A bill to review provisions of the Criminal Code Act on rape and kidnapping passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. The bill sponsored...
Six students of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) who physically assaulted a female undergraduate, Boluwatife Adekunle, have been expelled by the management of the...
Two Deputy Comptrollers of the Kirikiri maximum correctional centre, Emmanuel Oluwaniyi and Hemeson Edwin, have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for...
The Catholic Church in Nigeria was again hit by another kidnapping on Monday, as a priest, Reverend Father Malachy Asadu was kidnapped in Nsukka, Enugu State....
A group of businessmen under the aegis of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents and Coconut/ Fish Farmers Union, on Monday protested the continued closure...
As a part of efforts to ease traffic on roads, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced plans to restrict the movement of heavy duty trucks...
The Federal High Court, Lagos, on Monday remanded in prison the suspected internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, aka Mompha, who is standing trial for alleged N33 Justice...
Muslims in the Southwest geopolitical zone have called for the establishment of Sharia courts in states in the zone for the benefits of Muslims, which they...
Five police officers have been arrested for extorting N705,000 from Kareem Jamiu, a 29-year-old resident of Sagamu, Ogun State. The alleged rogue officers were arrested by...
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested about 70 persons over alleged stealing and possession of substances suspected to be cannabis sativa, popularly known as Indian...
One Temitope Akinola, 42, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing her two-year-old granddaughter in other to stop her daughter from marrying...
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has vowed to frustrate the planned witches conference being organized by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). The Enugu State...
A new break-out faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ordered lecturers under its wing to comply with the Federal Government’s directive by...
The Lagos State Government has sealed off Multipak Nigeria Limited, a plastic producing factory, for violating safety rules and regulations, poor house-keeping and lack of signage,...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Sunday approved the transfer of the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Edgal Imohimi, to Akwa Ibom State. Imohimi, who once...
Some units and formations of the Nigerian Army based in Yaba, Lagos State have been relocated to allow for the expansion of the rail lines in...
Gunmen suspected to be ‘herdsmen’ Saturday reportedly killed an unspecified number of people during an attack on Shuws-Kala’a village in Adamawa. The armed men, Ripples Nigeria...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday Nigeria neglected agriculture in the past because of its over dependence on oil, adding that the Federal Government has taken...
The founder of the Resurrection Praise Ministries Worldwide has called on religious and traditional rulers, including well meaning Nigerians to resist any attempt to plunge the...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has revealed that it has dismissed no fewer than 62 officials of the agency who were found guilty of corruption...
A 30-year old drug peddler simply identified as Collins has been arrested in the Festac Town area of Lagos State, with 60 wraps of whitish substance...
A two-year-old girl has survived what has remained a mysterious death at the North Bank area of Makurdi, the Benue State capital, after her father, mother...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Friday filed a14- count charge of fraud against Internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, at the Federal High Court,...
The Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, said Friday that police investigation has revealed insider collaboration in Thursday’s robbery attack at a new generation bank...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Thursday decorated the 31 newly promoted Major Generals at the Army Headquarters command mess, Abuja. The...
Internet celebrity and suspected fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, aka Mompha, on Thursday, filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over...
The Commissioner for Lands in Oyo, Abdulraheem Abiodun, was on Wednesday night attacked by gunmen in Ibadan, the state capital. According to reports, the gunmen struck...
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday night appealed to people of the state on the current traffic situation in the nation’s commercial nerve centre, saying “it...
The Department of Petroleum Resources has told filling stations in Northwest state of Zamfara to stop supplying petroleum products to bandits in the area. The DPR...
Properties worth several millions of naira were on Wednesday destroyed by an inferno that razed the upper section of a shopping plaza in Akerele, Surulere local...
Two artisans, Saminu Ahmed, 25 and Mohammed Isah, 23, have been sentenced to 10 strokes of the cane by an Upper Sharia Court in Kaduna for...
A medical doctor, Emmanuel Orhembe, who was kidnapped in Benue State has been rescued by men of the Benue State Police Command, three days after his...
The German government will provide €18million grant for the development of border communities in Nigeria. The Coordinator of the GIZ ECOWAS Cluster, Mr. Ludwig Kirchner, who...
An early morning fire at the morgue of the Anatomy Department of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, burnt no fewer than twelve corpses in...
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Dambatta has disclosed that the commission has begun moves to avail Nigerians with massive...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has decried indecent dressing in church and also warned against child marriage. The body, noted that the practice of forcing...
One Pastor Sunday Egbo, founder of Christ Mercy Ministry, Ajuona Obukpa, in Nsukka Local government Area of the Enugu State has been paraded by the police...
A member of the clergy, Adewale Giwa, has decried killings arising from electoral violence during the Bayelsa, Kogi state polls held on Saturday. Pastor Giwa warned...
To tackle banditry and other criminal activities in Bauchi State, a new commissioner of police, Philip Maku, has taken over at the state police command. He...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday revealed that a convicted internet fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is currently serving a 24-year jail term...
No fewer than 14 persons have been confirmed dead and 10 others injured in a renewed attack by suspected bandits in some villages in Gummi local...
Founder of the Resurrection Praise Ministry Worldwide, Archbishop Samson Benjamin has kicked against a planned witchcraft convention slated to hold in Nigeria this month. The cleric...
Three commercial motorcycle riders were on Monday killed on the Long Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway when they hit by a white Hilux van with the...
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, said on Monday that an Executive Order to criminalise open defecation in Nigerian would soon be signed into law...
One Apostle Williams Bassey has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping and impregnating his 20-year-old daughter. The police also arrested another acclaimed pastor in...
The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that troops deployed to Gwoza local government area of Borno State have subdued Boko Haram terrorists and rescued an Octogenarian,...
About 40,000 flood victims in Rann, Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State, lack access to food and other basic services, the United Nations Office for...
The Anambra State Police Command said on Saturday that two suspected kidnappers, Anthony Roberts and Udoka Nwoko, have been arrested after a gun duel with its...
The Nigerian Army said on Saturday that scores of Boko Haram fighters were at the weekend burnt to death in a fierce battle with troops of...
A Catholic priest, Rev Fr. Edmond Nwagbal, was Saturday burnt to death in a fire outbreak at St. Peter Claver Catholic Parish Nnew ichi, Nnewi North...
