Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has visited Niger Republic to discuss the modalities for the safe and dignified repatriation of 120,000 Nigerian refugees.
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The Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Abia State, Nnamdi Nwannukwu, said the command impounded two trucks allegedly laden with large quantities of crude oil.
Alhaji Jibrin Giza, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works in Nasarawa State, was in the early hours of Sunday abducted by yet to be identified gunmen.
The local sources said the herdsmen allegedly accompanied by unidentified army personnel, started the attacks on Thursday and were unrelenting as at Saturday
The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre in collaboration with the Anambra State Police Command with support from Open Society Justice Initiative have concluded plans to ensure that citizens and policemen become aware of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law in Anambra State.
The Borno State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has started interrogating a couple and their two children over what they know about 10,522 kilograms of compressed Cannabis Sativa, aka Indian hemp, concealed in a warehouse in Maiduguri, the State Capital.
Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team have smashed a kidnap gang in Imo State, which raped a Medical Doctor four times.
“The policemen wrote the statement themselves, even though I can read and write. My hands and legs were tied together behind. One of the policemen lifted and dropped me to the ground. I screamed. They tortured me to the extent of bending me like a smoked fish. My chest couldn’t touch the ground. They used a machete to flog and injure me several times. At a point, I couldn’t bear it anymore.”
The Director-General of LASEMA, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Saturday
President Muhammadu Buhari is from Katsina State where banditry had also gained grounds like so many other parts of the country
The Exam Ethics Marshall International, an NGO, says it has forwarded a list signed by 15,550 petitioners to the Senate to facilitate the passage of the Sex-for-Grade Prohibition bill.
The Senate of the University of Port Harcourt has expelled eight students over alleged misconduct bordering on plagiarism, extortion and examination malpractices.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday filed an amended three-count charge against Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed, former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team.
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq led a marathon anti-corruption walk across downtown Ilorin on Friday amid renewed calls on Nigerians, especially young people, to shun graft or activities capable of stunting development.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person on Friday said the agency apprehended no fewer than 130 suspected human traffickers and rescued 190 victims within three years.
The Zonal Head of the EFCC, Isyaku Sharu, disclosed this during the Youths Walk Against Corruption, organised by the Commission in Ilorin, Kwara State on Friday.
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a 29-year-old woman, Ayodeji Idowu, who allegedly threw a stone which hit a motorcyclist on the head and killed him.
A Catholic priest serving in Uromi Diocese, Rev. Father Nicholas Oboh, has been abducted by gunmen in Benin City, Edo State.
The Defence Headquarters has told Amnesty International to put an end to its reckless distortion of facts in its desperate bid to satisfy its puppeteers by undermining Nigeria’s Military campaign against terrorism in the North East.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, on Friday ordered his convoy to evacuate some passengers whose vehicle broke down along Maiduguri-Damboa Road in Borno State.