By Francis Ugwu A 21 year-old man has been allegedly shot by yet-to-be identified policemen for refusing to give them N200,000. This was disclosed by Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan in a video on his Facebook page on Sunday, ...

By Jim Ochetenwu A 19-year-old man in Adamawa State has allegedly killed a child born to his girlfriend. The incident occurred in the northern Adamawa town of Mubi, where the teenage father, Aliyu Yaro, reportedly went to the house of his girlfriend, who ...

 The former Director-General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, has been remanded in Malabo’s Black Beach Prison, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The embattled former anti-graft chief was arrested days ago for allegedly ...

By Seun Opejobi About 130 foreigners have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, for alleged high-level cybercrimes, hacking, and activities relating to national security. The foreign nationals primarily of Chinese and ...

By Joe Chukindi  A police operative attached to Otuocha Area Command, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State has shot dead a youth in the area. It was gathered that the youth had a disagreement with the ...

By Matthew Atungwu A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Paul Gyenger, be remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly calling Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State “a chronic ...

By Francis Ugwu Tragedy struck Nibo, a community in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Sunday as not less than 16 persons, mostly youths, were reportedly killed by gunmen. The sad incident happened during the Onwa Asaa ...

A 26-year-old man, identified as Nura Mas’ud, has set on fire his grandmother, Zuwaira Muhammad, in Mu’azu village, Dan Gwanki Ward, Sule Tankarkar Local Government Area of Jigawa State Mas’ud was said to have confessed to the crime, claiming that the late ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested two men, Abubakar Ibrahim and Isah Ayuba, over the abduction and subsequent killing of one Felicia Namkywa, a petty trader. The Police Public Relations Officer of the state, DSP ...

By Joe Chukindi   Some sports journalists who were travelling to Uyo, through Anambra State, to cover a football event in Awka Ibom State, have been kidnapped. The Super Eagles will take on Libya in an African Nations Cup qualifier ...

By John Akinfehinwa   A 19-year-old man, Abba Yusuf, has allegedly killed his 60-year-old father, Alhaji Dahiru Yusuf Maileather, in Sarkin-Noma area of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. An eyewitness told DAILY POST that the incident ...

UGHELLI—A father, Samson, in Evwreni Community of Delta State, who smashed his son to death, killed a nursing mother and injured others in inexplicable circumstances, was apprehended by the agitated mob, who beat him to death, setting his corpse on fire in an act of jungle justice. ...

By Matthew Atungwu A 23-year-old student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ogun State, Ayomide Adeleye, has confessed to the killing of 18-year-old Christiana Idowu, who was a member of his church. Adeleye, who is now in the custody of the Lagos ...

By Matthew Atungwu Rivers State Police Command says its operatives have rescued a teenager, who was kidnapped in Enugu and transported to Port Harcourt in a ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag. The State police commissioner, ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs — the rap mogul whose star has plunged after a wave of sex trafficking accusations and assault lawsuits — was arrested by federal agents in Manhattan late Monday, a US federal court said. The attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Nigerian commercial banks lost a total of N42.6 billion to fraud and forgeries over the three months from April to June 2024. The Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC) disclosed this in its Q2 2024 Fraud and Forgeries ...

By John Akinfehinwa The Kogi State Police Command has paraded four suspects in connection with the killing of Damilola Olowoyo, a 19-year-old 100 level student at the Federal University Lokoja, FUL, Kogi State. The four suspects paraded are Jeremiah Paul, ...

By Chris Johnson Armed bandits have blocked the Gusau-Funtua highway in Zamfara State, kidnapping an unspecified number of travelers in an early-morning attack on Thursday. Eyewitnesses report that the bandits, riding on about 50 motorcycles ...

By Ejembi Ogwuche Benue State Police Command has arrested a soldier over the extrajudicial killing of a youth at Dangote Cement Plant, Gboko, on Monday. The Area Commander of the Police Area Command, Gboko, Edmund Afraimu, confirmed the arrest of the ...

By Daniel Chibuike A man identified as Amadi Alozie has been apprehended by youths in Umudosi, a community in Obingwa LGA of Abia State, for allegedly killing his mother with cutlass. He is also being held for allegedly ...

A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting four people dead at a US high school, while his father was charged with manslaughter, authorities said Thursday, after the country’s latest outburst of gun violence. The teen faces four felony murder counts after allegedly ...

UMUAHIA—A tricycle rider, identified as Amadi Alozie, has killed his mother, as she tried to rescue her grandson from a suspected ritual attack by his father at Umudosi community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. Community sources told Vanguard that ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has jailed one Courage Ipaka to two years imprisonment for impersonating Nigerian musician, Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour N’abania, and duped a U.S. citizen, Mrs. Yvelte M. Thompson, of $53,000. Justice Dehinde Dipeolu ...

By Chris Johnson A 19-year-old Nigerian student, Anas Zubairu, has been murdered by suspected kidnappers in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, despite his family paying a ransom of N17 million for his release. Zubairu, a student at a Moroccan ...

By Seun Opejobi Videos have surfaced online of bandit kingpin, Bello Turji and his gang celebrating taking over the Nigerian Army Armoured Personnel Carrier. Turji and his gang also took over lots of ammunition from ...

By Chris Johnson Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members attacked Faudiya Islamic School in Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State early Friday morning, killing three students, according to the Yobe State Police Command. Police spokesperson, Dungus ...

