The Oyo State Police Command yesterday commenced discreet investigation into the seizure of a large cache of ammunition by the Oyo/ Osun command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Findings by LEADERSHIP revealed that the NCS had handed over the susp...
The Court of Appeal in Lagos yesterday dismissed the appeal by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for the Lagos West Constituency, Mr. Moshood Salvador, challenging the election of Senator Ganiyu Solomon of the Action...
Men of the 2 Amphibious Brigade, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, yesterday killed one suspected kidnapper and arrested nine of his colleagues after a shootout at Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State. Army spokesman in the stat...
Churches, homes and the police headquarters in Geidam, Yobe State were set ablaze in a wave of night time gun and bomb attacks by Boko Haram sect, the police said on Sunday. "The Geidam divisional police headquarters and First Bank were bombed on ...
Barely two days after a-20 man armed bandits struck in Sagamu in Ogun State, killing more than 10 people, another 15-man gang of armed robbers yesterday struck in Abeokuta killing two people and injuring several others. The incident which occurred at O...
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday attacked a police station and a bank in Yobe state. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that the attack which occurred at Gaidam at about 6pm led to loss of lives and destruction of properties. Altho...
The Special Task Force (STF) maintaining security in Plateau has arrested 163 persons over Sunday's violence in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area where 10 people were officially confirmed killed. The STF on Thursday imposed a 24-hour curfew on the ...
Horror was let loose on Sabo Ajegunle in Sagamu Local Government area of Ogun State, yesterday, when dare-devil armed robbers attacked four banks, namely, Guarantee Trust , Sky, Diamond and Zenith, leaving 12 innocent persons dead. The robbers, who wer...
The police have arraigned a 24-year-old man, Tunde Alade, before the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for having sex with a six-year-old girl. The News Agency of Nigeria( NAN) also reports that the prosecutor, Foluke Adedosu, told t...
A 12- man armed robbery gang has invaded Diamond Bank Plc along Oyemekun Road, Akure, the capital of Ondo State, killing no fewer than 15 customers of the bank. LEADERSHIP also gathered that the robbers arrived the bank at about...
A 200-level student of Niger State College of Education Minna, Malam Shuaibu Bala, was murdered Monday in Maitumbi, a suburb of Minna, during a disagreement with his neighbour, Yahaya Ali, over a balance N800 from the sale of a phone ...
Rivers State Police Command yesterday arrested two members of a notorious armed robbery gang believed to have taken part in most of the violent armed robbery incidents recorded in Port Harcourt, the state capital and its environs in recent times. Polic...
The zonal director of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Makurdi Network Centre, Mr. Maxwell Loko, has been robbed in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, in his hotel room. Loko, who was transferred to Makurdi a week ago, had been lodging at Hotel ...
The Police in Abia have arrested a middle-aged woman for allegedly stealing a day-old- baby at a hospital in Umuahia. Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), confirmed the arrest on Friday in Umuahia. He said that the su...
A self acclaimed Islamic scholar, Adamu Alkali of Paiko in Pakoro local government area of Niger state, has been arraigned before a Minna Chief magistrates’ Court for allegedly attempting to sell an 11-year-old boy, Usman Abubakar to some unknown...