The Nigerian government has declared readiness to partner with China to tackle insecurity. Police Minister, Maigari Dingyadi hosted Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun at the Ministry Headquarters in Abuja. Dingyadi said the world was aware that Africa’s most populous nation faces serious security problems. He cited terrorism and banditry in the North, the secessionist…
Lagos State Government has withheld over N25 million donated to Mary Daniel, the Oshodi amputee hawker that went viral on social media after discovering claims that she lost a leg in an accident that killed all passengers, including her parents when she was a teenager, to be false. GIOTV reports that Daniel became a sensation…
A trans-border trafficker, Emeka Okoro, and another drug dealer, Ibrahim Bello have been arrested in Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with cocaine weighing 1.1kilogramme, which has a street value of N264million. Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, April 28, said Okoro was…
Operatives of the Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested 18 suspected Internet fraudsters in Lagos State. The suspects include Ayomide Christian Balogun, Harrison Etshede, Rahim Ibrahim Ajiboye, Nwafor Ebuka, Christian Onyenachi, Egbe Emmanuel Olemuno, Okoye Charles, Moses Isaac Benjamin, and Abubakar Mukthar. Others are Ayodele Adewusi Khalid, John Folarin…
The remains of Dorothy Yohanna, one of the abducted students of Greenfield University Kaduna, has been laid to rest today April 28. Dorothy and an unspecified number of students were abducted by the bandits on April 20. On Friday, April 23, the state government announced it had recovered the bodies of Dorothy and two other…
31 prisoners are on the run after a prison truck transporting them to court was hijacked by heavily gunmen in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, South Africa on Wednesday morning, April 28. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Brigadier Jay Naicker, who confirmed the incident said that at around 8 am, two police officers were transporting prisoners from the PMB New…
The owner of Agbo Hotel in Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Oyedokun Oyeniyi; his wife, Busayo Oyedokun, and seven others including their children that were kidnapped by unknown gunmen, have regained their freedom. The gunmen stormed the hotel on Saturday night, April 24, and abducted the victims. Confirming their release, the spokesperson of the state…
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 11, Olasupo Ajani has urged Nigerians to desist from attacking police officers around the nation. Speaking on Tuesday April 27 during a stakeholders’ meeting and his familiarisation visit to the police command in Oyo State at the command’s headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan, Ajani said Nigerians…
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has faulted the rising insecurity in the nation on the 1975 coup d’état which overthrew Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Muhammed to power. He stated this earlier today as he narrated how the Gowon government was planning to ensure free and compulsory primary education for children…
A yet to be identified driver was reportedly found dead with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle in Owerri, the Imo State capital. It was gathered that the 14-seater bus was found along Bank Road on Tuesday morning, April 27. Details on the incident are still sketchy, however, eyewitnesses claimed that a pig was spotted inside the…