A 40-year old Goodluck Igbineweka Odeh has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, with two kilogrammes of heroin, which has a street value of N564 million.
Odeh, who concealed the drug in the lining of false bottom of his suitcase, is from Ikpoba Okha Local Government area...
The Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Hussain has been killed by suspected bandits.
According to the Nasarawa Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ramham Nansel, information was received yesterday, 2nd April, at about 7pm, to the effect that unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani...
Boko Haram operatives are said to have released a video of its fighters bringing down the NAF jet that was deployed against the sect in Borno State, which lost contact with radar on Wednesday evening.
The video, which credible sources released to Daily Trust, showed the fighters carrying artillery equipment...
. . . Says over 400 internet fraudsters arrested in three months
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa has bemoaned the negative image internet fraud casts on the country, especially as the major culprits are university undergraduates.
He expressed his dismay at the trend...
Vice presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian general election under the People's Democratic Party, and former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has condemned the attack on a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo.
Soludo was attacked by unknown assailants yesterday in his...
The first prosecution witness, PW1, in the money laundering trial of a former governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, and two others, Tanko Beji and Umar Muhammad Nasko, has told the court that auditors could not trace the address of contractors that got paid the sum of N1.7bn...
Anne Osemekeh, Abuja
The National Security Adviser, NSA, to President Muhammadu Buhari, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, has expressed confidence that the military will bring the nefarious activities of bandits, kidnappers as well as thier collaborators, to and end.
Monguno, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting held with service...
Tension is palpable in Ikot Afanga community in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, following the gruesome burning alive by hoodlums, of a police inspector.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Odiko MacDon, confirmed the incident, today, saying: “We are aware of the incident. It is...
An inmate was fatally shot Saturday after a corrections officer was taken hostage at the Oklahoma County jail in Oklahoma, authorities said.
"The person who had taken him hostage was shot by an Oklahoma City police officer," said Aaron Brilbeck, spokesman for the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office. "He is deceased.
The...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has warned that the Commission will not tolerate breach of government financial rules and regulations.
Prof. Owasanoye who gave this warning during a meeting with the Forum of Directors of Finance of federal...
