The Nigerian Navy in Badagry, Lagos, has transferred nine suspected victims of human trafficking to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). This was confirmed in a statement by Lt. B.C. Awodeyi, the Base Information Officer, today. According to Awodeyi, the victims were handed over by the Forward Operating B...
•Accident scene A rescue team of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has rescued three accident victims and recovered N8,620,000 at the scene in Kaduna State. The accident occurred around 7pm on Monday, September 30, at Area G Samaru, along Zaria-Funtua road. Spokesman of the FRSC, Assistant Corps Marshal Olusegun Ogungbemide, who announced t...
•Belema Ibama A father of four girls who allegedly lures young women through online dating sites to hotels where he sexually abuses them has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command. The suspect, Belema Ibama, 38, an ex-pupil of Seashell Model Primary School and native of Buguma, was alleged to have registered into the […]
•9/11 terrorist attacks in US The United Nations (UN) yesterday joined its host city, New York, in commemorating the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001, when Al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four aircrafts and flew them into buildings in the United States. Two of the planes struck the twin skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in […]
Eight alleged stowaways were taken into custody by Nigerian Navy operations when they were trying to board two speed boats. Director of Naval Information Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu revealed this in a statement yesterday, stating that five of the eight suspects had acknowledged their desire to travel overseas. He claimed that on July 13, 2024, during a...
•A victim It was a weekend of agony for residents, students and parents of Saint Academy located in Busa Buji community in Jos as a classroom building collapsed trapping hundreds of students sitting for exams on Friday. Again, less than 24 hours after and over 200 hundred kilometres away, another residential building collapsed in Kubwa [&helli...
•The victims Some victims have narrated how the officials of the Lagos State task force threatened to kill them in Osun Forest after they were allegedly arrested in the Marina area of the state and later dumped at the forest in Ilesha, Osun State, on Saturday. The state government had vowed to clamp down on […]
•The victims Fifty-one victims of human trafficking have been rescued by officers of the Kano State Hisbah Board. The victims who comprised 49 females and two males between 18 to 50 were subsequently handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for further action, reports Daily Sun. NAPTIP Zonal [&h...
•Dosunmu, Lagos market fire Alhaja Mainat Bakare’s voice broke at intervals as she struggled to hold back tears from her reddened eyes while speaking with our correspondent. The businesswoman could hardly find words to describe how her warehouse on Dosunmu Street, in the Lagos Island area of Lagos State, which was recently restocked with goods...
Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command and the Neighbourhood Watch Group have rescued kidnapped victims following a gun duel with the abductors along Eke/Ebe Road in Udi Local Government Area. This was made known in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, today. The statement reads, “Enugu State Polic...

