The Kaduna State Government, on Monday, said that 12 people were killed and two others injured in an attack in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan,…
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Apapa, Lagos, on Monday said it had arrested 16 suspected pipeline vandals at Abagbo segment of the NNPC pipelines. The Commander, NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Bashir Mohammed, in a statement, said that the arrest was…
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama , Jos, on Monday, sentenced two friends to one year imprisonment each for stealing a plasma TV and remote control. The police charged Idris Umar and Abba Lawiri with conspiracy and theft.…
A 25-year-old unemployed man, Olumide Omoniyi, who allegedly attempted to steal from a shop, on Monday, appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The police charged Omoniyi, whose address was not provided, with burglary and intent to commit felony but…
A Beninese immigrant, Adamu Sime, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his biological mother. The command’s spokesman, Mr Babawale Afolabi, confirmed this in a statement …
The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), which is maintaining peace in Plateau and its environs, has constituted a Broad of Enquiry to investigate the alleged murder of one Abdullahi Karafa, a taxi driver in Jos, by its personnel.…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed trending pictures and videos in circulation showing dumping of dead bodies into mass graves, purported to be bodies of people killed in military operations. The Director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Sawyerr, dismissed the pictures…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized over 24,311kg of heroin and codeine, as well as Arizona and Colorado variants of cannabis in fresh drug busts in Lagos. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who revealed this in a…
Gunmen allegedly shot a local vigilante dead at Saturday’s Isoko South Local Government Area Constituency I bye-election for the Delta House of Assembly. Acting police spokesman in Delta, DSP Bright Edafe confirmed the development to newsmen in Warri. Edafe, who…
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has vowed to clamp down on bandits terrorizing some parts of the state, saying the have rejected the peace hitherto extended to them. He stated this while addressing a congregation in Gusau, the state…
