Metro

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Rivers State Command, has read the riot act to its operatives, warning that connivance with oil thieves will result in dismissal and prosecution. This was as the command revealed that it made 194 arrests and secured 14 convictions for various crimes in the last three months. The state NSCDC Commandant, Basil Igwebueze, …

The police on Friday charged a 44 -year -old man, Temple Ononogbo, in the court of Judge Ikeja in Lagos for allegedly polluting his 11 -year -old niece. The defendant, a merchant, was charged with alleged diothery and sexual violence. Prosecutor, ASP Adegoke Ademigbuji, told the court that the defendant committed a violation between 2024 and April this year at …

The Nigerian army has declared a three-day mourning period, from June 25 to June 27, 2025, in honor of 17 soldiers who were killed in the recent ambush during the counter-shed operation in the state of Niger. The soldiers were killed while involving armed bandits in fierce battles in the Kwanar Dutse, Mairiga, and Boka regions in Niger states, as …

The police operation on Thursday raided a hiding place suspected of the OKO community, Orumba North Government Areas of the Anambra state for hard medicine and made a useful breakthrough. Spokesman for the State Police Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, revealed this in a statement on Thursday at Awka. He said the operators arrested six people during the raid and restored a …

The singer of the Gospel of Oluwatimileyin Ajayi has been sentenced to death by being hanged by a high court in Lafia, Nasarawa state, after he was found guilty for killing a member of the National Youth Service Corps, who was identified as Salome Adaidu. When the court process begins, Timileyin Ajayi, who was found guilty of killing and cutting …

Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested a 36-year-old mother of two children, Bunmi Samuel, her boyfriend, and 12 others for alleged kidnapping, armed robbery, and burglary in the territory. The FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, who paraded the suspects at the command headquarters on Thursday in Abuja, said they were arrested at different locations in …

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu It was an unusual event that gathered elite characters on Thursday 19 June 2025 at Hilton Leisure Resort & Hotel in Awka, in the state of Anambra. The influential online publication of Anambra Times was renamed as Alpha Times at the inaugural round table in the south -est, an initiative of the concepts of the Alpha …

The bandit Kingpin sought, Bello Turji has reportedly killed a dozen members of the Civil Protection Guard Zamfara (CPG), in a clash between his gang and local guards in Cida Village in the Shinkafi Regional Government in the state. A security expert in the northwestern region, and Katsina who shared a disturbing news on his X grip on Tuesday night, …

Almost a day after a shepherd Fulani claimed in a viral video that he would kill 150 people if they killed one of the cows, another Fulani Penalty had threatened to commit mass murder of TV people in the Benue state if they hurt the Fulani or cows for the next. In a video that has become viral since then, …

The police operation in Kogi on Monday thwarted efforts by the kidnappers to kidnap passengers along the Obajana-Eshokoshoko road in the state. A spokesman for the State Police Command, Williams Ovye-Waya, confirmed the news in a statement on Tuesday at Lokoja. He, however, said a passenger died while six others suffered injuries in the process. Ovye-waah said: “On June 23, …