A driver, Michael James, is still in pain after six officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority and men of the Lagos State Police Command allegedly brutalised him during an arrest for a ...

A suspected ritualist has allegedly killed a food hawker, Latifat Oyebode, and mutilated her body in the Ogbinrin area of Ile-Ife, Osun State. The 55-year old Oyebode, a resident of the Alapata area o ...

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two suspects for the alleged killing of one Osita Anwuanwu, 64, in the Arida area of Ikotun. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiw ...

A 13-year-old boy was abducted late Saturday after unknown gunmen invaded the Destiny Estate Community in Obada-Oko, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. They pushed to the ground his grandmot ...

A search party comprising 26 hunters organised to rescue a kidnapped medical doctor and a nurse was ambushed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani elements in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun S ...

A man identified as Ajemina Horsfall was shot dead in a suspected clash by rival cult groups in in Buguma, Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. This came as a similar cult attack which cl ...

A former driver at a Warri branch of a new generation bank in Delta State is in police custody for reportedly orchestrating the kidnapping of three managers of the bank in the state. The alleged maste ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a suspected drug trafficker notorious for impersonating security officers, Basiru Ibrahim, with 280kg of skunk and Diazepam. The su ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, on Tuesday, arrested a Lagos-based car wash worker, Kazeem Olanrewaju, who allegedly absconded with a Toyota Venza car, at the Nigeria-Benin Republic borde ...

The police in Ebonyi State, on Tuesday night, repelled another attack by gunmen on one of their stations in the state. One of the assailants, it was gathered, was killed in the ensuing gun duel betwee ...

The Kano State Consumer Protection Council, on Tuesday, confiscated fake, expired and counterfeit drugs and other products worth N100m. Briefing journalists on the breakthrough, the acting Managing Di ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered ¥370,000 and $1,800 from a fraudster to his Japanese victim through the officials of the Japanese Embassy, Abuja. The money was recovered by ...

There is tension in the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State as a leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta in the area, identified as Etengo Etengo, has been reportedly k ...

There was panic in Imo State on Saturday after a man, Chidubem Mbamara, shot dead two persons at a sports betting centre at Aba Branch in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state. This even ...

Tragedy struck in Ifira Akoko community in the Akoko South East Local Government Area of Ondo State on Easter Sunday as the lifeless body of a man, Fredrick Aramuwa, was found beside the road. It was ...

Men of Ogun State Police Command have rescued three victims of a kidnap syndicate abducted along Siun/Ajura Road on the Ogere-Remo Road in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The vi ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 50-year-old man, Azeez Agboola, for unlawfully parading himself as a legal practitioner in the state. The suspect, a resident of Oko Afo area of Ba ...

A crack team of police detectives from the Kwara State Police Command has arrested 16 persons suspected to be members of the Eiye and Aiye confraternities in the Oloje/Okoolowo area of Ilorin, the sta ...

The Court of Appeal in Lagos has granted the Senior Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Ogundipe, a post-conviction bail. A three-man panel on Thursday ...

The FCT police command has arrested Azubuike Osakwe, a carpenter who once worked with a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Osakwe, it was learnt, was arrested on Sunday shortly after retur ...

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a security guard working at the S.A. Filling Station in Ondo town, Abiodun Osuntimehin, for his alleged involvement in the robbery of the station. Abiodun wa ...

The Directorate of Public Prosecutions in Lagos State has said sufficient facts exist to establish a prima facie case of conspiracy to commit felony, obtaining under false pretences, forgery and steal ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 18 suspected internet fraudsters at a hideout in Gwarimpa and Dawaki Extension, Abuja. The arrest was sequel to credible intelligence obtained ...

The Directorate of Public Prosecutions in Lagos State has said sufficient facts exist to establish a prima facie case of conspiracy to commit felony, obtaining under false pretences, forgery and steal ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a 70-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Rabiu Wada, said to be supplying substances to Boko Haram insurgents and bandits. The agency said the sus ...

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old mother of six, Sukurat Olajoke, for allegedly killing her one-month-old baby and dumping the corpse in the Ogun River. The suspect reportedly c ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Bauchi has awarded N210m against the Nigeria Police as compensation for torture leading to the death of two people and injury to the third person accused of stealing ch ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a Chadian, Vivien Tarmadji, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja while trying to board an Ethiopian airline en route to Addis Abab ...

