Twelve people feared dead in Jigawa canoe mishap
No fewer than four people were killed in a canoe mishap in Taura Local Government area of Jigawa State. Eye...
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Boat mishap in Jigawa claims lives of young girls, rescue efforts ongoing
A terrible mishap at Zangon Maje, Taura Local Government Area of Jigawa State, has plunged residents into mourning as a...
Female drug trafficker jailed 10 years with hard labour in Edo
A twenty-nine years old female drug trafficker, Owoeye Tobi, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour by...
Human rights activist Obawolu Aanu slumps, dies in Lagos
Renowned human rights activist, Comrade Obawolu Adedoja Aanu, has died in Lagos. According to sources close to her, Aanu collapsed...
Arms supplier to Kwara-Kogi kidnap syndicate arrested
A man suspected to be arms supplier to a notorious kidnapping network operating around the Kwara-Kogi axis has been apprehended...
Troops arrest two suspected cattle thieves in Benue
Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, have apprehended two suspected cattle thieves during a routine patrol in Guma Local Government...
Court sentences man to death for gruesome murder of three-year-old
A High Court in Kano has sentenced one Aminu Muhammad to death by hanging.Justice Maryam Sabo delivered the judgement on...
EFCC arrests 31 suspected internet fraudsters in Nasarawa State
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 31 persons suspected of engaging in internet fraud in...
Grenade explodes, kills one, injures others in Kano
A tragic explosion occurred on Monday evening, June 30, in Kofar Dawanau, Dala Local Government Area, Kano State, where an...
FCT police arrest notorious kidnap gang linked to killings, mass abductions
The Abuja Police Command has apprehended three high-profile kidnap suspects accused of masterminding a string of deadly abductions and killings...
Kaduna: Squatters kill KADVIS local commander over grazing reserve
A local commander of the Kaduna State Vigilance Service, KADVIS, Saleh Shuaibu, popularly known as Saleh Fiya-Fiya, was killed on...
Court convicts 32 for violating sanitation laws in Ekiti
A Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti has convicted 32 persons for breaching the Ekiti State Environmental Health and Sanitation Laws during...
Again, Glo powers Ojude Oba Festival
Digital solutions provider, Globacom, has announced that it will again be partnering with the organizers of the...
Fire razes four shops in Edo
Fire on Wednesday destroyed four shops located at Ugbowo axis of the Benin metropolis, opposite the university of Benin Teaching...
Teenagers planting IEDs for Boko haram surrender to Military
The Commander, Sectorc 3 of the Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF, has arrested two persons planting improvised explosive devices, IEDs,...
Divorce-seeking military officer accuses wife of bad temperament
A retired military officer, Thomas Olawaye, on Monday prayed a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to grant his...
Two dead, many injured as gunmen open fire on US party
At least two persons have been confirmed dead while several others were seriously injured in a shooting that took place...
Six suspected electricity transformer vandals arrested in Yobe
The Yobe State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has arrested six suspects who allegedly...
Court remands three men over alleged kidnapping in Ibadan
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Friday remanded three men Jiya Adams, 44; Joseph Abidoye, 39; and Femi Adetunji,...
Police arrest notorious kidnapper, recover gun, ammunition in Delta
Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi has said that the Police Special Team from Ughelli Division in Ughelli,...
Osun varsity staff crushed to death by fallen container
A female staff member of the University of Ilesa has died in a tragic accident which occurred along the Ilesa-Ibodi...
Man stabs brother to death in Bauchi
The Police Command in Bauchi State has arrested Isyaku Babale, 30, of Anguwan Dawaki in Bauchi Metropolis, for allegedly stabbing...
One of two kidnapped Ogun church worshippers freed – Police
The Ogun State Police Command has announced that a member of the Celestial Church of Christ, Oriyarin Parish, Mowe in...
Eight arrested over murder of police officers in Delta
The Nigeria Police Force said it has arrested eight suspects in connection with the murder of its officers on a...
Police arrest 15 suspected criminals in Gombe
The Gombe State Police Command, under the leadership of CP Hayatu Usman, has apprehended 15 suspects for various criminal offenses...
NAFDAC intercepts psychoactive drugs, busts beverage factories in Southeast
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has confiscated banned pharmaceutical products, valued at millions of naira,...
Unknown gunmen hijack bus, abduct 10 travellers in Benue
Unknown gunmen ambushed and kidnapped no fewer than 10 occupants of a commercial bus travelling from Wukari in Taraba State...
