At least about 16 people were killed yesterday in a clash between the Joint Task Force (JTF) and some suspected terrorists in Lawan Bukar street, Abbaganaram, Budum and Shehuri wards of Maiduguri metropolis, while several others sustained various degre...
Nigeria House of Representatives yesterday raised alarm over the piling judgement debt profile of the federal government totaling N80 billion. The house detailed its committee on justice to ascertain whether or not ongoing and pending debts are properl...
Prominent Nigerians have called on the federal government to re-affirm its commitment to the fight against all forms of economic and financial crimes including trans-border crimes particularly in the Economic Community of West-African States (ECOWAS) r...
No fewer than 16 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), were yesterday feared dead, when a combined team of the Army, Police and SSS raided MASSOB offices in the commercial city of Onitsha. 83 members of th...
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested one of the kidnappers of Miss Patience Ogbodo who was murdered last year by her abductors after a payment of N300,000 was made as ransom. Also arrested was one Chukwudi Udechukwu who allegedly snatched ...
An Italian national, Digi Modesto, working with Borini Prono Construction Company, kidnapped in Ilorin on May 30, has been released. A police source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ilorin that the expatriate was released on Sat...
Police in Gombe have confirmed the killing of a retired civil servant, Tijjani Magaji, 43, of Idi Dawaki quarters in Gombe by unknown gunmen on Saturday in Gombe. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Fwaje Atajiri, told the New...
The Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has rescued a six-year-old child, Kosi Akilo, who was kidnapped recently. The victim was abducted from their residence in the river lane axis of the G.R.A, Enugu by some hoodlums and whisked awa...
No fewer than 20 people were feared killed yesterday in a renewed ethnic violence that engulfed Assakio in Lafia local government area of Nasarawa State. A disagreement which appeared to have been resolved over payment of a stipulated amount of money t...
A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Samuel Olufemi James, who took part in a sham marriage, has been jailed for 22 months. The judgement took place at Derby Crown Court. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered that James, who lived on Riddings Street, Derby, was arre...
In what federal lawmakers described as a “national embarrassment”, the House of Representatives yesterday launched an inquest into the role played by the federal government and two multinational oil giants (Agip and Shell) in the alleged ro...
A Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has ordered the authorities of the Central Navy Command of the Nigerian Navy to hand over two oil vessels seized along the waters of Bayelsa State for alleged involvement in the illegal lifting of crude...
Unknown gunmen yesterday launched another attack on a bakery in Udiya area of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, killing no fewer than six persons and wounding others. An eyewitness, also a baker, who spoke to British Broadcasting Corpora...
No fewer than five trucks loaded with thugs yesterday stormed the national headquarters of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Abuja. The thugs were mobilised by some aggrieved members of the party who were led by one Emeka believed to be work...
A Nigerian, Mr. Ifeanyi Chuks Iheama, who used a forged passport to obtain a job with the Health and Care NHS in Worcester, United Kingdom was on Tuesday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at Hereford Crown Court. Ifeanyi Chuks Iheama, aged 38, arrive...