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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged Nigerian senator and former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, with allegations he conspired with others, including an APC politician and five companies, to…
Four girls abducted in Kautikari village of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State in northeast Nigeria, have regained freedom at the weekend, residents of Chibok town revealed on Sunday. The girls were among the…
Unknown gunmen have again stormed the Utako, Abuja office of the THISDAY newspaper in the early hours of yesterday. The armed men, according to an eyewitness came in through the back fence of the company’s premises just…
Three teenage boys have been caught burning the head of a girl, said to be in a relationship with one of them, for money ritual in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Men of the Ogun State Police…
A real estate agent, 50-year-old Diran Elijah, has lost his life after having sex with his former wife identified simply as Idowu, at a hotel in the Agbado area of Ogun State. Idowu, who has remarried with two children…
A State High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has struck out the case against a National Youth Service (NYSC) corps member accused of killing a man in the state. Chidinma Odume, a graduate of the University of Nigeria,…
As calls for justice grow following the killing of Hanifa Abubakar, another girl has been murdered in Kano State. Hanifa was 5 years old while the latest victim is 12-year-old Zuwaira Gambo. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje…
The 105 suspected political thugs who were arrested by the Nigerian Army on their way to Ekiti State have been moved to the 323 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Akure, Ondo State. According to a Vanguard report,…
Troops of the Nigerian Army have invaded Gudumbali, a town in Borno State recently declared by the leadership of Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) as its Manhaja…
The Ondo State Police Command on Tuesday said it would prosecute a man, Olasunkami Oluwole, who allegedly killed his lover at Oke Igbo community, in the Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. The…
Angry youth have set ablaze the school where the kidnappers of Hanifa Abubakar buried her remains in Kano. The private school, Noble Kids Comprehensive College, is located at Kwanar Dakata in Nassarawa local government…
Emotions ran high in Kano yesterday as the principal suspect in the murder of five-year-old pupil Hanifa Abubakar narrated how and why he killed her. Abdulmalik Mohammed Tanko, 30, proprietor of Hanifa’s Noble Kids…
Outrage has greeted the abduction and murder of a five-year-old girl, Hanifa Abubakar in Kano state. Until her demise, Hanifa attended Noble Kids Academy located in Kwanar Dakata in Nassarawa local government area of…
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has slammed the police and Department of State Services for thwarting an initiative aimed at securing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. He noted that collaborative efforts with…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC has arraigned a serving airman, Lance Corporal Haruna Samuel of the Nigeria Air Force Base, Kaduna on a one-count charge bordering on theft and criminal misappropriation. The…
Two stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State were on Tuesday evening gruesomely murdered during the invasion and attack of the party’s meeting in Enugu South LGA by gunmen. The gunmen also…
An argument over two European football clubs – Chelsea and Barcelona – has resulted in the death of a 28-year-old man, Saifullahi Abdullahi, in the Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State. Abdullahi reportedly lost…
Two men have been arrested by the Osun State Police Command for allegedly stealing a car worth 15 million. The two men, Chinedu Dioha and Joseph Emmanuel who were paraded before newsmen said they stole the vehicle from…
The Rivers State Police Command has inaugurated a panel to investigate a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) fingered for operating an illegal refinery in Rivers State. This was contained in a statement released on Sunday…
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday, ordered prisons officers to shoot dead anybody who attempts to attack any correctional centre in the country. The minister gave this order while inspecting the…
