The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of dozens of Okada riders for allegedly attempting to run over Ipaja Police Station on Monday. Spokesman...
The Edo State government has issued seven days eviction notice to illegal occupants trading under high voltage power line along the Ugbor area of Benin City...
The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) has taken steps towards modernising vehicle registration in Nigeria with the launch of the DRTS Self-Service Portal. Since its...
The Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA) has begun a free six months fashion design training for youths in Abaji Area Council. City & Crime reports that the...
Seven people including a mother and her 6- year -old child were shot dead after armed gunmen invaded Ugya community in Toto LGA of Nasarawa State....
Men of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a man, David Ikama (62), for allegedly peddling illicit drugs. The command’s spokesman, Edafe Bright, who disclosed...
The sleepy town of Afin Akoko in Akoko Northwest LGA of Ondo State has been hit by a swarm of strange insects invading the buildings of...
The Police said on Wednesday that divers were battling to recover the body of a 30-year-old man who allegedly drowned at Elegushi Beach, Lagos, where he...
Bayero University Kano (BUK) students can now enjoy free laundry services as Aspira Nigeria Limited, the maker of popular detergent brand Viva, has set up a...
A 27-year-old woman, Glory Chiyeaka, was on Tuesday docked in an Ojo Magistrate Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing a gold necklace valued N4.02 million. The...
The FCT Administration has seized 120 commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, operating in prohibited areas in the city center. City & Crime reports that the...
The District Head of Ringa in Kagara Emirate in Rafi LGA of Niger State, Alhaji Samaila Shekarau, has been killed. Residents told City & Crime that...
Commuters in the FCT will soon heave a sigh of relief as the FCT Administration (FCTA) has completed the construction of the Abuja Metro Rail Line....
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it has intercepted 64 drums loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, in the Bokoro axis, a...
Bandits abducted a former Special Adviser (SA) on Education to the immediate past government in Kogi State, Comfort Alege, in Lokoja on Wednesday and have demanded...
The Kano State Hisbah Board has banned male Disc Jockeys (DJs) from officiating at female-dominated events across the state. The Commander General of the board, Sheikh...
The FCT Department of Development Control has commenced the demolition of over 500 illegal structures at the popular Karmo market in the territory. The assistant director...
Residents of Karu, a satellite town in the FCT, have commended the effort of the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD) of the FCTA (FCTA) for the...
A Sharon bus carrying 11 passengers on Tuesday around 3pm crashed into a shop on the Murtala Muhammed Way, opposite the Obasanjo Square, Lokoja, Kogi State....
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a resolution calling for implementation of a monthly rent payment by tenants in the Federal Capital Territory. The house...
The Personal Assistant (PA) to the Olofa of Offa, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye, one Moshood Mustapha, has been arraigned in a Kwara State High Court over...
Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Task Force have mopped up the banned Styrofoam (plastic) food containers that displayed for sale at the Olugbede Market, Egbeda,...
The Chief Judge (CJ) of Kano State, Justice Dije Abdu Aboki, has released five inmates from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Goron Dutse, Kano, as part...
An NGO, Guidance Community Development Foundation (GCDF) has provided financial support to 12 students of the Local Education Authority (LEA) Commercial Grammar School, Iwo, Osun State,...
A magistrates’ court in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT, on Tuesday, sentenced a man, Isah Sani, to two months in prison for stealing yam seedlings...
The Kano State Fire Service has said it recorded 222 fire incidents in different parts of the state between January and March. The Public Relations Officer...
The Lagos State Police Command says its men recovered two locally made pistols, six live cartridges and some axes during a raid on some criminal hideouts...
The North East Youth Initiative for Development (NEYIF) has engaged project staff, community gatekeepers, case workers, community volunteers, teachers and mental health and psycho-social support facilitators...
The Kaduna State Fire Service said it recorded two deaths from 81 fire outbreaks across the state between March and April 2024. Paul Aboi, the service’s...
The Department of Development Control of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) of the FCT Administration (FCTA) has demolished shanties illegally built on a road corridor...
A little girl has been killed and 15 people injured following a windstorm which also destroyed property worth millions of naira at the Southern Bypass of...
Residents of the FCT have sought more enlightenment on the park-and-pay policy introduced by the FCT Administration. City & Crime reports that the policy, which is...
An official of the Investigation and Prosecution Unit, Legal Services Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mr Andrew Akuma, has emerged as the...
