Over 5,000 persons have been rendered homeless, just as about 10 communities were raided in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State in a renewed dispute between the Tiv farmers and Fulani herdsmen. LEADERSHIP recalls that about 21 persons were feared...
Three men were on Tuesday charged with breaking into an office and stealing property, including laptops, valued at N439,500, at an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. The trio -- Tope Akinshowo, 23; Wasiu Ibrahim, 28; and Happiness Osiegb...
A salesgirl, Mary Obok, 23, was on Tuesday arraigned for allegedly stealing five cheque leaves and forging the owners’ signature to withdraw a total of N189,000 from the accounts. Obok, who lives in the Surulere area of Lagos, is facing a three-c...
A 25-year-old man Eduka Onoha was on Tuesday arraigned before an Abuja Magistrates’ court for two counts of criminal breach of trust and theft. The prosecutor, Insp. Egwu Clement, told the court that on Sept. 11, Usman Dauda of Life camp, Jabi re...
The police in Delta on Monday said they arrested a 20-year old murder suspect at Ogume Community in the Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Charles Muka, made the disclosure in an interview with the N...
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, said four key suspects had been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of four students of the University of Port Harcourt at Aluu Community in Rivers. Abubakar made the disclosure through...
The Nigerian police were unable to stop an angry mob from stoning and burning to death four students accused of armed robbery because they were chased by rock-throwing assailants, authorities said on Monday. The lynchings in Aluu have caused outr...
The Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva has denied the allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that he owned two buildings worth over one billion naira in the city of Abuja. In a statement signed and ma...
Mr Emeka Ani, a photographer whose sales girl was killed by a detachment of Policemen attached to FCT at NEPA junction, Apo was yesterday in tears when LEADERSHIP team visited the scene of the incidence. Mr Ani who is still in shock over the untimely d...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered some choice property allegedly owned by former Bayelsa State Governor, Timpreye Sylva. Sylva is being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a six-co...
A security guard with Guaranty Trust Bank was on Friday charged with vandalising an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), and stealing N1 million at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Danjuma Abutu, 36, who lives at No 35, Ibafon St., Olodi-Apapa, ...
A few days after she was delivered of a set of twins, Mrs Shekinat Abdurazaq, 27, allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday when she jumped into the Osun River in Ede. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred at about 3.30 p.m...
Mr Daniel Bekele, Africa Director, Human Rights Watch (HRW), an International Human Rights Group, said that 815 Nigerians were killed between Jan. and Aug. by the Boko Haram sect. Bekele said this on Thursday in a report entitled: ``Spiraling Violence:...
Omuokere-Aluu community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, where four male students of the University of Port Harcourt were killed by an angry mob is now a ghost town. This was just as police arrested five more suspects in connection wit...
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in Kano, Mr Shehu Zaki, on Wednesday confirmed that gunmen killed two of its officers and injured one other on Madobi Road in Kano. Zaki made the confirmation in an interview with the News Agen...