Category: Security

Osun Police dismiss rumours, video of armed robbery attack

      The Osun Police Command has refuted a video of an armed robbery attack currently making the rounds in the state. The command in a press statement...

Pastor nabbed for threatening to kill, kidnap victim after demanding N1m

        A pastor in Adamawa State has been arrested for threatening to kidnap someone if the person does not give him N1 million. Pastor Joel Saul,...

Buhari reacts as NDLEA boss, Marwa makes highest drug bust

      President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the recent successes recorded by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in...

Knocks as woman dies while chasing husband, mistress

              Netizens have reacted to the news of a woman who died in a lone auto crash while chasing her husband and his mistress...

Why kidnappers still demand ransom via phone calls despite NIN, sim card link — Pantami

                  Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Pantami, has explained that although...

Number of people I killed uncountable – Osun suspect

                A bricklayer, Adamo Aliyu, recently arrested alongside four others for robbery and murder said he has lost count...

Boko Haram ‘chief executioner’, family surrender

            A Boko Haram leader described as the sect’s chief executioner, Bashir Bulabuduwaye, has surrendered to Nigerian troops at...

Fund traditional rulers to end insecurity, Oluwo urges FG

              The paramount ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has advised the Federal Government that funding of...

Daughter, group demand fresh probe into journalist’s death

              Nigeria’s foremost media rights group, Journalists for Democratic Rights, and Leshi Bagauda, the youngest daughter of...

BREAKING: Army shooting range bullets hit two in Ibadan

                There is pandemonium in some areas close to the 2Division Nigeria Army at Odogbo in Ibadan as two persons were...

Court sentences Cardi B for 2018 strip club fight

        American Grammy award-winning rap artiste and songwriter, Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, professionally known as Cardi B, has been sentenced to...

Ice Prince regains freedom

      Nigerian musician Panshak Henry Zamani, AKA Ice Prince Zamani, has been released from prison. Recall that Ice Prince was remanded at the Ikoyi...

Police uncover marijuana plantation, arrest owner

        The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command says it has arrested a suspected peddler of prohibited substances suspected to be...

Insecurity: Students decline to return to school over fear of bandits

      Some primary and secondary school students in Kaduna State, have refused to return to school for the new academic session over the fear of attack by...

EFCC arrests man for attempted $17.5m fraud

      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a suspected fraudster, Olabanji Aluko, for alleged $17.5million advance fee fraud....

Customs officer’s stray bullet injures NURTW official

        A 35-year-old member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) narrowly escaped death after a stray bullet fired by Nigeria...

Osun: ‘We killed filling station manager to cover N2.1m fraud’ – Suspects confess

          The Osun State Police Command has arrested five suspects for alleged conspiracy, armed robbery, murder and membership of an unlawful...

BREAKING: Heavy gunfire in Delta community over boundary dispute

          Residents of Aladja community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, on Friday morning, raised the alarm that the people of...

EFCC arrests two owners of internet fraud school, seven others  

      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Command, says it has arrested two owners of yahoo schools and seven other suspected...

Police arrest man who uses charms to defraud POS operators

        Police in Anambra State have arrested a man who allegedly uses charms to defraud POS operators in Awka. Nationnewslead gathered that the man...