A middle aged woman (name withheld) who, purportedly, was protecting her property from being pulled down by the Owerri Capital Development Agency (OCDA) on Port Harcourt road, Owerri, on Thursday, attracted a scene when she attempted suicide by jumping...
Survivors of the yesterday bomb blast in Kaduna have continued to recount their experiences during the explosion that killed over 30 people, including two secondary school boys, a leper in his 30s, a woman, commercial motorcycle operators a.k.a. &lsquo...
The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, General Muhammed Sani Salleh (rtd), has said that the insurgency being experienced in Nigeria today can better be regarded as a war situation. Towards this end, he said there was an urgent ne...
The policeman, who shot a pregnant woman Safiya and her husband, Mohammed Kabir, last week when they visited Tunga area of Minna, has been dismissed from service. LEADERSHIP gathered that the dismissal of the policeman was a result of an orderly room t...
The sleepy community of Achara, in Obowo local government area of Imo State, was thrown into confusion few days before the Easter holidays after the traditional ruler of the area, His Royal Highness Eze Kenneth Nnaji, allegedly stabbed one of his subje...
Native doctors in the Delta State capital, Asaba, and its environs are reportedly making brisk business with men of God who allegedly hire their services to increase membership of their churches, by securing for them ‘extra power’ to produc...
The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Mr Jinjiri Abubakar, says the two vehicles carrying the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) were heading toward Kakuri to Sabon Tasha. He told newsmen on Sunday in Kaduna that the two vehicles were pursued by d...
Alarmed by the widespread fraud and looting of the Bayelsa State government treasury in the past four years, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson may be considering the option of inviting the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency to recover the stolen fund. Alre...
Osun State government has frowned at the incessant rape of teenagers across the state, promising that the state government would not fold its arms and watch the abuse of women and children. It also stated that the state would ensure that an...
Nigerians resident in Garoua, northern Cameroon have appealed the Federal Government to check security challenges in Nigeria. The chairman of Imo/Abia Association in Garoua, Mr Vitalis Ibeabuchi, made the appeal on behalf of his compatriots when he spo...
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), yesterday assured its members that the Union would petition the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA) brutal assault and det...
Two suspected Boko Haram militants were shot dead on Friday after a raid on their meeting point near the NNPC station, Abbaganaram, a statement by Joint Task Force (JTF) has said. The statement was signed by Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, the Spokesman for the J...
The Niger Police Command has deployed addition 1,000 policemen from the headquarters in Minna to beef up security at some flashpoints in Suleja Local Government Area of the state. Mrs Deseye Nsirim, the state Commissioner of Police, disclosed thi...
The Joint Security Task-Force (JTF) on Friday deployed armoured vehicles on major streets of Kano metropolis. The vehicles were seen as early as 9 a.m. along Sabon-Gari area in Kano metropolis patrolling the streets. NAN reports that the deployment of ...
Security agencies in Plateau have banned movement of motorcycles in the state from Friday to Tuesday as part of measures to ensure hitch-free Easter celebration. The state Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Ayeni, said in a statement on Friday in Jos that t...