Akwa Ibom State High Court 2, sitting in Ikot Ekpene, has found Prof. Peter Ogban guilty of an electoral offence and consequently sentenced him to three years imprisonment. The Independent National El ...

A man, Yusuf Saliu, has been arrested by policemen attached to the Mushin division of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing a police motorcycle. The 32-year-old suspect allegedly perpe ...

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested three suspected fraudsters who allegedly specialised in defrauding their victims by claiming to be spirits. A spokesman for the police in the state, SP Ga ...

A 500-level student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Adebowale Abiola, has been jailed for one year by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences ...

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered the immediate redeployment of CSP Francis Ani, the Divisional Police Officer, Onipanu Division, Police spokesman in the state, C ...

An apprentice, Chinemerem Ogbu, has died in the custody of policemen attached to the Trade Fair Division of the Lagos State Police Command. However, controversy is surrounding the circumstances of the ...

Four persons were reportedly killed and one admitted in hospital after renewed cult activities at Okija in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. No fewer than seven persons have lost thei ...

Several people were feared missing on Tuesday and many houses set ablaze in renewed boundary hostilities between the people of Ikot Offiong in the Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State a ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the extension of the deadline for National Identity Number, NIN by two months. Justice Maureen Onyetenu granted the extension while delivering a rulin ...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Monday, paraded no fewer than 132 suspects for alleged murder, cultism, stealing and impersonation of the Presidential Task Force, and swindl ...

A self-acclaimed foreign exchange trader, Nanpan Yaniyang, has been remanded by the Lagos State High Court for allegedly defrauding investors of N17,449,000 and $6,300. It was gathered that Yaniyang c ...

The Federal High Court in Kaduna has sentenced Collins Samuel to two years’ imprisonment for defrauding the United States of America of the sum of $8,000. He had pleaded not guilty to the one count bo ...

An 80-year-old chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Igangan, simply identified as Pa Olawuwo, has been arraigned in court over the killing of Dr Fatai Aborode. It was gathered on Thursday that ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced one Blessing Adunun to two years imprisonment for stealing by conversion to the tune of N238, 000.00. She was convicted on Fr ...

Gunmen on Tuesday killed a disc jockey, Adeyemi Bankole, in Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was gathered that the assailants accosted the 35-year-old in the Adesan a ...

The policewoman shot during an attack on the Isiala Mbano divisional police headquarters, Imo State, on Saturday, is dead. It was gathered that the victim died on Sunday at a hospital where she was ru ...

A carpenter on Shittu Bashiru Street, Isheri Oshun area of Lagos is on the run after he was accused of defiling an 11-year-old girl. The suspect, simply named as Wasiu, reportedly molested the girl on ...

Three suspected members of a robbery gang operating in Ayobo, Ishefu, Baruwa and Gowon Estate areas of Lagos State, have been nabbed for allegedly dispossessing a United Kingdom returnee and his neigh ...

Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday convicted a lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Abdullahi Opashola, and twin brothers, ...

Imo North Senatorial Seat: Court orders INEC to issue certificate of return to Ararume The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue ...

Over three weeks after he was kidnapped from his palace, gunmen who snatched the king of Ikuru town in the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State are demanding N5 billion ransom to allow him bre ...

The Ogun State Police Command said it arrested a 41-year-old lecturer in the Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, Dr Stephen Ukenna, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student ...

At least 15 members of three cult groups were arrested on Wednesday when the rival cultists clashed in the Ketu area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the fracas started when members of the Eye, Ai ...

A comedian, Franklin Ozuruigbo, has accused the Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Amara Iwuanyanwu, of allegedly brutalising him. Addressing journalists in Owerri, the state capital, ...

The Ogun State Police Command on Monday said it launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro campus, in the Yewa-North Local Government Area ...

A bank customer in Bayelsa State was on Monday saved by some residents and a team of policemen from being dispossessed of the sum of N10m cash by a gang of armed robbers. The incident was said to have ...

Men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested an ex-convict, Taiwo Sunmonu, for allegedly dispossessing unsuspecting members of the public of their valuables in the Ijanikin area of the state. T ...

The Benue State Police Command said on Sunday that it had arrested one person in connection with the killing of the wife of a retired Commissioner of Police, Mrs Eunice Aganya. She was killed in her r ...

Gunmen, who on Saturday shot dead six members of a family residing in a Fulani settlement near Wasinmi, along Ife-Ibadan Expressway, Osun State, called out the head of the family from a mosque, where ...

