The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 50-year-old man, Sagir Muntari, over an alleged attempted witchcraft-related offence at the General Hospital, Funtua, in Katsina State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists today in Katsina. According to the statem...
•Terrorists The Oyo State Police Command said it has launched an intensive manhunt and rescue operation following a coordinated attack by armed hoodlums on schools and surrounding communities in Oriire Local Government Area of the state. According to a statement issued today by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka, the attack occu...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dismissed allegations that its operatives brutalised staff of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Akwa-Ibom State, during a recent visit to the facility. The anti-graft agency said the recent visit to the hospital by its operatives was purely administrative, insisting that no ...
•Gunmen Panic gripped residents of Ahoro-Esinele community in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State today after some gunmen reportedly invaded a secondary school in the area and abducted an unspecified number of students alongside the school principal. The attack was said to have occurred between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. at Community High S...
•Convicted Halima Umar Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a woman, Halima Haliru Umar, to 20 years’ imprisonment following her conviction on the offences of unlawful possession of 302 rounds of AK-47 live ammunition and attempting to render support for the commission of acts of terrorism. The convict had, durin...
•Terrorists An unspecified number of students of Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State are feared to have been abducted when some armed members of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists invaded their school premises in the early hours of today. Mussa is a remote village and shares a border with [&hel...
•Social media influencer, Blessing CEO arraigned in Lagos The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned social media influencer and self-styled relationship therapist Blessing CEO over an alleged N36 million fraud. Blessing CEO, whose real name is Okoro Blessing Nkiruka, was arraigned today before ...
•The dismissed officers The Police Command in Rivers has dismissed five inspectors attached to the Department of Operations over alleged involvement in armed robbery, kidnapping, extortion and conspiracy. The Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police Anthony Placid, disclosed this in a statement released in Port Harcourt to...
•Leah Sharibu There is something profoundly heartbreaking about the fact that Leah Sharibu turned 23 yesterday, May 14, 2026, in captivity, far away from home, family and freedom. For eight long years, her parents have lived with the torment of not knowing whether the daughter they sent to the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, [...
•Inspector General of Police, Tunji Disu The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, yesterday backed the call by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission for the establishment of 3,000 new police stations across the country, warning that the existing security infrastructure is grossly inadequate for Nigeria’s growing population...
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