The leadership of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has again dissociated itself from the various internet sites designed with its logo by criminal elements, with the sole aim of defrauding unsuspecting and desperate applicants seeki...
Gunmen on Saturday night, Opened fire on Mourners and killed at least 8 and injured scores in Kaduna Village.
The Gunmen Men who stormed Gida Village in Zango Kataf Local government of Kaduna State, stage the attack at about 11 pm last night.
A resident of the village told our correspondent that "I have counted 8 death bodies now."
"They stormed the village and went straight to the house of our late grand father who died last week, and started shooting at the people in the house who gathered to celebrate his life; our grand father lived a long life. They came with guns," he said.
Leaders of the Boko Haram group have dissociated themselves from the recent bombings, killings and burning of markets in some parts of Borno State. The organisation’s second in command, Shiekh Abu Mohammed Abdulaziz, told newsmen yesterday in Mai...
The Police on Saturday arrested no fewer than seven persons for allegedly assaulting policemen who were sent to monitor the monthly enviromental sanitation in the State. The incident occurred in Elite road,Idi-Aba,Abeokutanarea of the town,where ...
Following rumours making the round over plans by terror groups operating under the platform of the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Jama’atu Ansaral Muslimana Fi Biladis –Sudan to launch attack on Lagos, the state government has implor...
Not less that thirty-seven Civil Society groups in the six states of the Niger Delta at the weekend, offered to accompany the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, to the House of Representatives public hearing on the petition filed by th...
A week after suspected gunmen abducted seven expatriates working with SETRACO Construction Company in Jama’are local government area of Bauchi State and 60 days after the same fate befell a French engineer in Katsina State, security operatives in...
Indications emerged yesterday that aside the task of fishing out embattled chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina, whose whereabouts remain unknown, the Nigeria Police may have begun fresh probe into the certificates acquired by ...
Certainly, Mrs Nkemdilim Ilomuanya is currently having sleepless nights as the business she did with her niece has gone awry. Mrs. Ilumuanya allegedly sold her niece, Onyinyechi when she was just two years old to her friend, one Mrs Chinyere Nwangwu wh...
A 28-year-old man, Emeka Chimereze, who allegedly stole an hp laptop valued at N120, 000 was on Friday charged before an Apapa Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Emeka, who resides at Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge ...
A 45-year-old civil servant, Duru Olayinka was yesterday arraigned before the Upper Area Court, Gwagwalada, for criminal trespass and mischief, contrary to sections 342 and 326 of the Penal Code respectively. The police prosecutor, Modupe Musa, told th...
The Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Lagos, yesterday arraigned a 69 year old reverend, Simon Dike and three other persons before an Ebute-metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly selling a month and 18 days...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Abubakar Mohammed, told senators yesterday that he was prepared to place a ransom on the head of the fleeing chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, if that could help to apprehend. Bu...
A Police corporal was on Wednesday night feared dead over an attempt to rescue a Lebanese business man from being kidnapped by some unknown gunmen in Festac area of Lagos.
The gunmen numbering three, it was gathered, stormed an eatery located at First avenue at about 9.30 pm and made straight for where the owner, a Lebanese with unknown identity was.
During the ensuing scuffle between the kidnappers and Lebanese, the Police Corporal said to have been deplored to the eatery, sensed danger and intervened.
But he was taken by shock as one of the gunmen reportedly opened fire on him. During the ensuing gun battle, the Lebanese was said to have escaped by the whiskers.
Although an unconfirmed report said the Corporal died on the spot, with his riffle taken away by the kidnappers but, his intervention was said to have foiled the kidnap attempt on the Lebanese.
It was learnt that some customers at the eatery reportedly sustained minor injuries while scampering for safety.
Efforts to get the reaction of the Lagos State Police Public Relations officer, Ngozi Braide, as she was said to be granting an interview when she was called.
But Police sources at Area 'E' command headquarters, Festac town, simply confirmed that there was shooting at First avenue but
could not state whether any arrest was made.
The MMIA Command, Lagos, of the Nigeria Customs Service yesterday arrested a passenger with $1.1 million at the international wing of the Lagos Airport. The passenger, identified as Professor Ofoegbu Charles Ononuju, allegedly claimed to be the directo...