The Abiodun Essiet Initiative for Girls (AEIG), an NGO, has partnered with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to end Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in FCT. The organisation made this known when the Original…
Some officers of the Niger State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps NSCDC, have allegedly killed a youth identified as Naziru Abubakar, 28 years at Brighter School area in Minna, the state capital. It was gathered that…
The Ogun State Police Command on Monday said it arrested four members of a robbery syndicate terrorising Sango-Ota and its environs. The police spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement in Ota, Ogun. Oyeyemi said the suspects were:…
For making a false call to the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, a teenager has earned himself an avoidable conviction. At the Samuel Ilori Magistrate Court Ogba in Ikeja on Thursday, Uzuokwu Solomon was found guilty on a two-count…
The Katsina State Police Command on Thursday said its anti-kidnapping squad killed two terrorists while intercepting a notorious gang of kidnappers on the command’s wanted list, A businessman was also rescued during the operation. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP…
The Family Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, the capital of Oyo, has ordered that a French national be remanded in Agodi Correctional facility. Emilien Salingue is facing a charge of defilement of a six-year-old girl, News Men reports. On Friday, the…
Muiz Adeleye,19, was on Friday docked in an Ikorodu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly attempting to steal from a provision shop. Adeleye, whose address is unknown, was charged with theft. He pleaded not guilty to the charge. The…
A 100-year-old man, Oladepo Ogunlade, and Musiliyu Ogundiran, 61, were on Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, for alleged land grabbing and destruction of economic trees. The police charged Ogunlade and Ogundiran with conspiracy, land grabbing, malicious damage,…
Gunmen have kidnapped the Federal Commissioner of the National Population Commission for Bayelsa State, Gloria Izonfuo. Izonfuo was reported to have been kidnapped at Ogbakiri junction on the East-West road, Rivers State. Spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command, Grace…
The Nigerian Army has said troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI arrested seven suspected terrorists and recovered arms and ammunition in different locations in Zamfara State. Major General Musa Danmadami, Director, Defence Media Operations, Defence Headquarters, in a statement said the…
