The kidnapped High Court Judge of Delta State, Justice Marcel Okoh yesterday regained his freedom from the kidnappers’ den after spending over a week in their custody. Justice Okoh was kidnapped by unknown armed gunmen last Tuesday while travelin...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday said it had taken possession of an illegal oil bunkering vessel suspected to be carrying 300 metric tonnes of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil commonly known as diesel and its crew arre...
Hundreds of residents of a northeastern city were fleeing Tuesday after arrests by troops and rumours of new attacks by Islamist militants, prompting authorities to plead for calm. Residents of several neighbourhoods in the city of Damaturu accused tro...
A military raid, a shootout and an attack on police guarding a church in separate incidents in north left 24 dead, the latest violence in the restive region, officials said Monday. The deadliest of the incidents occurred in the northeastern city of Mai...
The Police on Monday arraigned Mohammadu Dankasa,75, of Life Camp, Abuja, before an Abuja Magistrates’ Court for alleged criminal breach of trust and cheating. Police prosecutor Sani Yusuf told the court that the matter was reported on Aug. 9 at ...
As part of efforts to ensure that those that manhandled LEADERSHIP photo Journalist Mr. Benedict Uwalaka are brought to book, the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has directed the salaried lawyers working in the Lagos Office of Public Defend...
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a suspected fraudster, Abiola Oladimeji, on charges that he duped an accommodation seeker N480,000 under the pretext of helping him secure an apartment. Oladimeji, 38, a residen...
An Ojo Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Friday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Idris Isiaka, who escaped during court proceedings into a trial on charge of theft. The prosecutor, Cpl. Friday Eze, made the application when he disco...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arraigned Keystone Bank PLC (former Bank PHB) and five others before Justice Habeeb Abiru of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, for conspiracy and fraud. The bank, which is the sixth defendant, Anayo Nw...
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) on Petroleum Products yesterday set fire to a tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of diesel believed to be adulterated at Ibangwa in Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The heavy duty truck with Adamawa regis...
No fewer than 139 prison inmates awaiting trial in six prisons across Niger State have regained their freedom as the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Jibrin Ndajiwo concludes the tour of the prisons to conduct on the spot trial of the cases. The...
The Enugu Police Command has apprehended a notorious criminal and serial killer who allegedly participated in the abduction of Professor Ben Mbah, the Provost, College of Education, Eha Amufu in Isiuzo Local Government Area of Enugu State. ...
More than 5, 000 drums, containing 225 litres of petroleum products each, were yesterday destroyed at Ikang, Bakassi local government area of Cross Rivers State, by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Calabar, the state capital. The products were seized from...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday described as “conflicting” separate suspects paraded by the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigerian Police allegedly behind the gruesome murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, the Princip...
A total of 33 victims of human trafficking have been rescued by the Uyo zone of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP). Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Uyo, the Zon...