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A new twist was added to the continuing protests by the Islamic Movement of (IMN) in Abuja on Friday as the group set ablaze the national flags of the United States and Israel, leading to pandemonium at the popular Berger roundabout. The group, protesting the killings of the … Read more...

There are growing concerns over the whereabouts of Michael Adikwu and Kayode Opadokun, two of the arrowheads of the Offa bank robbery. In a press statement on Sunday to update the public with details of the investigation into the robbery and the invitation to Senate President Bukola Saraki …...

Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central has reacted to the attack on Birnin-Gwari area of Kaduna State. DAILY POST reported that armed bandits on Friday kidnapped 23 persons traveling on a highway along Birnin-Gwari area of Kaduna State. The victims included a nursing mother and a...

A 19-year-old Munirat Bagana, an indigene of Zuru Local Government Area of Kebbi State, has been arrested by the police in the Sokoto for allegedly suffocating her newborn baby boy to death. Munirat, a student of Sokoto State School of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, … Read more via...

A final-year female undergraduate student of the Ebonyi State University in Abakaliki (name withheld) and four other suspects have been paraded by the Ebonyi State Police Command for their alleged involvement in the abduction of a businessman, Mr. Monday Oke. Parading the suspects at the …...

The brit-bat between Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and the Police over Offa bank robbery continued, yesterday, as the former said the latter had received his response in written form. Saraki and Idris Saraki’s tweet came barely 24 hours after the Police insisted, Wednesday, that …...

Four persons suspected to be members of a secret cult, have been arrested by the police for allegedly shooting and killing one person, identified as Arsenal-Nice in Sagamu, Ogun State. T he suspects – Olushola Adedeji; Olusegun Olalekan, aka Musket;Azeez aka Anene; and Abolore, aka A.B. – were...

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old driver in a pure water factory, Abiodun Idowu for allegedly strangling to death a female accountant in the same factory, Abimbola Hamzat while attempting to rape her. The Police Public Relations Officer in … Read more via Nigeria...

It is the end of the road for some notorious cultists after they were apprehended by gallant men of the Nigeria police in Ogun state. Operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad (ZIS) of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos have arrested four suspected cult members over alleged murder ...

The police in Lagos have arrested a 32-year old woman for pouring a half-bucket of boiling water on her partner, Ike Akachi, and causing him “grievous bodily harm.” Joy Imeribe, the accused, said in a statement to the police that the incident happened on May … Read more via Premium Times...

Some members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) block of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have returned to the trenches with the prospect of dumping the APC. The development came barely 24 hours after the Nigeria Police invited Senate President Bukola Saraki for questioning...

The minister of health, Isaac Adewole, says the police should arrest defaulters of the ban on tobacco products including Shisha. Speaking on Monday in Abuja at a press conference to mark the 2018 World No-Tobacco Day, Adewole said the ban placed on tobacco products............. Read more...

Sunday night’s attack on Minna Medium Security Prison by unknown gunmen resulted in the freeing of 219 inmates rather the 20 claimed by the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), the Police has said. After the operation, the NPS had said a prison official and a commercial motorcyclist were killed, …...

A mother, Rukkaya Warda, has been remanded in prison custody for burning the hand of her daughter, Godiya, over missing N170. Warda was arraigned before a Shuwa magistrate’s court in Madagali, Adamawa State through the intervention of community members. The neighbours had reported the third …...

An Imo family have been arrested by officers attached to the Imo State Police Command, for reportedly beating a 17-year-old...... Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2JeS09Z Get More Nigeria Metro News

Ekiti State Police Command has said the anti-riot policeman involved in the shooting at the gathering of bigwigs of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday was on illegal duty. The policeman (name withheld) has been arrested along the politician who hired........ Read more via TODAY.NG –...

Fifteen people were killed on Saturday after gunmen invaded Zakuna village in Anka Local Government area of Zamfara State. Public Relations Officer of the Zamfara State Police Command, DSP Muhammad Shehu, told Channels Television that at least 15 people were confirmed dead. “On receiving the …...

The Katsina State Police Command says it has succeeded in arresting some suspects who specialise in stealing vehicles in the state. Police Public Relations Officer of the command DSP Gambo Isah, while briefing newsmen at the command headquarters, said the suspects were arrested with a Honda …...

Witnesses said some hoodlums stormed the female hostel of the university in the early hours of Friday and abducted the students. The Akwa Ibom Police Command has begun a manhunt for the abductors of three female students of Obong University, Obong Ntak, … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s...

A teacher, Abimbola Olamide, has been arrested by policemen from the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing her husband, Dare Akinbobola, to death at their residence in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that there was an argument between the couple … Read...