An explosive device suspected to be a bomb has exploded in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital in North-East Nigeria. The incident which occurred at the Doruwa drinking joint opposite a bank, affected some buildings within the vicinity. Eyewitnesses at the scene of the incident said a lady was badly...
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By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Two businessmen arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for cocaine ingestion have both excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi...
Four employees of a microfinance bank are in police net in Ogun over the murder of a debtor’s wife at Ifo Local Government Area of the state. Police spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, stated at Ota, Ogun on Sunday that that the suspects were arrested on May 10, over the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – A mass burial was held yesterday Saturday, for thirty eight (38) people including women and children killed by Fulani herdsmen in Takalafia and Gwanja rural communities of Karu Local Government Council of Nasarawa State The Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, who...
The police command in Ogun says it has arrested a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Adebola Sodiq, for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl. (name withheld). SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Spokesman in the state, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Saturday. Oyeyemi explained that the...
The Anambra State Government, in collaboration with the Police, have arrested one Chinyere Ifesinachi, for allegedly causing harm to her five-year-old house help, in Nnewi area of the state. The State’s Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, told journalists in Awka on Saturday, that the 25-year-old...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Friday, declared that human rights violations allegations levelled against the Nigerian military by Reuters, were not only shocking but also spurious. Irabor said this when he appeared before the National Human Rights Commission investigative panel on rights violations in counter-insurgency...
A Joint Task Force comprising of Nigeria Army formations from Port Harcourt, Eket and the Nigerian Navy in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, destroyed illegally refined petroleum products on Thursday in the state. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Brigade Nigerian Army, Capt. Samuel Akari,...
The Kwara Police Command has arrested 13 crime suspects, including a medical director, for offences ranging from rape to armed robbery, cultism and rituals. The suspects, who were paraded before newsmen by the Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, included the Medical Director of Ayodele Hospital, Sawmill Area, Ilorin, Dr Ayodele...
The Imo Police Command says it has begun a manhunt for the killers of a retired military officer and Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s kinsman, Mr Tony Enoch. Enoch was the Presidential Campaign Council Chairman for Ahmed Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima election in Uzodimma’s Oru East Local Government Area (LGA). He was...
No fewer than 2,167 repentant insurgents have graduated from the Operation Safe Corridor’s (OPSC) Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme, organised by the Federal Government, an official has said. Mr Audu Ayuba, the Assistant Director of Planning, Research and Strategy, National Orientation Agency (NOA), disclosed this on Friday at...
The Nigerian Navy has said that a total of 20 capital ships were procured for the Nigerian Navy (NN) during the eight-year administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chief of Policy and Plans, Naval Headquarters, Rear Adm. Saidu Garba, said this in a statement he signed on Friday. According...
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a medical doctor, Ayodele Joseph, for allegedly raping a patient. The suspect was arraigned on two counts of act of gross indecency and rape contrary to sections 285 and 283 of the penal code. The police alleged that the defendant sedated the...
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has given the Federal Government 18 days ultimatum to fish out and prosecute killers and abductors of its members across the country. The President of NSE, Mr Tasiu Gidari-Wudil, gave the ultimatum at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja on the killings...
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya says the Nigerian Army will hold periodic sensitization programmes against drugs abuse and other related issues in all its formations nationwide. Yahaya gave the assurance when he declared open a drug and narcotics control awareness conference, on Thursday in...
Police in Osun have arrested a 24-year-old woman who allegedly impersonated as a police officer to rob Point of Sale (POS) operators in Osogbo. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated on Wednesday in Osogbo that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday after she was rescued from an irate...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on May 22, induct new warships, gunboats and helicopters for the Nigerian Navy. The Chief of Policy of Plans, (Navy), Rear Adm. Seidu Garba, said this on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the preparations for the Presidential Fleet Review (PFR) 2023. Garba said...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.- Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Wednesday assured that the Nigerian Army has the capacity to contain insurgency and deal with other criminal elements in the country. The COAS gave the assurance during combat training and exhibition of firing power, organised for Infantry and...
A 23-year-old assistant pastor on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a bishop, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, allegedly raped her twice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oluwafeyiropo is standing trial on an amended three-count-charge bordering on rape and sexual assault, to which he...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday closed its case against one Onarike Onagoruwa charged with defrauding a woman of five million Naira on the pretext of supplying her coconut oil. Onagoruwa is facing a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretences and issuance of dud cheque, ...