Four suspected kidnappers yesterday met their waterloo during a shoot-out with policemen in Delta State. The suspects had at about 7.30am kidnapped one Chinedu Amadi, an employee of oil giants Chevron along Refinery Road, Effurun, but the police team w...
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar has ordered the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 4 Command, AIG Mike Zuokumor, and the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ayeni, to end the violence which has eng...
Officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) fled in various directions yesterday when a yet-to-be-identified armed policeman stormed the Iponri office of the traffic management agency, shooting sporadically before bolting away wi...
Justice Abubakar Umar has further adjourned to Sept. 26 the adoption of final written addresses in a suit filed by the EFCC against one Adeolu Olugbenga. The EFCC arraigned Olugbenga in 2004 for allegedly conspiring and obtaining the sum of N3 mil...
Two Air Force Officers and two businessmen were yesterday killed by unknown gunmen in separate attacks carried out in Kano Metropolis. The killing of the two officers occurred around Sa’adatu Rimi College along Zaria Road at 11.30am, while the tw...
Indications emerged, yesterday, that the suspects including sons of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains arraigned on Thursday before the Lagos High Court in Ikeja Division for alleged involvement in fuel subsidy fraud were...
The Nigeria Police have explained the delay in prosecuting suspects in the bribery allegation trailing the former Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan and a businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola on the need to carefully ga...
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the 2011 presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday paid a sympathy and solidarity visit to the three churches bombed early last month. A penultima...
Five students of the Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, suspected to be involved in cult activities, have been arrested by the Nasarawa State Police Command for various reasons, including possession of dangerous weapons, and are now cooling their feet ...
The abducted daughter of a former member of the National Assembly, Senator Nimi Barigha-Amange, was yesterday rescued from the hands of her kidnappers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The victim, Mrs. Diepreye Dagi Darego, was taken hostage at around 9a...
Barely 48 hours after three police officers were ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen along Bauchi-Gombe road, another police officer has been assassinated at his residence in Bauchi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased, Abdulla...
The Edo State police command, yesterday paraded five suspected kidnappers in Benin City, the state capital. The state police public relations officer, Anthony Airhuoyo, while parading the suspects, told journalists that they had made confessional state...
The directorate of the State Security Service (DSS) in Kwara State yesterday paraded seven students of one of the Colleges of Education in the state over alleged abduction, rape, cultism, and for being in possession of fake currency notes. The suspects...
Four persons in the last two days were reportedly killed at different locations in Benin City, the Edo State capital following a renewed cult war between Aiye confraternity and Black Axe. The latest was the murder of a middle-aged man at a beer parlor ...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, has debunked the findings of a recent survey by the CLEEN Foundation which claimed that armed robbery incidents increased by six per cent between 2010 and 2012. Abubakar, who, yesterday, r...