Saturday as a tanker loaded with 46,000 litres of petrol caught fire at the Secretariat Bus Stop in...
The Defence Headquarters has claimed that no fewer than seven bandits have been killed and their hideouts destroyed in three theatre areas of Katsina, Zamfara and...
Alhaji Ahmadu Mohammed, who is an uncle to Ismaila Mustapha alias Mompha, on Friday testified in his alleged cyber fraud trial. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
The Defence Headquarters said on Friday troops of Operation Whirl Stroke had killed a notorious kidnap kingpin, Zwa Ikyegh, in Benue State. The Coordinator of the...
The Niger State Police Command on Friday confirmed the arrest of two men who allegedly defiled and killed an 18-year-old girl in the state. The suspects...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday said the deceased Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, will be buried on Thursday July 23 with...
A 22-year-old Computer Science Undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Kenneth Gift, his girlfriend, Dandy Spice and mother, Dorah Aninah have been arrested for suspected...
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 47-year-old man, Eromosele Mahmud fir allegedly raping and impregnating his 16-year-old daughter. The suspect, a single parent and...
Following the death of Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotilewa, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has called for an investigation into her...
Officials of the Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory (LSMTL) on Thursday rescued three trafficked children serving as workers in a construction site in the Lekki area...
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said that 602 repentant Boko Haram terrorists had in the last one week swore Oath of Allegiance to the Federal Republic...
The decomposing body of a kidnap victim identified as Ereba Dinabari, 38, has been found by the Police Command in Rivers. The deceased was abducted on...
A 75-year-old blind Internally displaced person, Pa Jato Ndarfa, has cried out for help over a demand for N20 million ransom by the deadly Boko Haram...
Two psychiatric doctors and staff of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu were on Thursday arraigned before an Enugu Magistrate Court for alleged stealing. The doctors (consultant...
A alleged plot to disposes one Alhaja Ayisatu Alasela, 73, of her residential building located at N0 8, Bakare Opesha Street, Papa Shafa, Agege, Lagos, has...
The Nigerian Air Force has released further details of how Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, met her untimely demise on Tuesday,...
The Kano State House of Assembly has commenced a process to prescribe castration as punishment for rape as a means to stem the growing scourge in...
Dr. Toju Eresanara, a former Zonal Medical Director of the Central Hospital, Warri, is dead. According to reports, the prominent doctor, who reportedly died in an...
The Nigerian Defence headqurters has commenced investigation into a viral video by a Naval rating alleging ill-treatment by a senior Naval officer. The military authorities disclosed...
The Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri has set up a panel to investigate the cause of a lingering crisis between Lunguda and Waja communities in...
