June 03, 2022
Nigeria: Train Attack - 'Our 2-Year-Old Baby Among 62 Persons Still in Captivity'
Sixty-five days after bandits attacked Kaduna bound train and abducted its passengers, the families of the victims have cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari, informing him that… Read more »
June 01, 2022
Nigeria: N500m Bail - Court Seizes Okorocha's Passport, Bars Him From Travelling Abroad
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, granted bail to the detained former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, to the tune of N500million with one surety in like… Read more »
Nigeria: They Showed Me Decomposed Corpse When I Negotiated for N10m - Methodist Prelate, Uche
The Prelate, Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr Samuel Uche, yesterday, narrated how their kidnappers settled for N100 million ransom, which they asked be packaged in five… Read more »
Nigeria: Bandits Abduct Students, Travellers On Birnin-Gwari Road, Burn Vehicles
Bandits in the early hours of yesterday abducted students and other travellers along the Birnin-Gwari highway. Read more »
Nigeria: Bandits Abduct Kaduna Students, Travellers On Birnin-Gwari Road, Burn Vehicles
Bandits in the early hours of yesterday abducted students and other travellers along the Birnin-Gwari highway. Read more »
May 31, 2022
Nigeria: Court Grants Ex-Imo Gov, Okorocha, N500m Bail
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, granted bail to the detained former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, to the tune of N500million with one surety in like… Read more »
Nigeria: Bail Application - I Didn't Take Attorney General to Court - Okorocha
The Senator representing Imo West Senatorial district, Rochas Okorocha, said he did not take the Attorney General of the Federation to court on a suit seeking for his (Okorocha's)… Read more »
May 30, 2022
Nigeria: Police Brutality - How Oyetola's Compensation Wiped Victims' Tears
Although some wounds hardly heal but the soothing effect of counsel, sometimes, provides a foundation for permanent healing. Such is the situation with Osun state victims' of… Read more »
May 27, 2022
Nigeria: NBC Can't Regulate Advertising in Nigeria - Court
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has held that the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, acted beyond its powers by seeking to regulate the practice of advertising in… Read more »
Nigeria: Tears As Abia Community Buries Catechist Beheaded By Gunmen
As the menace of gunmen continued unabated in various parts of the South-East geopolitical zone, tears flowed freely yesterday at Umutu Autonomous community, Lokpaukwu-Umuchieze in… Read more »
Nigeria: Insecurity - Take Over Forests, Swamps Used By Gunmen, Sultan Tasks Govt, States
THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'adu Abubakar led-Jama'atu Nasril Islam, JNI, has called on the Federal and state governments to immediately take control of all forests and… Read more »
Nigeria: Insecurity - Benue Opens Up Forests to Smoke Out Bandits, Stem Attacks
ALARMED by incessant attacks and killings by armed herders, the Benue State Government has taken steps to open up communities surrounded by dense forests which have been providing… Read more »
May 26, 2022
Nigeria: Drug Trafficking - My Life Is in Danger in Prison, Abba Kyari Tells Court
The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, who is facing drug trafficking charge, Thursday, begged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to release him on… Read more »
Nigeria: Killing of Harira Jubril, Her Children in Anambra Callous, Demeanin - Osinbajo
The killing of a pregnant woman, Mrs. Harira Jubril and her children in Anambra State is not only callous, brutal and demeaning, but capable of creating ethnic conflict across the… Read more »
Nigeria: Suspected Kidnappers Kill Soldier, Driver, Abduct Foreigner in Ondo
Suspected kidnappers have killed a Soldier, driver and abducted a foreign contractor in the ancient town of Owo, in Ondo State. Read more »
Nigeria: Controversy Trails Mysterious Death of 19-Year-Old Dispatch Rider in Ikoyi Prison
Controversy is currently trailing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 19-year-old dispatch rider, Uzoma Ezekiel, who died at the Ikoyi correctional centre. Read more »
Nigeria: Author Attempts Suicide After Being Duped $140000 By Facebook Girlfriend
An author based in Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mr Odibe Emeka, allegedly duped about $140,000 by a Facebook girlfriend, based in Canada… Read more »
Nigeria: Kaduna Train Attack - Come to Our Aid, Abductees Appeal to Govt
Barely a day after the terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train threatened to start killing the abducted passengers, if their demands were not met, the terrorists, yesterday,… Read more »
Nigeria: Update On Kala-Balge - Zulum's Aide Confirms 32 Killed, Says Victims Weren't Farmers
Thirty-two persons are believed to be the number of victims killed by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists around Mudu village, some 45 kilometers away from Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge… Read more »
May 25, 2022
Nigeria: Borno, Katsina Killings - Terrorists Now Boxed Into a Corner - Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the rampaging terrorists and bandits have been reduced to scavenging from artisanal miners and farmers for survival because they are boxed… Read more »
Nigeria: Expect Toughest Possible Response From Security Forces - Buhari to Killers
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the wanton killings of people in the South-East and other parts of the country. Read more »
Nigeria: Appointment of New Dig for S-East - Nnamani Sees Bright Future for Igbos in Police
The Commissioner representing the South East in the Police Service Commission, Chief Onyemuche Nnamani has congratulated two South-East Policewomen recently promoted by the… Read more »
Nigeria: Terrorists Kill Over 72 in Borno, Katsina in 72 Hours
Terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram/Islamic State of West Africa, ISAWP, have killed no fewer than 72 persons at Rann in Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno… Read more »
Nigeria: Killing of Northerners - Nigerians No Longer Safe Everywhere - ACF
Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has expressed worry over the killing of northerners in the South-East, saying Nigerians were no longer safe wherever they are. Read more »
May 24, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria Exits Nations of High Piracy Risks
For fighting Sea Piracy headlong through the Nigerian Navy and ensuring a successive decline in reported cases of sea robbery attacks within Nigeria's maritime domain, the… Read more »