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Maj. Gen. Umaru Mohammed, a former group managing director of Nigerian Army Properties Limited, was found guilty of corruption and given a seven-year prison sentence by a Nigerian Army special court martial on Tuesday in Abuja.Mohammed was also ordered by the military court to repay ....
In the state's Idumota region, Rapid Response Squad (RRS) agents of the Nigerian police have detained three 'fraudsters'.On Tuesday, the alleged scammers were taken into custody while reportedly holding a reluctant victim hostage.The police spokesperson in Lagos, Benjamin Hun ....
Late on Tuesday, four Nasarawa State University, Keffi students had been kidnapped by terrorists between Monday and Tuesday.According to Solomon Timmy, a member of the university's Students Union, the terrorists broke into the student community on Monday between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m. and ap ....
13 people have been detained by the Special Military Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), for suspected involvement in kidnapping, jailbreak, banditry, rustling, and other criminal acts in Plateau and portions of Kaduna and Bauchi States.In a statement released on Tuesday in Jos ....
Timipre Sylva, the All Progressives Congress candidate for governor of Bayelsa State, has been eliminated from the race by a Federal High Court in Abuja.Demesuoyefa Kolomo, an APC member in the state, asked the court in a lawsuit with the case number FHC/ABJ/CS/821/2023 to determine ....
On Monday, Ondo State's Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, informed the Federal High Court in Abuja that he was dropping the action he had brought to prevent being impeached by the Ondo State House of Assembly.The Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Chief Judge of Ondo State, the House o ....
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police in Abuja have verified the recent arrests of 11 alleged kidnappers.The confirmation came after a popular video of a daylight one-chance robbery that was extensively posted on social media platforms and showed a man holding the door of a mov ....
On Monday, the Lagos State Government said that Ladipo Market had not yet been reopened.A press release issued by Director of Public Affairs, Mrs. Kadiri Folashade, stated that the market still needed to meet certain environmental and safety requirements before resuming business ope ....
On Monday, the Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island, condemned Drambi Vandi, a suspended assistant superintendent of police, to death by hanging for the murder of Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, a lawyer from Lagos.The ASP was sentenced by Justice Ibironke Harrison aft ....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended R21/Matrix-M for the prevention of malaria in children, two years after first recommending the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine to combat high Plasmodium falciparum malaria.The WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE) an ....