A 43-year-old man, Daniel Folorunsho, on Thursday told a Grade ‘A’ Customary court in Ojo, Lagos that his wife was engaging in adultery, under the guise of attending church vigil. Daniel, who is resident in Oke-Afo village on the Lagos-Bada...
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and arrested 86 illegal squatters, food vendors and aliens in the area. The exercise was carried out base...
Nigerian forces swept through the remote northeast on Wednesday, searching houses for suspected Boko Haram militants after killing four in a gun battle, the military said. The crackdown on the group in its heartland of Maiduguri followed a spate of att...
The State Security Service (SSS) on Tuesday in Lagos announced the arrest of six persons in connection with the alleged production of fake vehicle licences. Parading the suspects before newsmen at the SSS headquarters at Magodo, the State Director, Mr ...
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram militants on Monday shot dead two men near their homes behind the railway quarters in Maiduguri, witnesses said in Maiduguri on Tuesday Witnesses said the victims, suspected to be retired prison officers, were shot whi...
The Police in Nasarawa on Tuesday confirmed the killing of a suspected motorcycle snatcher by irate youths on Monday at Ajaga village in Nasarawa Local Government Area. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Cornelius Ocholi, told the News Agency of N...
A 41-year-old mother and her two daughters were on Tuesday arraigned before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding a man via the internet. The accused are Esther Okuinosa, Founder and Pastor, Peace of the God Word Gos...
A Kaduna Upper Customary Court on Monday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to one Julius Olaitan of Ugwar Rimi quarters, Kaduna to return his eight-year-old girl, Kemi Olaitan, to school. Mrs Yemi Olaitan of the same address, told the court in a suit sh...
An abduction claim this week by al-Qaeda's North Africa branch of a German hostage in north Nigeria shows the Nigeria is now dealing with threats from two terrorist groups. The group known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the January kidn...
The wife of Sen. George Sekibo, representing Rivers East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has been kidnapped in Port Harcourt. Sekibo’s wife, Mrs Asime George-Sekibo, was kidnapped on March 22 along East-West road while returni...
One week after a middle-aged man, Musa Inua, caused a stir within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja, after he climbed a telecommunications mast with the intent to commit suicide over an alleged N15 million debt, owed him by former Vice-Pr...
Four persons were feared dead when persons suspected to be armed robbers, Wednesday, raided Dankama market, a local border market in Kaita local government of Katsina State, and allegedly carted away undisclosed sums of money. The Dankama market, which...
The New Commissioner of Police, Niger State Command, Mrs Diseye Desire Nsirim has said that there would be no sparing of criminals and criminal activities as the command arrested 41 hoodlums at black spots in Suleja within one week of her assumption of...
Dare-devil armed robbers, yesterday, resumed their gruesome operation in Ekpoma, Edo State after some break, killing one person and carting away undisclosed huge sum of money. The robbers, numbering about 10, attacked two commercial bank for about 30 m...
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday gave a directive to all police commands across the country to establish Special Protection Units (SPU) to take charge of bank security. The directive is aimed at...