The Nigerian Army says it will re-organise the ongoing exercise Harbin Kunama III and expand its mandate following resurgence of banditry in the North West.
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This was part of a communique issued at the end of the 19th General Assembly of the Diocese held at St. Charles Borromeo Pastoral Centre in Jalingo.
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a herdsman, Sulieman Adamu, over alleged murder.
Ndubuisi Ogbodo, Controller of Prisons, Enugu State Command, has expressed concern over the high number of inmates in the facility which had tripled its capacity.
In a bid to check fresh outbreak of hostilities between some parts of Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and the Agila people of Benue State, Governor David Umahi has directed that the Ohaukwu Council Chairman, Clement Odah, and 39 others be arrested for interrogations by the Police and the Department of State Services.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says it has arrested two persons for defiling a 13-year-old girl.
The absence of defence counsel has stalled the trial of five students accused of gang-raping and blackmailing a fellow student, at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court.
The Peoples Democratic Party has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to end his “private visit” abroad and immediately return home to face the deteriorated security situation in the country.
The Commissioner of Police, Explosive Ordinance Disposal Command, Maikudi Shehu, has threatened to withdraw the licence of any Explosive and Radioactive materials stakeholders caught selling such to terrorists.
A pregnant woman, Yemisi Adekoya, on Thursday appeared in an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun for allegedly defrauding ASIEA Micro Finance Bank of N5 million.
The Police Command in Zamfara has confirmed the kidnap of five persons at Government Girls Secondary School Moriki in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state.
A 65-year-old trader, Andrew Ajiyat, on Thursday appeared in an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly inflcting injuries on his neighbour, a mother and 10-month-old baby.
Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, the governor-elect of Adamawa, on Thursday in Yola, called for more counter measures by the military to contain attacks by insurgents in the state.
The group said this in a letter addressed to President Buhari on Thursday and signed by one of its members, Nurudeen Asunogie
The Police in Rivers say they have secured the unconditional release of four abducted staffers of the National Emergency Management Agency.
The kidnappers stormed Umar’s residence in Daura at 7pm on Wednesday and sporadically shot into the air, scaring the hell out of bystanders, who scampered for safety
The four abducted staff of the National Emergency Management Agency, who were kidnapped last Tuesday in Obua-Adual Local Government Area of Rivers State, have regained their freedom.
Edo in South-South, Kano in North West and Plateau in North Central Nigeria are leading in drug seizures and arrests statistics by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Economic Confidential can report.
The redeployments were announced in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, on Wednesday
The Police in Enugu State have arrested a palm wine tapper, Camillus Onah, (75), over the death of his son after allegedly drinking his product, the Public Relations Officer of the Police Command, SP Ebere Amaraizu, has said.