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A senior advocate of Nigeria and rights activist, Femi Falana, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot single-handedly approve establishment of State and Local Government Areas police. In a brief statement in reaction to the recommendation of the Presidential panel ...

The Ondo State Police Command have arrested two security guards identified as Ayuba Idris and Taisu Abubakar, who killed their Ghanaian employer and his daughter over 3-months unpaid salary. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Undie Adie who paraded the ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office, on Monday arraigned two persons for allegedly defrauding one Dele Akinbuluma, a lecturer and doctoral student of the Department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan.

The war against terrorism has suffered a setback as Boko Haram captured Marte Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State after an attack on a military base in the area. One of the soldiers who was in the military base, ...

The Court of Appeal in Lagos, on Friday okayed the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the final forfeiture of N1.4billion which a firm, Melrose General Services Limited, obtained from the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) through ...

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested two members of a kidnap gang operating in Kaduna State. The suspects, Abdulmimini Adamu and Usman Abdulahi, were said to possess been mixed up in kidnapping of four expatriates ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday, May 31, 2019, arraign the controversial official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Philomina Chieshe who claimed that the missing N35 million (Thirty Five Million Naira) JAMB proceeds ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and other Nigerians escaped death on Wednesday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport when an Ethiopian Airlines plane almost crashed.

Adhering to a rain that destroyed houses and other valuables, residents of Kuta community, in Ayedire Local Government part of Osun State, are now homeless.

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command says it’s apprehended over 10 suspected traffic robbers and recovery of firearms and ammunition in numerous areas of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city. Their state police command made this known in a record issued ...