The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the 10-year jail term passed on a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who was convicted of criminal misappropriation and criminal breach of trust. Mr ...

Tragedy struck in Imo State on Tuesday after a man, Victor Ikegwuonu, 25, was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife’s lover, Emeka Ezuruike. It was gathered that the deceased allegedly caught Ezuruik ...

The Ekiti State High Court has sentenced a 45-year-old man, Mohammed Isiaka, to death by hanging for killing one Yakubu Jimoh. The court, however, discharged and acquitted two others – Ismaila Okoro, ...

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has sentenced a travel agent, Babawale Ponle, to two years’ imprisonment for misappropriating N10m worth of airline tickets. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, narrated before the Federal High Court in Abuja, how former Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, received N26million from the office ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected fake soldier, Johnson Godday, for allegedly robbing one Onyebuchi Nwanga of his valuables in the Ogudu area of the state. The state Police Publi ...

The police on Sunday arrested a former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, for allegedly breaking into a sealed property belonging to his wife. He will be charged on Monday, police sources said. Okor ...

A suspected armed robber, Ibrahim Fatai, who has been allegedly terrorising residents of Obada-Oko in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been arrested by men of the state police comm ...

A High Court sitting in Benin has sentenced to death by hanging a dismissed constable, Joseph Omotosho, who was attached to the defunct Special Anti-robbery Squad, Edo State Police Command. Four other ...

An Akwa Ibom Magistrates’ Court sitting in Uyo, on Wednesday, started afresh the trial of suspects in the alleged molestation and maltreatment of an 11-year-old JSS1 student of the Deeper Life High Sc ...

Forty-one suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Osun, Ogun and Plateau states. It was gathered that 10 of the suspects were ...

The family of Adanne Ochinachi-Opara has been thrown into grief as the daughter of a co-tenant, Favour Adindu, allegedly stabbed her to death during a scuffle at their place of residence in the Ejigbo ...

A Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has sentenced a pastor of the Living Faith Church, aka Winners’ Chapel, Afolabi Samuel, to three years’ imprisonment for stealing $90,000 and N4.5m belong ...

The police have begun the probe of a senior lawyer, Ndionyenma Nwankwo, in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Sunday by suspected assassins. The victim was a former Chairman of the Owerri branch of the ...

A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has sentenced two men, Moshood Ogunshola and Wasiu Lekan, to death by hanging. The convicts were arraigned before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya on two counts of conspiracy t ...

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Tuesday sentenced one Sa’adu Isa to two years’ imprisonment for dealing in petroleum products without a licence. Isa was convicted a ...

The executive of the Non-Academic Staff Multipurpose Cooperative Society, College of Education, Warri, have been arraigned before the Federal High Court in Warri over a fraud of N32m. They are the pre ...

In what appears to be its biggest catch in a long while, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested one Ukaegbu Onyekachi with a 3.30 kilogram of cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed Internation ...

A widow, Nike Adekola, is yet to recover from the shock of losing her husband, Suleman, who reportedly committed suicide by drinking a local insecticide in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. It was gathe ...

The residents of Oba Disu Faronbi Street and its environs in the Shasha area of Lagos State have lamented attacks by hoodlums in the community. The residents, who noted that a community ground in the ...

A father of three, Mr Emeke Ojere, has been shot dead by gunmen. The victim, who resided at the PTI axis of Warri, was shot in his car on Saturday at Ugbomro community in the Uvwie Local Government Ar ...

The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspected members of Eiye Confraternity for threatening to kill one Teslim Lateef who refused initiation into their group. The suspects – Olajide Shittu, 3 ...

No fewer than 13 suspected traffic robbers have been arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad for allegedly dispossessing members of the public of their valuables in the Oshodi and Ketu areas of La ...

A 28-year-old man, Chukwuemeka Obijiofor, has killed his wife and only child in Ozubulu, in the Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the suspect allegedly clubbed the ...

Two suspected cult members in the Ikorodu area of Lagos have been arrested following a clash that left one person dead and many injured. Our correspondent gathered that one of the suspects, identified ...

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested two suspected fraudsters, Emeka Akuma and Moses Asuquo, over fake bank alerts. A statement by the command’s Public Relations officer, Odi ...

Justice F. O. Riman of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Monday ordered the remand of one Inibehe Eden over a forex deal worth N6.2m. According to the EFCC, Eden collected the ...

