AKWA IBOM GOVT GRANTS STATE PARDON TO 44 INMATES
The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaete Obot, has ordered the release of 44 prisoners, including two females, from the state's three senatorial...
NIGERIAN WOMAN SETS SELF ABLAZE OVER DIVORCE IN JIGAWA
A 40-year-old woman (name withheld) burned herself on fire in Guri Local Government Area, Jigawa, after her husband divorced her. DSP Lawan Shiisu, the state's...
ANAMBRA NURSE ADMITS USING HOT IRON TO DISCIPLINE 13-YEAR-OLD HOUSE HELP
Amarachukwu Happiness Nzekwe, a 38-year-old nurse from Ezinifite in Aguata local government area of Anambra State, admitted to using a hot pressing iron on the...
SANWO-OLU: ATTACKERS OF BRT BUS WILL FACE THE LAW
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has condemned the attack on a BRT bus by hoodlums who robbed passengers of their belongings. “It is disturbing. Security agents are...
CRIME: TWO DEAD, FIVE INJURED AS GUNMEN OPEN FIRE ON SCHOOL BUS IN PAKISTAN
Suspected Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in Pakistan on Thursday, killing two girls and wounding five other children, police said. The attack took...
CRIME: OKADA RIDER DETAINED FOR THEFT , SEXUAL ASSAULT ON OAU STUDENT
The Osun State Police Command has detained 29-year-old Damilare Jacob, a suspected rapist and armed robber. Police spokesperson Yemisi Opalola announced the arrest during a...
BLOOD THIRSTY BANDITS KILL 13 FARMERS IN NIGER STATE
Bloodthirsty bandits slaughtered 13 people on their fields on the Ijuwa outskirts of the Alawa hamlet in Niger State's Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA). Akilu...
MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPPING SIX-YEAR-OLD IN KATSINA
The Katsina State police have arrested one 21-year-old Halilu Yusuf on suspicion of kidnapping a six-year-old boy. This was revealed by the police spokesman, ASP...
SECURITY: POLICE KILL OVER 30 SUSPECTED KIDNAPPERS IN ENUGU STATE
No fewer than 30 kidnappers, including members of the Biafra Auto Pilot, also known as Unknown Gunmen, a notorious breakaway faction of the proscribed Indigenous...
NSCDC NABS 32-YEAR-OLD JOB SCAMMER IN KANO
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State Command, has apprehended an alleged job scammer who specialised in defrauding people of their hard-earned...