The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said it has arrested a South African woman with substance suspected to be methamphetamine worth N15 million. A statement signed by the agency's Head of Public Affairs, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, ...
The residents of Nyanya in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, in the past two weeks have been persistently rattled and terrorised by serial robbery attacks which have forced some of them to flee their homes at nights. A senior special adviser to a s...
President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to henceforth treat the activities of the Boko Haram Islamic sect as treason, and as a result, apply relevant laws on its members and their sponsors. This was contained in a communiqué signed by elders from...
In the latest twist of the bribery allegation between former chairman of the ad-hoc committee investigating the management of subsidy and businessman Femi Otedola, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Drugs/Narcotics and Financial ...
Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested four suspects in connection with the murder of a retired army officer, Brigadier-General Sylvester Iruh. General Iruh’s corpse was discovered lying in a pool of his blood at a bridge very close t...
A witness who testified on behalf of the State Security Service (SSS) in the trial of one of the suspects charged with complicity in the October 1, 2010, twin bombing in Abuja, Edmund Ebiware, said the former of Baye...
Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Ladan, has confirmed the killing of four persons in Tafawa Balewa town of Bauchi State by unknown gunmen on Wednesday. He told newsmen that the deceased and one other person, who was injured, were at...
The Ambassador of the State of Israel, His Excellency, Mr Moshe Ram has expressed his country’s readiness to partner the federal government to combat insurgency in Nigeria. The envoy who presented a paper on Suicide Terrorism: The Israeli Experie...
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on International Relations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku yesterday blamed the current security challenges facing the country for the setback of its foreign policy, and said was inimical to foreign investments in Nig...
The United States President, Barrack Obama, has said that frustrations were the major reasons behind the activities of Boko Haram, sect which has claimed responsibilities for most of the killings in the Northern parts of Nigeria. Speaking during a spec...
Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the Jos shootings that claimed the life of Senator Gyang Dantong and Hon Gyang Fulani of the Plateau State House of Assembly as a tragedy and challenge to Nigeria. Tinubu, in a statemen...
Nigeria’s efforts to rein in raging insurgency in some parts of the country has received a major boost, as the Italian government yesterday disclosed its intention to train officers and men of the Nigerian Police and other Paramilitary agencies o...
The senate yesterday expressed shock over the death of Senator Gyang Dalyop Dantong in Jos yesterday. Senate Spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe in a statement said Nigeria cannot afford these killings. The Senate, he said regrets deeply this ty...
There are conflicting reports on the circumstances surrounding the death of Senator Gyang Datong, representing Plateau North in the senate and Hon Danfulani, the majority leader in the Plateau State House of Assembly. According to a reliable source, th...
Alhaji Umar Manko, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, on Sunday said that 244 suspected armed robbers were arrested by the command in the first half of the year. Manko told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the arrest of the ring leaders of the va...