The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 16 suspects in the Lekki area of the state for alleged Internet fraud. Some of the suspects are Habeeb Adebayo, Marc ...

The Ondo State Security Network Agency, aka Operation Amotekun, has arrested a 46-year-old man, Shina Adaramola, for alleged theft in Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. ...

The Police Command in Lagos State said it has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the clash between some youths in the Aguda area of Surulere on Sunday. This is contained in a statement made avail ...

Ten persons were feared dead on Monday when soldiers and Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Eastern Security Network (ESN) clashed in Okporo, Banana junction, Ogboosisi in Orlu Local Government Area. ...

Gunmen, on Sunday, ambushed a team of policemen in Rivers State, and in the process killed one of the cops and injured others before escaping with a police rifle. The incident, it was gathered, occurr ...

A graduate of Civil Engineering, Samuel Oteyowo, has bagged 14-months-jail-term for defrauding an American of the sum of N19.6m. Oteyowo was charged with a one-count amended charge of criminal imperso ...

Thirty-eight-year old Moses Keffi, an ex-employee of a second generation bank, who was arrested last Thursday on the Osu/Ile-Ife Expressway for armed robbery, has said he was invited by a friend, simp ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested three suspected armed robbers at a crime scene in Iju-Aga, Ajuwon, Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The suspects reportedly left Lagos State t ...

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded one Kingsley Nwachukwu in the custodial centre in the Rivers State capital for allegedly defrauding a medical doctor of N700,000. The 40-year ...

Three teenage Fulani herders arrested in Bauchi for allegedly gang-raping a girl in Itas/Gadau Local Government Area of the state have said they committed the crime to experiment what they saw in porn ...

No fewer than 13 suspects arrested in connection with traffic robberies around the Old Toll Gate and Ojota areas of Lagos State, are undergoing investigation at the State Criminal Investigation and In ...

The Oyo State Security Network Agency, aka Amotekun, on Thursday announced that it had begun investigations into the alleged killing of three youths by members of the security unit. Men of the securit ...

Unknown gunmen have kidnapped a yet to be identified couple along Akure-Owo Expressway at Uso community in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday evening. The victims were said to be trave ...

Reports emanating from the Nigerian Army through its media department indicate that troops have killed 220 bandits, rescued 642 kidnapped victims, foiled 167 banditry and 81 kidnapped attempts between ...

A suspected male prison escapee from Edo Prisons, Obehi Ogbeh, has been arrested in Ogun State. Ogbeh, who escaped from White House Custodial Centre in Edo State during the #EndSARS protest last year, ...

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said on Wednesday that seven suspects connected to the Deeper Life High School child molestation scandal had been charged. The suspects, including 45-year-old Ndidi ...

Two persons were feared killed on Sunday in a clash between two rival cults, the Aiye and Eiye confraternities, in the Igbogbo Bayeku areas of Ikorodu, Lagos State. It was learnt that the fight broke ...

A vigilante group and the Joint Task Force in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, on Sunday foiled a robbery operation in Oka 4, around First Page Hotel in Upper Sakponba, Benin City. ...

The Ogun State Government has announced the suspension of the Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, from office for alleged sexual harassment of an underage girl. The government said th ...

A trader, Christy Mmakwe, has lost her life after being stabbed to death by a suspected robber, Usman Shefiu, at her shop in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo, Lagos State.   Christy was in her shop whe ...

Abductors of a businessman in Ekiti State have demanded N10million as ransom. The kidnapped businessman,Happiness  Ajayi was abducted on Christmas day around 6pm at a bad spot on the Isan-Iludun-Ekit ...

A 30-year-old man, Abdulkadir Segi, has reportedly been stabbed to death during an argument over the detonation of a banger around a mosque in Ilorin, Kwara State, while the Muslim congregational pray ...

The Osun State Police Command, on Sunday, said investigation had commenced into the allegation that an 85-year-old man, Rafiu Abimbola, impregnated a 12-year-old girl at Isundunrin in the Ejigbo Local ...

No fewer than Sixty-six suspected criminals including kidnappers, bandits, armed robbers, gunrunners, and informants have been arrested by the personnel of the Nigerian Army Four Special Forces Comman ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has uncovered a plot by some suspected criminals to bomb selected public places in the country during the Yuletide period. In a statement, DSS spokesman, Peter A ...

The police in Imo State have arrested one Godwin Onumajuru, 61, and Chukwuemeka Agubosim, 41, for allegedly planting a human head in the house of their kinsman, Emmanuel Onuwa. The spokesperson for th ...

