The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a driver, Adebiyi Yusuf, for allegedly engaging in illegal oil bunkering and adulteration of diesel.
A mobile phone software marketer, who specialises in downloading applications on mobile sets, has been reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Ovwian, Udu Council area of Delta State after allegedly demanding sex from a female customer who could not pay for the service he rendered to her.
A legal practitioner, Ndubuisi Onyeakpa, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Justice I.N. Uwaigbo that 20 policemen scaled the wall of his family house at Umunze to arrest him.
A 36-year-old man, Mr. Benjamin Endurance, has been dragged to court for burning her four-year-old daughter, Goodness, with hot electric heater over allegation of bedwetting.
The Abia State Police Command has arrested and paraded three suspects, who allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in Arochukwu Local Council Area of the state.
Operatives of the Abia State Police Command have arrested a gang of suspected vandals of electrical installations and the sub-station of the Enugu Electrical Distribution Company within Aba, the commercial hub of the State.
The police in Lagos are on the trail of some suspected robbers, who allegedly hijacked a tanker laden with 33,000-litre fuel valued at N4.5m on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Thursday said it recovered over N57m from suspected fraudsters in the South-West between February and September 2016.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested some suspected members of Eiye Confraternity, who allegedly used a residence on Halidu Avenue in Shibiri, in the Okokomaiko area of the state, for cult activities.
A man has attempted to commit suicide in Benue State by ingesting insecticide after Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox froze accounts of participants in the Ponzi scheme, two weeks to his wedding.
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has sentenced a prophetess, Felicia Oyelade, to two years’ imprisonment for forging land documents and selling same to unsuspecting members of the public.
The Senior Pastor of Christ International Church, Baden, Switzerland, Osoko Solomon, has asked the Lagos State Government to give him the two-bedroomed bungalow he paid for more than 21 years ago.
The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, has arrested three workers of Peakins Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Lagos, for allegedly stealing drugs estimated at N56m.
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Abia State Police Command, Adeleye Oyebade, on Monday paraded a suspected rapist, identified as Emeka Asibiriobwu, who was accused of defiling a two-year-old girl kept under his care.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman, identified only as Olayinka, for allegedly abducting her friend’s 13-year-old son, Sheriff Adeleke, in the Igbogbo, Ikorodu area of the state.
One farmer was killed, while12 houses were set ablaze following a clash between members of a vigilance group and some residents of Ejinya Abakpa and Ejinya Eheche communities in the Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State on Saturday.
A suspected robbery gang has unleashed terror on security guards in Otumara/Ilaje community, in the Costain area of Lagos State, for allegedly preventing them from robbing residents of the community.
A police driver has killed two people while attempting to stop an overloaded commercial bus on the Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi-Uku Expressway, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State.
A seven-time convict, Emmanuel Oyewunmi, has been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing from a driver and a passenger.
OPERATIVES of the Abia State vigilante group have arrested two suspects in Aba, Abia State, for allegedly vandalising an electricity transformer cables.
THE Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 6 Command, Calabar, Abubakar Marafa, has alleged that some hoodlums have snatched rifles from drunken policemen.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two members of a robbery gang for allegedly attacking a polythene producing company in Alibaba, in the Isashi area of the state, stealing a raw material evaluated at N6.4m.
The police have arrested four security personnel of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and some workers of the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, Warri, for illegally siphoning fuel from a vandalised pipeline at the WRPC jetty in Warri, Delta State.
The family of an Indian schoolgirl who died after observing a two-month fast has been charged with homicide amid allegations that she was coerced to undertake a controversial religious ritual, police said Sunday.
The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 74-year-old man, Godwin Agada for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old girl at Obiaruku in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state.
Suspected drug traffickers killed two policemen and wounded three others during an attack on a police station in central Chad, the government said Saturday.
A driver of a notable businessman in Ughelli (names withheld) in Ughelli, Delta State, was shot twice by unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers for daring to protect his boss.
There was confusion at a new generation church identified as Dominion Grace Christian Centre at Mgbaja Ossah in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State when one of its members was reportedly electrocuted in the church premises while the Sunday service was going on.
A 32-year-old cobbler, Ganiu Anjorin, and a salesgirl at a supermarket on Dosunmu Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State, Opeyemi Suarau, have been arraigned by the police for allegedly stealing the sum of N11.4m, belonging to a businesswoman, Omobola Akintoye.
A United States flight was evacuated prior to takeoff when a passenger’s Galaxy Note 7 — reportedly a replacement in Samsung’s global recall — caught fire, landing the company in new controversy.
An 18-year-old secondary school pupil, Sadiq Adegbite, who allegedly stole N200 from a fellow pupil and used charm to harass other colleagues, was on Thursday brought before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
The family of a police officer, identified as Taiwo Agboola, who was allegedly killed by a reckless driver in Akure, the Ondo State capital, dropped his corpse in front of the Area Command’s office, Akure, to protest against the alleged insensitivity of the command to the death of the cop.
The Nasarawa State Police Command on Thursday said it had arrested a woman in Gunduma, Karu Local Government Area of the state for allegedly strangling her daughter.