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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. ...

Two students of the Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, die in a fire incident at their residence  

Those were the words of 29-year-old Ibrahim Balogun, aka Small Jpron, who was, yesterday, paraded by the Lagos State Police Command. He had been declared wanted for five murder cases in the Somolu and Bariga areas in 2016. Speaking while ...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has released another video, showing its latest operation in the northeast where it fatally wounded Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram. The video, that has been released following the Nigerian military claimed 300 insurgents were killed, ...

A man Mr. Sheriff Oyewole, who allegedly got a family friend’s daughter drunk at a celebration and raped her, was yesterday sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in a Lagos magistrate. In line with the court, the convict was found guilty of offences of ...