Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers attacked a vehicle conveying the salary of the staff of Kaga local government area of Borno State yesterday, killing its cashier, and injuring a police escort attached to the vehicle. The incident occu...
After spending six months at the Ilesa prison for allegedly raping a 26-year old corps member, Helen Okpara, an Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo, yesterday granted bail to the Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun local government area of the state, Adebuko...
The trial of the December 25, 2009 airline bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has gone tough and could as well become a potential issue in jury selection as his legal adviser on Wednesday threatened to challenge the prosecutors if they try to di...
The director-general, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Ajayi Femi, has appealed to the Federal Government to assist the agency to enable it to fight war against drug trafficking in the country. Femi, who stated this recently when ...
One person was killed and another critically injured when Kajol village in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State was attacked on Tuesday by unknown assailants. The injured person is being treated at Jos University Teaching Hospital of guns...
The Nigerian Copyright Commission says its operatives in Enugu have confiscated pirated products worth N8.5 million and arrested six persons. A statement issued by the commission, signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Mr Vincent Oyef...
Armed robbers on Monday raided the Shuwarin Market in Dutse, killing one person and injuring seven others. An eyewitness, Musa Ahmed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday that the robbers arrived at the market at about 6.30 pm when traders w...
In what appeared to be reminiscent of the famous Aba Women`s Riot of 1929, women of St. Jude’s Catholic church in Ameachi, Awkunanaw, the community of former Senate president, Chief Ken Nnamani yesterday staged a protest over al...
Unidentified gunmen,have raided and abducted a worker aboard a supply vessel to the ExxonMobil oil platform, off Akwa Ibom coastline. One other person was injured in the process. The Management of Mobil Producing Nigeria, the local un...
M aiduguri, the Borno state capital yesterday, recorded another killing as some unidentified gunmen shot and killed a butcher in broad day light at the popular Baga road market while other Nigerians were marking the country’s 51st independence an...
Allegations of fraud and internal wranglings to unseat the acting general manager of the Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) have set the station in crisis. Management staffers of the station are said to be involved in as show down with one another...
The Niger State Police Command has arrested 71 robbery and other offences suspects within the last three months even as the commissioner of police, Ibrahim Maishanu, said that the command was faced with a myriad of operational problems. The commissione...
The Nigerian Army yesterday reassured Lagos residents that all security agencies in the state were working together to ensure the safety of the state. General Officer Commanding (GOC), 81 Division, Major-General Kenneth Minimah, gave the assuran...
The Paramount Ruler of the Ebeni Ibe Atissa Kingdom, in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa state, King Godwin Igodo, yesterday regained freedom after 27 days in the kidnappers den. King Igodo was released Tues...
No fewer than 30 medicine dealers including Pharmacists who allegedly contravened the regulatory laws of the National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on fake and sub-standard drugs have been arrested by the Delta State comma...