Troops of Operation Desert Sanity in Maiduguri, Borno State, have arrested three soldiers for allegedly stealing ammunition. They were arrested during a covert operation at the motor parks along Njimtilo Road in Maiduguri. A military source told our correspondent that two of the soldiers were ...

Suspected armed robbers were said to have reportedly attacked students of the Gateway Polytechnic, Sapaade, Ogun State, who live around Larufi area, Ode Remo, killing one and shooting nine others. A resident of the area who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that the students even protested ...

Barely four days after the Ogun State Police Command claimed to have arrested three armed robbers involved in the robbery operation and raping of students of the Gateway Polytechnic, Sapaade, the students have been attacked again, with one of them paying the supreme price. In the robbery ...

The police in Ekiti State have arrested a man, Pastor Abiodun Oluwadare, for allegedly killing his pregnant wife, Tosin Oluwadare. Sources said that the man, popularly known as ‘Araina’ (thunder of fire), strangled Tosin to death allegedly for ritual purposes at about 9pm on November 19, 2023. A ...

By Francis Ugwu A teenager, Mubarak Akadiri, who killed a 62-year-old retired head teacher, Mrs Sidikat Adamolekun, after stealing her phone valued at N66,000, has explained how the incident happened. Mubarak, 18, who is also the son of the victim’s housemaid, spoke when he was arraigned before a ...

he 10th prosecution witness in the trial of Nigerian singer, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, Dein Whyte, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission revealed to Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, how Visa, a card ...

By  Seun Opejobi Three students have been shot at Lifecamp Government Secondary School, in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The students were reportedly shot by some boys who came to the school with guns. A highly placed source who disclosed this to our correspondent said the incident ...

By Chris Johnson Three persons have lost their lives and 6 others injured with 5 of them in critical condition as two gunmen unleashed a hail of gunfire at a bus stop in Jerusalem. First responders disclosed this on Thursday. The attackers, armed with an M16 and a pistol, arrived at the scene in ...

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has identified an increasing trend of men becoming victims of sexual and gender-based violence in recent times. The agency’s Director General, Fatima Waziri-Aza, disclosed this at a workshop organised with support from FORD ...

The Commissioner of Police for Ogun State, Abiodun Alamutu, on Wednesday, night confirmed the killing of  Mr Taiwo Oyekanmi, the Director of Finance and Accounts attached to the office of  Governor Dapo Abiodun at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Alamutu told The PUNCH that Oyekanmi was gunned down while ...

A Thai para-athlete, Chaturong Suksuk shot his bride, and two others dead before killing himself on the wedding day. According to BBC, the 29-year-old Chaturong was a former soldier who got married to a 44-year-old Kanchana Pachunthuek on Saturday in north-east Thailand. The police said he left ...

A 36-year- old mini bus driver, Shonibare Oluwasegun , has allegedly been stabbed to death by his landlord’s son, during an argument over parking space, in the Ajah area of Lagos. Eye witnesses said that the father of three returned home Sunday night, November 19,2023 , parked his mini bus ...

The founder of Christ High Commission Church, Araromi-Ugbesi, in Omuo-Oke, Ekiti State, Pastor Noah Abraham, has been allegedly accused of snatching and impregnating the wife of his choirmaster. The church choir coordinator, Dare Ikuenayo made the allegation while speaking with Vanguard, adding ...

Gunmen were said to have attacked the Adamawa State Police Headquarters, Jimeta, Yola North Local Government Area, in the early hours of Wednesday, sending residents of Yola into panic. According to Daily Trust, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman  Nguroje, confirmed the ...

By Don Silas Seven years after his escape from prison custody following his conviction for drug dealing, a notorious distributor of illicit substances within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Ibrahim Momoh, popularly known as Ibrahim Bendel, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug ...

Suspected student cultists at Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara state on Thursday hacked to death two Higher National Diploma(HND)1 students. While one is a yet-to-be-identified male student, the other victim is Miss Toyin Bamidele of the Faculty of Food Science and Technology. Vanguard ...

