SON OF FORMER BENIN PRESIDENT ARRESTED AMID POST-COUP CRACKDOWN
Agency Report Chabi Yayi, son of former Beninese president and opposition leader Thomas Boni Yayi, has been arrested at his residence in the early hours...
NAPTIP HANDS OVER 11 RESCUED TRAFFICKING VICTIMS TO JIGAWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT
By Aishat Momoh. O. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has handed over 11 victims of human trafficking to the...
IMO POLICE ARREST JOINT SECURITY OPERATIVES OVER ALLEGED EXTORTION OF MOTORISTS IN OBOWO
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Imo State Police Command has arrested security operatives attached to a joint patrol team at Seven and Half Junction in...
POLICE ARREST SIX SUSPECTED CULTISTS OVER FORCED INITIATION IN ENUGU
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Enugu State Police Command has arrested six suspected members of a secret cult group for allegedly forcefully initiating victims into...
SHOCK IN KANO AS ASSAILANTS KILL PREGNANT WOMAN, TODDLER IN MIDNIGHT ATTACK
By Aishat Momoh. O. Residents of Sheka Sabuwar Gandu in the Kano metropolis have been thrown into mourning following the gruesome killing of a pregnant...
COURT REMANDS EX-LABOUR MINISTER NGIGE IN KUJE OVER ALLEGED N2.2BN CONTRACT FRAUD
By Aishat Momoh. O. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered the remand of former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige,...
IRANIAN SECURITY FORCES “VIOLENTLY” ARREST NOBEL LAUREATE NARGES MOHAMMADI, EIGHT OTHERS AT MEMORIAL EVENT
By Aishat Momoh. O. Iranian security forces have “violently” arrested 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists during...
COURT DELIVERS VERDICT IN NDLEA’S CASE AGAINST ABBA KYARI
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, fixed Feb. 26, 2026, for judgment in a case filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency...
MAN KILLS NURSING MOTHER, BABY OVER PATERNITY DISPUTE IN KATSINA
BY UTHMAN MOHAMMED A 30-year-old nursing mother and her 10-month-old child were killed and left in a well in Sheme village, which is in the...
DEFENDANT’S WIFE OWNS 800,000 SHARES IN COMPANY, WITNESS TELLS COURT IN JUDE OKOYE’S $1M THEFT TRIAL
By Aishat Momoh. O. The trial of music executive Jude Okoye and his company, Northside Music Limited, over an alleged $1 million theft, continued on...