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Operatives of Bayelsa State Police Command, on Thursday, recovered a mutilated corpse of a woman suspected to have been killed for ritual purposes at School to Land Project, Edepie, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The yet-to-be-identified female corpse was found on March ...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday raised the alarm that drug barons are  funding terrorists. According to him, this explains why  Boko Haram insurgents, bandits and kidnappers with arms and ammunition undertake criminal activities in the country. Speaking yesterday ...

An eight-year-old boy was killed by a crocodile as he swam in a river in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, an official said on Friday. The boy and his little brother were swimming in the river while their father was watching ...

A 10-year-old boy has been tortured to death by a soldier at Hayin Banki, Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that the boy went into the Kotoko Barracks which shares a boundary with the community ...

Anambra State Police led by the Anti-cult grand Commander, SP Noel Uche have arrested a blind man who allegedly indulges in fraud (419) in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Mr. Tochukwu Ikebuife alias Mmanye, ...

A number of soldiers are feared dead after an attack on a military base in Katsina State.   Bandits stormed an outpost in Marina, Safana Local Government Area on Thursday. The troops, according to Daily Trust, were returning from an ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, inaugurated the Board of the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency where the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, will serve as vice chairman. El-Rufai, while inaugurating the board, charged the agency to redouble its efforts in ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, set aside its order of interim forfeiture on the properties of Senator Olubukola Saraki, located on 17 and 17A MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State. The judgment came after counsel for the ...

President Buhari has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s borders. He directed the service to ensure that criminals did not find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetrate their criminality. According ...

The Shepherd Superintendent of the Household of God Church, Rev. Chris Okotie, has described the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria as a parochial religious group. Okotie said this while reacting to the election of the PFN in which Bishop Wale Oke ...

A 35-year-old man, Kingsley Igwe, of Nise, in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, has allegedly killed his wife, Onyinye. Igwe allegedly killed his wife after inflicting injuries on her with a kitchen knife. A source said ...

Renowned northern Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said if government could pardon coup plotters that committed treasonable felony, there was nothing wrong extending the same gesture to bandits. The Islamic cleric, while responding to the Christian Association of Nigeria in ...

The President of Eko Club, Alhaji Tajudeen Jaye-Agoro, has said the police have refused to vacate the premises of the club in Surulere, Lagos despite a February 25 court order. Jaye-Agoro, in a statement yesterday, urged the Lagos State Police ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 708 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 157,671. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 4th of ...

A Nigerian drug baron, Ekwegbalu James Nzube, 45, has been sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling drugs into the country. Nzube was sentenced to death by a court in the southern Tay Ninh Province on Tuesday for trafficking nearly ...

Nura, son of Max Air chairman Dahiru Mangal, is dead.   He died while riding his power bike along Dutsimma road, Katsina State. The crash occured close to Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic. Nura was confirmed dead at the Katsina General ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will commission the 1.4km Pen Cinema Bridge, Agege on Friday, 5 March 2021. The Agege Pen Cinema Flyover project started in 2017 under the last administration of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. It was completed by ...

The police have re-arraigned a female medical doctor, Bolanle Aseyan, before a Federal High Court for a r.a.pe allegation against popular Twitter influencer, Olufunmilayo Ogunsanya. Ms. Aseyan faces a five-count charge bordering on false publication on Twitter where she tagged ...

The United Nations has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime on its handling of the investigation regarding the abducted Kankara schoolboys. The schoolboys were kidnapped in Katsina, Mr. Buhari’s home state. UN experts said the purported investigation was poor. The UN ...

Police have seized thousands of counterfeit coronavirus vaccines in South Africa and China and have made more than 80 arrests after a criminal network selling fake jabs was uncovered, Interpol said on Wednesday. In South Africa, police officers found 400 ...

A teenager has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she was in labour. While pregnant Siobhan Buchanan, then 17, from Perth Scotland, was still a trim size six, had no bump, and had been using condoms when ...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested four suspects over possession of N5.7 million counterfeit notes in Wuye District. In a statement, the command’s spokesperson, ASP Maryam Yusuf, gave the names of the suspects as Kamal Haruna, Frank ...

  On Thursday, Facebook-owned popular messaging app WhatsApp has officially rolled out voice and video call support for its desktop app. In a tweet today, WhatsApp announced end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls for its desktop app version and also shared a link ...

A soldier with the Nigerian army school of armour in Bauchi has killed himself. The soldier was said to be one of those newly recruited in 2020, and his first posting had been the army’s school of armour in Bauchi. ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded Ruwan Tofa village in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, abducting over 70 people, including nursing mothers and children. SaharaReporters gathered that the armed men riding motorcycles, attacked the village on ...