By Jim Ochetenwu A 20-year-old wife, Amina Hassan, of Mubi North LGA, Adamawa State, has set her husband’s house ablaze for refusing to divorce her. Amina Hassan, from Shuware community in Mubi North, who married Muhammed Auwal about five weeks ago, revealed that there was a pre-wedding ...

By Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe Gunmen have shot dead five persons in Odiemerenyi community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. The hoodlums are suspected to be members of a cult gang terrorizing the area. The victims include Ogbobula Ejee, Eeje Idaokwa, Chigbogu, Idaokwa, and others ...

By Seun Opejobi Higher institutions, such as universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria, are increasingly becoming breeding grounds for youths engaged in advanced fee fraud, commonly known as “Yahoo Yahoo.” More students are now opting for a fast but dangerous way to make ...

By Dunamis Ogalah Armed bandits late Sunday killed no fewer than 20 people and abducted many when they attacked some Muslim faithful celebrating Maulud in Kusa, a community in Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to the source, the assailants, in their numbers, targeted the ...

By Priscilla Dennis The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 14-year-old, Joy Afekafez over the murder of Dr Mrs Funmilola Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna. The suspect, Joy, was the housemaid of the slain lecturer. The deceased was killed at her ...

By Ishola Oludare Two pupils of the Community Primary School, Isheri Olofin, Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, have reportedly set the school on fire. Police identified the minors as six-year-old Wahis Musa and nine-year-old Malik Iliasu, the duo of whom live in Isheri Olofin. The Ogun ...

By Chris Johnson No fewer than three persons have been killed and a few others injured by some armed herders along the Benue-Nasarawa road on Friday. The gun-wielding herdsmen launched an ambush on the busy Makurdi-Lafia road near Ortese in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, resulting ...

By Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe A 24-year-old student of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, Damian Okoligwe, who allegedly killed his 20-year-old girlfriend, Justina Otuene, has denied having a hand in the deceased’s death. Okoligwe denied the allegation during an interview with journalists at ...

Rivers State Police Command has paraded one Damian Okoligwe, a 400-level student of Petroleum Engineering, University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, for allegedly killing his 20-year-old ex-lover for money ritual. The suspect had reportedly killed, dismembered and sacked the body of his former ...

Medical Director of the Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, was found guilty of raping his wife’s niece by Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence, yesterday. The judge ruled that the victim’s testimony and the medical professional who ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Gunmen suspected to be bandits terrorising Kaduna State have attacked a mosque at the Ga Allah Babba village, near Sabon Layi in the Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of the state. DAILY POST gathered that the attack, which was carried out by the assailant in the early hours of ...

By Ejembi Ogwuche A man identified as Bem Matthew of Korinya-City, Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State, has been arrested by the police for stabbing his wife to death. DAILY POST learnt that the man perpetrated the act around 7:03 am on Tuesday. Neighbors stormed the scene of the ...

By Francis Ugwu The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested a 40-year-old Madrid, Spain-based businessman, Sherif Egbo Ally, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja while attempting to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after they ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have reportedly attacked an office of the Nigeria Customs Service in Geidam town, Geidam LGA, Yobe State, killing one operative, Usman Gombe. According to a report, the insurgents stormed the Customs office along Maine Soroa Road in a Volkswagen ...

In the bustling streets of Abuja, fear has gripped residents following alleged penis theft. The development has sparked controversy just as traditional rulers, clerics and civil society organizations (CSOs) call for swift action to stem the tide. Over the past weeks, reports have emerged of men ...

Armed men with the use of explosives and sophisticated weapons, Friday afternoon stormed and robbed selected commercial banks in Otukpo, the headquarters of Benue South Senatorial District in an operation that lasted about one hour. It was gathered from an eyewitness that the bloody operation ...

By Khaleel Muhammad The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested 56-year-old chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Roni Local Government Area, Saleh Idris for allegedly raping his housegirl, Spokesman of the Jigawa State Command of the NSCDC, CSC Adamu Shehu ...

