The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said on Monday it impounded fake drugs worth N5 million at the Carpentry Section of Bridge-Head Wood Market in Onitsha, Anambra. The Deputy Director in charge of the agency's...
The acting inspector general of police Mohammed Abubakar, who confirmed the incident in a statement signed by the deputy force public relations officer, CSP Frank Mba, has warned perpetrators of the killings to desist forthwith, saying the police...
Attempts to involve the Speaker of the House of Representatives, AminuWaziriTambuwal, in the $620,000 bribery allegation against the former chairman of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating the Management of Fuel Subsidy, Ho...
Reprisal attacks after the bombings led to the death of over 50 people with scores injured and property worth millions destroyed in Kaduna. LEADERSHIP correspondents who visited some of the scenes confirmed that a number of Achaba (motorcycle) riders a...
A frontline member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kabba/Bunu local government of Kogi State, Aliu Raphael Olorunpomi, was on Saturday abducted by five armed men who stormed his Happy Hour Parks & Garden in Kabba, Kogi State. Olorunpomi&rs...
Hundreds of youths took to the streets in Trikania and Gonin-Gora areas of the Kaduna metropolis, protesting against the bomb blast near Shallom Church of God in the Trikania neighbourhood. Several people, who were wounded in bomb attack, are now re...
A middle-aged woman, Mrs. Chinaza Nede, has been arrested by the police in Ebonyi State for allegedly killing her nine-year-old son. Nede, a widow, is helping the police to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of her son, Olisaemeka, whose body wa...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday carried out an early morning raid of the Abuja residence of former Bayelsa State governor, Timiprie Sylva’s brother-in-law and another top associate of the governor, leading to their a...
The clash between two factions of a youth group on the Bukuru road in Jos on Wednesday left five people seriously injured, the military Special Task Force (STF), has said. The STF Spokesman, Capt. Salisu Mustapha, told newsmen on Thursday in Jos that t...
A 74-year-old man, Mallam Danazimi Kawo of Bujun Kasuwa village in Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State said he lost all his properties in the recent attack on the village by suspected Bachama people from Ramurde Local Government Area ...
Four persons were killed along Bauchi road and Bukuru in Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday as security operatives moved to enforce the law banning commercial motorcycle operations, popularly called ‘okada’ in the state. ...
Gunmen have shot dead six persons at Rimin Kebe in Tudun Murtala, Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. An eye witness told NAN in Kano on Tuesday that the incident, which happened at about 10:00 p.m on Monday,...
Family members of Super Eagles Player, Christian Obodo, who was kidnapped last Saturday in Warri, Delta State have said that they did not pay any ransom to the kidnappers. This was just as they said that he escaped when his abductors took him out to ea...
The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) yesterday distanced itself from a report by an online media alleging that the ICPC had begun investigation of Mrs. Farida Waziri, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC)...
Some unidentified gunmen Saturday morning reportedly killed a custom officer and a member of the State Security Services [SSS] operative in Kano metropolis, Police in Kano have confirmed. An eye witness told our correspondent that the incident happened...