Gunmen abduct senior police officer, demand N50m ransom
Area Commander, Suleja Area Command of Nigeria Police Force, Mr Isa Rambo, has been kidnapped by gunmen around Kaduna. A senior police officer told our correspondent that Rambo, an Assistant...
Miyetti Allah constitutes committee to fish out criminals among members
Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Nasarawa chapter has constituted a 15-man committee to fish out criminal elements among its members. Its chairman, Mr Mohammed Hussaini, disclosed this...
N1000 and N500 Naira notes most commonly counterfeited - CBN
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday said that a total of 119,663 pieces of counterfeit notes with a nominal value of N98.82 million was recorded in 2018. The bank...
Police in Buhari’s hometown raid another ‘Islamic school’ where inmates are chained
Police in northern Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men and boys from a second purported Islamic school where they were shackled and subjected to “inhuman and degrading treatments.” The raid in...
Shekau mocks Borno gov, says Boko Haram won’t surrender to ‘infidels’
Boko Haram leader, Mr Abubakar Shekau, on Sunday broke his longtime silence to speak on Borno governor’s recent call on insurgents to lay down their arms and embrace government’s amnesty...
9 kids kidnapped in Kano were sold off in Anambra. Police recovered them. Here’s the story of the sordid trade
Nigeria Police, Kano State command, Friday reunited nine kids who were kidnapped and sold in Anambra State, with their parents. The children, aged between two and 10 years, were said...
Sex-for-grades: Buhari advocates severe punishment for offenders
President Muhammadu Buhari has advocated stricter laws to prevent girls from being abused in Nigeria’s schools. In his reaction to the recent high profile revelation of sexual abuse cases in...
Bandits collect N3bn ransom in Zamfara – Committee
Committee set up by Governor Bello Matawalle to find solutions to banditry in Zamfara State has disclosed that over N3 billion was collected by bandits as ransom from relations of...
Sex-for-grades: UNILAG suspends another lecturer
University of Lagos, Akoka, has suspended another lecturer, Mr Samuel Oladipo, of Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, after he was also indicted in a sexual harassment documentary produced...
Gunmen in army uniform kidnap 9 near military base in Abuja
Nine persons, including a 12-year-old boy, have been kidnapped in Pegi community, a resettlement area in Kuje Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The victims were kidnapped on...
UNILAG, Foursquare Church suspend senior lecturer over sex-for-admission video
University of Lagos, Akoka, has suspended Mr Boniface Igbeneghu of Department of European Languages and Integrated Studies, Faculty of Arts, after he was filmed making sexual advances to an ‘admission...
Gunmen kill nine soldiers in reprisal attack in Zamfara
Suspected gunmen on Thursday killed nine soldiers during a retaliatory attack on the security men in Sunke village, Anka local government area of Zamfara state. According to some eyewitness accounts,...
Panic as gunmen invade Aleshinloye, Ibadan
There was pandemonium around Aleshinloye area of Ibadan Thursday night when some people suspected to be armed robbers invaded the area and shot two motorcyclists. The unexpected attack was said...
Drone, gun, bulletproof SUV, others recovered from Maina as DSS hands him over to EFCC
Department of State Services (DSS) has handed over former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, and his son, Faisal, to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
Peace accord with govt ‘only stops us from killing but stealing is allowed,’ Zamfara bandits say
Residents of Anka and Maru local government areas in Zamfara State on Tuesday were thrown into panic when ‘hundreds’ of armed bandits stormed the area, looting in the process. The...
Fraudsters can empty your bank account in minutes. This is how they do it
SIM swapping is a sophisticated form of fraud and falls under social engineering. Fraudsters will distribute phishing emails, trying to ascertain as much personal information from victims as possible. How...
Kidnapped Nigerians sold into slavery in Burkina Faso
Not fewer than 20 kidnap victims in Katsina State were reportedly sold into slavery in Burkina Faso. Information available to our correspondent revealed that the victims were kidnapped in Kankara...
Police bust baby factories in Lagos, rescue 19 pregnant girls
Lagos State Police Command has uncovered three baby factories in Ikotun area of the State and rescued 19 pregnant girls. The factories were uncovered Sunday by policemen attached to Isheri...
I killed 16 persons to acquire wealth, mystical power – Benue serial killer
Leader of a kidnap gang paraded by Benue State Police Command on Friday made shocking confessions of ritual killings to acquire mystical power. The gang of six was arrested in...
