At least one person has been confirmed dead as three others escaped death with varying degrees of injuries in Ikenga Ogidi community, home of the late Prof Chinua Achebe, during
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Kofi Bartels, a journalist with Nigeria Info, has become the latest victim of extrajudicial activities by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad department of the Nigerians Police Force. Bartels, an on-air personality
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers 1. Kano State government has cancelled the annual traditional Sallah event known as, Hawan Nassarawa, slated for tomorrow Thursday 6th June,
Madam Ayoko Owoko, the abducted 78-year-old mother of a former member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly representing Southern Ijaw Constituency I, Hon. Kate Owoko, has been found dead.
Rundunar ƴan sandan jihar Bauchi ta kama wasu mutane hudu da ake zarginsu da fashi da makami da kuma wasu yan sara suka su 60 a fadin jihar. Anyi holin
Bandits were said to have allegedly killed 16 persons in Kanoma District of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara on Sallah day. Confirming the attack in a press statement in
The police in Lagos State, on Wednesday, said they arrested three suspected traffic robbers in two separate operations around Ayobo/Ipaja areas of the state, less than 24 hours to Sallah
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, said the police have arrested 2,175 suspects for armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism and banditry since the launch of the “Operation Puff Adder.”
Police in Anambra State has arrested 98 persons suspected to be members of various secret cults in the State. A press release by the Anambra State police command’s spokesperson, SP
Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCSC) in Borno, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of one Aliyu Muhammed, a 24 year-old suspected Boko Haram Improvised Explosive Device
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of a businesswoman, Taiwo Martins, to 13 years imprisonment for $200,000 fraud before Justice Candide-Johnson of the
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, on Tuesday praised the police for the recent arrest of a suspected supplier of food and arms to bandits in bushes in the state. NAN
One Sunday Ejiofor has been sentenced to three years imprisonment without option of fine for falsely presenting himself as a legal practitioner. Ejiofor was accused of falsely presenting himself as
A Kano State High Court has ordered the service of a Motion on Notice on the State Chairman of Football Association (FA), Sharu Rabiu Ahlan, who recently conducted election of
The Kano State government on Tuesday stated that its position on the indictment of Emir Muhammdu Sanusi for alleged corruption. AREWA.NG reports that the full Interim Report of investigation by
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has felicitated with Nigerian Muslims as they celebrate the end of Ramadan fast. Atiku in a message shared on his
Reports from across Yobe State indicated that the 2019 Eid-el-fitr congregational prayers were conducted peacefully under tight security. At Yobe Mosque and Islamic Centre Damaturu, Governor Mai Mala Buni was
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on Tuesday dismantled a four-man international arms-smuggling syndicate. The four-man syndicate comprising Ojoomo Olugbenga, Oladimeji Adeogun, Habib Musibau and Thomas Olumuyiwa were arrested in Saki,
Two security guards, Tasiu Abubakar, 23 and Ayuba Idris, 20 have confessed killing their boss and his daughter in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The suspects, who were paraded at
The Nigeria Police has, on Monday, said it nabbed 38 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and gun runners in different parts of the North Central, North East and North West zones
