The troops who came under further attack in the thick forest, successfully evacuated the hostages to a military facility where they are receiving medical attention before being reunited with their families. Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have reportedly neutralised several bandits and dislodged their camps in clearance operations in Chikun...

The Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Annex, Lagos, yesterday arraigned a Bureau De Change (BDC) operator, Nura Abdullahi, at the Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged conspiracy, fraud and stealing of N104,325,680. Prosecution counsel Anthony Ideye alleged that sometime in May this year, Abdullahi obtained the Euros equivalent of...

Police said the attack happened on May 22, 2021. Police in Ebonyi State have arrested 20 persons suspected to be members of the proscribed Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The suspects, police alleged, were part of a gang that killed an...

20-year-old girl and her bricklayer boyfriend sell their baby in Ebonyi state, those human beings worth this low amount. For God sake no amount can be compared to Human being. Police in Ebonyi have arrested a 20-year-old mother of a baby boy and her lover who sold their baby to...

At the moment, Agosasa is like a ghost town with heavy presence of soldiers and policemen. Ogun State - Three persons have been killed in Agosasa, a community in Ipokia council of Ogun State, as supporters of two claimants to the throne clashed. It was learnt that there was an...

Osun State University (UNIOSUN) has suspended six students over cultism and drug offences. Speaking at an event preceding the 11th convocation ceremony of the institution, Vice-Chancellor Professor Clement Adebooye said: “We have zero tolerance for cultism and drug abuse; we suspended six students from the school in Ikire campus for...

Six suspected members of Eiye cult group have been arrested for alleged bid to assassinate the traditional ruler of Gbokoto land in Oja Oda area of Ogun State, Oba G.O Olukunle. The suspects identified as Michael Ayodele, Monday Samuel, Ademola Matthew, Hammed Jelili, Ogundele Ojeh and Sunkanmi Fadina allegedly stormed...

By Precious Igbonwelundu and Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado Ekiti Two men were yesterday swept away and nine women rescued following heavy flooding in parts of Lagos. The men were swept off by flashfloods at different locations at Iyana Ipaja, while the women were said to have been trapped after their residence...

By Okodili Ndidi, Abuja, Augustine Okezie, Katsina and AbdulGafar Alabelewe, Kaduna Nine suspects killed in Katsina Six hostages rescued in Kaduna Hospital and other healthcare facilities in the Sambisa forest, where wounded and ailing terrorists and their family members are treated, have been bombarded by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jets....

A sales representative, Kehinde Ajani, has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour for stealing his boss’ N4,590,000. Ajani was convicted by Chief Magistrate Victor Ugoji, of an Ogun State Chief Magistrate’s Court. He was said to have, in 2018, diverted 30,000 liters of diesel valued at...

The old man died on the spot. Police spokesman Suleiman Nguroje confirmed the incident. Two men in Adamawa State, hired for N5,000 by an aggrieved woman, have killed an 85-year-old man accused of witchcraft. The youths, Gayawan Danzaria, 22, and Thank-God Obadia, 18, have been arrested by police. The woman...

Student kill himself with Razor blaze in NSCDC cell: A student of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, has reportedly committed suicide while in the custody of the Nigerian Civil Difence Corps (NSCDC) in Kebbi state. Victor Musa was said to have slashed himself to death with a razor blade...

Lagos State - Police have arrested a 21-year-old mechanic, Monday Nnime, for allegedly stabbing his brother to death in Lagos. Nnime was apprehended by operatives attached to the Denton Police Division, Ebute Meta on September 7, following the death of John Okoh, 28. He allegedly stabbed the deceased in the...

The Rotary Club of Abuja Maitama has donated N1.2million to a four-year old girl-child, Elizabeth Chineyenwa Nwokocha, who is battling cancer. The donation included N1,097,000 cheque and N107,000 cash. Elizabeth, who was expected to undergo 24 sessions of chemotherapy, has had six before her parents got financially stuck. But the...

They had confessed to have perpetrated the killing of the NSCDC operative and kidnapping of his family members. Four kidnappers who allegedly killed an operative of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Segun Ayebulu last week have been arrested by local hunters. The abductors, who shot the operative...

A building housing the secretariat of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Alumni Association and the institution’s Business School (ULBS) was gutted by fire. The inferno also affected part of a new generation bank in the institution. The fire, it was learnt, started from the UNILAG Alumni Association section of the...

77 offenders are being prosecuted for driving against traffic, dive for willful obstruction, five for illegal parking, two for unpainted commercial vehicle. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) arraigned owners and drivers of 146 vehicles for various traffic offences in August. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Bolaji Oreagba...

Police in Ogun State have arreted 46-year-old Olusegun Oluwole for allegedly defiling his 17-year-old biological daughter. Operatives of the Ogun State security outfit, So-Safe Corps, arrested the suspect and handed him over to the police. He was said to have grabbed his daughter at about 11:30 pm and raped her....

The fraud was carried out from Nigeria with the help of co-conspirators abroad from September 2018 to June 2020. A Nigerian, Chidozie Collins Obasi, has been declared wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation over $30m fraud. Obasi defrauded the New York State more than $30 million by...

Three undergraduate students were found dead in their hostel in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State on Saturday. It was gathered that the institution had closed its last session on Wednesday, August 24, after the completion of its second-semester examination. The school said it was shocking to learn about the...

Kaduna, Nigeria - The family of a Kaduna-based expectant housewife kidnapped with her two sisters, have cried out to government and good-spirited Nigerians after bandits insisted on N50million ransom on the woman who put to bed while in captivity. The Nation had reported that the three sisters were kidnapped on...

Lagos, Nigeria - Thirteen armed robbery suspects have been killed in gun battles with police operatives while 35 were arrested in Lagos State between June and August, Commissioner Abiodun Alabi has said. He said the command also recovered 32 firearms and 78 rounds of ammunition within the period. Alabi poke...

Police operatives in Kaduna State have rescued three people who were kidnapped by bandits in Ikara Local Government Area of the state. The operatives also recovered firearms and ammunition as well as vehicles and motorcycles used by the bandits for their operations. In a statement, police spokesman DSP Mohammed Jalige,...

As is customary, the case was immediately referred to the Gender Desk Department of the Police Command in Lagos State. A man was arrested by police in Gombe State for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter on a grave. Reuben Azariah was said to have committed the act in their compound...

A notorious bandit leader, Boderi Isiya, has narrowly escaped being neutralised, while his deadly second-in-command, identified simply as Musti, has been killed by troops. THETALK.NG learned that several other terrorists were neutralised by soldiers in a recent operation. Slain Musti Musti and Boderi were reportedly responsible for the security breach...