By Titus Atondu, Makurdi Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has called on the Federal Government to synergise with his administration and step up military operations that will flush out armed herdsmen from neighbouring states bordering Benue. He said this will…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an alleged notorious drug dealer, Micha Godwin at Nukai Market on Jalingo-Wukari Road in Taraba. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the Director, Media and…
Dr Graham Hefer, Managing Director of Okomu Oil Palm Company, Edo, on Wednesday lamented gunmen’s attacks on the company’s plantation. He challenged the company’s host communities to volunteer information on undesirable elements among them. Hefer made the call at an…
The Police in Lagos on Wednesday docked one Adewole Odutemowo, 43, at an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court over alleged assault occasioning harm on his wife. The prosecutor, Insp Donjour Perezi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Nov.…
The parents of Miss Oluwabamise Ayanwola, who was kidnapped on Feb. 26 in a Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus and later found dead said that all the family wanted was justice. Mr Joseph Ayanwols and Mrs Comfort Ayanwola, the…
A Grade I Area Court in Dei-dei, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced six unskilled men, to nine months imprisonment each for assaulting their friend, Musubaliu Baita. The police charged Zilani Nuhu, 30; Anans Hudu, 26; Hisbilahi Aminu, 28; Sefilahi Sani, 32;…
A 22-year-old man, Damilare Babatunde, on Wednesday appeared before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly entering into a car to steal a Samsung and Techno Mobile phones valued at N140, 000. The police charged the defendant, whose address…
The police command in Ogun on Wednesday said that no life was lost during the clash between some youths in Lafenwa Market, Abeokuta on Monday. DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in a statement confirmed that…
By Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta No fewer that 15 persons were on Tuesday, arrested by operatives of the Ogun State command of Nigeria Police Force following deadly clash which broke out between street urchins and scavengers said to be Hausas in…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it seized eight trucks laden with suspected adulterated petrol and diesel in Rivers in a week. The trucks were impounded between March 1, and March 7, while attempting to distribute the…
