All passengers in an 18-seater bus were reportedly kidnapped in Ochadamu, Ofu local government, Kogi state, on the Anyigba-Itobe road. According to an eyewitness, the...
On Thursday, the Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State’s capital, sentenced Bassey Akpan, the governorship candidate of the state’s Young Progressives party, to 42...
Former Mr. Universe, singer, and actor Slami Ifeanyi was fatally murdered on Sunday morning in Umubere, Akwa, the state capital of Anambra. It was discovered that...
Terrorists attacked and killed the mother and younger brother of the Divisional Police Officer for Dutsi Division, Katsina State Police Command, on Monday. SP Gambo Isah,...
According to the police, a housewife was detained in Bauchi after being accused of murdering her co-wife with a pestle. The first wife of...
The Bauchi State Police Command has said it has arrested a 29-year old man for allegedly stabbing a 30-year-old man to death for refusing to buy him...
Gidan-goga village residents in Zamfara State’s Maradun Local Government Area have paid the N20 million charge that bandit leader Bello Turji placed on them in order...
Rauf Aregbesola, the interior minister, stated over the weekend that 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram have been identified by the federal government. He claims that...
According to Samuel Aruwan, state commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Operation Forest Sanity troops killed four bandits during clearance operations in known hideouts near...
A 12-year-old boy has been detained by members of the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly abducting a three-year-old girl. The girl’s father informed the authorities...
Nasiru Idris was caught in possession of 101 Permanent Voter Cards PVCs, and as a result, a Magistrate Court in Sokoto sentenced him to one year...
A security guard was killed during a raid on the Queens College in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, on Saturday by suspected armed robbers. ...
The number of inmates in the various custodial centres across the country rose by 18,805 between 2015 and 2022, a document by the Ministry of Interior...
During “Operation Hadarin Daji,” aircraft from the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) neutralized seven prominent terrorists who were being led by Mallam Ila. The strikes took place...
A suspected armed robber was detained by members of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Saturday during a robbery operation at Berger in the Quarry...
Babachir Lawal, a former secretary to the government of the federation, and five other people have been cleared of the N544 million contract fraud charges filed...
According to Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the Commission has recovered nearly N117 billion between...
The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency has announced the arrest of some serving and retired civil servants in the state in connection with a fraudulent contract worth...
The Nigerian Army murdered scores of bandits, including Kachalla Gudau, who led a group responsible for kidnappings and killings in Kaduna State’s Chikun, Kachia, and Kajuru...
Augustine Nwokedi, his wife Josephine, and four children died of probable food poisoning at their home in Ozubulu, Anambra State. We learned that the victims’...
Terrorists suspected of being Boko Haram rebels massacred 15 female members at Mandara Hills in Borno State’s Gwoza Local Government Area. According to a military source,...
Jones Adewoye, a former bartender, told a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos State how a hoodlum, Felix Ayeye, was detained...
The Kogi State High Court has discovered N4.8m in fraud allegedly committed by several state court officials. This was revealed in a report filed...
Brigadier-General Audu James, the Director of Finance at the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre, was killed after being hit by a car. We learned that the...
On Monday, a team of government prosecutors led by the Director of Public Prosecution, Mr. M.B. Abubakar, claimed that Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the...
On Monday, the Nigerian Defence Headquarters declared wanted 19 Islamic terrorists accused of terrorizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state of Katsina and neighboring Zamfara. The defence...
A yet-to-be-identified suspected fraudster and his herbalist, one Ike, aka Ogenesu, were arrested after officers from the Obiaruku Police Station discovered suspected human parts at the...
Nurudeen Bakare, 41, who is on trial for the murder of his mother, told a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square that he has...
Senator Smart Adeyemi, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, has condemned the actions of vandals who allegedly dismantled some of the freshly...
Six people were killed and 53 were injured in an explosjion on a major pedestrian thoroughfare in central Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...
The Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Bureau FIB-IRT has arrested four suspected members of a kidnapping syndicate that abducted the wife of a popular Rivers-based businessman eight...
The Enugu State Police Command on Friday refuted accusations that the lynched Point of Sale thieves in the state capital were police officers from the New...
Adetutu Adedokun, a Department of State Services employee, has been identified as the woman who leapt into the Lagos Lagoon on Thursday. Adedokun was said to...
The Federal Government has lowered the Nigeria Police Force’s projected budget by over N93 billion, a condition that the security outfit has warned will stymie its...
In the last four years, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has seized 97 pieces of property from various persons. Dr Jimoh Olatunde,...
A man identified only as Akpos is on the run after reportedly burning his wife, Risikat, to death at their home on Ayide Osolo Street, Divine...
According to Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is now examining the contractor who handled one of the cargo projects at...
Ojo Joseph, 64, who set fire to his five stepchildren in Ondo town, Ondo State, was paraded before the state police command headquarters in Akure on...
During a visit to northern England on Wednesday, King Charles III and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, narrowly avoided being hit with eggs thrown at them,...
On Tuesday, gunmen dressed in military uniforms allegedly attacked commuters on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The gunmen, who are suspected of being kidnappers, stormed the road from...
Sophia Rosing, a 22-year-old University of Kentucky student in the United States, was arrested by police for hurling racial slurs at Black students on campus. Rosing...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has written to the Nigerian Governors Forum to request a meeting to decongest jails across the country. Sola Fasure, the...
Mrs Jumoke Bamigboye, the wife of Col. Theophilus Bamigboye (retd), a former military administrator of Bauchi and Osun states, regained her freedom on Monday from kidnappers...
One person was shot when suspected political thugs attacked supporters of Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar in Eberi, Omuma Local Government Area, Rivers State....
The United Kingdom has issued updated security advice to its citizens in Nigeria and those considering visiting the country. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of...
Leaders of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province, Ali Kwaya and Bukar Mainoka, have reportedly been killed. They were reportedly neutralized on Saturday during an operation...
On Sunday, the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency announced the arrest of two Pakistani businessmen and two Nigerians for drug trafficking. The announcement was made...
Three oil workers were allegedly kidnapped in the Bakassi Peninsula by gunmen suspected to be affiliated with the Biafra Nation League. The personnel were reportedly on...
The twenty-one (21) children who were kidnapped in the Mairuwa community in Katsina State’s Faskari local government area have been released. SP Gambo Isah, the Police...
According to a statement issued on Saturday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, Maruwa did not make such a request, as implied...