THE Senate has started a legislative process to enact a law that will legalise the activities of various hunter groups in Nigeria. The proposed legislation will put to rest the notion that the groups ...

A mother of three, Mrs Chinyere Uzowulu, has cried for help over the alleged vandalism of the family house by her husband, Chief Afam Uzowulu, who is a retired depot manager of the Nigerian National P ...

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested 15 suspects for vandalising and stealing high tension cables and other equipment in some parts of the state. Among those nabbed was a 41-year-old former drain ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested 32 persons for their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud. The suspects are: Anthony Nichol ...

A man said to be a member of the Oyo State Security Agency, popularly known as Operation Amotekun, has allegedly killed two persons in the Isale Osi area of Ibadan. The two victims were identified as ...

A trigger-happy police sergeant attached to the Elelenwo Police Division has shot dead a 38-year-old man, Abiodun Jimoh, in Elelenwo community, in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspects for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl and filming her nude. The suspects — Damilare Oyeniyi, 30, and Emmanuel Okori, 20 — reporte ...

Six children aged one to five year and one woman were killed on Saturday by some unidentified gunmen who attacked Kauru and Lere local government areas in Kaduna State, while several others were said ...

An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa, on Thursday, sentenced a 29-year-old mechanic, Sola Emorua, to death by hanging for armed robbery. The defendant was first arraigned before Justice Isiaka Ad ...

THE Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had secured the conviction of two lawyers, Sogo Akinola and Feranmi Akinluyi, for their involvement in fraudulent activit ...

Robbers have abducted a 10-year-old boy, Chimeremezie Izu, of No. 5 Kelvin Street, Core Area 4, GRA, Asaba, the Delta State capital. It was gathered that the young boy was taken away from his mother a ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspected members of a dreaded cult with the corpse of a young man suspected to be a cultist too. The suspects, Babatunde Shittu, 25; Ayobami Mo ...

The Imo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 165 suspects between the ages of 17 and 35 for dealing in drugs from January till now. It was gathered that 145 of the su ...

The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on Tuesday, rejected the post-conviction bail application filed by the Senior Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Prophet Israel ...

A Kwara state Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ilorin, on Monday, sentenced a church founder, Pastor, Gabriel Josaya, aka Eli-Wakuku, to four years’ imprisonment for dealing in human parts. Josaya, ...

The Oyo State Police Command said the Lebanese, who was kidnapped from the Panarama Farm, Mekun, Oke Alaro in Ibadan, had been rescued. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga F ...

Operatives of the Ogun state Police Command have arrested one Mrs Florence Ogbonna, who allegedly operates baby-making factories in the state. The command had recently busted two baby factories and fr ...

THE Nigerian Army yesterday gave more insight into the abduction of school children in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations (DMO), Major-General Jo ...

A businessman, Kelechi Mbagwu, has been arraigned before the Lagos State Special Offences Court for N25m fraud. Mbagwu was arraigned alongside his company, CMB Building Maintenance and Investment Limi ...

Some people have been picked up by the police in connection with the death of the late Lagos socialite, Dapo Ojora, it was learnt. It was learnt that the arrests were premised on suspicion surrounding ...

There is a ‘reasonable basis’ to believe that Nigeria’s security forces have committed various ‘war crimes’ while waging war against Boko Haram, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC ...

Tragedy struck in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Tuesday, after fleeing gunmen shot and killed two siblings. The victims, Ifeanyi Anyanwu, 47, and Tochukwu Anyanwu, 45, were shot dead at the back ga ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on Monday arrested two siblings and one other for an alleged attempt to kidnap their former employer. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbol ...

Two businessmen have been reportedly shot dead by hoodlums who invaded Igbe-Lara community, in the Igbogbo-Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Lagos State on Sunday. It was gathered that everyone ...

The Rivers State Police Command on Saturday sealed a brothel on Azikiwe Street, Mile 2, in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, where a 40-year-old man identified as Enuduisu Odili, died during a sex romp ...

A driver, Tigidam Bright, has been arrested for his complicity in the kidnapping of his boss’ wife, Mrs Gift Topba, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He was apprehended alongside two suspected kidnapper ...

Three members of the Indigenous People of Biafra arrested by the police for allegedly detonating explosives in Governor Nyesom Wike’s father’s church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have confessed tha ...

