Efforts at settling the inter-communal clash between Oko-Anala and Oko-Amakon in Oshimili South Local Government Area, Delta State, suffered a setback mid-week as police arraigned three for murder before an Asaba Senior Magistrate Court. The communal c...
A Bayelsa-based human rights group, Bayelsa Citizens Vanguard, yesterday faulted the decision of the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson to arrest and prosecute over 25 senior staff of the state civil service. The arrest was over their alleged...
In the renewed effort of the Borno Police command to rid Borno state off the violent crimes and other miscreants, the Command yesterday arrested three suspected notorious armed robbers in different locations in the state, who believed to have been terr...
The Association of Resident Doctors Ahmadu Bello University Shika, Zaria have protested the brutal killing of their colleague Dr Abutu Andrew Audu by unknown gunmen. Speaking during the protest rally at the Hospital premises, the association Vice...
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has asked the police command in the state to unmask the killers of Mr Oyerinde Olaitan his principal private secretary, who was allegedly murdered earlier in the day. The police are also expected to use the period to establ...
There was drama at the premises of the Special Fraud Unit(SFU) of the Nigeria Police in Lagos yesterday after former governor of Kwara State and serving senator, Dr Bukola Saraki honoured an invitation to respond to allegations of a N9bn loan sca...
The police on Thursday in Lagos confirmed the arrest of a pastor (name withheld), for allegedly raping an 11-year old boy. The spokesman of the state police command, SP Joseph Jaiyeoba, told newsmen in Lagos that the pastor was arrested on Tuesday. He ...
The Acting Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Mohammed said that security agencies, including the police are re strategising and would require more sophisticated equipment to be able to tackle the present challenge of terrorism posed by BokoHaram.&n...
Mr. Henry Okah who is standing trial in South African magistrate court, yesterday, told the court that President Goodluck Jonathan and his aides organized the October 1, 2010 bomb attacks in Abuja in a desperate political strategy to ...
Fracas broke out between two factions of motor park touts, popularly known as ‘agbero’ yesterday at Ikorodu end of Lagos, leaving many injured and a man killed. The fight which started on Tuesday at Agric bus stop around 7pm was caused by a...
The Police in Rivers on Wednesday arrested a man who allegedly used a hot pressing iron to inflict bodily harm on his 12-year-old son. Mr Ben Ugwuebulam, the police spokesman told newsmen in Port Harcourt, that the suspect Moses Jaja, allegedly p...
The Police College, Kaduna says it has discharged 234 recruits for failure to meet the basic entry requirements of the institution. Commandant of the college, Mr Sunusi Rufai, a Commissioner of Police, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Kaduna ...
Three men, Adekunle Oshinowo, Awosika Thompson and Ayo Funmilayo, were on Wednesday charged before an Ikeja Magistrates' Court, Lagos, over alleged impersonation as police officers. The trio, Oshinowo, 64; Thompson, 59; and Funmilayo, 50, are facin...
An Abuja High Court on Wednesday granted leave to the EFCC to re-open a criminal case against one George Ihejirika, who allegedly forged Certificates of Registration of some companies. Justice Abubakar Umar, on Jan. 23, discharged Ihejirika and c...
A 35-year-old businessman, Alex Okemen, was on Tuesday arraigned at an Oshodi Magistrates' Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing N3.1 million. The prosecutor, Cpl. Olatunde Kehinde, told the court that Okemen obtained the amount from Mic-Oscar Compa...