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 ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday sentenced a hacker, Eric Obulo, to one-year imprisonment for hacking into the database of a commercial bank and defrauding it ...

Some youths, under the aegis of the Gavel, a non-governmental organisation, stormed the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja on Wednesday to reject the Inspector-General of Police, Mohamme ...

The Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Joseph Nworhabiko, aka Joseph Azunda, and three others before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State High Cou ...

An Ondo State High Court has sentenced the founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Pastor Samuel Babatunde, also known as Alfa Babatunde, to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a one-year-old b ...

A 15-year-old boy and three others on Tuesday were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for escaping from police custody in Osun State. The defendants, arraigned on three counts of escape from lawful ...

The Ekiti State Police Command on Tuesday arraigned a 25-year-old woman, Adenike Olofin, before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for an alleged fraud of N384,000.The police prosecutor, Caleb Lera ...

About 15 firms dealing in mobile phones and accessories, computer software and hardware, and operating in the country’s most popular computer market, Lagos Computer Village were named in leaked suspic ...

An Ekiti State Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, ordered the remand of three men in a correctional centre for allegedly exhuming 10 corpses and severing their heads for ritual ...

Suspected armed robbers, on Monday, invaded the residence of a Catholic priest in Makurdi, Benue State, Rev. Fr. Solomon Ukeyima, and robbed him.The priest, who is in charge of the St. Augustine’s Par ...

An investigative panel set up by the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, to investigate the treatment of Seyi Adebowale, an operative of the Department of State Service ...

A 47-year-old suspected fake lawyer, Tajudeen Idris, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for posing as a legal practitioner. The suspect was arrested on Friday at Magistrates’ Co ...

The Delta State Police Command and the state government have debunked the online video allegedly showing operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad shooting a man to death in Ughelli. The Command sa ...

A 46-year-old man, Michael Nwoha, has been arrested for allegedly sodomising three underage boys in Anambra State. The incident happened on Uke Street, 3-3 Nkwelle Ezunaka, in the Oyi Local Government ...

The Duruji family in Izombe community in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State has demanded justice for its son, Charles Duruji, who was allegedly hacked to death at the New Heaven Divisional P ...

The meeting between the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu yesterday was responsible for the banning on the controversial activities of the Special Anti-R ...

One person has been confirmed dead, while a retired police inspector sustained injuries during a clash between two rival cults suspected to be Debam and Iceland confraternities. The incident reportedl ...

The Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi has lent his voice to the #EndSARS campaign seeking an end to the operations of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS). The #EndSARS ...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 47-year-old security man, Adamu Ibrahim, for allegedly hiring area boys to rob his employer. However, the area boys, Ajibola Yusuf and Bakare Ifaka ...

Eight-year-old Chiamaka Oha is battling for her life at the General Hospital, Uga,  Anambra State, after she was allegedly bathed with hot water by her employer, Ogochukwu Anichukwu, for licking her b ...

Crack detectives from the Kano State Police Command, on Saturday, arrested a 26-year-old housewife, Hauwa Habibu, who allegedly stabbed her two biological children to death in Kano. In a press stateme ...

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has claimed he caught his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu, in bed with a married man. Fani-Kayode disclosed this in a Tweet on Saturday while reacting ...

An officer in the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Sunday Dada, has been detained for shooting an operative of Department of the State Services, Seyi Adebowale, whil ...

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom has confirmed the killing of six suspected armed robbers who specialised in car snatching in Akwa Ibom and Cross River States. The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Polic ...

An 18-year-old, ThankGod Joseph, has been remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly killing his 40-year-old father. Joseph was brought before a chief magistrates’ court in Markurdi, Benue State, ...

The police in Ekiti State said on Saturday that they have recovered three vehicles allegedly used by the armed robbers who attacked the WEMA Bank branch at Iyin Ekiti in the Ifelodun Irepodun Council ...

There was tension in Rivers State on Thursday as some hoodlums reportedly attacked and killed a policeman in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state. The slain police officer, whose identity had ...

