Fire on Wednesday razed 250 shanties and 40 sawmilling machines at Oko-Baba Sawmill in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos. Eyewitnesses told journalists the inferno which started...
One man was killed by suspected assailants near a flyover at Awka, Anambra State, on Wednesday. An eyewitness told journalists that the hoodlums accosted the young...
Following the death of the former Oluabadan of Ibadan, late Oba Saliu Adetunji, ten out of the eleven Olubadan-in-Council members on Wednesday, endorsed the nomination of...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, has confirmed the arrest of 21 illegal gold miners including three Chinese nationals, a community leader and 17 others...
A new squad of female personnel has been set up by the Kwara State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), to take...
Police operatives in Bayelsa have arrested three teenage boys for alleged attempted ritual killing in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Asinim Butswat,...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a 41-year-old man, Sikiru Kolawole, with fresh human parts in the Ikorodu area of the state. The state’s Commissioner of...
Seven members of the same family have lost their lives after gunmen attacked Sabon Birnin Birnin village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Residents...
Maryam Sanusi, the wife of former Emir of Kano and CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has urged the current Miss Nigeria, Shatu Garko to use her...
Following the bombardment and killing of two bandit kingpins, Alhaji Auta and Kachalla Ruga, by troops of the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji in the...
A 35-year-old man, Wasiu Eluyera, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly paying an assassin, Adeniyi Samuel, the sum of N10,000 to...
Angry residents of a community near the Nigeria Customs Service checkpoint in Sokoto on Sunday set ablaze two vehicles belonging to the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC)...
Two children died and five other persons were injured in an auto crash along Uyo-Ikot Ekpene highway in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom...
A report by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF) has revealed that about 178,459 different types of arms and ammunition are missing...
The Commissioner of Police, FCT, CP Sunday Babaji has ordered the arrest of a policewoman for burning the hands of her 10-yewr-old niece who allegedly stole...
A 57-year-old Commercial driver, Alfa Muhammed has been arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his 40-year-old estranged wife to death. The suspect,...
Gunmen, on New Year’s Eve, attacked a passenger boat travelling from Yenagoa to Twon-Brass in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The gunmen were said...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested two suspected killers of a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Babatunde Dada, in the state. Dada,...
Two more students of the Bethel Baptist Secondary School, Kaduna, who were abducted by bandits have been released, leaving one out of the 121 students there...
The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has joined his ancestors. The 93-year-old monarch joined his ancestors at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reported a minor fire incident at the Port Harcourt Refinery on New Year’s Day. NNPC in a statement explained...
An autopsy conducted on the late student of Dowen College in Lekki area of Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni, has revealed that he died from acute lung injury...
Troops of Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji have reportedly killed two bandit commanders simply known as Kachalla Ruga and Alhaji Auta in Zamfara State. The...
Police operatives in Zamfara have rescued 21 students of an Islamiyya school in the state. The children were abducted by bandits along the Gusau-Tsafe-Funtuwa highway on...
Armed bandits reportedly killed one person and abducted 12 others at Kerawa village in Giwa local government area of Kaduna State on Friday. The victims include...
Unknown gunmen on Thursday killed three persons at the Morfor motor garage in Udu local government area of Delta State. The hoodlums also engaged police operatives...
A pastor and six other persons died on Friday in a boat mishap at Ogbonbiri community in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. The...
The abducted Paramount Ruler of Gindiri Chiefdom in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Da Charles Mato Dakat, has been released after five days in...
The Senior Pastor of the Fountain of Life Church in Lagos, Taiwo Odukoya, has lost his twin sister, Kehinde Hassan, to the cold hands of death...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) has recovered the corpses of three fun-seekers from River Buruku in Benue State. The deceased persons were declared...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested three fake security agents and recovered 427 kilograms of drugs in Borno and Abuja. The NDLEA spokesman,...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and his wife, Olori Silekunola Moronke Naomi, have reportedly put aside their differences after a meeting between some elders...
The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old notorious bandit, Sani Mati a.k.a. Mai-Yanmata, said to be specialised in kidnapping, banditry, cattle rustling and other...
Abductors have released a traditional Chief in Ijan Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti State, Chief Emmanuel Obafemi and two kidnapped cocoa merchants after the...
The abducted traditional Chief in Ijan Ekiti, Gbonyin local government area of Ekiti State, Chief Emmanuel Obafemi, and two other persons have regained their freedom. The...
A 45-year-old tanker driver, Dahiru Aliyu has died inside the compartment of a tanker at the Hotoro NNPC Depot in Kano metropolis, the Kano State Fire...
The death toll from Lassa fever in Nigeria has increased to 92 since January, with Bauchi and Ebonyi States recording new fatalities. The Nigeria Centre for...
Seven persons including four members of the same family died in a boat mishap at Zhigiri village, Shiroro local government area of Niger State on Tuesday....
The Headquarters of the Enugu State Broadcasting Service was on Tuesday morning razed by an inferno said to have started at around 6am. Although the cause...
It was a bleak Christmas for residents of Bogoro LGA in Bauchi State following the death of four people who were reportedly killed as a result...
The Police command in Jigawa has arrested seven suspects in raids on black spots and criminals hideouts in Birninkudu and Gwaram Local Government Areas of the...
Men of the Kwara State Police Command have averted a communal clash in Pampo village, Afon district of Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, over...
One person was shot dead at a carnival in Odo-Otin local government area of Osun State on Monday. The carnival was organised by youths of Igbaye...
The management of Abia State University, Uturu, has sacked a former Acting Head of Mass Communication Department in the institution, Michael Ukaegbu, for alleged involvement in...
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said Monday evening the auto crash that occurred near the Iyana-Oworo end of the Third Mainland Bridge was caused...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) has arrested three suspected bandits in Zamfara State. The NSCDC Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Ikor...
Hunters in Kaduna State have rescued nine persons kidnapped earlier in a convoy after raiding a kidnappers’ den in Udawa-Birnin Gwari forests. The community leader, Malam...
At least 11 persons were confirmed dead in a fatal auto crash along the Awka-Ekwulobia Road in Anambra State on Sunday evening. The Sector Commander of...
A suspected ritualist, Alfa Tunde Olayiwola, who was arrested by police in Akure, Ondo State, over alleged possession of a human skull slumped and died on...
A woman and her two daughters died in an auto crash at Itako, Ijebu-Ife area of Ogun State on Sunday. The spokesman of the Ogun State...
