The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has cautioned the Police Mobile Force (PMF) Squadron Commanders against illegal posting of personnel for bodyguard duties. During a...
Residents of Agidingbi area of Lagos have lamented what they described as an attempt by some suspected landgrabbers to take over their community from them. The...
Lagos State University (LASU) has announced that 57 of its 14,369 graduands are set to graduate with a First class, setting a record in the 35...
Suspected bandits have allegedly attacked a school in Zamfara state, abducting six people at Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Moriki town of Zurmi Local Government...
Nigerian Police anti-banditry, kidnapping and other crime fighting team, code named Operation puff Adder, has been launched in Edo State. The exercise which had earlier been...
A Dutch Court on Wednesday gave an interim ruling in favour of wives of four leaders of Ogoni land that were killed in 1995. According to...
Following protests at the popular computer Village in Lagos, the leader of traders in Lagos and the Iyaloja General of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, says the...
The Police in Enugu State have arrested a palm wine tapper, Camillus Onah (75), over the death of his son after allegedly drinking his produce. The...
The students of Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State on Wednesday took to the streets to react against the killing of a fellow student, identified...
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has called on civil servants in the state to pray for the improvement of the finances of the state so...
A Wuse Magistrates Court has ordered that a former Director General of the National Task Force to Combat Illegal Importation, Smuggling of Small Arms, and Light...
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has said not less 523 children are currently languishing in different prisons in Anambra State. This was disclosed by the...
The district head of Daura, Katsina state, Musa Umar, has been kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen. The kidnappers reportedly stormed Umar’s residence in Daura at about...
Four abducted staff of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), who were kidnapped last Tuesday in Obua-Adual Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State, have regained...
The Plateau state police command has confirmed the killing of three persons and 319 cattle in different attacks in Miango district of Bassa local government area...
Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Abdulrahaman, has been redeployed with immediate effect to the Force Intelligence Bureau, Force Headquarters, Abuja. The Inspector-General of Police,...
The Nigerian Air Force has denied claims by the Emir of Bungudu, Hassan Attahiru, that the force ignored distress calls put through when bandits were ravaging...
Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi on Wednesday ordered the immediate dismissal of 560 Senior Technical Assistants and Technical Assistant as well as coordinators of 64 development...
The Police Force has agreed to partner telecommunication companies in the country to establish a nationwide surveillance system to tackle incidences of kidnapping and other violent...
A year-one Chemical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt identified as Olaitan Gbadamosi is reportedly dead in what many have alleged was a suicide...
A burial ceremony at Umuota Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State was on Tuesday turned into a rat race as officers of the state...
Eight persons have been injured after a two-storey building under construction collapsed in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Tuesday. It was gathered that the building...
Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode unusually has kind words for President Muhammadu Buhari over the release of a Nigerian arrested in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking....
A cleric, Jimoh Omotayo, was on Tuesday paraded by the Zone XI Command of the Nigeria Police Force alongside three others for kidnapping. Omotayo, 32, was...
A suspect in the killing of two Bureau De Change operators has narrated how his gang killed them after collecting N1.6 million in the Odogunyan area...
Reports emanating from Kuda Kaya community in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State indicates that not fewer than 26 persons were killed during a Monday...
Shortly after his release, the police have arrested one Abdur-Rahman Ahmadu in connection with the abduction of the Board Chairman of the Universal Basic Commission (UBEC),...
Adedeji Williams Adenuga, who allegedly set his ex-girlfriend’s family of nine ablaze in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, has confessed that he took the...
Chairman, Board of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Muhammed Mahmood and his daughter, who were on Monday kidnapped along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway, have regained their freedom....
Not less than four persons were killed on Tuesday morning at 6:52 am after a train crushed a tricycle at Toyin in Iju Ishaga, a Lagos...
The Federal Government has secured the release of Zainab Habibu Aliyu and Ibrahim Abubakar who were arrested in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking. The pair...
Unidentified gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday, kidnapped Mr. Sanusi Sa’ad, the Deputy Registrar Administration of the Taraba State University, Jalingo. The Chairman of the...
Peter Nielsen, the Danish national accused of murdering his Nigerian musician wife, Zainab Alizee Nielsen, and their daughter, Petra Nielson will appear in court again on...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said difficulties during rainy season is inevitable in power and road projects. Fashola who spoke...
Trading activities were on Tuesday grounded at the popular Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos, as traders protested the installation of female and male market leaders “Iyaoloja” and...
The men of the Ondo State police command have arrested an ex-convict, Deji Adenuga, who set ablaze nine members of his estranged girlfriend’s family. It was...
The United States Consulate in Lagos has lamented the continued prevalence of sickle cell in Nigeria. It blamed it on low level of awareness, lack of...
Two men have been sentenced to life in prison after pouring acid on a couple in Ile-Ife. They were sentenced on Monday at a High court...
27 women arrested for prostitution by a task force raised by the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have been sentenced one month in prison....
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, has insisted on the January 2020 date it has set for all teachers in Nigeria to have been registered...
A cultist, Chigbo Aniegbu, has confessed that members of his cult gang killed a former member of the Anambra House of Assembly, Frank Igboka for banishing...
Board chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, and his daughter have been kidnapped by some armed bandits along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway....
80 days after it was presented by the state governor, the Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the state’s 2019 Appropriation Bill of N873. 532bn....
Days after students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), were sent home and the school locked, students of Ondo State University of Science and Technology...
A 21-year-old ex-convict named Bashiru Ahmed who allegedly killed a spokesman of the Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has been...
The Nigerian Navy has said it has arrested 19 fake personnel caught with its identity cards and camouflage in different parts of the country. According to...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has given the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, a May 1 deadline to inaugurate Chief Frank Kokori as...
Kidnappers struck again on Saturday as two expatriates, working with the Nigerian Delta Petroleum Resources, were abducted in Ogbele, Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State,...
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has criticized the Nigerian Navy’s continued detention of 15 civilians and military officers for seven months...
Two ladies and two young men were arrested in Ogun state while trying to sell Indian hemp (Cannabis) to targeted sales outlets from a deep freezer....