The Ondo State Security Agency Network, the Amotekun, on Wednesday, said it had arrested some persons in connection with the killing of the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel Adeusi. Oba Adeusi was shot dead ...

Four Lagos-based suspected cultists and two others have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command in Odogbolu. The suspects were arrested while allegedly making arrangements to purchase a ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, on Monday, sentenced a former Information Technology Manager at the Asaba branch of Access Bank Plc, Mr Onus Amahian, to five years’ imprisonment fo ...

A former Director-General of the Bauchi Geographic Information Service, Baba Suleiman, and one Yusuf Abubakar, were on Tuesday arraigned before the Bauchi State High Court for land fraud. The defendan ...

Fear has gripped residents of Umoh Obot Street, off Nto Akpan Inyang in the Ikot-Ikpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State following the alleged gruesome murder of one Eka Ime by her daughter, M ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today (Monday) re-arraign a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and six others, for an alleged fraudulent N544m gras ...

The police in Rivers State have arrested three suspects who allegedly detonated explosives at a Pentecostal church, Christian Universal Church International, located at Mile 3, Diobu area of Port Harc ...

A cleric, Rev Johnson Oladimeji, of Solution Baptist Church, Ikere Ekiti, was on Friday found dead in his car along Igbara Odo-Ikere Ekiti Road in Ekiti State. Sources, who said the incident might hav ...

A security source on Saturday claimed that no ransom was paid for the release of the wife of Chief Olugbenga Ale, the Chief of Staff to the Ondo State governor. Mrs Ale and one other person were kidna ...

A combined team of vigilantes, hunters and policemen on Thursday arrested two suspected kidnappers in Ibillo, in the Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. The two suspects were said to have ki ...

Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of Mr Olugbenga Ale, the Chief of Staff to Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. This happened while the state was mourning the death of the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel ...

A man, Emmanuel Aniefiok, has accused the pastor of a new generation church in Chococho, in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State of luring his wife to a guest house and raping her. Aniefiok ...

The Kaduna State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced two sisters, Maryam and Rukaiya Jallo, to 10 years’ imprisonment for stealing the sum of N1.7m. It was gathered that the siblings, who are the owners ...

There was pandemonium at the Agodi Gate area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, following a clash between some motorcyclists and warders at the Agodi Correctional Centre. The clash led to the burning o ...

A Federal High sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the Commanding Officer, Nigerian Navy Pathfinder, Rumuolumeni, Commodore Sam Bora, following his fai ...

The abductors of the wife of Dr Sunny Ojobor, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Delta State University, Abraka, have demanded a ransom of N10m before they can release h ...

Suspected kidnappers have abducted the wife and son of a security detail of former vice president Atiku Abubakar. The aide, a police officer, was reported to be the primary target of the attack. Howev ...

Nineteen-year-old Jemila Ibrahim and her friend, Fatima Mohammed, have been arrested by the personnel of the Lagos State Police Command for setting her ex-lover’s house ablaze at the Monkey Village, F ...

The Kaduna State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced two sisters, Maryam and Rukaiya Jallo, to 10 years’ imprisonment for stealing the sum of N1.7m. It was gathered that the siblings, who are the owners ...

There was pandemonium at the Agodi Gate area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, following a clash between some motorcyclists and warders at the Agodi Correctional Centre. The clash led to the burning o ...

The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit said it arrested one DSP Popoola Kayode and his team members for allegedly extorting N100,000 from a traffic offende ...

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old man for killing his two children with a cutlass in the Magama Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Abubakar Maidabo of Maidobo vil ...

There was pandemonium in Igbo-Ora in the Ibarapa Central Local Government of Oyo State on Thursday following a gun duel between smugglers and some security agents comprising soldiers and Customs offic ...

A joint military task force, codenamed Border Drill Operations, has raided a suspected smugglers’ den and impounded over 800 bags of rice in Unyenghe community, in the Mbo Local Government Area of Akw ...

The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Drug Law and Enforcement Agency has intercepted a 5,371kg of cannabis worth over N15 million. The State Commander, Ralph Igwenagu, on Wednesday, said the seizure ...

Gunmen on Tuesday killed 35-year-old lecturer at the D. S Adegbenro Polytechnic, Itori, Ogun State, Mufutau Waliu. It was gathered that Waliu, who was the Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic ...

Isaac Orisadeyi, the younger brother of the Commissioner for Special Duties in Oyo State, Mrs Funmilayo Orisadeyi, has been killed by gunmen. The 45-year-old was reportedly shot along Nihort-Idi-isin ...

