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Benue State Command of the Department of State Services,DSS has Some Kidnappers who have been terrorizing Benue state. Six School children have been rescued, some were united with their parents while some are yet to identify their parents. Addressing news ...

A pastor, Timothy Ngwu, was on Monday docked at an Enugu North Magistrates’ Court for allegedly marrying another man’s wife, daughter as well as another woman. The pastor’s wife, Veronica Ngwu, was said to have petitioned the court over the development. ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today turned down the application brought before it by the leader of the Shi’ites Islamic group in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, asking the court to order the Department of State Services, DSS, to release ...

CAN has lashed out at John Kerry, U.S Secretary of State, for excluding Christians and southern Nigeria in his meetings during his recent visit to Nigeria. Describing his action as discriminatory, personal and divisive, CAN president, Rev. Dr. Supo Ayokunle, ...

The Nigerian Army this morning released a statement warning the general public particularly Borno state residents from boarding commercial vehicles at undesignated garages. Read the statement below Headquarters 7 Division Nigeria Army Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri wishes to caution the general ...

Chigozie Egegonye, 27, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly planning the kidnap of his sister, Franca. Egegonye had told his childhood friend, Michael Oluchukwu, that despite the wealth of his sister, she was stingy. This ...

A person called Sukurat Idowu, 45, has been arrested by the Lagos state police for brutalizing his 5 year old daughter at their house in Ikotun. The person, who works as a road side mechanic assaulted the litttle girl named Monsurat ...

How I killed my girlfriend – 22-year-old Ondo Poly student A twenty-two year-old Student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUGIPO) in Ondo State, Chukwudi Oweniwe has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Miss Nifemi Adeyeye in a bush at ...

As shared by Leonardo Cyma on Facebook… ‘At Bisalla Road by Roban stores Enugu on 25/8/16..Fully armed with heavy shooting,got people scampering for safety..But for the quick intervention of the joint security forces,here is the result….SAY NO TO CRIME! It ...

FIDEI Polytechnic, owned by Rev. Fr. Chris Utov of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, was, today, shut down indefinitely, following the alleged killing of two students, by the police. Properties belonging to the institution were also destroyed during the crisis. ...