The Commandant, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, AVM Abdullahi Kureh said the death toll of Sunday blasts in Jaji, Kaduna had increased to 15. Kureh confirmed this to Gov. Patrick Yakowa on Monday when he visited the site of the atta...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arraigned a husband and wife before a chief magistrate court in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja for assisting husband to jump police bail. The police has in their charge sheet alleged that one Chris Ozobia cons...
A serving Lieutenant Colonel with the Nigerian Army, W.L. Nzidee, has been dragged to a Magistrate Court I over alleged sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) in Kaduna. The accused is in charge of the MTO at the Nigerian Defence Academy ...
Suspected ritualists operating in Asaba and Ughellimetropolis of Delta State, yesterday reportedly abducted six inmates of tuberculosis and leprosy home located inSanubi town,UghelliNorth local government area of the state. Eyewitness said the suspecte...
No fewer than five persons were reported killed and 15 houses set ablaze in the Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State in renewed clashes between Koro and Eggon tribesmen. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abayomi Akeremale, confirmed the death toll ...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arraigned a 41 year old housewife, Mrs Comfort Amos, before a chief magistrate court in Zone 6, Wuse, Abuja for abducting a nine months old baby at Redeemed Christian Church of God (Central Parish...
About 300 Nigerians living in the Republic of Botswana have been deported back to Nigeria by the Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama administration in the past few months following refusal of the authorities to renew their permits. Perturbed by ...
Gunmen, yesterday, wreaked havoc in Kaduna and Bauchi states when two policemen and other civilians were killed in an orgy of bloodshed. In Kaduna, the gunmen riding on a motorbike shot and killed one police officer, Corporal Bejamin Sule and one other...
It was another shocking sight at a residence in Jikwoyi, an Abuja suburb, where a man who simply gave his name as Mr. Peters, disclosed at the weekend, that his 30 year old younger brother raped his 14 months old daughter. According to sources, the mot...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday night in Kano killed Assemblyman Ibrahim Garko, a lawmaker representing Garko constituency in state House of Assembly. The suspected gunmen reportedly injured two other persons during the attack. An eyewitness, who spoke to N...
The Police in Nasarawa State on Saturday killed four armed robbery suspects that had been terrorising motorists plying the Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga road. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abayomi Akeremale, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in ...
Three officers of Kebbi State command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Yusuf Isaya, Sahabi Smaila and Mohamed Abubakari who rejected bribe offer from a suspected drug baron arrested in Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi have been commende...
Kano State Police Command, yesterday, said that the armed robbers who invaded and carted away large sums of money from Wapa Bureau de Change at Fagge last Tuesday disguised as customers before launching their attack on the operators. The graphic accoun...
Soldiers attached to Aba Forward Operational Base (FOB) of the 144 Battalion have arrested an ex-student of Abia State University for alleged car snatching. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the ex-student was a member of a gang that snatc...
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested four suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the kidnap of an eight-year-old boy. A statement from the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, in Enugu on Wednesday said the suspects k...