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More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many more attempt it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The Director-General of WHO Tedros Ghebreyesus is calling for “shifting the narrative” on the issue “to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma and foster compassionate conversations.” Speaking on the World Suicide Prevention Day, which is marked ...
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, has remanded alleged fake lawyer, Oruhu Emmanuel Odey for impersonation, fraud, stealing, and forgery. Odey, who was recently arrested by operatives from the office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone XI, Osogbo, was brought before the courton a four-count charge presided by Magistrate, Dr. ...
The Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of twenty-one internet fraudsters before the Federal High Court in Ibadan, presided over by Justice Uche Agomoh, and several judges of the Oyo State High Court, including Justices O.S. Adeyemi, Ladiran Akintola, R.B. Olawoyin, O.S. Adeniyi, O.A. Adetujoye, M.O. ...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Area 2 Command, has intercepted 20 containers of illicit drugs valued at more than N13.5 billion ($17.5 million), in what officials described as a major breakthrough against counterfeit pharmaceuticals entering the country. Outgoing Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Babandede, disclosed the seizure during a press briefing in Onne on Wednesday, shortly before ...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected a bail application filed by five men accused of carrying out the Owo Catholic Church massacre that left more than 40 worshippers dead. Justice Emeka Nwite, ruling on Wednesday, held that the charges were capital offences and that the evidence presented by the Department of State Services ...
The 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has condemned the killing of traders, including a pregnant woman, by a state-backed security outfit in Onitsha, Anambra State. Obi in a statement on his X handle on Wednesday, he described the incident as “deeply troubling” and demanded a full probe, stressing that the activities ...
Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested two suspected gun manufacturers and four alleged distributors in Lafia, disrupting what authorities describe as a major arms syndicate. Commissioner of Police, CP Shetima Mohammed Jauro, announced the breakthrough during a press briefing on Tuesday. The two gun makers, identified as James Philip and Alpha Philip, ...
Nigerian Army troops have freed Major M.D. Josiah from his abductors following a decisive rescue operation in Bomadi, Delta State. The mission, carried out by soldiers of the 63 Brigade, led to the storming of the kidnappers’ hideout and the successful recovery of the officer. Major Josiah had been kidnapped on Monday shortly after attending ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has opened discussions with the Presidential Committee on Campaign against Social Vices in Secondary and Tertiary Institutions to strengthen efforts aimed at sensitising students against economic and social misconduct. The collaboration was proposed during a courtesy visit by the Presidential Committee to the EFCC Chairman, Mr Ola Olukoyede, ...
By Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi The Bauchi State Police Command said that it has arrested a 70-yr-old man over an alleged attempt to sexually harass a minor in Unguwar Sarakuna in the state capital. A statement by the Command's Spokesman, CSP Ahmed Wakil in Tuesday, stated that the septuagenarian was arrested “for multiple counts of sexual ...
Authorities have declared a Nigerian woman, Bankole Roseline O., wanted following allegations of involvement in a same-sex relationship, a criminal offense under the country’s Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act (SSMPA). The police confirmed that officers visited Roseline’s Lagos residence on August 31, 2025, to deliver a formal summons for questioning. At the time of the visit, ...
…Calls on Tinubu to act beyond politics, embrace reconciliation The Nigerian Consultative Forum (NCF) has demanded that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu grant amnesty to Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, warning that the unity of the country is at risk if their cases are not ...
By Idowu Adebomi, Ado Ekiti The Ekiti state Police command have charged a 37 year old man Bamidele Ayobami to a Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti for the alleged theft of goats in the state capital. The prosecutor, Inspector Akinwale Oriyomi, told the court that on August 8, at about 6am in Ado-Ekiti, the defendant and ...
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has called on media practitioners across Nigeria to deploy their platforms in exposing fraudulent and corrupt practices across all sectors of society. Olukoyede made the call in Warri, Delta State, while addressing participants at the 12th Annual Conference of the Association of ...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has opened an investigation after the discovery of a decomposed body inside a vehicle parked at the National Assembly complex in Abuja. The body, identified as that of 55-year-old Gaddafi Iwar, a Tiv man believed to have worked as a labourer at a construction site within the complex, ...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has summoned activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, over a social media post the agency described as “false and malicious” against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a letter dated 7 September 2025, signed by Uwem Davies on behalf of the DSS Director-General, Sowore was directed to retract ...
The Osun State Amotekun Corps has captured one of the state’s most wanted criminals, Ayoola Samuel Awe, aged 42, after a prolonged gun battle in Ilesa. Awe, widely known by his alias “Bishop Awasere,” had been on the wanted list for multiple violent crimes, including murder and kidnapping. His arrest took place on Saturday evening ...
By Wiwa Majeri, Dutse The Jigawa State Police Command has taken into custody 10 suspects linked to the vandalism of electrical transformers and armoured cables in Hadejia and Buji-Kudu Local Government Areas. The arrests followed a series of targeted operations after reports of extensive damage to public infrastructure. In Hadejia, operatives apprehended eight men at ...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits raided Usubu community in Niger State late on Saturday night, abducting several young mothers and abandoning their sick infants, some barely a year old. Security analyst Bakatsine disclosed the incident on Sunday in a post on X, stating that the attackers stormed the community and seized women, many of them ...
...intercepts Australia-bound shipment, uncovers syndicate’s Nigerian base The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has broken up a transnational drug cartel with networks spanning Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates, seizing cocaine worth N5.3 billion concealed in textile shipments. The two-week intelligence-led operation, carried out in Lagos, led to the ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted N1.1billion worth of codeine consignment in Port Harcourt. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that a total of 160,200 bottles of codeine-based syrup were discovered in a 40ft container on ...
The Osun Amotekun Corps says it has arrested a suspected kidnapper, Ayobola Awe, in the Isokun area of Ilesa. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Yusuf Abass, the Public Relation Officer for the Corps, on Sunday in Osogbo. The statement said that the suspect, popularly called ” Bishop Awasere”, had been on ...
The Katsina State Government has confirmed seven persons dead when bandits attacked Magajin-Wando village in Dandume Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr Nasir Mu’azu, disclosed this in a statement, on Saturday in Katsina. He said, “The State Government confirmed a tragic incident that occurred ...
