A Federal High Court in Lafia yesterday granted bail to the former Nasarawa State Governor Aliyu Akwe Doma and nine of his accomplices.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Doma and other accused persons for alleged la...
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, has said that it has sacked a Principal Technical Officer in the Academy, Mallam Rilwanu Sanusi, over his involvement in an admission scam in the just concluded 63 regular intake. According to the Academy, th...
The Bauchi State Police Commissioner, Ikechukwu Aduba, yesterday in Bauchi said that his Command had arrested a grandfather, one Sani Hamidu, with son who conspired and killed his grandchild, Sagiru Abdullahi, removed his eyes, genit...
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have launched a fresh onslaught on Guru Village in Maru local government of Zamfara State, making away with away heads of cattle. The attackers invaded the village at the early hours of the night, shooting in to the air to sca...
Yoruba movie actor, Babatunde Omidina aka `Baba Suwe' is planning to file a N1 billion suit against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his recent arrest and detention. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that `Baba Su...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, told a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Donatus Okorowa that a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, standing trial on a 16...
The Gombe State Commissioner of Police, Mr Orubebe Ebikeme, has confirmed the bombing of the Mobile Police base in Kwame, in Kwame local government area, on Sunday killing no fewer than three persons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) repor...
The National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for wanting to benefit from the 37 Local Council Development Areas(LCDAs) it opposed their creation. Tinubu spoke whi...
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state says the cheap labour available in the state has made it an investor’s ideal destination.The governor said this on Friday in Ado-Ekiti at the opening of a two-day economic ...
An Ibadan High Court yesterday granted bail to former Oyo State governor Adebayo Alao-Akala in the sum of N500m with two sureties.The court also grand bail to two other accused persons, Sen. Hosea Agboola and the Managing Director of Pentagon Engineeri...
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, on Wednesday shot dead a police constable after robbing a bank in Damboa, about 100 kilometres from Maiduguri. Eyewitnesses told newsmen that the gunmen invaded the bank in a convoy of about...
The peace of Efon-Alaaye in Efon Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was on yesterday shattered when a woman believed to be insane destroyed no fewer than 20 vehicles.The woman, identified as Olubu Alaure, was said to have woken up around 4.30 am, to...
Three soldiers were injured on Monday after a vehicle of the Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order was hit by an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) at Dalla, Maiduguri. JTF spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh told newsmen in Maiduguri that a ci...
A couple from Anambra State, but residing abroad (names withheld) have lost the sum of N750,000 to an orphanage, Crowther Motherless Babies Home in a bid to genuinely adopt a baby from the orphanage which is located in Onitsha. The state commissi...
No fewer than 253 pending disciplinary cases on misconduct of police officers reported in 2010 are still pending in the Police Service Commission (PSC). The 2010 annual report of the commission, which was made available to journalists in Abu...