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Explosion rocks Kaduna

Explosion rocks Kaduna

An explosion, suspected to be an Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) occurred in Kabala West area of Kaduna South Local Government…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with his shoe-designer, OJBest Footwears

Osinbajo’s shoemaker OJBest is dead

According to reports, the young designer was receiving treatment at a hospital before he was moved to a church for…
35-year-old Ladi Anndu found dead in Jigawa

35-year-old Ladi Anndu found dead in Jigawa

The Jigawa Police Command has confirmed the death of a 35-year-old woman, Ladi Anndu, after being attacked by an unknown…
Court sentences Kwara civil servants over failure to produce 'Yahoo boys'

EFCC busts three suspected internet fraudsters in Gombe

A statement issued by EFCC's spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Sunday, said two of the suspected scammers, Kenan Miracle and Charles…
Ayomide

NDLEA intercepts Heroin, others being exported to US, UK, Canada

A statement issued by NDLEA's spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday said various quantities of Heroin and other illicit drugs were…
Gunmen abduct BEDC driver in Ondo, demand N10m

Gunmen invade Niger villages, kill 3 residents

A detachment of police tactical squad and the military have been deployed to the area and have launched a manhunt…
The seized tramadol and Euros cash

Huge quantity of Tramadol, 809,850 Euros intercepted at Lagos airport

NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday said at the Skyway Aviation Handling Company cargo warehouse at the…
CP Ayuba Elkana of Zamfara Police Command

Security operatives rescue 7 Niger kidnap victims in Zamfara forest

A joint police and military operation successfully rescued the affected victims during a coordinated bush clearance around the Dansadau axis…
policemen

Police rescue 11 kidnapped victims in Abuja

She said the victims, kidnapped on Feb. 17, were rescued on Saturday following prompt response by operatives of the command…
Mayokun Lawson-Alade

APC candidate Lawson-Alade wins Akure Reps seat[ Results at a glance]

According to INEC result portal, 407 of the 408 results from polling units have been uploaded.
Pastor Peter Omope with the gun and the ammunition he was arrested with

Ogun cleric Peter Omope arrested for attempted murder

Omope was arrested at his place of worship at Olambe Junction in Akute area of Ogun State.
The arrested suspects and the drugs seized from them

NDLEA raids Lagos Island drug den, smashes female kingpin, 6 others

The agency also recovered 5,862 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs, including Loud and Codeine in a raid on Saturday 26th…
Kidnapper caught while collecting ransom from victim's parents

Serial kidnapper of children Sunday Alani busted in Ogun

Ajani told the police that that he had previously stolen two children from Egbeda in Lagos and Akute area of…
Ovie Oktogbo; arrested by the police in Edo for defiling young boys

Teenage boy sexually abused by security man, dies in Edo

The suspect, a 43-year-old father of three and resident of No. 15 Ugboguhi Street Off Uwasota, Ugbowo, Benin City, was…
Gunmen kidnap 19 INEC staff, cart away election materials

Gunmen open fire at mourners at funeral service in Anambra

The 34-year-old man whose funeral was holding at the time of the incident was killed on Dec. 30, 2021, also…
Court sentences Lagos man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for forcefully having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend

Harrison Ezekiel jailed 6 months for stealing

Ezekiel on January 24 2022, went to Agric market, Odunade, Amukoko and entered a shop owned by the complainant, Ajayi…
Nwonwu

Alleged N.9m fraud: Lagos businesswoman drags worker to court

Wenike reported that her sales representative, Ihusal sold goddess cream, platinum cream, premium cream and other cosmetics and soap in…
Getaway cars abandoned by the Uromi robbers in Ubiaja

Uromi robbers abandon N37M, five getaway cars

Mr Phillip Ogbadu, the Commissioner of Police said that about N37 million and five cars suspected to have been used…
Nigerian

Lagos women docked for allegedly selling poisonous salt to public

By Paul Iyoghojie The Police at the Area ‘B’ Command, Apapa, of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested two…
Strokes of cane

Kano boy Abdulsalam gets 12 strokes of cane for receiving stolen phone

Abdulsalam attacked and stole the cell phone from Isma’il and later sold it to the second defendant at a give-away…
Evans

Breaking: Kidnap kingpin Evans, two others sentenced to life imprisonment

Evans and two others were found guilty of the kidnap of Mr Donatius Dunu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of…
Rev. Fr. Gabriel Ekpe,

Catholic Priest bags 12 years in jail for child sex abuse

He was said to have abused children and adolescents over many years, his youngest victim was a 9-year-old girl.
Evans

Breaking: Billionaire kidnap kingpin Evans, two others convicted

In a three-hour judgment on Friday, Justice Hakeem Oshodi also convicted two of Evans’s co-defendants, Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.
Mr. Nyong Effiong Major

ICPC charges retiree Effiong Major with pension fraud

Effiong Major was charged before Justice H. Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court 27, sitting in Abuja,…
Hajiya Fatima Alhaji charms supplier

Hajiya Fatima supplying charms to bandits arrested

“She is an abettor, an informant and also a supplier of charms to bandits terrorising the state and its environs",…
Kogi governor Ahmed Ododo says his administration's efforts to combat crime are yielding fruits with recovery of 53 stolen transformers

Cable thief electrocuted in Rivers

The incident happened inside the Judicial Staff quarters, beside the Choba Magistrate Court.
First Bank, one of the banks the robbers operated

Update: Two policemen, five others shot dead as robbers attack four banks in Edo

Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four…
Gunmen abduct BEDC driver in Ondo, demand N10m

Breaking: Sporadic shootings as robbers attack four banks in Edo

According sources in the town, the affected banks are Zenith Bank, First Bank, Unity Bank and the United Bank for…
Momojimoh Abdulmalik

Ex-First Bank cashier Abdulmalik to rot in jail 10 years for stealing

The defendant was arraigned on an amended two count charges of stealing over N9 million from the bank by the…
Oyo Govt seals Premier Hotel

Oyo Govt. shuts Premier Hotel, Event Centre, 80 shops

Oni further emphasized that the enforcement would continue to take place lest people understood the need to take care of…