A kidnap kingpin, Mohammed Sani, has narrated how his gang murdered over 50 of their victims whose families could not pay ransom. Sani, who was paraded on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer ...

Babagana Abatcha has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court for fraud to the tune of N9m. He was arraigned on one count of criminal breach of t ...

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court has sentenced one Allen Abel to 125 years’ imprisonment for fraudulently defrauding a company, Lele Foresight Construction Company, to the tune of ...

Men of the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday attacked a photojournalist with The PUNCH, Olukayode Jaiyeola. He was part of the journalists covering an October 1 protest in the state but was bruta ...

There was pandemonium at Umusume community, Obiaruku, in the Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State on Tuesday as residents discovered the lifeless body of a young lady. A news media, Punch News ...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, sentenced a 29-year-old cultist, Gbenga Aluko, aka Cherry, to death by hanging for masterminding the killing of some members of another cult ...

Gunmen suspected to be members of a cult, on Sunday, invaded a Pentecostal church in Inen Ikot Esse community, Oruk Anam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, and shot one of the elders. The hoodl ...

The Asale of Isale kingdom, Oja-Odan, in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Ganiyu Adegbola, has expressed fears of possible reprisal by the residents following the alleged killin ...

A former employee of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Oreoluwa Adesakin, has been handed a cumulative 98 years in prison on Monday. Adesakin was found guilty of stealing N49,320,652.32 and another $368, ...

For the third time in less than two months, Babagana Zulum, the embattled  governor of Borno State, has been attacked by terrorists, with the obvious intention to stop him dead or alive. In all of the ...

Women from four communities of Nkpoghoro, Ugwuegu, Ohaisu and Itim, in the Afikpo North Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, on Monday, marched through the streets of Afikpo town to protest against ...

Controversy has trailed the death of a singer, Richard Dayom, who was allegedly crushed to death by a police patrol van in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Dayom was coming back f ...

The Kano State Police Command on Monday arraigned a fake lawyer, Dahiru Adamu, a resident of Kurna Quarters in the metropolitan city at a magistrate’s court for impersonation. The police prosecutor in ...

A couple and two others have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for being in possession of a suspected human skull. The couple, Niyi and Remilekun Folorunso, were arrested alongside ...

Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan on Monday sentenced one Adeniran Adesina, aka Bella Danner, to six months’ imprisonment after finding him guilty of obtaining money under ...

Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, on Monday sentenced a fraudster, Tunde Martins, to seven years’ imprisonment for N30m fraud. The convict had obtained the said sum as ...

The Abia State Government has announced a cash reward of N2.5m for any person or group that provides information that will lead to the arrest of those involved in the attack on the military and police ...

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have kidnapped a Catholic priest, Revd. Fr. Jude Onyebadi, the Parish Priest of St Peter and Paul Catholic Church, from his farm situated on Isele-Uku/ Issele-Mkpetime ...

The Ogun State Police Command, on Sunday, said it had arrested no fewer than eight members of Black Axe Confraternity, a dreaded cult group, around Ogijo area of the state while mourning one of their ...

The embattled chairman of Signatious Hotel and former Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, has indicated his interest to honour police invitation over allegations of torturing his for ...

Among the major economic activities disrupted by the insurgency in Lake Chad are commercial fishing and farming of red pepper. These were major trading products upon which the local economy of a vast ...

A general court martial (GCM) has sentenced Master Warrant Officer Michael Oyebanji to 21 years in jail for criminal breach of trust, theft, conspiracy and misappropriation of #41 million. Oyebanji, w ...

The death has been announced of a 70-year old grandmother who died at the Plateau State Specialist Hospital on Saturday as a result of injuries she sustained when the motorcycle conveying her was alle ...

Four days after Col. D.C. Bako was killed by a Boko Haram  ambush in Borno State, another convoy of government officials made up of 15 security personnel and many civilians have been killed by an ...

