A High Court sitting in Kano has adjourned until July 16, for hearing in the suit instituted by the Kano Emirate kingmakers against Governor Umar Ganduje...
Some residents are reportedly trapped in a fresh building collapse that involved a three storey building in Iju area of Lagos. The incident which happened late...
Troops of Nigerian Army on Thursday said a number of terrorists have been killed in an ambush after they attempted to attack a military location at...
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday said it has released results of 3,736 candidates who sat the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday sought spiritual supports of religious leaders in the country. In a meeting with clerics from different faiths...
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged housewife, Mrs Yemi Samuel for allegedly faking her own kidnap in Kabba , Kogi State. Samuel was...
Former Federal Capital Territory minister, Jumoke Akinjide, has been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a N650 million money laundering charge. Akinjide...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday announced that $243 million would be dedicated to combating healthcare and other challenges in Nigeria. Of...
The management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has approved the indefinite suspension of two final year students, Oloyede Akanbi and Tobiloba Olutade over cultism related...
The proposed construction of Ruga settlements in Benue State has been rejected by three main socio–cultural organisations in the state, the Mdzough U Tiv, Ochetoha K’...
Lawmakers at the Imo State House of Assembly on Wednesday requested the state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, to declare a state of emergency on all the general...
A 48-year-old pastor, Abayomi Adegboyega, is seeking to dissolve his 16-year-old marriage after alleging that his wife always demands money from him before sex. Adegboye told...
Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital Wednesday struck out the certificate forgery case filed against Governor AbdulRahman...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Ondo State has dismissed news of kidnap of any Corps members in the State. Mr Bankole Simeone, the Corps’...
A clergyman, Pastor Basil Princewill, founder of Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the FCT High Court Maitam...
Police in Balyesa State on Tuesday confirmed the death of a truck driver, Oliver Osieme who allegedly hung himself to death in his room at Etegwe...
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it has no plan to reintroduce the monthly environmental sanitation, and vehicular restriction which was scrapped by the immediate...
The Iyaganku Chief Magistrates Court, Ibadan, on Tuesday ordered that a 24-year-old suspect named Ogunlade and his accomplices accused of strangling a woman to death be...
Nigerian Army on Tuesday expressed concerns that terrorists and Jihadists have taken over banditry operations in Zamfara state. The Theatre Command of Operation Hadarin Daji, Major-General...
A Beninoise, Sunday Anani, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Igbosere High Court, Lagos, for killing his employer, Opeyemi Badamosi, the Chief Executive Officer...
Two men are currently cooling their heels in the custody of the Anambra State Police Command for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman suffering from mental illness....
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old law graduate, Victor Ohale for stabbing his brother to death in Awka, the state capital. Victor, who...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday deployed Police dogs to railway stations across the county to curtail kidnapping and other related criminal offence....
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has announced its partnership with the Federal Government to put an end to open defecation in the country. UNICEF Communication...
Three members of suspected band of bandits have been arrested by the men of Nigerian Army, in Sokoto state. The army spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, in...
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) lost one of its men, Yakubu Shuaibu, to smugglers in an ambush at Akinrun village in Oja-Oda area of...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Foundation has declared about 75 corps members wanted over a loan running into N30million. The corps members according to the...
Governors across the South-west states will meet on Tuesday (today) at an emergency security summit. The meeting which is believed will proffer a permanent solution to...
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said it has recovered the sum of N131,801,242.61 and six vehicles from...
In an effort to set Ekiti state free from all forms of criminal activities, the state governor, Kayode Fayemi has declared his administration’s zero-tolerance for human...
The Ekiti State Government has appointed the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Chancellor of Ekiti State university, Ado Ekiti. The News Agency of...
An Ikeja Sexual and Domestic Violence Court has remanded a father, Chukwuma Eze, at the Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly defiling his teenage daughters. Eze, a resident...
A 30-year-old Methodist priest, Rev Peter Adegoke Adewuyi has been remanded in prison custody by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court for allegedly faking his own kidnap to...
The Nigerian Army on Monday disclosed that its troops neutralized scores of bandits/kidnappers in Sokoto and also arrested ransom collectors and informants working for them. In...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has warned those involved in kidnapping in the state to desist forthwith from the act as the government would...
The Police Command in Plateau has arrested 15 suspects over culpable homicide, cattle rustling, armed robbery and kidnapping in the last one month in the state....
Three suspected internet fraudsters have on Monday been remanded by a High Court in Ilorin, Kwara state. The Ilorin Zonal office of the EFCC arraigned the...
The embattled Judge of a Federal High Court, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, told a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday where she’s being tried for money...
In efforts to decimate insurgency in the country, troops of the Nigerian Army have neutralised three Boko Haram terrorists in different clearance operations in the northeast...
A senator representing Oyo North, Sen. Abdulfatai Buhari, on Sunday suggested death penalty for anyone caught culpable in crime relating to kidnapping and other related offences...
Six kidnap victims, including four corps members, on Sunday were rescued by the Rivers State Police Command after their abduction in Emohua area of the East-West...
Two men, Bashar Haruna and Isah Sule, have been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl. The Police Public Relations...
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council on Sunday alleged that Fulani youth vigilante groups have been in existence in the South East region of Nigeria for over...
One Bawa Gomna, a Suspected kidnap kingpin, has been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army alongside 20 bandits suspected to have been responsible for terrorising...
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three suspected robbers who hijacked are Toyota Camry 2006 model car...
Luck has run out for six members of a cybercrime syndicate who have been impersonating the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Rev Nicholas...
Nigerian Air Force has denied claims that its helicopters dropped weapons for herdsmen in the forest area of Akwuke Community, Enugu South LGA of Enugu State....
Two people were rescued from a two storey building collapse that occurred on Sunday morning at Oshodi area of Lagos. The building according to sources was...
A 72-year-old Prophet Jacob Adegboyega Farinmade, of Celestial Church of Christ in Ipaja area has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for the death...
The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Rev. Felix Omobude, has expressed happiness over the judgment of the Kaduna State High Court, which ruled...
