Security

    Troops of the Nigerian Army, and operatives of the Department of State Services have rescued a lecturer at Taraba State University, Joshua Saleh.   The lecturer was abducted on July 31 along the Chinkai–Kente–Wukari Road in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State.   The rescue followed a ...

    The Imo State Police Command has dismantled a cult gang that specialised in phone theft, burglary, and altering the tracking device of phones in Eziobodo, in the Owerri West Local Government Area.   This is even as the Command has arrested several people linked to various phone robberies ...

  The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper, John Chinagorom, who is said to have been on the Command’s wanted list.   A statement released on Saturday by the Anambra State Police spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said the suspect was arrested in Zaria, Kaduna State, with the ...

    The National Emergency Management Agency said no fewer than 165 persons have died, 82 missing and 119,791 persons have been affected by this year’s flooding.   NEMA revealed this in its data dashboard on Friday.   The agency also stated that 138 persons sustained various degrees of injuries, ...

    The Nigeria Customs Service has announced December 31, 2025, as the deadline for the migration from the current Fast Track Scheme to the globally recognised Authorised Economic Operator Programme.   Announcing this in a statement on Friday, the National Public Relations Officer of the service, Abdullahi Maiwada, stressed ...

    Seven farmers who were kidnapped last Saturday while working on their farmland in Itaogbolu, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, have regained their freedom.   The victims were released on Wednesday night after spending five days in captivity, a relative of one of the abductees told ...

  The National Association of Nigerian Students on Monday raised the alarm over what they described as the “nefarious and atrocious” activities of members of Dragon Squad, a police unit that has been terrorising residents of Ogun State, particularly students.   According to a statement signed by the National President ...

  Several persons were feared dead on Friday night after a trailer lost control and rammed into them along the Chisco Park Junction in Amichi, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State.   It was gathered that the fatal accident occurred around 9:30pm when the driver of the trailer ...

  Russia struck several regions of Ukraine overnight, officials said Saturday, reporting one person killed in Dnipro, while Moscow said two people died after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov region.   Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said one person was killed in a high-rise apartment complex.   Across the ...

    The Ogun State police command on Saturday said that its Anti-Cultism Unit in collaboration with other tactical squads have arrested two soldiers and 20 others suspected to be cultists during a midnight raid on Hilton Hotel, Osiele, Abeokuta. The Spokesperson of the state police command, CSP Omolola Odutola, ...