The police say two more students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Kujama, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State have escaped from their kidnappers. The police spokesperson in Kaduna, Muhammad Jalige, stated the development in a press statement on Thursday. The [...]
Michael Abattam, the State’s Police Public Relations Officer, in a press release, said the suspected kidnappers were arrested in Tebegbe water side in Delta State. According to the release, the tactical team of the command acted on a tip off and [...]
A man identified as Henry Jegbe, also known as Pastor, has reportedly committed suicide after having a canal knowledge of a minor in Agbor, in the Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. Jegbe allegedly killed himself after he [...]
A medical doctor, Dr. Solomon Ndiamaka, working with General Hospital Ugwolawo, Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. It was gathered that the medical practitioner was forcefully taken away by the kidnappers around 8:30 [...]
The Zamfara State government has confirmed the killing on Sunday of many mobile police officers on special duty by bandits in Kurar Mota area of Zamfara State. A spokesperson of Governor Bello Matawalle confirmed the incident but did not provide details. He [...]
Residents of several communities in Kogi State are now living in daily fear as their areas have become safe haven of bandits and kidnappers. The crisis of kidnapping and banditry has worsened in the recent years which residents lamented have [...]
The police in Ekpoma, Edo State Police Command have arrested Felix Alika, a security aide at Zenith Bank Ekpoma branch for allegedly conspiring to kidnap his manager, Raphael Ibodeme. Alika had been locking horns with his manager over his promotion [...]
Groups of criminals, popularly known as bandits who have been terrorizing the northwestern part of the country, have killed no fewer than 283 Nigerians in June alone, according to a tally by the Civic Media Lab, a nonprofit organization based [...]
The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), has lamented that suspected armed Fulani herdsmen have killed not less than 100 Atyap natives in the last six days. They said about 24 villages were also burnt and hundreds of hectares of farmland bearing [...]
Whichever way one looks at it, the raid carried out by the Department of State Services (DSS) on the residence of Sunday Igboho in Ibadan is callous, blood-thirsty and not synonymous with a government that lays a claim to civil [...]
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three bankers for an alleged case of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence. The suspects, Kagha Emmanuel Uchenna, Okoro Chinasom Davidson and Egbogu [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over brutal killing of some citizens, including a vigilante leader and Village Head of Dabna, a village in Dugwaba, Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa. The president made his feelings known in a statement [...]
At least eight people were kidnapped when gunmen attacked a federal medical facility in Kaduna State, the police have said. Hope For Nigeria Online reported the attack on the residential quarters of the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy in Zaria by the gunmen. [...]
Some unknown gunmen on Saturday attacked a divisional police station in the Udung Uko Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, leaving three police officers injured. According to Punch, the hoodlums stormed the police station in a vehicle and opened [...]
A policeman has been reportedly shot dead and many people injured as a new generation bank was robbed in Otun-Ekiti, the headquarters of Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Thursday evening around 5:30 pm. Hope For Nigeria Online [...]
A wife of Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho has been abducted by armed gunmen who attacked his Ibadan home on Thursday. This was announced by the leader of the Umbrella Body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo [...]
No fewer than four people have been killed in two separate attacks on farming communities in Plateau State. Three lives were lost in the attack in Zanwra area of Bassa local government area on Sunday and one Bitrus Manzere was [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned five Sokoto State Primary Education Staff Pension Board officials before Justice Muhammad Muhammad of the State High Court. They are facing a 27-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, forgery, criminal [...]
Insurgency-related conflicts claimed the lives of almost 350,000 lives in the North-eastern part of Nigeria up till the end 2020, a new report of the United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP) has said. The report said insurgency directly resulted to the [...]
Three employees of the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray regional, the organisation said. The group said in a statement emergency coordinator Maria Hernandez, assistant coordinator Yohannes [...]
A 45-year-old man identified as Christopher, on Saturday night, beat his wife to death over N2,000. The incident happened at No. 1, Agbontaen Street, beside Ebvareke Secondary School, off Agboniro Street, Uselu, Benin City. The man was said to have [...]
The Commander of the Ekiti State Security Network (Amotekun), Brigadier Joe Komolafe, has confirmed the abduction of another traditional ruler and Eleda of Eda Ile, in Ekiti East Local government area of Ekiti State, Oba Benjamin Oso. The monarch was [...]
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded the military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, and carted away a herd of cattle in the early hours of Thursday. The incident happened around 2:00 am [...]
A 12-year-old conflict in northeast Nigeria has caused, directly and indirectly, the deaths of some 350,000 people, the vast majority of which are children below the age of five, the United Nations found in a new report. The death toll, [...]
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara Command, has arrested a 22-year-old man over alleged rape of a seven-year-old girl. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Babawale Afolabi, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Thursday in [...]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has said it agreed to deploy troops to Mozambique to help it tackle escalating violence in the country’s north – but offered little specific operational details. Nearly 3,000 people have been killed and almost [...]
Burkina Faso’s government has said an ambush on a police unit in the country’s conflict-hit north has left at least 11 officers dead, with four others missing. In a statement released on Tuesday, Security Minister Ousseini Compaore said the officers [...]
Officers of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man, Kingsley Achugbu who was alleged to have raped his home help and 2-year-old biological daughter. This was made known in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, [...]
Rising incidents of robbery attacks on motorists and commuters plying various highways, including Eko Bridge, in Lagos have assumed a very worrisome dimension which Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the security authorities can no longer ignore or wish away. The regularity [...]
A sardonic retelling of how a serial rapist and killer was stabbed to death by 200 women outside an Indian court house has struck a chord with youngsters across the world. A TikTok video explaining how Akku Yadav met his “very satisfying end” in [...]
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