Barely one month after over four hundred people were killed in Jos, Plateau State, security agents yesterday arrested twenty six suspected mercenaries armed with 22 double barrelled guns around the Gengere/UTC area of the city. The security agents also found … read more
Factional members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has given both the police and the River State government a two-week ultimatum to produce one of their members allegedly arrested at the wake of a fresh … read more
Joint Task Force (JTF) arrested Sobomabo Jackrich, aka Egberipapa, is not really a big name among Niger Delta militancy, lords of militancy in the region have declared. Sobomabo indeed is as loud as other militant leaders such as Ateke Tom … read more
ABOUT five persons were feared killed in a clash in Rivers State on New Year’s Day. One of those killed is the son of the Chief Priest of a popular deity in Asarama, a community in Andoni Local Government Area. … read more
A MERSEYSIDE man has been held captive for four months after he was kidnapped by African pirates. Gunmen seized father-of-three Matthew Maguire from a boat taking him to work on an oil rig in Nigeria. The 34-year-old had left Birkenhead … read more
Twenty-seven Nigerians on death row at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons have dragged the Federal and Lagos State Governments to court over their prolonged stay awaiting the hangman. In separate actions filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos by their … read more
Over 1,000 commercial motorcycle operators (popularly known as okada riders) were arrested in Lagos on Thursday for violating the crash helmet directive, which enforcement commenced nationwide on January 1. Already, the cost of the protective helmets had increased by 100 … read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday it deployed operatives to enforce the closure order on The Honda Place (THP) offices in Lagos and Abuja. Operatives took over the offices owned by the Vaswani brothers for failure to … read more
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, told Nigerians to brace up for major adjustments in their life styles in the New Year, saying the world economic recession was such that it would affect every facet of life. Speaking while receiving Governor … read more
The American dollar exchanged for N150 at the black market in Lagos yesterday following the closure of the foreign exchange market to the banks and Bureaux de Change (BDC) by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the Christmas and … read more