An undergraduate, Austin Onyekachukwu, on Monday appeared before a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, over allegations bordering on impersonation and intent to commit fraud. The defenda ...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced two men to death for conspiracy and armed robbery. The court found the accused – Oke Olanrewaju (39) and Olanbiwonnu Kazeem (27) – guilty o ...

A five-man gang that specialised in carjacking in Ibadan, Oyo State, has been rounded up by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team. It was learnt that the police reco ...

There was confusion at the Bodija area of Ibadan on Sunday as fire gutted Grandex, a supermarket belonging to Florence, widow of the former Oyo State governor, the late Abiola Ajimobi. It was gathered ...

No fewer than 10 tenants have been hospitalised in various clinics in Afikpo, in the Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State after yet-to-be identified persons set their house ablaze on Sat ...

A magistrate in Abuja has remanded six detained protesters in custody on ‘trumped up charges,’ according to their lawyer. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that a small group of protesters were attacked ...

The immediate past Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, has returned to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the second round of interrogatio ...

Gunmen in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, have trailed and shot dead one of the commanders of a local vigilante group, the Khana Security Planning and Advisory Committee. The deceas ...

The family of a journalist with an online television station, Gboah TV, Pelumi Onifade, has demanded justice after he was allegedly shot dead by a policeman in the Agege/Gegetu area of the Agege Local ...

A bus driver, Mr Matthew Omonogor, has been killed by a motorist, Junior Ogbolu, in Ibusa, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the victim was killed on Mon ...

Three men were on Tuesday remanded in the Ilesa Custodial Centre in Osun State over alleged attack on the residence and farm of the lawmaker representing Osun West in the Senate, Mr Adelere Oriolowo. ...

Despite undergoing four different surgeries at the Critical Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Joy Eze, who was shot in the mouth by her police boyfriend, Eze Aiwansone, ...

The families of a cobbler, Kabiru Azeez, and an apprentice in a tailoring shop, Femi Orojo, have been thrown into mourning after policemen attached to the Pedro Police Station shot them dead. It was l ...

A pastor with the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Jos, Plateau State, has been reportedly released from the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents. The pastor, identified as Reverend Polycarp Zango ...

Robbery suspects arrested in connection with the attack on a bullion van and killing of four policemen in Ebonyi State in July have explained how their gang leader, one Clement Abanara aka Millions, p ...

The Police in Kaduna State have arrested 157 suspected kidnappers, bandits, looters of public and private warehouses and criminals in the state. Also arrested were members of the Islamic Movement in N ...

Five suspected cultists have been arrested in connection with the death of a 25-year-old man, identified simply as Sunday, in the Ifo area of Ogun State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abi ...

Gunmen have kidnapped the Chairman of Iganna Local Council Development Area, Oyo State, Mr Jacob Adeleke. It was gathered that the council boss was kidnapped alongside his driver on Sunday night on Ok ...

About five soldiers and four members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra have been feared dead after a clash in Oyigbo and other parts of Rivers State. This brings to seven the number of IPO ...

The Lagos State Government has said it will be prosecuting all suspected hoodlums arrested in connection with the mayhem unleashed on the state between Tuesday and Wednesday in the aftermath of Lekki ...

Sixteen operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad have been indicted for extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance in five states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Saturda ...

Meanwhile, the Police Service Commission has said  it will punish  any policemen indicted by the Presidential Panel on Reform of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad. According to a statement on Fri ...

he Ogun State Government has announced the prosecution of four cops allegedly involved in extrajudicial killings in the state. The policemen included Inspector Wasiu Lawal, Inspector Niyi Ogunsoro, In ...

Angry protesters on Wednesday killed the Divisional Crime Officer, DSP Augustine Ogbeche, and set ablaze a police station  in the Atan-Ota Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State . The pr ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Tuesday, arrested two ladies, Jumoke Ayodele and Opeoluwa Temitayo, for allegedly attempting to smuggle a substance believed to be ...

Armed thugs have overrun a popular business district in Jos, Plateau State, unleashing mayhem in the area. EndSARS protesters were not in the area and had never protested there since demonstrations ag ...

A prosecution witness, Kakwagh Ngunan, has disclosed to court how Olajide Omokore, a contractor, bought vehicles for Senator Bassey Albert after receiving N3bn contracts when he was Commissioner for F ...

