Man bags two years jail term for defrauding 96-year-old Professor, others
The Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, Special Offences Court Justice, Oluwatoyin Taiwo, has sentenced one Temitope Awobeku, to two years…
Court sentences Winners’ pastor to three years jail term over $90,000, N4.5m property fraud
A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has jailed Winners’ Chapel Treasurer Pastor, Afolabi Samuel, for stealing church funds through…
Illicit drugs worth over N3 billion recovered in Kogi ― NDLEA
The Kogi State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kogi State command, Mr Alfred Adewumi, on Monday, disclosed that…
Benue communal crisis: Troops arrest 10 suspects, recover 16 weapons, ammunition
Ten people have been arrested by security operatives in connection with the communal crisis in Oju Local Government Area of…
Police interrogate 80 Fulanis intercepted in Ibadan by Amotekun on the way to Ogun, Lagos
A DAF truck, with registration number Bauchi KTG 220 ZZ, conveying about 80 passengers of Fulani extraction, were noticed and…
Police arrest six suspected kidnappers, rescue two victims in Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja Police Command has launched a strategic counter-kidnapping operation to checkmate the menace which had…
Police raid black spots, arrest 27 in Lagos
The police in Lagos State have arrested no fewer than 27 suspected criminals during different raids on black spots in…
Why we cannot end kidnapping in Edo ― Police commissioner
Edo State Police Commissioner of Police, Mr. Phillip Ogbadu, at the weekend in Benin gave reasons why the police seems…
NDLEA discovers cannabis village in Edo, impounds N1.4 billion worth of hemp
The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has discovered a cannabis village in Okpuje forest…
Gunmen kill husband, wife, daughter in Anambra church
Unknown gunmen have killed a middle-aged man, one Mr Ken Ekwesianya, his wife and daughter in Azia, Ihiala Local Government…
Court sentences two to death for armed robbery
An Ikeja High Court, Lagos has sentenced two persons, Moshood Ogunshola and Wasiu Lekan, to death for engaging in an…
NUJ FCT calls for immediate release of kidnapped Punch reporter
Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Council, has called for the immediate release of Okechukwu Nnodim, a correspondent with the…
EFCC secures conviction of two students, fashion designer
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibadan zonal office, on Wednesday, secured the conviction of Opeyemi Olasumbo Folarin and…
Controversy over man who jumped from 7th floor of 1004 during EFCC raid
The police in Lagos State have begun investigations into the circumstances surrounding the alleged death of a man at 1004…
Customs generate N4.8 billion for January in Oyo/Osun area command
The Comptroller, Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Adamu R. Abdulkadir, has disclosed that a sum of N4,895,772,769.90…
Suspected cultists shoot rival dead during Delta CP’s visit to Warri
Assailants, suspected to be cultists, on Wednesday afternoon, shot a rival cult suspect dead in his bed at Ugbori community…
Suspected cultists shoot rival dead during Delta CP’s visit to Warri
Assailants, suspected to be cultists, on Wednesday afternoon, shot a rival cult suspect dead in his bed at Ugbori community…
Man, 33, sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery
An Abeokuta High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a 33-year-old man Ibrahim Toyin, to death by hanging for robbing a woman…
Police rescue two suspected robbers from being lynched in Lagos
Two suspected armed robbers were, on Wednesday, arrested by vigilant members of the Sabo community in the Ikorodu area of…
One feared killed as hoodlums attack policemen in Lagos
A 40-year-old man, Wale Kalejaiye, is missing and has been feared killed after a crowd of hoodlums attacked men of…