The agelong boundary dispute between the people of Izzi LGA of Ebonyi State and Obubara LGA of Cross River State degenerated into violence on Thursday, claiming two lives, 3 missing and many others in ...

The Oyo State Government said that it has arrested a man, Adeyemi Agboola, in Oyo town for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting applicants seeking recruitment into the state security network, codenamed A ...

A female corp member serving in Anambra State, Akinlabi, has accused men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state of invading her privacy at 2:00 am, September 17 while assaulting her. The polic ...

Few days after four former employees of the chairman of Signatious Hotel and Nigeria's former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, accused him of torture, extortion and threat to life, anot ...

Confusion reigned supreme in Ikogbo community in Ado-Odo/Ota LGA of Ogun State on Wednesday as police clashed with suspected land grabbers. Two persons were killed, many injured while properties worth ...

An Ibadan-based school proprietress, Motunrayo Olasebikan, was on Thursday arraigned before the Oyo State High Court over alleged involvement in a visa scam. Olasebikan was arraigned alongside one Abi ...

A top Boko Haram Commander has surrendered alongside his four wives to troops of the Nigerian Army. Also, seven bandits have been killed and eight kidnapped victims rescued from bandits at Fankama and ...

Four former employees of Signatious Hotel, Warri, Delta State, who were reportedly stripped on the order of the chairman of the hotel and former Minister of State for Education, Mr Kenneth Gbagi, have ...

The Zone 13 Police Headquarters in Ukpo, Anambra State, has arrested one Izuchukwu Nwabueze for allegedly defrauding an Anglican bishop and 10 others. It was gathered that Nwabueze, a relation of an o ...

A 30-year-old man, Onyinye Onwuka, has been shot dead following a land dispute between the Obodogwugwu and Ugbolu communities in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathere ...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has said it will investigate the alleged murder of one Ifeoma Abugu, a graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu. The spokesman for the ...

The Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced one Imole Oluwasegun to six months’ imprisonment for being involved in an Internet scam. It was gathered that Oluwasegun was arres ...

Three persons were feared killed, while two others sustained injuries during a joint security operation in some communities in the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State on Sunday. It gathered t ...

Angry youths have taken to the streets to protest the death of a musician, Daniel Chibuike, aka Sleek, who was shot dead by a policeman in the Elelenwo area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gath ...

Five employees of the Local Government Pension Board, Bauchi State, have been arrested for alleged criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, misappropriation, forgery and fraud amounting to N21, 580,000. ...

A businesswoman, Mrs Uju Ohanenye, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the alleged involvement of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 13, Dammala ...

A divisional police headquarters at Gidan Madi in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State was attacked by gunmen with two officers killed on Thursday, the police said. Tangaza is a border commun ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, yesterday, re-arraigned Alice John and her lover, Fadi Alloush, before Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, ...

Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has vowed to prosecute all those involved in the collapsed building that took place yesterday. One person was killed, many injured while some more were trapped ...

The remains of Lance Corporal Benjamin Collins have been laid to rest by the Nigerian Army. The deceased was reportedly tortured to death by three senior officers at the Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, in ...

As calls for the withdrawal of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) from the Attorney General of the federation, Abubarkar Malami heightens, the  Body of Benchers, which admits Nigerian l ...

In its renewed efforts at ridding Lagos State of all forms of criminality, the state police command has arrested 17 hoodlums terrorising residents of Orile Iganmu and environs. The suspects were arres ...

In a unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, the conviction and sentencing to 14 years imprisonment imposed on Apostle Basil Princewill by a lower court has been upheld. The pasto ...

A 33-year old operative of the Department of State Services (DSS), Sadiq Bindawa, has been murdered by suspected kidnappers in Katsina State. The kidnappers reportedly collected #5 million ransom from ...

The lawmaker representing Gokana Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Dumle Mao, says his people are excited over the arrest and consequent death of a serial killer and notorious k ...