  By Matthew Atungwu The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a nurse over the alleged death of a 36-year-old woman, simply identified as Mrs Abiola. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to newsmen on Wednesday in ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has confirmed that two officers died while three others are currently unconscious following an attack by members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, popularly known as ...

By Chris Johnson At least six people have been reported dead and several others injured following two separate attacks by armed herdsmen on the Iwari and Olegagbane communities in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. According to a local source who ...

Detectives in Lagos have continued to unleash terror on kidnappers and have carried out several onslaughts against their deadly activities by making several arrests. Notably, a major victory was recorded in Ajah, a suburb of Lagos, the sequel to the recent killing of ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Mbadugha, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja after he tested positive for ingestion of cocaine. The 54-year-old suspect was intercepted at the boarding gate of the ...

Operatives of the Special Tactical Squad have arrested a 30-year-old woman identified as Hauwa Yusuf for hiding one AK-47 and four AK magazines inside a sack of garri. Yusuf was arrested along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway during a stop-and-search operation. The Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, ...

Security operatives have been deployed to rescue the 20 medical students who were abducted along the Otukpo-Otukpa-Enugu Road on Thursday evening, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. Speaking to our correspondent on Friday, the spokesperson for the state command, SP Catherine Anene, said the command, in ...

By Ifeanyi Nwannah Notorious bandits, on Monday, blocked Gusau /Zaria Expressway and kidnapped an unspecified number of travellers. DAILY POST gathered that the bandits blocked the road for about 30 minutes shooting sporadically. The incident occurred about two kilometers away from Magazu ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it intercepted 532 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis Sativa (Indian hemp) at the Tincan Seaport, Lagos State. The agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Sunday in ...

By Priscilla Dennis Some unidentified persons have burnt down the Redeemed Christian Church of God (Champion Zonal Headquarters) situated along Federal College of Education (FCE) Road in Kontagora, Niger State. The incident occurred at the early hours of Saturday. It was gathered that a similar ...

Personal Assistant to Ondo State caterer, Mrs Debbie Olakunbi Adene, has reportedly confessed why he and his boss’s driver killed the popular entrepreneur few days after her birthday. Police sources revealed that the pair murdered the 54-year-old woman because they wanted the money that was ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Nigeria Police Force said it is investigating a shooting involving police aides assigned to Barrister Wale Fapohunda in the Surulere area of Lagos State. According to a police report, on August 8, 2024, at approximately 10:22 pm, information was received from the control ...

By Abdulrazaq Adebayo Gunmen suspected to be cult members of the Eiye Confraternity, on Thursday night shot dead the manager of a hotel in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The deceased who was identified as Anthony Balogun was the one running the hotel owned by his mother before the unfortunate ...

By Ejembi Ogwuche At least 40 people were reportedly killed when militias raided Ayati community in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State on Thursday. A youth leader in the area, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, confirmed the incident to DAILY POST. He said, “More than 40 ...

By Casmir Nwankwo Unknown gunmen, on Saturday night, killed seven persons at Umucheke Okwe autonomous community, in Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State. DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen opened fire, leading to the killing of the President General of the community, including six village ...

Ekiti state police command on Wednesday confirmed the death of the abducted former Deputy Vice Chancellor, Ekiti State University, Professor Femi Olaofe, at the kidnappers’ den. The State Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, who made the confirmation while responding to newsmen’s ...

By Ochogwu Sunday An unemployed man, Cletus Gandu, 40, on Wednesday confessed that he stole two tubers of yam because he was hungry. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC charged Gandu with criminal trespass and theft. Gandu told the Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State ...

By Ochogwu Sunday A woman identified as Rahimat Salaum has allegedly killed her husband in the Pegi area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh confirmed this in a statement Tuesday. She said the woman was arrested by operatives of the ...

By Priscilla Dennis A 29-year-old, Mizanmil Abubakar, has confessed that his hatred for his father pushed him to murder him. The suspect committed the patricide in the Barin-Sale area of Minna, the capital of Niger State. The Niger State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, ...

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a two-month-old baby boy from a couple, Mr and Mrs James Uwam, during the naming ceremony of the child in the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Saturday, said the couple paid N2,350,000 to buy the baby ...

A murder suspect, Kehinde Ganiyu, 50, has disclosed that he killed and used his sick friend’s throat for ritual soap in a bid to seek prosperity. He added that he visited his sick friend at Odebiyi’s compound, Oba-Oke in the Olorunda local government area of Osun State on Thursday July 18, 2024, ...

Fear, shock, and disbelief are the words to describe the reactions of many filmmakers and movie stars in Rivers State where the slain billionaire kidnapper, Henry Odenigbo, held sway as an actor and film producer before he met his Waterloo on July 4 in Lagos. Ode, as he was popularly called, was ...

By Sunny Green Itodo Embattled American music mogul, Sean Combs, aka Diddy, has been implicated in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The Bad Boys Records boss is accused of paying $1 million for Shakur’s assassination by suspect Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who was arrested for the murder last ...

No fewer than two first-year female students of Tai Solarin University of Education in Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, were allegedly raped by suspected robbers on Monday. PUNCH Online learnt that around 12:30 am, suspected armed robbers invaded the students’ apartments, forcibly taking the ...