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…
Operatives of Ondo State Security Network Agency, code-named Amotekun, have rescued the remaining three people who were kidnapped last Wednesday in the state. The victims were travelling to Lagos from Ifira-Akoko in Akoko South-East Local Government Area of the state…
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered that a 28-year- old teacher, Hassan Aliyu, is remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl. The police charged Aliyu who resides in Badawa Quarters Kano with procuration…
A 17-year-old boy was on Friday remanded in a correctional centre by a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano for alleged robbery. The minor, who resides in Kura Local Government area of Kano, is facing a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy…
