The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested four drug couriers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, while attempting to export narcotics with a total...
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command yesterday paraded 49 persons in connection with different crimes in the state. The suspects, whose offences included cultism, kidnapping...
Hisbah, the Sharia law enforcement agency in Jigawa, on Friday said it had destroyed 238 confiscated bottles of assorted beer in Kazaure Local Government Area of...
Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State and the Fulani herdsmen have reached an agreement to co-exist in peace and harmony. Before the peace agreement, there...
DETECTIVES in Ondo State Police Command have arrested the leader of a three-man armed robbery gang who held a mother of four, Folashade Jayeoba, hostage and...
The Lagos State Police Command has detained a dog breeder on Rufus Olaniyan Estate, Irawo, Ikorodu, Lagos, in connection with the death of a five-year-old boy...
In pursuit of a crime free society in the Federal Capital Territory, the Police have recovered four stolen vehicles from car snatchers; three locally made pistols...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has joined the long list of organisations and Nigerians doubting the authenticity of the change mantra of the ruling...
A human rights organisation, Southern Nigeria Peoples Mandate (SNPM), has decried the state of roads in the South-East and South-South regions of the country. The group...
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested and questioned four workers with the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NACHO) Plc. The suspects were arrested and interrogated...
AFTER successfully exporting Ugu vegetable to some European countries, which yielded about 5 million British pounds for the state, Anambra State government said, yesterday, that it...
A driver, Jacob Elegbede, who attempted to hang himself behind a primary school in Zanda, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has blamed spiritual...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 17 policemen for acts of misconduct, including taking bribes. PUNCH Metro learnt that the policemen, who were arrested between...
A 35-year-old apprentice, Nzubechukwu Mbamara, who allegedly stole his employer’s N3 million cash, was on Wednesday docked at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Mbamara, who resides...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the establishment of eight new private universities for the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the...
A mother, her three children and two neighbours, reportedly died in Ogaminana, Okene, in the the Adavi Local Government Área of Kogi State after eating a...
A police officer, Sergeant Matthew Elah, has been arrested for allegedly snatching a motorcycle from its owner at gunpoint. Elah who was attached to the Department...
A fake meeical doctor has been arrested by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, Ekiti State. The MDCN also shut the Divine Citadel Health...
A Kaduna-based socio-cultural group known as Northern Consensus Movement on Monday brokered a peace meeting between the Katsina State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday formerly endorsed Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Ondo State November 26 election. Governor Simon...
For allegedly defiling his friend’s 10-year-old daughter, Godwin Itta, was on Monday docked at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Itta, a factory worker who resides at...
An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered the remand of a 20-year-old student, Segun Adeoye, at the Olokuta Prison’s custody over an alleged armed robbery...
The Anambra State Police Command on Saturday said it had no knowledge of the sex scandal involving the 2015 winner of the Miss Anambra competition, Chidimma...
SIX months after a soldier allegedly murdered one Mrs. Alice Akparobi in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt.-Gen....
An artisan identified as Gafar Ajibola, has drown in Ogun River when he plunged the water in panic reaction to a police raid on Oniyanrin community...
In a classic fulfillment of the popular Nigerian saying, “many days for the thief, one day for the owner of the house,” a man who made...
A man in his late 70s, Alhaji Bala Gishiru has been murdered in a revenge killing that took place in the ancient city of Kano. Thé...
Three Pastors of the Living Faith Church also known as Winners Chapel at Isheri Olofin area of Lagos state are engrossed in serious fight over the...
For members of a notorious kidnap gang operating in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, nothing could go wrong, but Wednesday, October 12, 2016 was the...
Northern socio-cultural and political groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to avoid unnecessary feud with a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola...
Policemen from Force Headquarters have smashed a notorious robbery and kidnapping gang responsible for several kidnappings and robbery attacks on citizens of Kogi State as well...
A United Kingdom-based Nigerian businessman, Mr. Yinusa Owolabi, has accused the Nigeria police of extorting money from him, as well as harassing him over an incident...
An elder statesman and a renowned Igbo political leader, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to release the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) leader,...
Nigeria’s former ambassador to Switzerland, Ambassador Humphrey Orjiako, former Governor of Kwara State Chief Comelius Adebayo and Jimi Agbaje, have insisted on restructuring as the only...
The police in Abuja have arrested 12 suspected members of a cult, Norsemen, who have been allegedly terrorising residents of Apo District, Abuja. Items recovered from...
A 35-year-old man, Mohammed Dan Abass, has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl, Ramatu Mohammed at Barkin Saleh...
A 20-year-old man, Emmanuel Effiong, has allegedly told police in Aba, Abia State, that he beheaded a woman on instruction of a mad woman to make...
Housewife, Mrs Grace Olorunfemi, on Wednesday, with eyes full of tears, urged a Customary Court sitting in Akure to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage to save her...
A key agency of the Federal Government, Debt Management Office, DMO, has faulted the economic plan of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, asking it to formulate...
Police in Osun State have arrested a member of a cadet of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) attached to St. Charles Grammar School, Imran Olalekan,...
Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, paraded a female banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, and two suspected hired assassins over a botched plot to kill her husband, identified as...
The police, in Lagos, has paraded a secondary school teacher, Enilolobo Olamilekan, for defiling a 12 year old Junior Secondary School 2 student in the Ikotun...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 60-year-old man, Highsent Nwogu, for allegedly producing dollars worth N3m and defrauding residents of the Ogba area. Nwogu,...
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Abia State Police Command, Adeleye Oyebade, on Monday paraded a suspected rapist, identified as Emeka Asibiriobwu, who was...
A newly inaugurated Sole Administrator of Buruku Local Government, David Yiman, has been placed on remand by Chief Magistrate Court 1, sitting in Makurdi, Benue State...
Detectives at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos, have arrested a 23-year-old suspected fraudster, who allegedly blackmails eminent personalities in the country through a...
Police detectives attached to the anti-kidnapping unit of Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Lagos, have arrested five suspects for conspiracy and stealing of pharmaceutical products worth about...
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 70-year-old herbalist, Alidu Afolabi, in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly defrauding two brothers of...
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi as its substantive National...
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi as its substantive National...