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Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a former President of Comoros has been handed down a life sentence for high treason after being convicted of selling passports to…

A yet-to-be-identified man has reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself at the flyover near the NNPC filling station on the Sanni Abacha Expressway in…

independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the arrest of two offenders for being in possession of 468 Permanent Voters’ Cards. This was contained…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 56-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The…

Police operatives in Zamfara on Saturday rescued seven kidnapped persons in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Muhammad Shehu, who confirmed…

Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have neutralized four bandits during clearance operations in identified hideouts around Tsohon Gayan, in Chikun Local Government Area of…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have seized no fewer than 5,851.3 kilograms (5.8 tons) of cannabis Sativa from dealers across…

Two inmates who escaped from the Owerri Custodial Centre, Imo state, have been arrested for alleged involvement in a fresh case of kidnapping and…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have recovered four kilograms of cocaine soaked in towels from a Brazil returnee, Iroegbute Ejike Francis,…

33 illegal migrants have been apprehended by operatives of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, in two locations in the Odeda…

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ ad Abubakar III, is not happy with the involvement of some Fulanis in banditry and kidnapping, as…

Men of the Bauchi state police command have arrested Dayyabu Abdullahi, a 12-year-old boy from Magama Gumau, for allegedly kidnapping a 3-year-old girl.  …

In what will come across as a really startling development, the security situation in the Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State seems…

Gunmen on Friday killed two security guards in different locations at Ikare-Akoko, Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo State. A resident of the…

Two men identified as Isah Abdulkabir and Daniel Emmanuel have been arraigned before an Oyo State Magistrates’ Court at Iyaganku, Ibadan, by the police,…

Police in Maiduguri has arrested a female teacher for allegedly assaulting a four-year-old primary school pupil in Borno.   The Police Public Relations Officer…

he police in Lagos state have apprehended a fake medical doctor.   The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this…

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it secured 3,328 convictions from January to November this year (2022). The…

Gidan-Goga village residents in Zamfara State’s Maradun Local Government Area are in a panic as the N20 million levy payment deadline set by bandits…

Two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, have been killed. They were crushed to death by a truck driver on along Ikot-Ikpene…

The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Friday identified poverty as the direct cause of the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast. Zulum, who…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the duo of Onochie Kaykay Mokwenye and Abdullahi Adamu, alleged members of a…

Operatives of the Zamfara State Police have rescued a one-year-old baby and six women abducted by terrorists at Kadamutsa village in Zurmi Local Government…

14 people who were abducted by gunmen in Ibillo axis of Edo State have been rescued by security operatives in the State. The victims…

Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been arrested by the country’s anti-corruption agency on allegations of accepting money in exchange for awarding government contracts.  …

Two married men were arrested with a woman’s severed head in Abuja.   Peter Ochigbo, 42, from Otukpo in Benue state, married to Rebecca…

The Edo State Police Command has arrested two female students of Adesuwa Secondary School, Benin, for allegedly assaulting a teacher.   The spokesperson of…

  Mrs. Onyenyichi Abuguja has raised the alarm over the disappearance of her husband, Chinedu since November 2, 2022.   Chinedu was reportedly abducted…

An Indian man, Chandra Singh, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He was arraigned on Thursday before an Ikeja Special Offences…

A final-year student of the Federal University of Kashere (FUK), Gombe State, identified as Nalkur Zwalnan Lar, committed suicide on Wednesday night, November 24.   The…

The sight of a dog running through a Mexican town with a severed hand in its mouth has led to a gruesome discovery of…

The Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, November 24, withdrew a suit filed at a Federal High Court, Abuja to detain the former…

A Nigerian man has been hospitalized after his wife’s brother led some hoodlums to beat him up mercilessly for beating his sister.   Posting…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun to investigate one of Muhammadu Buhari’s senior special advisers. Daily Trust reports that the EFCC…

Armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen invaded Wumat community in Kwatas ward, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing eight people and injuring others.…

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a serial fraudster who specializes in impersonating Legal practitioners and Senior Law enforcement Officers to defraud…

In what will come across as a really shocking development, a 200-level Dental student of the Sultan Abdurrahman College of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, Sokoto,…

Several people were killed after a shooter opened fire in a Virginia Walmart in the U.S. on Nov. 22, 2022.   “Multiple fatalities and…

A death row inmate is asking for permission for his 19-year-old daughter to be at his side when he is given a lethal injection.…

Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday killed at least 10 Chadian soldiers in an attack on a military unit in the Lake Chad Basin near…

A presidential candidate for the Action Alliance (AA), Maj. Hamzat Al-Mustapha, on Tuesday, accused the Western nations of conspiracy in the Boko Haram insurgency…

The ad-hoc committee set up by the Senate to investigate oil theft and consequent damage to the nation’s economy said on Tuesday that Nigeria…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence…

Nengi Enenimiete, a 16-year-old girl has been found dead. The lifeless body of the 16-year-old girl was discovered inside the wardrobe of a hotel in…

Muhammed Abubakar, a man in Adamawa State, has made a startling confession. The man owned up to dressing as a woman and making money from…

Edo State Police Command has arrested four armed robbery suspects in South Ibie, Agbede, the Etsako West Local Government Area of the state.  …

A 33-year-old housewife has died after being locked up by her husband for months without food. Sadiya Salihu, died after battling for her life…

As many as four suspects have been arrested in Ebonyi State by the police. The suspects were nabbed over the killing of two Ebubeagu…

A team of policemen and soldiers rescued 76 passengers kidnapped by bandits along Funtua-Zaria Road at the Gulbala area of Giwa Local Government Area…

A woman identified as Perpetual Onyekachi allegedly stabbed her husband, Okoro Ndukwu Okoro, to death in Rivers State.   It was gathered that the incident…