Five people have been severely injured following a gas explosion that occurred at a shopping mall in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Police Public Relations...
Operatives of the Nigerian Navy have arrested five wooden boats allegedly carrying 170 cartons of smuggled turkey. The intercepted boats and products were handed over to...
Men of Nigeria Air Force on Wednesday narrowly escaped death when one of the helicopters used in anti-banditry operation crashed. The force, while making the incident...
Two suspects, who allegedly attempted to smuggle illegal substances into Ikoyi Prison premises have been arrested by the Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Prison Service...
The Federal Ministry of Education has ordered universities and other tertiary institutions in the country to exempt blind and deaf candidates from the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation...
In exercise of his constitutional power, the Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has granted parole to eight prisoners in the state. The prisoners who had just...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has doled out N650 million in grants to 11 universities across the country. The financial aid was meant to enable the...
The Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, has said it has uncovered plans by the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, to launch a new recruitment...
A customer relationship manager with First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Kehinde Adewuyi, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing the sum of...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a Fulani herdsman belonging to a team of kidnappers on Tuesday. The herdsman was arrested after a failed attempt...
Oyo State Government has announced the cancellation of mid-term break for the third term of 2018/2019 academic session, for public primary and secondary schools in the...
The Anambra state police has arrested a 41-year-old man, Sunday Ngwu, for allegedly killing his wife, Amara, in Ibollo, Awada, Idemili North Local Government Area of...
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and stakeholders in the education sector have approved 160 and above as the national minimum benchmark for admission for...
The Ogun State Area Command, Nigeria Customs Service in Ogun State, has announced that it has seized no fewer than 7000 bags of rice belonging to...
The trial of former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc., Erastus Akingbola, over money laundering has been adjourned until June 13. The trial which...
Residents of Lugboji Oja community in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, watched in bewilderment on Monday as a father of nine, identified as...
A Sergeant named Collins Akpugo, who allegedly shot and killed 21 year old Mr Chukwuikem Onuoha has been declared wanted by the Commissioner of Police in...
A suspect named Monday Nnaji has been arrested by the police in Enugu State for allegedly killing a secondary school boy, Great Nwobodo, in Amodu community,...
The face-off between DAAR Communications Plc., owners of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has been resolved after a...
One Phillip Efosa has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly snatching an Uber taxi at gunpoint in the Eleko area of Lagos...
Fume from a generator has killed 10 guests who attended a traditional wedding in Umuomumu Mbieri in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State on Monday....
Herdsmen struck on Sunday in Akure as they abducted a woman, Mrs Olawumi Adeleye, and her stepson, Destiny Paul, on Airport Road, Osi, in the Akure...
The Lagos State police command has arrested about 202 suspected cultists who were said to have terrorised the state in recent times. Police Commissioner, Zubairu Muazu,...
Not less than 300 undergraduate Nigerian students were conferred Educational Support awards over the weekend, and also enlisted into a mentoring programme by a non-profit, the...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has expressed concern over the mass failure of Kwara students in the recently released 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). Governor...
The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, June 12 as Public Holiday to commemorate the nation’s Democracy Day. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Barr. Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah,...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Monday said the state would engage corps members serving in the state in the construction of a permanent NYSC...
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released another 15,490 results of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) it had earlier withheld on suspicion...
Tragedy struck at Umuomumu Mbieri in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state on Monday, after fumes from a generator killed 10 guests at a traditional...
Two siblings, 10-year-old Chinezerem Nkwoemezie and 8-year-old Nzube Nkwoemezie, have been rescued from their abductors by police detectives attached to the Isiowulu Division in Anambra state....
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it would tomorrow (fix the cut-off marks for the 2019/2020 admission. The board said the cut-off marks would...
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that a woman, Justina Emmanuel, who accused her husband, Joseph Agugom, and his brother Paul, of kidnapping her and...
Fifty people have been confirmed dead after a Saturday evening attacks on Isa and Rabah Local Government Areas of Sokoto State. According to reports, the victims...
Three brothers have been killed on their farm by bandits in Zaka village, Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Their corpses which were accompanied by...
The Osun State Police Command has rescued one Bewaji Oladipo, who was allegedly abducted by kidnappers at an ATM point in Lagos. The victim, according to...
Officials of Orji Police Division in Owerri, Imo State on Friday shot dead one of the armed robbers who chased a bank customer simply identified as...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offence Commission, ICPC, has dragged a former Presiding Judge of the Owerri division of the Court of Appeal, Justice...
The Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has threatened officers who still take bribes for the issuance passport, stating that they...
The Ebonyi State Police Command on Friday, paraded a total of nineteen suspects for criminal offences ranging from kidnapping, cultism, armed robbery, vandalism and car snatching...
Justice Rose Soji of the High Court in Lafia, on Friday, ordered the Nasarawa State government to pay the management of Breeze 99:9 FM Lafia, N67....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Prince Ishola Olatunbosun, for alleged theft, fraud, criminal breach of trust and obtaining by false pretence...
Not less than 36 persons have been arrested by the Police in Kano state for attempting to destroy Kano Electricity Distribution Company facilities at Zangon Dakata...
A royal tussle ensued in Ogun state on Thursday when two popular royal fathers in the state engaged themselves in altercations over a supremacy battle. The...
Two persons have been shot dead by soldiers with six others injured following clashes between youths and soldiers in Gurin in Fufore Local Government Area of...
Local government councillors across Ogun State on Thursday besieged the state House of Assembly in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta to protest against their suspension by the lawmakers. The...
Two brothels were on Thursday sealed in Calabar, the Cross River State capital by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, for allegedly...
Gurin in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State erupted in violence on Thursday as youths protested against the ban on motorcycles in the state. The...
Three persons were on Thursday killed when back bomb exploded in Eziorsu community in Oguta local government area of Imo State. The state Police Public Relations...
The body of a 78-year-old woman Madam Ayoko Owoko who was kidnapped in the creeks of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state has been...
Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday granted bail to three former executives of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association...