The management of Brickhall School, Abuja, has condoled with the family of its late four-year-old pupil, Miguel Ovoke, who died on April 24, after allegedly choking...
The Plateau State Government has said that it is partnering with the government of Japan to establish a hybrid fusion fuel plant in the state. The...
The Kwara State Government has presented 16 ambulances to the 16 LGAs of the state to boost primary healthcare. During the presentation ceremony in Ilorin, Governor...
An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City has ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Osasumwen Vincent, over allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl. City...
Gunmen in the early hours of Monday abducted 13 residents of Piko community in Bwari Area Council of the FCT. A resident of Shere, a neighbouring...
The search and rescue team of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) are in search of a man trapped in an underground drainage at Onipanu...
A 60-year-old food vendor, Iya Owolabi, on Monday, slumped and died while cooking on the popular Akinjagunala Street in Ondo West LGA Ondo State. City &...
The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has demanded an immediate apology to the Ukachukwu brothers and their subsequent compensation by the federal government for the...
The operatives of the Edo state police command have arrested four suspects allegedly involved in cultism and armed robbery in the state. The suspects Collins Edo...
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Department (FEMD) says it is well prepared against flooding in the territory. The Director of the department, Mohammed Sabo, gave...
Residents of Gwagwarwa Community in Nassarawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State have demanded justice over the alleged killing of 23-year-old Yusuf Shuaibu by a...
The Benue State Government on Thursday demolished 40 illegal structures in Makurdi, the state capital. The General Manager (GM) of the Benue State Urban Development Board...
There was an outrage over the weekend’s demolition of structures by the Lagos State Government at the Arowojobe and Mende estates in Maryland, Lagos. The state...
The Chief of Jen in Karim-Lamido LGA of Taraba State, David Robert, has called on Governor Agbu Kefas to upgrade Jen Chiefdom to second class status...
Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benúe State has disclosed his administration’s plan to launch a new security outfit of 10,000 operatives before the end of May. Alia...
The police in Yobe State have confirmed the death of an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped and fed with hard drugs by his abductors. The police...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disbursed the sum of N6,316,621,045.37 billion to the six area councils and other stakeholders as statutory allocation for the...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration has begun the procurement processes for drones to boost the security...
Seven passengers sustained injuries after an 18-seater bus with registration number, ANC 481 XA, crashed in Kwaita village on the Abuja-Lokoja highway on Tuesday. A witness...
The Director of Environment, Gwagwalada Area Council, Mrs Eunice Asubiojo, says plans are underway to partner private waste collectors for effective waste evacuation in the council....
A Badagry chief magistrates’ court, Lagos State, on Tuesday, remanded a 45-year-old cleric, Mr Sunday Adewoye, who allegedly raped a 22-year-old woman. The Magistrate, Mr Patrick...
An Upper Customary Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Tuesday, remanded a 32-year-old businessman, Raphael Moses, in a correction centre for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl....
Three members of a notorious gang of robbers who operate on the Otedola Bridge, Lagos, have been arrested in connection with the recent attack on the...
A man, Philip Ayo, and his son allegedly on Saturday night stabbed a housewife, Mrs Nata Igbinovia, to death in Okpagha community in Uhunmwode LGA of...
Soldiers from the 6 Brigade of the Nigerian Army (NA) under Operation Whirl Stroke have cleared a kidnappers’ camp and rescued many victims in the Punkun-Fikyu...
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested three suspects, Sunday Ehiosu, Patrick Okon (26), Godswill Omorege (23) and Malik Shola (26), for allegedly breaking...
The police have arraigned one Tunde Aroni, a 25-year-old vigilante, over alleged illegal possession of a locally made single-barrel gun. According to the police First Information...
The Oba of Benin in Edo State has barred some chiefs who allegedly engaged in sacrilege and falsehood against the Benin Custom from Oba Palace in...
The police in Kano State have arrested a man, Sadam Mu’azu, popularly known as Badoo (33), of Tukuntawa Quarters in Kano metropolis after a public outcry...
Gunmen on Monday night invaded Bmuko community in the Dutse Baupma axis of Bwari Area Council of the FCT and kidnapped four residents. A resident, Mr...
A magistrates’ court in Yola, Adamawa State, on Tuesday, ordered that two men should be remanded in the Jimeta Correctional Centre until May 6, for collaboration...
The police in Niger State have arrested two vigilantes, Sabiu Hassan (26) and Ibrahim Ahore, over alleged theft of a motorcycle. The command’s spokesman, SP Wasiu...
