US, Nigeria collaborates on airstrike operation – Tuggar
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has said Nigeria provided the intelligence that led to the United States’ airstrike on terrorist targets in the country and formally approved the…
Warders awaits court order to free pardoned Adamawa death-row farmer
The Nigerian Correctional Service is awaiting a court order to release Sunday Jackson, an Adamawa farmer on death row, who was granted a state pardon by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri on…
Malami, EFCC chair clash over court order
A fresh legal controversy has erupted between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and a former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, over the service and enforcement of a…
Prisons decongestion: 7,900 inmates pardoned in three years
No fewer than 7,900 inmates were pardoned or released by federal and state governments, as well as chief justices, between January 2022 and December 2025 in efforts to decongest Nigeria’s…
Lagos Island fire: 7 hospitalised
Seven persons have been confirmed injured and hospitalised following a fire outbreak at the 22-storey Great Nigeria Insurance House on Martins Street, Lagos Island. The blaze, which erupted at about…
Igbo community visits Kanu, feeds Sokoto Prison inmates during Christmas
THE Igbo community in Sokoto State has undertaken a Christmas visit to Sokoto Prison, where the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is serving his sentence.…
Robbers loot Benue church, destroy bar door
Some suspected armed robbers in the early hours of Christmas Eve broke into the Tabernacle Ministry International Church, located at Tomato, GRA, Gboko, and made away with church items worth…
N4.6bn laundering: Arrest Bauchi commissioner before escaping, court orders EFCC
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to produce the Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu, in court on December 30…
Ex-bankers diverting pension funds bags 12 years jail
The Enugu State High Court on Friday sentenced two former bankers, Sani Aferokhe and Hillary Odo, to a combined 12-year jail term for criminally diverting N10.3m belonging to pensioners. The…
Firms partner to digitise property transactions
The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sytemap Technologies Limited, marking a major step towards making land and real estate transactions safer, more…