After refusing to show up for the continuation of his trial, Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has issued a 21-day ultimatum to Senator Ali Ndume to produce Abdulrasheed Maina, form ...

Suspected hoodlums on Tuesday morning burnt down the Apapa Iganmu Police Station in Lagos State. The incident occurred around 09.45 am, according to an eyewitness. The eyewitness, identified simply as ...

A yet-be-identified man has been saved from committing suicide around the Ikoyi link bridge in Lagos State. After emergency responders got wind of the information, a team was reportedly deployed in th ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two members of a suspected armed robbery syndicate while carrying out an operation. The suspects, Olaitan Olushola, aka Toshiba; and Oluwajuwon Balog ...

‌The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it intercepted 2412.39 kilogrammes of various hard drugs in Oyo State within the third quarter of 2020, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. The Comm ...

Four persons have been kidnapped by gunmen who attacked Bungha community in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The gunmen were said to have robbed a woman whom they accosted on the way ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested 10 persons involved in the advertisement and sale of completed academic projects to students online. The suspects a ...

A 62-year-old security guard with the Federal University of Oye Ekiti, Mr Matthew Malik, has been killed on his farm at Oye Ekiti, in the Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. A son of the decease ...

The Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday sentenced one Bolaji Salami to prison for fraud. Salami was prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissio ...

As teeming youths across the country protest against police brutality, some Nigerians have lamented their unsavoury experiences and extrajudicial killings of their loved ones at the hands of operative ...

Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of one Alhaji Aliyu Mai-Yadi Charanchi and his three-year-old son in the Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State. Residents said the incident occurred around 12 ...

The police in Cross River State have raided a baby factory and rescued three pregnant women and two babies in the Akamkpa Local Government Area. The state Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Jimoh, led ...

The Federal Government has arraigned Dantata Success and Profitable Company and their promoters before the Federal High Court in Abuja for investment fraud amounting to over N2bn. According to a state ...

The gender-based unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Lagos Command, has arrested a 48-year-old man, Charles Ekwe, for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old-girl at No. 1B Surulere Street, ...

Hoodlums went on a rampage on Tuesday and destroyed vehicles parked on Ondo Street in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State. It was observed in a viral footage as the hoodlums stormed the street and used ...

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has arrested one Okon-Abasi Etim Okon, who absconded after allegedly murdering his wife by pouring acid on her. Okon, a resident of Mbiakpan Ikot Edim villag ...

A lawyer, Mr. Akinjide Isola, has petitioned the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) to stop alleged trespassers from encroaching on land owned by the late founder of First Foundation Hospita ...

Operatives of the Ekiti State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun corps have arrested a suspected kidnapper in Ifaki-Ekiti, Ido-Osi Local Government Area of the state. The Amotekun corps comman ...

The police in Ogun State have charged three #EndSARS protesters with attempted murder and vandalising a Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle worth N100 million. The three protesters – Adeniji Sodiq (25), Muta ...

A 24-year-old man, Felix Olayiwola, said to have been dismissed from the police, on Monday appeared before an Osun State Magistrates Court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly stealing a mobile phone and c ...

A Toyota Hilux van belonging to the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has been stolen in a hotel in Lagos State. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Oluwo, Alli Ibraheem, on Sunday titled ...

Tension has gripped the Evwreni community in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State as some armed youths have allegedly shot the immediate past President-General of the Evwreni Kingdom ...

A pregnant woman and two men have been arrested in Benin, Edo State, for alleged armed robbery. It was gathered that the gang’s mode of operation involved the woman feigning labour pains along busy ro ...

The police have launched an operation to rescue two brothers abducted on Tuesday by hoodlums at a farm in the Kabi area of Pegi community, Abuja. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Sunday Baba ...

The police in Abuja have arrested a man, Michael Obi-Ude, who allegedly invited his gang members to dispossess his neighbour of a huge sum of money. Obi-Ude and his accomplices were nabbed on Septembe ...

The Police Service Commission has approved the dismissal of 10 senior police officers and the reduction in rank of nine others. Those dismissed include Assistant Commissioner of Police Magaji Doko, Su ...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced the serial killer, Gracious David-West to death by hanging. Mr David-West was charged for the murder of several young ladies in differ ...

The Police in Rivers State on Wednesday said they have rescued a baby boy who was allegedly sold by his grandmother, while the suspect has been arrested. The child’s mother, Anthonia Joseph explained ...