By Nsikak Nseyen The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Michael Anan Onimisi before Justice R.M Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna for developing a software code-named: “Bee-Leaf” and “Real-Eve” to defraud First City ...

By Nsikak Nseyen The Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it arrested at least 100 persons for alleged energy theft in the past seven months in different parts of the state. Sunday Agboola, the commandant of Osun NSCDC, said the suspects were arrested ...

By Lovina Anthony Akwa Ibom State Police Command has apprehended one Akaninyene Isaac, 23, a native of Oruk Uso village, Abak Local Government Area of the state, for allegedly hacking her 55-year-old mother to death. The suspect was said to have committed the act on Wednesday, October 12, 2023, ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Rivers State Police Command says its operatives have arrested one Godslove Olakada for pouring hot water on her husband, Olakada Ejire. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement on Monday, said the incident followed family issues. ...

A Lagos coroner court sitting in Ikorodu has summoned Naira Marley, Owodunni Eletu popular as Sam Larry, and Owodunni Ibrahim, popular as Primeboy over the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba a.k.a. Mohbad. The Coroner Magistrate, Adedayo Shotobi, on Friday, summoned the trio to appear before it on ...

The Commissioner of Police, FCT, CP Haruna Garba on Friday disclosed that following unsubstantiated claims by some persons in Abuja, including male’s and female’s, about the disappearance of their organ’s, the Command has arrested and charged fifty-one (51) suspects to court for giving false ...

Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, yesterday, disowned two female students paraded, Wednesday, at the Force Headquartres, in Abuja, over alleged murder of a hotel manager in the state capital, saying they had long been rusticated from the institution. Management of Kwara State Polytechnic,Ilorin ...

By Abdulrazaq Adebayo A Magistrate’s Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, has remanded two suspects in prison custody in connection with the alleged murder of their uncle. They are Musa Aliyu and Idris Aliyu, both residents of Kaiama, in Kaiama Local Government of the State. The suspects allegedly ...

By John Akinfehinwa A 17-year-old boy, identified as Goodness Oshodi, has allegedly buried his younger brother, Friday Oshodi alive in Kogi State. DAILY POST gathered that Oshodi had accused his younger brother Friday Oshodi of stealing N1,000. The incident happened at Apamsede, a suburb of ...

By Asare Asare Five persons have reportedly been beheaded as reprisal killings resumed yesterday between the Tiv people of Benue State and the Ijiegu-Yache of the Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. Chief Jacob Uswa, Tiv leader in the community, confirmed this on Wednesday, adding ...

The operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested two suspected internet fraudsters at the residence of a Nigerian popular singer, Raoul John Njeng-Njeng, widely known as Skales. The EFCC made this known on Tuesday via an X post, ...

By Nsikak Nseyen Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos High Court has sentenced a police officer, Darambi Vandi, to death by hanging for shooting a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem to death last Christmas. Recall that the defendant shot Raheem in the chest on Dec. 25, 2022, at Ajah ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine. Chukwuemeka claimed he ventured into the criminal enterprise to raise enough ...

By Tunji Adedeji Wisdom Mmaduka, a suspected notorious advance fee fraudster, from Onicha in the Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, has been arrested and detained for reportedly scamming women through fictitious weddings. The suspect is the head of a syndicate which includes ...

Lagos State Police Command which investigated the circumstances leading to the death of the late Nigerian rapper, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, yesterday came up with an interim report on what the command believed caused the singer’s death on September 12. The investigation by ...

Embattled Nigerian singer and label boss, Azzez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley, may have more troubles coming his way as a judge of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, has issued a production warrant against ‘Marlian boss.’ According to the statement issued by the Economic and ...

By Racheal Ayodele The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Idowu Owohunwa, has disclosed that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), is being investigated over the death of the Nigerian singer Mohbad. The Commissioner of Police made this disclosure on Friday during a live press briefing ...