Gunmen have shot dead a policeman in Kaduna State, police said on Sunday. The policeman was shot dead by two armed men on motorcycles in the Rigasa area of the city, said Kaduna state police commissioner Ballah Nassarawa. "We lost a policeman to t...
Tension heightened in Enugu State yesterday following the arrest of about 25 suspected members of Boko Haram by a team of policemen on patrol in Nsukka Area of state. The suspects were reportedly being conveyed into the state by a young driver and an a...
For failing to appear before to answer contempt charges preferred against them by the executive of the Ogun State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) a Federal High Court in Lagos has issued a bench warran...
A dare devil gang of armed bandits attacked and killed 15 business men in along Birnin Magaji Batsari road in Zamfara State. Eye-witnesses said the businessmen were coming back home from the weekly market day in the neighbouring Batsari Local Governmen...
Eight suspects and 180 drums of petroleum products have been seized and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Calabar. Handing over the products to the two federal go...
Sequel to allegations of hosting and bankrolling the deadly activities of the radical Islamist Terrorist group, Boko Haram, Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, Thursday, January 26, 2012 stated that the group has no operational base in his state. Yuguda...
The British High Commission in Nigeria yesterday stated that the Boko Haram sect has portends a grave danger to British interest and the global family. The Deputy High Commissioner, of the British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. Giles Lever who stated ...
At least two people were killed early Tuesday in violence-torn Kano city during a raid by Nigerian security forces on a suspected hideout of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, a civilian witness said. The sound of explosions and gunfire rang out for several...
Police in Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State on Friday arrested a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Tasi’u Bommalli, who later died of multiple gun shot injuries on the way to the hospital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that ...
Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have shot and killed Abba Kyari, a nephew of Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima. Kyari was killed after he was said to have grabbed a Boko Haram member and forced him to abandon his gun during an attack launch...
The people of Obi-Yiama, Abavo Clan, Ika South Local Government Area f Delta State are protesting the gruesome murder of the community’s head, The Eleme of Obi-Yiama, Chief Amenaghanwon Chinyem by persons said to have been hired by his enemies in...
The traditional ruler (Ponzhin Bin) in limun village, Bwarat district of Lang tang North Local Government Area of Plateau State, chief Mozie mamzum at the weekend, paraded three rape suspects, including a 55-year old man, Mallam Usman MaishanuMr. Mozie...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday vowed to get to the root of the multiple bomb blasts and acts of violence which rocked the city of Kano on Friday, leaving seven persons dead and others injured, saying those behind these acts of terrorism would&...
Soldiers have been deployed to major streets in Kano to enhance security following the multiple explosions in the city on Friday. The State Government on Friday imposed 24-hour curfew on the state as part of measures to forestall further attacks. Armed...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in Bayelsa has confirmed that two explosions rocked parts of Yenagoa at about midnight on Friday. The JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Timothy Antigha, said on Saturday that there were dynamite explosions in certain parts of ...