The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said on Wednesday its operatives rescued a 36-year-old man, Fatai Oyedele, who allegedly jumped into the Ogun...
An Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, sentenced one Nurudeen Monsuru to death by hanging for armed robbery. Monsuru, who was arraigned on a two-count...
The pastor of Nung Akpa Ime branch of the Christ Embassy Church, Emmanuel Effiong, who disregarded COVID-19 guidelines in Akwa Ibom State, has been pardoned by...
A 42-year-old woman, Mrs Olusayo Fagbemi, was macheted to death in front of her house in Sasa, Ojo’o area in Akinyele Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo...
A 22-year-old man, Ikechukwu Okoli, has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl in Uzoegwu Street Nkpor in Idemili North Local Government...
The body of a 19-year-old teenager who was swept away by flood on Monday in Surulere area of Lagos has been recovered on Tuesday morning. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned one Rahul Pathania, an Indian, and a vessel, M.V. Bount, before Justice Rilwan .M. Aikawa of...
Ten bandits’ camps in four states in the North-West zone have been destroyed by ten aircraft with dozens of Special Forces in the ongoing ‘Operation Wutar...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared that the imposition of COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions had increased cases of drug addiction across the country....
The Nigerian Army has rescued six persons abducted by armed bandits in Musa local government area of Katsina State. The Brigade Commander in charge of 17...
The Benue State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of 60 suspected cult members in various parts of the state. The command’s spokesman, Catherine Anene,...
A boat conveying four passengers capsized around the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos on Tuesday. Three persons have been rescued while one is still missing. The...
The Jabi Lake Mall located in the federal capital city of Abuja has been unsealed after it disobeyed the COVID-19 restrictions order by the FCTA when...
A 48-year-old man, Joshua Sayo, has been arraigned by the Department of State Services, (DSS) on Monday for allegedly defaming the Speaker of the Osun State...
Aggrieved pensioners in Imo State on Tuesday protested the non-payment of their pensions and gratuities by Governor Hope Uzodinma-led government of the state. The pensioners, who...
Five suspected cultists have been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of one Friday Okoloba in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The five...
An assistant director in Borno State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Usman Abaji, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for obstruction of justice. Justice...
The Imo State Police Command on Monday confirmed the killing of a 55-year-old man by unknown assailants in Ahaba Orodo community in the state. The command...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu has advised on a more cautious use of the social media by members of the public. The IGP’s advice...
Six suspected ringleaders of a notorious kidnapping syndicate, operating in some Niger Delta states, have been arrested by the police in Bayelsa State. They were arrested...
A Magistrate’s Court in Birnin-Kebbi, on Monday, ordered two men be remanded in police custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl. The two men identified as...
The Nigeria Police on Monday dismissed one of its operatives in Adamawa State for allegedly killing a tricyclist who refused to give him N100 bribe. The...
A two-years old girl has tested positive for the Covid-19, an official announced in Ogun State on Sunday. A statement from the Federal Medical Centre in...
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on Sunday said they had arrested a 22-year-old vulcaniser, Dele Ope, for alleged theft of a lady’s underwear. The...
Scores of Boko Haram fighters have been killed and their facilities and logistic supplies destroyed during an airstrike launched by the Air Task Force (ATF) of...
The Anambra State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of a 34-year-old man, Ifeanyi Apusiobi, for allegedly killing his two children with a wooden pestle....
A 40-year-old man, Lanre Kazeem, committed suicide in the early hours of Sunday in Ibadan, Oyo State. The deceased, who worked in a private palm kernel...
The founder of the Resurrection Praise Ministry Worldwide, Archbishop Samson Benjamin has berated Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema over his reaction to the demolition...
The Acting Commissioner for Agriculture in Lagos State, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, said on Sunday the state government would establish orchards in 20 secondary schools across the...
There was anxiety and a heavy buildup of traffic at the Kara Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hours of Sunday, as a tanker went...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly killed seven persons in fresh attacks in Kasai and Nahuta villages in Batsari local government area of Katsina State Friday...
A serving member of the Enugu State House of Assembly, HON Chijioke Ugweze, popularly known as Agiuyi is dead. Although the family has not issued an...
The Bauchi State Police Command on Friday said it has arrested over 20 suspects for their alleged involvement in crimes ranging from theft, sodomy and r*pe....
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), has arrested a primary School teacher, Mrs. Roseline Uche Egbuha for her alleged involvement in money...
The Clans Club International, an Abuja-based non-profit organisation has added its voice to growing calls for stringent punishment against those found guilty of r*pe in the...
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended the planned resumption of domestic flight operations tentatively scheduled for 21st June, citing current restrictions on interstate movement....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to trace those allegedly defrauded by...
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Thursday sentenced a former court official to eight years imprisonment for defrauding 194 widows in...
A 32-year-old man, Chigbo Akpoluobi has allegedly lured and raped a 7-year-old girl in Okpoko Onitsha, Anambra State. It was learnt that the incident which happened...
The Police Command in Kano State on Thursday said the state recorded 42 r*pe cases between January and May, 2020. This was disclosed by the Command’s...
An ex- Borno State judiciary officer, Ramat Mohammed alias Gaddafi has been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for defrauding 194 widows to the tune of N781,...
An 80-year-old man, Mohammed Bara’u of Lawan Fannami Ward in Gashu’a, Yobe State has been arrested by the police in the state, for allegedly raping a...
One Joseph Udoh has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital for killing a...
The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed on Wednesday that two children died in a collapsed building in the...
The Lagos State government on Wednesday marked two new buildings in the area where a one-storey building had collapsed for demolition. The Lagos State Building Control...
A Chief Magistrate Court in Makurdi, Benue State, on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old herdsman, Bala Juli, to one-year imprisonment for openly grazing cattle in the state....
A tragic scene played out in the ancient town of Ilese, near Ijebu -Ode, in Ijebu North-East local government area of Ogun State, when a mysterious...
Eagle-eyed officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone ‘B’ have seized no fewer than 379 packs of Tramadol and other items...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a 32-year-old Boniface Oburuku for theft of a hand bag belonging to an international guest...
In a bid to respond to the spike in rape and assault cases in the country, Ekiti State government has set up a Sexual Assault Referral...
