The Borno State chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Alhaji Othman Mala, yesterday called on those fleeing Maiduguri as a result of the security challenges in the state to return home. Mala, who made the call in an interview with the News ...
Authorities of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) known as Operation Restore Hope yesterday met with officials of the Bayelsa State owned Security Outfit known as Famou Tamgbe over the recent allegations near clashes with the Police as well as the kil...
Nigeria and Chelsea star John Obi Mikel's father has been kidnapped , according to his management. Michael Obi has not been seen or heard from since he failed to return home from work on Friday in Jos, Plateau State. "John Obi Mikel's fath...
An Onitsha-based activist, Comrade Uzor Uzor, has urged the Anambra State government to muster the political will to decisively deal with the nefarious activities of hoodlums at the Upper Iweka area of Onitsha in Anambra. “Many unsuspecting trave...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is to establish mobile courts to try drug hawkers, a statement said. A statement issued by the Zonal Public Relations officer of NAFDAC, Mr. Cyril Monye, in Port Harcourt on Frid...
Hundreds of workers of the Sagbama local government council area of Bayelsa State who were sacked, as a result of revelations from the report of the Finance and General Purpose Committee of the council over their alleged involvement in the N10m monthly...
The Chairman of Gwagwalad Area Council, Hon Zakari Angulu Dobi, has vowed that henceforth, any resident caught disposing refuse at the drainage system, waterway or major roads would be prosecuted in the mobile court. He gave the warning yesterday in Gw...
Kaduna police command yesterday in its press briefing of their activities in the state paraded 24 robbery suspects who were involved in various robbery activities in the past three months. Parading the suspects at the police command, the commissioner o...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it is investigating allegations of forgery of the signature of the former Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Julius Bala which was revealed at the on- going probe of priv...
Over 10 people sustained various degrees of injuries in Lagos yesterday due to stampede caused by a shootout between the police and armed robbers who attempted to rob a new generation bank in Ogudu area of the state. LEADERSHIP gathered that the dare d...
Men of the State Security Service (SSS) in Kogi State have started monitoring sermons in mosques and churches as part of measures to prevent religious crisis in the state. The state director of the SSS, Mr Mike Fubara, told newsmen in Lokoja yesterday ...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) said yesterday that the Commission would immediately move into the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to dig for details surrounding the recent sale of federal government’s five percent equity sha...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Asaba, Delta State, has arrested 32 suspected drug addicts in possession of 120.2kg of cannabis and psychotropic substances. The state command’s spokesman, Mallam Ibrahim Mohammed, told newsmen ...
A 40-year-old school teacher, Nurudeen Algoni Umar was on Sunday night shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Yusufiyya sect popularly known as Boko Haram in Gwange ward of the Maiduguri metropolitan council. Our correspondent gathered that...
The wife of a Kaduna-based hip-hop musician has alleged that her husband, Stanley Ukpabio (with the stage name Desty Randy), was shot on the stomach by a policeman in Kaduna when he was mistaken for another man with criminal case who was said to be on ...