Rampaging cultists in Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta Stat, has allegedly killed a carpenter identified as Smart (surname withheld). Reports said the victim before the incident was a well known carpenter in the community and was on...
An Ilorin Chief Magistrates' Court on Friday remanded a 35-year-old herbalist, Ibrahim Abubakar, for alleged possession of roasted human hand and palm. Police prosecutor, Insp. Moshood Adebayo informed the court that the accused had cut off the hea...
Two Fulani community leaders in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau were on Friday arraigned before a Jos Senior Chief Magistrates’ Court, over their alleged complicity in the violence. The community leaders - Mohammed Adamu, 50 and Mohammed B...
Unknown gunmen have killed two persons, including a policeman in two separate attacks in Yola and Mubi in Adamawa. Confirming the incidents to newsmen on Friday in Yola, the Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa State Police Command, ASP....
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday, denied ever granting an interim order restraining the Inspector General of Police (IGP),his officers or agents from investigating or prosecuting the former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki ov...
Investigation by LEADERSHIP yesterday revealed that the suicide bomber who devastated the ThisDay office in Abuja came under the pretext of placing an advert. The bomber, who came in a Isuzu Jeep, eyewitnesses said, first approached the front gate of t...
Survivors of yesterday bomb explosions that killed five and injured 20 people in Kaduna metropolis told LEADERSHIP how they tried in vain to prevent the bomber from carrying out his deadly mission on a three-storey building along Kontagora ...
Yesterday’s bombing of THISDAY Newspapers’ head office in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the first such attack on a Nigerian media house in recent times, amplifies the question again: should bombs, bullets and bloodshed define the na...
Less than two hours after the explosion that rocked the offices of Thisday, the Sun and the Moment newspapers, another improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to be bomb exploded along Nnamdi Azikiwe expressway near the second Kaduna Bridge, injuri...
The State Security Service (SSS) on Thursday pleaded with journalists in the country not to be intimidate by the recent wave of attacks targeted at them and their organisations. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by Ms Ma...
Mr Yemi Odusanya, the Regional General Manager, Access Bank Plc, Lagos, who was kidnapped on April 22 regained his freedom on Thursday after the family paid N25 million ransom. A reliable police source, who pleaded anonymity told the News Agency of Nig...
The spokesman for the Special Task Force on Jos crisis,Captain. Mdahlelya Markus said that the Tudun Wada explosive went off at about 9.45 pm as viewers were coming out of the centre after watching the ongoing European Champions League match between Ch...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday announced that its sniffer dogs had discovered 16 kg of heroin, valued at N160 million, allegedly abandoned by drug traffickers. This was contained in a statement signed by the agency...
The House of Representatives has recommended to the federal government the retention of the Adbulrahsheed Maina-led Pension Reform Task Force, whose activity led to the recovery of stolen pension funds worth millions of Naira. The House said it was imp...
Kano State Commissioner of Works and Housing, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, yesterday explained the rationale behind government’s decision to erect of bullet proof gates and fence around the government house. He said government decided to built a stro...