•Hoodlums A site engineer, identified as Badmos Olatunji Monsor, has reportedly died and no fewer than 15 construction workers sustained varying degrees of injuries following a violent clash at a construction site in the Agidingbi area of Ikeja, Lagos. The incident, which occurred over the weekend, involved an alleged invasion by armed individ...
•Tinubu and a scene of the Benue attack A former presidential aide, Babafemi Ojudu, has expressed concern over Nigeria’s escalating security crisis, warning that continued failure to address it could threaten the nation’s democratic stability. Ojudu made the remarks today and called on President Bola Tinubu to take urgent and decisive action, ...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Umar Isa, over an alleged $7.2 billion fraud linked with the rehabilitation of the Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt refineries. Also in the custody of the EFCC is Jimo...
•House of Representatives The minority caucus in the House of Representatives has condemned the killings of Zaria residents in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State last Friday. They have called on both the federal and state governments to launch a full-scale investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice, reports The PUNCH. Thirtee...
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 31-year old man, Joshua Osaigbovo, for allegedly killing his girlfriend and subsequently burying her in a shallow grave. It was the first time the late girlfriend, identified as Osato Festus Edogiaweria, aged 21, visited him, reports The Nation. She was reported missing April 2025 unti...
•Kidnapped Justice E. G. Omukoro Lawyers under the aegis of The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yenagoa Branch, today, embarked on a symbolic court boycott across Bayelsa State to protest the abduction of Justice Ebiyerin Omukoro, a serving judge of the Bayelsa State High Court. The association described the action as a “solemn yet powerful de...
•Gunmen The management of Benue State Transport Company, popularly known as Benue Links Nigeria Limited, has confirmed that one of its buses travelling from Abeokuta to Makurdi was intercepted by gunmen yesterday evening in Benue State. In a statement issued today by the company’s Information Officer, Johnson Daniel, the company said the attac...
•Kidnapped Justice E.G. Umokoro Fresh facts have emerged on how gunmen at the weekend, abducted a State High Court Judge, Justice E.G. Umokoro, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa Capital. Eyewitnesses said he was kidnapped in front of popular eatery along Chief Melford Okilo Expressway at about 7pm after a struggle, reports The Nation. It was learnt the [&he...
•Mary Adekoya A 43-year-old female make-up artist, Mary Adekoya, who claimed to be travelling to India for a fibroid surgery has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos after 2.20 kilograms of cocaine were discovered in her bag. Director, Medi...
•Governor Hyacinth Alia and his suspended special adviser, Mkor Aondona The Governor of Benue State, Hyacinth Alia, has suspended his Special Adviser on Documentation, Research, and Planning, Mkor Aondona, who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged sextortion, cyberbullying, and blackmail. In a statemen...
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