•PrisonA female visitor was reportedly arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle suspected illicit drugs into the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, the same facility recently linked to a scandal after a death row inmate was found to have been hosting TikTok livestreams from behind bars. The suspect, ident...
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Nomansland, Kano, has arraigned a young man, Nura Usman, and his mother, Izzatu Aminu, over an alleged plot to kill the man’s father, Alhaji Usman Shanono. The defendants were arraigned on charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in connection with the alleged plot, which prosecutors said was hatched at Dantsi...
For over two months, 26-year-old Franklin Ivara has remained on a hospital bed, battling excruciating pain from an alleged gunshot wound that shattered his left leg during a military operation in Itigidi Community, Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. His family says the ordeal is made more painful not only by the injury […]
The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a 68-year-old man and his 36-year-old son for alleged unlawful possession of four single-barrel guns. In a statement, Musa Mohammed, a superintendent and the Bayelsa Police Command’s image maker, said operatives of the Anti-Vice Unit made the arrest on Monday, July, 2026, at about 10:30 a.m. The su...
•Late Mustapha and Ummi Former Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Baba Tela, has lost his children, Mustapha and Ummi, in a road crash. The siblings died along the Bauchi-Azare road, on Saturday, reports Daily Trust. Other occupants of the vehicle sustained injuries and are receiving treatment, but they died on the spot. Their bodies [&h...
•Late Major General Rabe Abubakar (Rtd) Son of the late Major General Rabe Abubakar (rtd), Isyaka, has rejected claims attributed to the Katsina State government that his father died from complications of diabetes and hypertension, insisting the retired General had no history of either condition. Following the suspected murder of the General i...
•Gunmen Gunmen have killed five people, including a traditional ruler, his wife, son and two others, in Olegabulu community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. The incident occurred last night when the assailants stormed the community around 8pm, reports The PUNCH. A local source from the community told our correspondent that four p...
•Abubakar Malami The Department of State Services has re-arraigned a former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and his son, Abdulaziz, before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on an amended charge bordering on alleged terrorism and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. At the day’s hea...
A man has run amok in Okitipupa, Ondo State, killing his son and two other children in the community. The incident happened yesterday when the culprit was said to have picked a machete and hacked the three casualties right at their residence, reports Daily Independent. Sources disclosed that one of the victims was the culprit’s […]
•Nasir El-Rufai and ICPC operative Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has been granted temporary bail from the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The development is to enable him to attend the funeral rites of his mother, Hajiya Umma El-Rufai, who reportedly died in Cairo, E...