The Ogun State Police Command on Monday said it arrested some hoodlums who allegedly beat a yet-to-be-identified police constable to death in Dalemo, Sango, in the Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area of ...

A yet-to-be-identified suspect is on the run after allegedly shooting one Kayode Oloruntoba in the stomach at a food joint in the Alagbado area of Lagos State on Friday. Efforts to save Oloruntoba by ...

Tears flowed on Umesi Street, Ado Ekiti, residence of a director in the Ekiti State Local Government Service Commission, Mr David Jejelowo, who was killed by gunmen around 1am on Monday. As sympathise ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested two lecturers at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, and 28 others over their alleged involvement in Internet f ...

Suspected kidnappers on Monday attacked two buses conveying 26 Federal Road Safety Corps officials at Udege Junction along Mararaba-Udege, in the Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, killing ...

The Rivers State Police Command, on Wednesday, arrested a 38-year-old man identified as Uchenna Tobias in the Elekahia community, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for allegedly defiling his three daughter ...

Gunmen, on Thursday, abducted 20 residents of Tungan Maje village, a community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Niger State. The hoodlums reportedly stormed the village and kidnapped about ...

A Dubai-bound passenger, Ishaq Abubakar, has been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission following his arrest with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine cards and four Subscriber Identif ...

The ongoing trial of the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Magu took a new turn yesterday as the  Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) Abubaka ...

Policemen attached to the Zonal Investigative Bureau, Zone 2 Command, have been accused of torturing a land agent, Yemi Taiwo, to death for allegedly planning to abduct a monarch in Lagos State. PUNCH ...

The Delta State Police Command has arrested a pastor in Onicha-Olona, Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state for allegedly extorting the sum of N550,000 from a woman. It was gathered that th ...

The Imo State University, Owerri, has set up a committee to investigate the authenticity of the footage circulating on the Internet in which the Head of Department of Biochemistry of the institution, ...

After several months of being accused of rape, molestation and abduction of a beauty queen, Elizabeth Oyeniyi, the Nigeria Police Force has concluded plans on the arraignment of Abdulmumuni Danga, Kog ...

The Deputy Country Senior Partner, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Nigeria, Tola Ogundipe, is dead. The late Ogundipe went missing on Saturday while boating on a coast near Lagos. His corpse was found on Mo ...

Dreaded militia leader Terwase Agwaza (alias Gana) has been killed in Benue State. He had on Tuesday surrendered to the government along with 172 other suspected criminals, but it was gathered that so ...

By Osaze Omoragbon When the history of Nigeria's ‘destruction’ will be written, the elite will feature prominently. The controversy generated by the P&ID case clearly demonstrates the view that pr ...

The Nigerian military has said it and other security agencies will continue to ensure ‘effective surveillance’ of Abuja and its neighbouring states to prevent an attack by Boko Haram. It has been over ...

There was confusion at the Ikokwu Motor Spare Parts Market in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Sunday, after traders clashed with the police following an attempt by a yet-to-be-identified investor to d ...

Scores of residents were, on Monday, trapped in an Imo State community following a landslide that occurred in the area. The landslide, which occurred on Saturday on Trinity Street, Akwakuma, in the Ow ...

The Nigerian Navy has apprehended four accomplices of a rating, Awosanya Olufemi, who were involved in the alleged torture and killing of a peacemaker, Collins Osagie. A spokesperson for the Western N ...

The Nigerian officials that colluded with P&ID in relation to the $10bn judgment obtained by the British Virgin Islands firm, Process and Industrial Development, against Nigeria will not go unpuni ...

Suspected hoodlums and land grabbers on Sunday invaded Isiu palace in Ikorodu, Lagos State. Oba Okukayode Raji was reported to have been given the staff of office by Lagos State Commissioner for Speci ...

At least, three persons died in multiple road accidents that occurred in Akungba Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was gathered that the crash was caused by a truck that ...

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami  has said that ongoing investigation has revealed that about $301 million was given as under-hand dealings to some perso ...