Armed robbers have attacked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation mega station in Asa Dam area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, behaving a Police Sergeant and another guard.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okolie’s death occurred barley two weeks after another staff of the polytechnic, Dr. S. Okhikhena, described as Okolie’s close friend, was similarly murdered.
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State has nabbed four suspected smugglers in connection with the smuggling of 220 bags of 50kg rice.
A motorcyclist who stole his in-law’s police crested vest and fez cap in order to hijack a motorcycle along with two other suspects has been arrested in Ikorodu, Lagos by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command.
The Nigerien authorities tipped off Abuja about the cash found in the apartment believed to be owned by a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina.
An 11 count charge was brought before the court by the Inspector-General of Police in charge-number FHC/OW/05C/2019 against Gift and Ezenwa’s four brothers: Emmanuel Okoronkwo, Uche Okoronkwo, Ikechukwu Onyekere and Franklin Anugba.
The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested one Nnaji Nwabueze who allegedly threatens to kidnap and murder unsuspecting members of the public using text messages and the internet.
The Federal Road Safety Corps, Omu-Aran Unit Command in Kwara, has returned N119,000 and other valuables recovered at the scene of a lone auto-accident in Omu-Aran to their owners.
The Police Command in Nasarawa State has arrested one Ahmed Abdullahi, 23, for allegedly stabbing his stepmother to death.
Police rescue nine children kidnapped, renamed and ‘converted to Christianity’ in Onitsha
It would be recalled that the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, hinted recently that the Military will adopt “spiritual warfare” approach in tackling the menace of Boko Haram with antagonism from different quarters in Nigeria.
The committee on finding solutions to banditry in Zamfara State on Friday said it has concrete evidence that five Emirs in the state were complicit in the spate of banditry in which more than 6,319 men and women were killed.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has handed over N111.4 million recovered from civil servants and politicians in Kwara State to the state government.
Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Friday, said Buhari made his feelings known while reacting to the recent high profile revelation of sexual abuse cases in institutions of higher learning in the country,
Nigerian soldiers manning a checkpoint in Adamawa intercepted the vehicles that seemed to have been transported into Nigeria without due process.
Abubakar, a student of the Kano State University of Technology, Wudil, is charged with culpable homicide.
The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
The duo were said to have cut off the boy’s head for the purpose of selling it at a sum of N200,000.
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued six students of the Government Day Secondary School, Gwagwada in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State abducted on their way to school on Thursday morning.
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued six students of Government Day Secondary School Gwagwada in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State abducted on their way to school on Thursday morning.