The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday said that 10 policemen attached to the command have been dismissed over offences bothering on unethical conduct in the last one year. The command's spokesperson, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, made the disclosure in...
Barely 24 hours after an explosion rocked Ungwan Muazu area of Kaduna metropolis killing a man suspected to have been in possession of the explosive, unknown gunmen on Sunday night stormed Rigasa Community in Kaduna metropolis, killing an Assistant Sup...
Authorities say suspected gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have shot and killed a secret police officer in northeast Nigeria. The attack happened Monday in Maiduguri, where the sect known as Boko Haram once had its main mosque. Witnesses said the of...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order said it killed two suspected members of Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri on Sunday during a shoot-out. Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Sunday that the incident happened ar...
Unknown gunmen on Sunday shot dead Mr Wanasgu Kachuwa, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Chibok Local Government Council (LGC) in Borno. Kachuwa was shot at his State Low Cost residence in Maiduguri. Residents told newsmen that th...
Suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people yesterday when they robbed a bank and stormed a police station in Borno State, a government official said. Gunmen killed two people during a raid on a UBA branch in Askira town in the ear...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a female architect, Nwanne Okengwu Emeh of Dunnel Worldwide Limited before the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja for allegedly obtaining various sums of money amounting to N45 million from o...
Four persons were shot dead and six injured in Jos on Wednesday evening when security operatives tried to quell a family feud. However, a mobile police officer, who allegedly killed the persons, had been arrested by the police authorities. The News Age...
Gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect yesterday night attacked police facilities in Damagum, the headquarters of Fune Local Government in Yobe State and freed 14 prison inmates at the satellite prison facility.They also burnt do...
Suspected vandals have damaged the Police Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) belonging to the Benue State Police command. The criminals also destroyed a police pick-up van and other vehicles, while individual properties were either burnt or looted. Howeve...
The Vice Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association(NBA), in Maiduguri, Husseini Hala, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s pronouncement that his government will end the menace of Boko Haram by the middle of this year can worsen the security cr...
Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, have arrested five people in Alkaleri Local Government Area of the state for allegedly raping two teenage girls. The Public Relations Officer of the corps, Mr. Adimba Paul who disclose...
The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said it had begun investigation into the death of three people in a well in Ajegunle, a Lagos suburb. Mr Joseph Jaiyeoba, the command spokesperson, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of N...
The Chairman of the NDLEA, Mr Ahmadu Giade, has ordered an investigation into the circumstances leading to the death of two of the agency's officers in Adamawa State. This was contained in a statement in Lagos on Thursday, signed by the NDLEA spoke...
A former militant leader in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta is linked to a private security company that signed a $103 million deal with the government to patrol the West African nation's waterways against pirates, officials have told The Ass...