Speculations about the Golden Eaglets making the cut for the 2025 U-17 AFCON in Morocco have eventually been crushed after the Confederation of African Football announced plans to complete the slots for this year’s expanded tournament and overlooked Nigeria, The PUNCH reports. The U-17 AFCON will take place in Morocco between March 30 and April […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has proposed the death penalty for drug peddlers. The Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, made this call on Friday while speaking during Channels Television’s The Morning Brief. She argued that only strict penalties would deter drug peddlers, especially when their actions result in the […]

The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has appointed Commissioner of Police Abayomi Shogunle as the head of the Special Intervention Squad. The police chief has also assigned Shogunle to lead the Elections Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation unit, as well as the Safe School Protection Squad. In a statement on Friday, the Force Public Relations […]

The lifeless body of the member representing Onitsha North 1 Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Justice Azuka, has been found along the 2nd Niger Bridge. Azuka’s lifeless body, said to be already decomposing was found by a joint team of security operatives in the early hours of Thursday. This is coming 44 […]

The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, February 6, 2025, arraigned nine Chinese nationals and a company, Genting International Co. Ltd., before Justice C.J. Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The anti-graft agency gave the names of the defendants as Su Dong Fu, Zheng […]

The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Josiah Majebi, has admonished the state Commissioner of Police, CP Miller Dantawaye, to train his men on handling criminal suspects.Justice Majebi gave the advise yesterday when he received a courtesy visit from the Commissioner of Police in his office, Lokoja. Police spokesman, SP William Ovye, in a statement, […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested Adam Imam Yusuf, a Deputy Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Kogi State, over the alleged diversion of more than N3 billion. Yusuf, who had been at large until now, was taken into custody from his residence in […]

The Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, in collaboration with Huawei Technologies, has deployed four new Intelligent Transport System sites to monitor and detect speeding and manage traffic flows. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, announced this during a press briefing on Thursday, stating that the new installations would complement the existing Automatic Number Plate Recognition […]

The Zone 2 Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a 46-year-old Managing Director of Leuven Empire Hotel and Suites, Macdonald Opara, for allegedly sodomising a 16-year-old boy. The Zone’s spokesperson, Ayuba Umma, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen on Wednesday said, the victim’s father (name withheld) submitted a petition to the Assistant Inspector […]

The United States Department of Justice has said that after completing his 75-month jail term for defrauding Americans, convict Edwin Okoronkwo will be deported to Nigeria. Okoronkwo and his wife, Juliet Okoronkwo, both permanent residents, had defrauded Americans through a catfish scheme, using stolen identities to disguise themselves as a high-ranking member of the US […]

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have successfully rescued an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and two others from kidnappers . The victims, Elisha Jeremiah, an ASP attached to the FCID in Abuja, Oyedele Ebenezer of Ogbidi Road, Uromi, and Useni Malam Inusa, were abducted on Wednesday, January 29, while travelling from Abuja to […]

Eleven Chinese nationals have been arrested and prosecuted in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of cyber fraud and identity fraud. The defendants, who were arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Chinese nationals were arrested in a raid by the EFCC, […]