The death toll from two sectarian attacks in northwest Pakistan’s Kurram district has risen to 43, officials confirmed on Friday, as authorities imposed a curfew and suspended mobile services in the tense region. Gunmen targeted two separate convoys of Shiite…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Friday ordered the remand of 25-year-old Babuga Muhammadu at a correctional facility over alleged conspiracy, armed robbery, and kidnapping. The magistrate, Mrs Kausarat Ayofe, for want of jurisdiction, did not take the plea…
A fire engulfed a block of classrooms at Limawa Day Secondary School in Minna, Niger State, on Thursday evening, with eyewitnesses attributing the blaze to suspected hemp smokers. The fire, which caused significant damage, was swiftly contained by firefighters from…
The absence of the counsel representing convicted billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans stalled his re-arraignment before Justice Adenike Coker of the Lagos State High Court on Thursday Justice Coker asked the defendant, Evans, about his lawyer when…
Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Yobe State Command have arrested four suspected vandals, who destroyed multi-million-naira equipment at the Federal Government’s Grains Reserve silos, located in Damaturu, the state capital. The state NSCDC Commandant, Grema…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ogun State Command has arrested eight teenagers for alleged conspiracy, sexual abuse and unlawful sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl at the Ijebu-Mushin, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State. The suspects…
More than 170 bottles of assorted alcohol worth over N400,000 have been confiscated and destroyed by operatives of Yobe State Hisbah Board It was gathered that the bottles were confiscated at one of the hotels in Gashu’a town, the headquarters…
Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the death of one Sunday Abidoye, whose lifeless body was discovered in a hotel on Wednesday in the Sagamu area of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, made this disclosure in a statement…
The Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, presided over by Justice Rosemary Dugbo-Oghoghorie has convicted and sentenced five internet fraudsters to various jail terms. The Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
Anambra State Police Command has clarified a shooting incident that occurred at Izuchukwu junction, Nnobi/Nnewi road, on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. The incident, which happened at about 7 pm, was linked to Non-State actors, who had vowed to disrupt the…