The police command in Ebonyi State have confirmed two persons dead after a bridge under construction at Mgbabeluzor village in Izzi LGA collapsed on Monday. The...
A female student of the University of Abuja, Murjanatu Zubairu, has been declared missing while on her way to school. An uncle of the student, Alhaji...
The police in Ogun State have arrested two suspected “one chance” armed robbers, Emmanuel Edeki and Tobi David, in Ota, Ado Odo-Ota LGA. The spokesman of...
Detectives from the Lagos State Police Command have recovered two rifles and ammunition that were allegedly abandoned in the Ajah area following a tip off about...
A Lagos-based accountant, Ayodele Oduniyi, has accused his former employer, Sonny Idedevbo, of using the police to harass and arraign him on alleged trumped-up charges. Oduniyi...
There was outrage as a toddler simply identified as Ayoola lost his life after falling into a flooded gully at Lusada market, along Lusada/Ketu road, Ado...
The people of Oro town in Irepodun LGA of Kwara State have filed a suit over the title of whoever may be chosen as successor. City...
The Abuja Investments Company Limited (AICL) has announced a temporary suspension of the rehabilitation work at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja till July 5, 2024....
A passenger suspected to be in his 60s has died inside a commercial bus on the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway in Kwara State. Narrating the incident, another passenger...
The Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, has expressed its sadness over the killing of one of its lecturers, Yinka Olomojobi, a professor of human rights and gender law...
The people of Oro town in Irepodun LGA of Kwara State have filed a suit over the title of whoever may be chosen as successor. City...
A newborn baby has drowned in a well in Ruguzau community in Takai LGA of Kano State. A statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of the...
The victims of a windstorm which wreaked havoc in Kwaita village in Kwali Area Council of the FCT have appealed to the FCT Minister, Nyesom...
The Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Abaji has been closed for two weeks, after resumption of third term academic session, to allow for the reconstruction of...
The Kwara State Government has redeployed workers of some media houses. The development, it was gathered, affected both print and broadcast media organisations of the government....
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers reportedly invaded an event centre in Iperu area of Ogun State and opened fire on people, killing a lecturer of Babcock...
The Cross Rivers Commissioner for Transport, Mr Ekpenyong Cobham, said on Monday that only about five per cent of the commercial drivers in the state are...
Gunmen have reportedly killed three young men in Entekpa Council Ward of Adoka District in Otukpo LGA of Benue State. Caretaker Council Chairman of Otukpo LGA,...
A man, Shuaibu Aliyu, has been reportedly killed in a windstorm which wreaked havoc in Kwaita village in Kwali Area Council of the FCT. A resident,...
The Police Command in Niger has confirmed the death of five children by suffocation in a car on Sunday in Minna. DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the Police...
At least 11,189 internally displaced households in Benue State have benefitted from the Start Fund Network intervention being implemented by Plan International Nigeria, ActionAid in Nigeria...
The Chief Judge (CJ) of Edo State, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has set free an awaiting trial inmate, Saliu Akande, charged with rape after he spent four...
…We’ve seized carcasses – Govt Thirty cows have died after consuming grains allegedly poisoned in Ilorin, Kwara State. A source explained that the cows were...
Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, has matriculated 1,214 students for the 2024/2025 academic session. Speaking during the 19th matriculation ceremony, the Vice Chancellor (VC), Prof Noah...
Many residents of Kwara state are expressing joy as a 50kg bag of rice now goes for between N52,000 and N54,000 from the N80,000 during the...
The Onojie of Uromi, Anslem Edenojie, has demanded N100 million from the Justice Alero Edodo-Eruaga-led Edo State Private Property Protection Committee as homage for five parcels...
SmallSmall, a property technology firm, has partnered with The Elevation Church to provide housing for families displaced at Jakande, Lekki in Lagos. It would be recalled...
The Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has ordered the release of an inmate, Saliu Akande, detained at the Auchi Medium Security Correctional Centre...
A man, Olarewaju Saliu, has been arrested over alleged theft of a pumping machine belonging to one Mr Isiaka Tunde on Imam Yusuf Onimasa Street in...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra State Sector Command, has confirmed the death of a woman in an accident at Okpoko market on the Asaba-Onitsha...
Men of the the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards (BSCVG) have paraded three suspects apprehended for allegedly stealing diesel from the yard of Triacta Construction Company...