An operation in Kashia Forest in Kaduna State by troops of the newly-launched Operation Accord on Friday has left no fewer than 70 armed bandits and...
An expert has warned against overdose of Vitamin C as a means to boost the immune systems against the dreaded COVID-19 season which has fast spread...
Police on Friday arraigned a 38-year-old man, Simon Emeka, at the Makurdi Chief Magistrate Court for allegedly raping his seven-month-old daughter, Proper Emeka. The prosecuting police...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Friday one Adeyeye Babatunde had been arrested for kissing his three-year-old step-sister in a viral video. The command spokesman,...
The Anti-kidnap Unit of the Adamawa State Police Command has killed two suspected cattle rustlers and recovered 15 cows, 171 sheep, an AK-47 rifle and some...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday approved the nomination and appointment of the state’s ex-Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, as the new Oniru of...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, on Friday called for stimulation of action to conserve the state’s biological diversity. Bello, who...
The Ogun State Police Command said on Friday that a 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanmi, had been arrested for allegedly faking...
Police in Zamfara has refuted media reports that bandits killed about 120 persons in recent attacks in the state. The police said through the state Police...
A Managing Director (MD) of a micro finance bank, Belema Abibo was on Thursday arraigned and remanded in custody over an alleged N100 million scam. Abibo...
Troops of the Nigerian Airforce on ground have been ordered to locate and neutralise all bandits taking refuge in Katsina State and to also submit weekly...
At least nine persons, including eight policemen, were killed when a gang of armed robbers launched an attack on a commercial bank in Isanlu, Kogi State,...
The Bayelsa State Police Command said Thursday the abducted 80-year-old mother of local a council chief in the state had been rescued. The woman, Mrs. Beauty...
The Oyo State Police Command on Thursday called for credible information from members of the public in a bid to fish out those behind the killing...
Suspected cultists have killed a young man identified as Saro Godwin in Duburo community in Khana local government area of Rivers State. Residents of the community...
The Ebonyi State Police Command Thursday confirmed the kidnap of two Chinese men working in a mining site in Ihietutu, Ishiagu in Ivo Local Government Area...
Citizens have been reminded that they risk spending the rest of their lives in prison if they are found guilty of rape in Osun State. The...
Four young Nigerian have been sent to jail in Ogun State over internet fraud. Three of them, Tosin Simeon Abayomi, Ifedapo Ayeni and Daniel Nnorom, were...
A 23-year-old Nigerian writer, Innocent Ilo has emerged the regional winner for the Africa 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He was named the winner for his...
The federal government of has announced plans to engage community volunteers for COVID-19 in a bid to disseminate more info about the deadly virus. This was...
The case involving a kidnapping kingpin from Taraba State, Bala Hamisu, also known as Wadume, has been taken over by the Office of the Attorney General...
Another student, Barakat Bello was raped and gruesomly murdered by unidentified men on Monday evening in her parents’ house in Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo State....
Another round of violence and killings reportedly broke out in Tudu village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Wednesday, as unknown gunmen killed...
Aggrieved women in Imo State have shut Sterling Global Oil Company for reneging on an alleged agreement to pay for the burial rites of three persons...
Protesting residents of Owube community, Ahoada West Local Government Area, Rivers State, marched in their numbers to Government House in Port Harcourt on Tuesday to complain...
Teachers in Anambra State have been warned by the state government to stop forcing it to reopen schools, which have since been closed due to the...
Nigeria may be moving a step ahead in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic if the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC),...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday ordered the immediate transfer of investigation into the murder of the late student of the University of Benin...
Adamawa State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a police officer who allegedly shot and killed a commercial motorcycle operator in Maiha local government...
The Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Housing, Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka, said on Tuesday, the state government had confiscated two houses allegedly used in defrauding...
The Federal Government has directed the police to unravel the circumstances surrounding the recent gang-rape and murder of a female student of the University of Benin,...
A two-day warning strike has been embarked upon by medical doctors in Delta State over the kidnap of one of their colleague identified as Dr. Wisdom...
The Edo State Police Command has announced the arrest of a suspect supposedly linked to the murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level micro biology...
Seven unknown men on Monday, stormed the Delta State Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, forcefully took a COVID-19 patient and drove away with him. The patient...
The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), on Monday, visited the family of the slain 100-level student of the institution, Vera Omozuwa, to commiserate with...
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona to death for killing his 62-year-old father with an iron rod...
The Chief Judge of Plateau State, Justice Yakubu Dakwak, on Monday, discharged 50 awaiting-trial inmates who had been in custody at the Jos Correctional Centre over...
The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Batsari Local Government Area of the State, Alhaji Abdulhamid Sani has been killed. He was killed on...
The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three suspected armed robbers after a gun duel. The suspects, Toheed Salami, Ibrahim Ismaila and Michael...
The Benue State Government through the State Action Committee on COVID-19, on Sunday intercepted an oil tanker loaded with seven persons and 11 motorcycles. A member...
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has reacted to the reported rape and death of an undergraduate of the...
A member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly representing Bakura Constituency, Tukur Jekada, is dead. The Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Shamsudeen Hassan,...
A police officer in Lagos State is said to have killed some of his colleagues and wounded many others after opening fire on them. The incident,...
A 22 year-old female undergraduate, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, from the University of Benin has been brutally murdered by unknown attackers in her church around the Ikopba...
The kidnapped Chairman of the Nasarawa State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Joseph Masin, has regained freedom. Bishop Masin, who was kidnapped...
The Plateau State police command said on Saturday at least 16 persons had been arrested for suspected kidnapping, armed robbery, culpable homicide, and unlawful possession of...
The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said on Saturday the state government would decamp the victims of the Abule-Egba...
The Plateau State Police Command Saturday confirmed the arrest of one John Ladong who was parading himself as a Captain of the Nigerian Army. The state...
The Enugu State Police Command said on Saturday three abducted persons had been rescued in two successful operations in the state. The command spokesman, ASP Daniel...
The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) said on Saturday it had commenced mass production of face masks and hand sanitizers for use by students of the...
