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Lagos Police Remand 28-Year-Old For Assault, Theft

Lagos Police Remand 28-Year-Old For Assault, Theft

The 28-year-old Isaac Ogbonna has been charged with conspiring to conduct misdemeanours and felonies, malicious damage, assault, and theft before Magistrate O.Y. Adefope of the Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court. Four counts of conspiracy to commit…

Bauchi Residents Lose Two Children To Fire Outbreak

Bauchi Residents Lose Two Children To Fire Outbreak

Two children identified as Ummu Salma Bashir and Zainab Bashir Muhammad (Hibba), who were five and seven years of age died in a house fire on Sunday, leaving the Madina Quarters community in Bauchi State…

Fire Outbreak Averted In Ilorin As Tanker Of 50,000 Litres Of Petrol Falls On Highway

Fire Outbreak Averted In Ilorin As Tanker Of 50,000 Litres Of Petrol Falls On Highway

A fire outbreak was prevented in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Saturday when a tanker carrying petrol fell on the highway and spilled its contents. According to the report, the incident was averted around…

Delta Community Sets Ablaze Hours After Killing Of Solider

Delta Community Sets Ablaze Hours After Killing Of Solider

Hours after the killings of sixteen Nigerian Army troops on a peacekeeping operation, several homes in the sleepy and coastal Okuoma hamlet in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State has reportedly caught fire. According…

Two Suspected Traffic Beggars Arrested In Lagos

Two Suspected Traffic Beggars Arrested In Lagos

Two robbery suspects who act as alms collectors in Lagos traffic jams have been taken into custody by the State Police Command.h While stuck in traffic in Agungi district, Lekki, the two suspects approached a…

Terrorists Abduct 15 Women, Others In Fresh Kaduna Attack

Terrorists Abduct 15 Women, Others In Fresh Kaduna Attack

There was pandemonium in the Dogon-Noma community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State,  when suspected terrorists attacked the area on Saturday and abducted 15 women and one man. When the terrorists attacked the…

Troops Kill Four Terrorists, Recover 2 AK-47s

Troops Kill Four Terrorists, Recover 2 AK-47s

The troops of the Nigerian Army have confirmed the killings of no fewer than four terrorists by its forces during ambush operations in Katsina and Kaduna States. The Director of Army Public Relations, Major General…

DHQ Sets To Release Bandits Leaders’ Names, Photos

DHQ Sets To Release Bandits Leaders’ Names, Photos

The Defence Headquarters has vowed to reveal the identities and photographs of the new group of wanted terrorist and bandit leaders on its wanted list. Sunday Telegraph reports that the latest move is a result…

UK-Based Nigerians Bag 11-Year Jail Term For Defrauding Vodafone, Firms Of £429,304

UK-Based Nigerians Bag 11-Year Jail Term For Defrauding Vodafone, Firms Of £429,304

Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday sentenced three Nigerians and one other United Kingdom (UK) resident to 11 years in prison for defrauding Carphone Warehouse, EE, O2, Vodafone, and OnePlus of £429,304. Saturday Telegraph reports that…

EFCC Nabs Man For Impersonation In Rivers

David Ikeaghichi has been arraigned before Justice S. D. Pam of the Federal High Court sitting in Rivers State for posing as an Afghanistan soldier and receiving money under false pretences. Saturday Telegraph reports that…