Four suicide bombers struck Mairanti, a village near Maiduguri in Nigeria’s Borno state on Thursday night. An explosion was heard at about 10:00 pm when most residents were indoors, but no casualties were recorded except the bombers. The northeast coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Bashir Garga, confirmed the incident on Friday. According […]Read More

The Alagbon Injection Station in Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi, has been gutted by fire. According to the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), the fire started around 5.am this morning. The fire’s implication is that customers around CMS, Adeniji-Adele and substantial part of Lagos Island will experience power failure. Reports say that the Station in Dolphin Estate […]Read More

A 27-year-old man, Uber driver, James Ejemba, was on Wednesday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly absconding with his employer’s Toyota Corolla car valued at N2 million. Ejemba, whose address was not provided, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. The Police Prosecutor, Insp. Benson Emuerhi, told the court that the […]Read More

Police have arrested 25 suspected cultists, who gathered for their initiation activities in Enugu state. The Enugu State Police Command said it recovered a locally made single barrel pistol, a locally made cut to size single barrel gun, four live cartridges and six expended cartridges from the suspects. The Command’s spokesman, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, said […]Read More

Former governor of Abia, Dr Orji Kalu, has called on appropriate authorities to resolve the crisis that led to the communal clash between two communities in Abia and Cross River states. Kalu who spoke on Sunday in Beijing, China, during a meeting with a cross-section of business persons of Nigerian origin , charged the political […]Read More

The police on Friday arraigned a 20-year-old student, Andrew Dominic, before a Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court over alleged theft of gas cylinder. Dominic, a resident of Kubwa Village in Abuja, is facing a two-count charge of trespass and theft, but he pleaded innocent. The prosecutor, Babajide Olanipekun, told the court that one Mr Azubike […]Read More

Some Libya returnees on Tuesday were at the Edo State Government House in Benin City to protest the management of their stipend accounts by financial institutions where their accounts are domiciled, and related issues. We accorded them the respect they deserve as Nigerians, with undeniable and inalienable rights to express their dissatisfaction, disaffection and discontent […]Read More

A 50-year-old private guard, who was arrested for having carnal knowledge of his daughter, which resulted in pregnancy, has said his daughter raped him, while also blaming his indulgence on the devil. Preliminary investigation by policemen at Igando Division revealed that the suspect, Taiwo Oyelabi, had been sleeping with his biological daughter since November 2017. […]Read More

Palpably frightened and shocked nonagenarian, Madam Bintu Jinadu, of Lajiga family in Makun – Sagamu, Ogun State, has slumped and died following raid on her home by Operatives of the Federal Special Anti – Robbery Squad (F – SARS) from Abuja. This was the trigger of a protest by hundreds of women and men who […]Read More

It has been revealed that the 12 suspects currently being interrogated by Police operatives in Kwara State over the recent bank robbery in Offa were arrested through the tracking of mobile phones the robbers collected from victims. Reports gathered that after the robbery operation, the suspects took away the handsets of the victims, which they […]Read More