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Emeka Ikemefuna, Kingsley Okechukwu and Joseph Victor were arrested at Ago Palace Way, Okota in Isolo, after storming the area around 9:35pm on Sunday on a motorcycle, snatching people’s belongings at gun point. Crdt: The Nation

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State police Command have arrested four suspects for allegedly swindling members of the public of various sums of money. The four suspects were picked up separately in three incidents of ...

Barely two months after the presidency handed over two aircraft in the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force, one of the ballistics defence capable aircraft has crashed at the Nigerian Air Force base, Makurdi, reports Thenewsguru.   The news ...

Imad Harb and Toni Harb, were, today, arraigned along with their company: Transparent Construction Nig. Ltd. before Justice E. N. Oluedo of the State High Court Enugu, for allegedly conspiring and obtaining the sum of N1.7m from one Desmond Ogadinma ...

According to, Apeh Ifeanyi Malachy, the incident happened today in Nsukka. Following the crushing to death and cutting into two of the bike rider, irate youths immediately set the truck, which was fully loaded with coca-cola products, ablaze. The youths ...

Grace Onaiwu Omogui, the mother of a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Ifueko Okauru, has died. Mrs. Omogui, teacher, lawyer and judge, passed on at a Lagos hospital, Saturday, following complications from multiple gunshot injuries from an armed ...

Chijioke was arrested on 9 April 2007 and subsequently charged with trafficking 2,604.56 grammes of cannabis. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by the High Court in November 2008. Under Singaporean law, trafficking more than 500 grammes of ...

According to a report by his employer, NAIJ.com, Adeparusi, was involved in a motorcycle accident in Abuja. He died on the spot. He was last seen alive when he stepped out of his apartment at about 1.00 pm in Kugbo ...

Today, the FG formally filed a 15 count criminal charge against a serving Judge of the federal High Court- Justice Adetokunbo Ademola, one of the serving Judges who was arrested on 8th October, 2016 by the DSS and his wife ...

Today, the House of Reps asked the EFCC and the CBN to immediately go after the promoters Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox, otherwise known as ‘MMM’ in Nigeria. Lawmakers strongly opposed the investment scheme, which promises 30% return on investment for any ...