Banditry has doubled number of displaced people in Katsina, others - UN
Worsening violence has doubled the number of people displaced from northwest Nigeria to some 40,000 over the past four months, United Nations said on Friday. The UN’s refugee agency said...
Police free 300 people in chains in raid on Kaduna ‘Islamic centre’
Police in Kaduna on Thursday raided a home with over 300 people in Rigasa in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The cops freed about 300 people who were...
Islamic State says it killed 14 Nigerian soldiers in Borno - Amaq
Islamic State said via its Amaq news agency that it killed 14 Nigerian soldiers in the northeast state of Borno in attacks on Wednesday. There were clashes in the state...
Ghana arrests three people for plot against president
Ghana said police foiled a suspected coup on Friday when they arrested three people believed to have been amassing makeshift bombs, weapons and computer equipment in a plot targeting the...
How dismissed soldiers use uniforms to rob on highways
Fresh facts have emerged on how some dismissed personnel of Nigerian Army use their uniforms to rob innocent citizens on highways. The dismissed soldiers according to the police would hijack...
FG charges Sowore with treasonable felony, insulting Buhari
Federal Government on Friday filed seven counts of treasonable felony and money laundering against the Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore. Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters and a presidential candidate...
Nigerian accomplice in P&ID scam arraigned, remanded in prison
Mr O.A. Adeniyi of Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, yesterday, remanded Mrs. Grace Taiga, an alleged female accomplice in the multiple fraud involving P&ID in Suleja...
How I killed 7 women in hotels – Suspect
A suspected serial killer, Mr Gracious David-West, 39, arrested by police has admitted killing at least seven women in hotels in Lagos, Owerri and Port Harcourt. The suspect was arrested...
Hotel killings: Women protest in Port Harcourt
Hundreds of women on Wednesday morning marched to Government House in Port Harcourt, protesting killing of young women in hotels in Rivers State. The women, clad in black attire, called...
UK court orders ex-banker to return £7.3m laundered for Ibori
A court in the United Kingdom has ordered a former Goldman Sachs banker, described as the linchpin in the money laundering schemes of Mr James Ibori, to return £7.3 million...
Burglars steal solid gold toilet worth N2.4bn from palace
A solid 18-carat gold toilet, worth £5 million (N2.4 billion), was stolen from Blenheim Palace in the early hours of yesterday and remains missing. The golden lavatory went on display...
Kidnapped professor found dead
Kidnapped lecturer of Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Mr Gideon Okedayo, has been found dead. Okedayo, a professor in Department of Mathematical Sciences and Acting Dean of...
One person commits suicide every 40 seconds - WHO
Number of people worldwide who die from suicide is declining but one person still kills themselves every 40 seconds, according to new figures from World Health Organization, which said countries...
Bank mistakenly credited a couple's account with N43m. They spent it
A Pennsylvania couple is facing felony theft charges after their bank accidentally put $120,000 (N43.2 million) in their account, and the couple spent most of it instead of contacting the...
Two Nigerians jailed for defrauding US consulate
Special Fraud Unit of Nigeria Police Force, Ikoyi, Lagos State, has secured the conviction of two fake visa agents, Messers Ismaila Adefila and Busari Kabiru, who defrauded United States consulate...
Commercial drivers cry out as kidnappers return to Kaduna-Abuja expressway
After a lull, kidnappings have returned to Abuja-Kaduna expressway forcing many commercial drivers to abandon their business. Tension and apprehension have returned to the Kaduna-Abuja expressway following renewed rise of...
Southwest has lowest crime rate - IGP
Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, Thursday declared that available statistics have shown that Southwest has the lowest crime rate among the six geopolitical zones in the country. Adamu...
PDP National Youth Leader kidnapped
Mr Udeh Okoye, National Youth Leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, has been kidnapped, police said Monday. Okoye went to his farm in his home Enugu State when he...
South African police arrest dozens after riots in Johannesburg
Police arrested dozens of people in South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg on Monday after rioters looted shops, burned tyres and blocked road junctions - the second outbreak of urban rioting...
Scores killed as gunmen attack Taraba community
Suspected militiamen attacked a community in Taraba State, yesterday morning and left at least 15 persons dead. Residents said the attackers were from Benue State, suggesting it was part of...
Man who stole $50 to be freed after 36 years in jail
An Alabama judge has ordered that a man who robbed a bakery of $50.75 (£41.72) be released from his life sentence. Alvin Kennard, 58, was handed the harsh sentence under...