An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Kabiru Dandibi,on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the police rescued about 400 people injured in the uprising of July 30, 2009; the day the late leader of the dreaded Boko Haram Islami...
The Benue State Police Command yesterday arrested eight occupants of a Toyota Bus, with registration number AE 710 KAL, at the premises of the newly reconstituted Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The boys we...
For the second day running, banks in Ibadan yesterday refused to open for business due to rumours that armed robbers planned to attack banks in the metropolis. Banks in Ibadan had on Wednesday shut down for business following rumours that two new gener...
Men of the Rivers State Police Command yesterday killed two suspected armed robbers during an exchange of fire with a gang of hoodlums in Gokana area of the State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the hoodlums, numbering about four and dressed in military camo...
A young lady, (names withheld), who was accused of attempting to kidnap two children yesterday, narrowly escaped being lynched by an angry mob in Wuse market. An eyewitness, Danladi Yakubu, said trouble started when two children - a boy, 4 years and a ...
Seven persons, including four policemen were under interrogation over the killing of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Uratta Police Station, Aba, Abia State, Mr Celestine Ozuruora. The Commissioner of Police confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeri...
All commercial banks in Azare town of Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi state have remained in lock and key following last Sunday’s armed attacks in the city. It could recalled that unknown gunmen had on the early morning of Sunday in...
The Army, yesterday, beefed up security at the Ojo Cantonment, Lagos, after a two-year-old daughter of a Lieutenant Colonel was allegedly abducted from the cantonment by suspected kidnappers Tuesday afternoon. Investigation by the News Agency of Nigeri...
Seven persons, including four policemen are under interrogation over the killing of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Uratta Police Station, Aba, Abia, Mr Celestine Ozuruora. Mr Bala Hassan, the commissioner of police, confirmed ...
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday killed Police Inspector,Mohammed Hanen at Gwange police barrack in Maiduguri. According to an eye witness, the suspected gunmen were three in number. “When they came to the barracks, they discovered that the police ins...
The Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abuja, Tuesday, sentenced a former Boko Haram spokesman, Ali Umar Konduga (a.k.a Al-Zawahiri) to three years imprisonment. Konduga had earlier pleaded ‘guilty’ to a two-count charge of felony, cri...
The House Committee Chairman on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Honourable Adams Jagaba, on Tuesday, advanced strong reasons for an enhanced funding of the activities and operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ja...
Kidnappers who stormed Opuoma Community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State penultimate week were said to have abducted a hunchback, Miss Stella Egbo and butchered her body for a suspected ritual purpose. An eye witness account tol...
It was a bloody day in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, yesterday, when gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, killed a policeman and four others at two different locations in the city. LEADERSHIP gathered that the hoodlums, who also wounded a ...
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and Anti-corruption, Mr Jagaba Adams Jagaba, has said that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) will continue to function at the nation’s sea ports.Thi...