An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday ordered a suspect named Abiodun Ibraheem to be kept behind bars for allegedly raping a married woman....
A Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna, Monday, convicted a suspect named Rabiu Mohammed Umar over money counterfeiting. It was gathered that Umar was found guilty...
A fresh attack on Monday by the terrorists group Boko Haram on Kaumutiyahi, a community in Chibok Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, has left...
To condemn the continued detention of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Monday, held a massive free El-Zakzaky...
The federal government has announced that the State House Medical Centre has been reverted to a clinic in order to serve the “original purpose” of its...
Few days after his arrest, the Department of State Services (DSS) has released Jones Abiri, a Bayelsa-based journalist and publisher who was taken into its custody....
The police have revealed that officers who were involved in the brutal murder of a Nigerian, Kolade Johnson have been arrested. Johnson, 36, was reportedly killed...
As many states across the country prepare for change in leadership come May 29, Ahmadu Fintiri, the Adamawa state Governor-elect, has constituted a Transition Committee to...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, granted Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director, (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) permission to travel abroad...
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Monday remanded a motorcyclist, Ibrahim Awwal, in prison for allegedly beating a man to death. The...
Followers of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who allegedly attacked and burnt a police station in Ajali, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State...
A suspect named Wasiu Oyewole has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for scheming with two others to transport fuel after allegedly...
Ikot-Abasi Local Council of Akwa Ibom State has been thrown into a state of mourning after angry soldiers on duty at Utaewa water birch allegedly killed...
In a bid to stamp out armed bandits and insurgents groups, the Nigerian Army is set to begin operation “EX HARBIN KUNAMA IV” in identified forest...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to begin investigations into Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) of the Federal Government. This...
It was another round of harrowing experience for some communities in Zamfara State on Saturday as armed bandits attacked them, killing several persons. Residents say the...
The Nigeria Police Force has three new Assistant Inspector Generals, AIGs, as the Police Service Commission, PSC, approved the promotion of 8,916 senior police officers to...
In reaction to the murder of a youth in the community, residents of Mangoro/Onipetesi community in Lagos on Sunday went on a rampage blocking the Oshodi/Abeokuta...
Following reports of alleged re-arrest of Bayelsa-based journalist and publisher, Jones Abiri, by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), a group, Concerned Nigerians, has...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 45-year-old suspect identified as Idris Aliyu, a resident of Daka’agi village in the Wushishi Local...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunny Onuesoke, has faulted Prof Pat Utomi’s statement on Delta State government’s educational policy concerning Success Adegor, the...
Bayelsa-based journalist, Jones Abiri, has been whisked away by men suspected to be operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). According to reports, Abiri was...
In a bid to provide a conducive learning environment for pupils, the Taraba state government has provided 28 public primary schools in the state with a...
Following the recent deportation of four Ghanaian nationals by Nigerian authority, comptroller-general of Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame Takyi, on Friday visited Nigerian counterpart, Mohammed Babandede, in...
The 2019 edition of Dankwo fishing festival in Kogi state was brought to an abrupt end on Saturday as gunmen opened fire on participants and spectators. Dankwo...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed hope that President Muhammadu Buhari will assent to the N30,000 minimum wage that has been presented to him by...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, arraigned two suspected fraudsters, Feranmi Isaiah Akinluyi and Sogo Akinola, a.k.a Obaje for alleged stealing, and false...
The Defence headquarters in Friday gave an update on its several operations across the country against insurgency, terrorism and bandits. Top on the operational successes is...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Reverend Ezuma Chizemdere, the founder of Jesus Intervention Household Ministry, Ejigbo, Lagos for sodomy and infecting a 16-year-old...
The DG revealed this when she featured on a Channels TV programme on Friday. Adeyeye said the committee asked her for the bribe in the form...
An Ado-Ekiti High Court on Friday sentenced an unemployed man, Olumide Ogunrinde, to 12 years in prison for kidnapping women. Ogunrinde was charged with 11 counts...
Former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) chairman in Taraba State, Joel Daniel, has been freed by the unknown gunmen who kidnapped him. The former NBA chair was...
A 21-year-old man, Shefiu Abubakar, has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for killing his brother Babuga Abubakar with a piece of wood. He was sentenced...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Akwa Ibom Command has arrested eight suspects and seized 142,000 litres of illegal petroleum products. The State Commandant...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibadan zonal office has arrested one Ayodele Saheed Olaniyi for allegedly swindling investors of over N343,880,000. EFCC spokesman, Tony...
Two self acclaimed pastors, Chukwuka Stephen and Ejim Stephen have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing their brother-in-law, Peter...
The Councillor representing Bolari East in Gombe local government area of Gombe State, Ishiyaku Garba, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment over vote buying. Justice...
As a part of measures to address the country’s geological security, the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has acquired and installed high sensitivity seismometers and...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled judgment for May 27 in the trial of Robert Azibaola, a cousin to former president Goodluck Jonathan. Azibaola...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been called out by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) over the age limit it set during its...
The Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream on Thursday requested the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to submit the list of workers employed during its 2018 recruitment....
Gunmen on Wednesday abducted four women including the wife of Suleiman Abubakar , Chairman of Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists and the wife of...
An Official of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Nigerians constitute the highest number of students from Africa studying on the U.S soil. Rachel...
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, will on April 4, 2019 decide whether the former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the...
The proprietress of Cendom International Nursery and Primary School, Olodi-Apapa, Uche Owen, on Wednesday was ordered to pay N25 million as compensation to a pupil who...
A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Godwin Oshiogbuwe, who was abducted on Wednesday by unknown gunmen at Ubiaja, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State...
The Office of the National Productivity Centre (NPC) which is located at Cape Town Street, Zone 4, Wuse, Abuja, was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The...
Professor Babagana Umara, the governor-elect of Borno State has vowed to make addressing the root cause of Boko Haram his priority when he assumes office. Professor...
The arrest of four suspected Fulani herdsmen has been confirmed by the Enugu State Police Command over the kidnapping of a Catholic priest, Rev Fr Lazarus...
Chairman of Correspondents’ chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Nasarawa state, Suleiman Abubakar, and abducted his wife, Yahanasu Abubakar, have been attacked by unknown...