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Rivers trader, Onyekwere gets N50m compensation over torture by police

Court awards N50 million compensation to Ifeanyi Onyekwere, a trader, over alleged torture by the Police in Port Harcourt
Dr. Olufemi Martins Thomas

$2m fraud: Ex-NHIS boss Thomas has case to answer – Appeal Court

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Thursday, September 30, 2021, dismissed the application filed by…
Police rescue four of the passengers abducted from commercial bus hijacked in the Omerelu axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri road, Rivers State

Suspected homosexual narrowly escapes death in P/Harcourt

Police rescue man from being lynched after he was allegedly caught in a homosexual act with another man in a…
fleeing POS agent Bolarinwa busted for stealing employer’s N400,000 

Fleeing POS staff Bolarinwa who stole N400K arrested

A 23-year-old Point Of Service (POS) agent, Musa Bolarinwa who allegedly stole his employer’s N400, 000 same day he was…
Dr. Abiola Idowu, HEFAMAA boss

Lagos shuts 99 health facilities for being substandard

Executive Secretary, HEFAMAA, Dr. Abiola Idowu disclosed this on Wednesday during a sensitisation campaign in Epe, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
Police

Suspected cultist Smart arrested for molesting female Tik Tok user

By Jethro Ibileke A suspected cultist simply identified as Smart, who allegedly molested a TikTok user (Perry1056), has been arrested…
Chike Akunyili: shot dead in Anambra

How Dr. Akunyili’s body was recovered: Police speak on tragic murder

 The police in Anambra have recounted how the body of Dr Chike Akunyili, husband of the late Director-General of the…
Nigerian

Kogi court sentences Shado to death for killing two women

A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja and headed by Justice Nicodemus Awulu on Tuesday, sentenced Danladi Shado from…
ICPC says all actions it has taken against former Governor Nasir El-Rufai were in strict compliance with the law, including ACJA 2015

War against bandits: Kaduna announces shutdown of telecom services

The Kaduna State Government on Wednesday announced shutdown of telecom services in some parts of the state, as it prepares…
President Muhammadu Buhari

Declare bandits as terrorists now: Senate tells Buhari

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare rampaging and deadly bandits as terrorists.
Police react to committal of I-G Usman Baba to prison over alleged refusal to obey court judgment reinstating a police officer, Patrick Okoli

Independence celebration: IGP assures maximum security

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, has assured the nation of maximum security as the nation marks the 61st…
Court sentences Lagos man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for forcefully having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend

Bus conductor Mufutau Kodri docked for attempted rape

A 22-year-old bus conductor, Mufutau Kodri was on Wednesday docked in a Badagry Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly…
Wema Bank Iragbiji after the attack

Osun bank robbery: Inspectors Ahmed, Ayinla confirmed dead

Police in Osun have confirmed the death of two Inspectors who tried to thwart a bank robbery on Tuesday in…
Two notorious bandits busted, 10 victims rescued in Katsina

Two notorious bandits busted, 10 victims rescued in Katsina

The Katsina State Police Command says it has arrested two suspected bandits, two informants and also rescued 10 victims of…
Criminals work alongside security operatives - NSCDC CG

How security operatives aid criminals operation – NSCDC boss

The Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Ahmed Audi, has said that criminal elements collaborate…
Illustration for an abused child

Dad beats 2-year-old son to death, flees

Women Lawyers under the aegis of Do Foundation, have vowed to pursue justice for the victim.
Sikiru Smith

Lagos police break silence on gunmen’s abduction of Air Vice Marshal Smith 

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it had deployed all its machinery to rescue retired Air Vice Marshal,…
Nigerian

Trial of top FIRS officials, ex-directors stalled over absence of a defendant

The trial of some top officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and two former directors before Justice Bolaji…
Manager

Housewife Fiddausi Bello remanded for murder of 4-day-old baby

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano, on Tuesday, ordered that a 30-year-old housewife, Fiddausi Bello, be remanded in correctional…

Hair dresser Maria Taiwo docked for slapping policeman

A 55-year-old woman, Maria Taiwo, was on Tuesday docked in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly slapping a policeman.
policemen

Gun-duel in Osun: Robbers raid bank, shoot policeman dead

A police officer was feared dead as suspected armed robbers on Tuesday attacked a first generation bank in Iragbiji, Boripe…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Sanwo-Olu orders Lagos CP to fish out killers of CSP Abonde

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu to fish out the killers of a…
Shiites protest in Abuja and the traffic jam caused, top left

Updated: Police, soldiers kill 8 Shiite protesters, arrest 42 in Abuja

DSP Josephine Adeh, the spokesperson for the police, said that the protesters who came from Niger, Bauchi, Gombe, Borno and…
NSCDC nabs 27-year-old man posing as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member to defraud parents, students with fake scholarship scheme

Anambra NSCDC nabs 4 with adulterated crude oil

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Anambra has arrested four persons allegedly conveying about 90,000 litres of…
fleeing POS agent Bolarinwa busted for stealing employer’s N400,000 

Suspected fraudsters Tersoo, Terver defraud POS operator in Benue

The Benue Police on Tuesday arraigned Torhile Tersoo, and Azua Terver, both 21-year-olds, before a Makurdi Magistrates Court 3B for…
the tanker fire in Rivers Tuesday

3 dead, houses gutted in petrol tanker fire

Witnesses said the driver of the petrol truck was trying to evade paying bribe at a police checkpoint when the…
Senate adopts the House of Representatives report on the establishment of the Nigeria Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2023.

Senate to FG: Consider N300bn fund for Emergency Intervention on roads

The Senate has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, consider an Emergency Intervention Fund to the…
L-R Tobi, Olujobi Victor and Akinrodolu

2 fake U.S. soldiers Akinrodolu, Tobi jailed for romance scams

Akinrodolu and George were jailed alongside Oluwajobi Victor, slammed with a separate charge of fraud by the Economic and Financial…
Gov. Inuwa Yahaya says his administration will continue to borrow funds to address development deficits in Gombe

Gombe Govt. stops salaries of 731 workers

Gombe State Government has suspended the payment of salaries of 731 workers for being absent from work in the month…
Mr Samuel Ben

Gunmen kidnap councillor in Akwa Ibom; third abduction in 3 weeks

Police on Tuesday confirmed the kidnap of Mr Samuel Ben, councillor representing Ward 6 Central in Eket Local Government Area…