Justice N.U. Sadiq of the Kaduna State High Court on Monday convicted and sentenced four internet fraudsters to five years imprisonment. The convicts, Chinedu Prince Omeka,...
A Sharia Court in Kano State on Tuesday ordered that a 35-year-old trader, Shuaibu Labaran-Baba, be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly threatening to kidnap...
The police in Ogun State said they have arrested a member of a kidnapping and child trafficking gang, Tayo Adeleke. According to the police, Adeleke and...
Unknown gunmen, who abducted a retired priest, Rev Filibus Bamai of ECWA Church, Matuak Rimi, in Moro’a Chiefdom of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State,...
Four persons died, while 56 others sustained injuries in a road crash on the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, the Federal Road Safety Corps, Kaduna Sector Command, has said....
At least four persons on Wednesday sustained various degrees of injuries as fire gutted Fat Noble filling station, an independent marketing oil firm along Old Road,...
A 50-year-old man, Yusuf Bako, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Bauchi State High Court for raping a young girl inside a mosque n...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested nine suspects for the alleged circulation of counterfeit pillows in Sokoto State. The commandant of the...
Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command, in a joint operation with local hunter groups, have successfully neutralised six suspected kidnappers who had been terrorising communities...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of a 24-year-old housewife, Hafsat Surajo, in a correctional centre for allegedly stabbing her househelp, Nafiu...
A 23-year-old woman identified as Amanda Uchechi Ugo has allegedly killed a policeman attached to the Imo State Police Command, Cosmas Ugwu. WORLD WIDE GIST learnt...
The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, has confirmed the arrest of a soldier for allegedly killing a truck driver at a checkpoint along...
The Cross River State Police Command has arrested three members of a kidnapping gang that terrorised Calabar and its environs. They arrested them at different times...
One Adamu Abdulahi, 33, was on Thursday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, for allegedly possessing one AK-47 live ammunition. Abdulahi, of no fixed address,...
Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has refuted the rumoured rift with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume. Alia described Akume...
Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has vowed to always seek the counsel of his predecessor, Udom Emmanuel. Eno said there was no political rift...
Former spokesperson for the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has said that the dreams of Nyesom Wike becoming the jagaban of Rivers...
A group within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Consolidated APC Grassroots Movement, CAGraM, has enjoined the new Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, not to...
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has debunked information making the rounds that its candidate, Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, has withdrawn his case from the election petition tribunal...
An erstwhile Secretary to the State Government of Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has signified his interests to join the 2024 governorship race in the state....