Metro

Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Friday evening, attacked a Mosque at the Saya-Saya village in Ikara Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing seven worshippers and injuring an unspecified number of others. Acting Police Public Relations Officer in the State Command, Mansir Alhassan, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday, said the gunmen attacked the Mosque around …

Police operatives in Katsina have killed a suspected kidnapper, Nazifi Ibrahim, in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Abubakar Aliyu, confirmed the development in a statement on Saturday in Katsina. He added that the police officers also recovered a large cache of ammunition during the operation. The spokesman said: “On November 11, 2023, at about 03.30hrs, based …

The Federal Government has ordered the closure of Marine Bridge in Lagos for repair works. The state’s Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, who announced the closure of the bridge in a statement on Thursday, said the repair works would last six weeks. He added that traffic diversion on the bridge located between Ijora and Ajegunle in the Apapa area of …

Suspected bandits struck again in the southern part of Kaduna State, killing one person and abducting 19 others in Angwanwaku community in Kufana Chiefdom of Kajuru Local Government Area of the state, including women. The Secretary of the Chiefdom, Tanimu Makaddas, who disclosed this to journalists, said that the incident happened around 12:00am on Saturday when the attackers invaded the …

The Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools in Taraba has directed its members to withdraw their service in the state. This followed the murder of a teacher serving at the Model Government Day Secondary School in Jalingo by former students of the college. The teacher, Bassey Sardauna, was stabbed to death by the students while heading home after the close …

Police operatives in Bauchi on Tuesday killed five suspected kidnappers terrorizing residents of Jama’are local government area of the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Awwal Musa Muhammad, who confirmed the news to journalists at media briefing at the command headquarters in Bauchi on Thursday. He said: “A combined team of operatives in conjunction with a quasi-security outfit encountered suspected …

The Federal High Court has sent six persons to jail for defrauding a former Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, the sum of N38 million and publishing his nude video on the internet. Justice Emmanuel Ayoola handed down the sentence on Tuesday in Osogbo after finding the convicts guilty of conspiracy, advance fee fraud and cyber …

Olaniran Lateef, a secondary school teacher, has been taken into custody on charges of raping two girls in the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta. The suspect, according to a statement released on Wednesday by Motunrayo Adeleye, the state’s commissioner for women’s affairs, is a 43-year-old maths teacher at Ebenezer Grammar School in the state’s Iberekodo region. According to Adeleye, a report …

Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to the Port Harcourt 2 Area Command have intercepted containers with some arms and ammunition at the Onne Port in the Rivers State capital. The Customs Controller in the area, Baba Imam, who conducted journalists around the seized container on Wednesday, said arms were hidden inside a vehicle shipped into the country from …

A 43 years old man, Muhammadu Murtala of Damaiwa village in Zaki LGA of Bauchi State has lost his life as his move to get a bullet proof charm went soar when the bullet fired at him penetrated his body. A crime bulletin from the Bauchi State Police Command contained that on 31/10/2023 at about 0830hrs, information was received from …