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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Surakat Idowu, for allegedly brutalising his five-year-old daughter with a hot iron in the Ikotun area of the state.

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Abia State Police Command have uncovered a suspected baby factory at Ogbor Hill, in the Aba  area of the state.

A packed passenger bus plunged into a river early Friday in central Nepal, killing 22 people, a senior local official said.

The banks, whose suspension would remain in force until they remit all the funds to the TSA includes:

A 56-year-old man, Abdullahi Zakari, who allegedly had sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old daughter, is to remain behind bars pending the perfection of his bail condition, a Lagos court has ruled.

The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe, has killed two members of the Niger Delta Avengers and arrested three others over the killing of four soldiers in Bayelsa State.

Nigeria’s Central Bank has barred nine commercial banks from all foreign exchange transactions and operations.

The Japanese Government, through its agency, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has donated solar power worth $9.7 million to the Federal Government to boost electricity in the country. The Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, Mr Sadanobu Kusaoke, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday during the inauguration of the project.

The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday said it had arrested one of the suspected kidnappers and killers of the Obi of Ubulu-Uku, Edward Akaeze Ofulue 111,of Delta. The Force Spokesman, Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCP) Don Awunah, who presented the suspect and others to newswmen said the suspect, Umar Mohammed aka `small` was arrested by a team of special anti-kidnapping operatives on July 19 at Abraka, Delta.

The Nigeria Police Force said successful candidates in the ongoing recruitment into the service would undergo compulsory polygraph test (lie detector test) to ensure they were not of questionable character.

Soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion, Asa ,Ukwa West council area, have shot dead a notorious kidnapper along the Opobo –Azumini highway, Abia state.

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday night reportedly killed three persons among them, one Pastor Luka Ubangari of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,  Unguwan Anjo, near Godogodo in the Jema’a Local Government Area of  Kaduna State. The cleric was said to have been ambushed, shot and killed while on his motorcycle  after an evangelical visit to Golkofa, also in the area. The incident occurred a few days after the state governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, visited Godogodo and Sanga districts, in the Jema’a and Sanga local governments areas, all  in the southern part of the  state to appraise the attacks of suspected Fulani herdsmen in the area. El-Rufai  in  the  affected villages of Gada Biyu, Anjo and Godogodo penultimate Tuesday,  condemned the killings, describing them as ‘senseless,’ promising to arrest the perpetrators. A source told newsmen that two days after the murder of Ubangari, suspected herdsmen atta...

The wife of a chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming Saturday October 8 election in Ogun State, Mrs. Kudirat Balogun, has been abducted. She was abducted at her home on Sunday by four gunmen. Kudirat’s husband, Gafar Balogun, is eyeing the chairmanship seat of Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state and was not around when the gunmen struck. The assailants arrived at the Baloguns residence on Sekoni Street in the Olomore area of Abeokuta around 8pm. They were said to have pretended to be visitors, asking after the APC chairmanship candidate. The gunmen reportedly met his 13- year- old son, Kehinde, who never knew their intention until they drew out their guns. The teenager told journalists that he was led at gunpoint into the sitting room where his mother, who was preparing food in the kitchen, walked into the hands of the abductors. The gunmen reportedly took him and his mother outside, and at gunpoint, led them into a Toyota M...

The man who named his dog Buhari, Joachim Iroko, aka Joe, was remanded on Monday at the Ibara Prison following his arraignment at the Ota Magistrate Court 2, Ogun State. He was charged to court by the police with conduct likely to cause breach of the peace, in a case with suit number MOT/617c/2016. The prosecutor, Inspector Itaita Ebibomini, said the accused committed the offence on Saturday, August 13, 2016, at the Hausa section of Ketere Market in Sango-Ota in the Ota Magisterial District. The prosecutor told the court that the offence was punishable under Section 249 (d) of Criminal Law of Ogun State, Nigeria, 2016. The accused, who was represented by a counsel, U. Michael, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The charge read, “That you, Joachim Iroko, aka Joe, and others still at large, on Saturday, August 13, 2016, at about 5.30pm at the Ketere area, Sango, in the Ota Magisterial District did conduct yourselves in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace, by writin...

A self-proclaimed prophet, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has been arrested by the police in Lagos State after 28 persons were allegedly found chained in his apartment in the Oke-Ira, Ogba area of the state.

No fewer than nine people have been reportedly killed after suspected cult members attacked Assa community in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State. The victims were killed in a week-long attack which started last Monday. Residents, who spoke with journalists, said they had deserted the community over fear of being killed by the cult members who were said to be fighting over oil deposit in the area. One of the slain victims was identified as a 32-year-old Vitalis Walata. Walata’s relative, Kingsley Igwe, said the father of two was killed on Monday during a visit to the community. He said, “The incident happened on Monday morning while he was on a visit. Those men attacked him at the market square and shot him dead. He was married with two children and his wife was pregnant. “After he was killed on Monday, those gunmen shot two people dead on Tuesday. On Wednesday, another man in the community was killed. On Thursday, a taxi driver was waylaid and shot...

Indications emerged, yesterday, that the 50-year-old businesswoman, whose discomposing body was found in her apartment last week at the Victoria Garden City, VGC, was allegedly murdered by her gate man, following an argument over the latter’s salary. The deceased, Mabel Okafor, who lived alone in her palatial duplex at House J68B, Close 9, VGC, Ajah, had no domestic worker except the gate man. The gate man, with an undisclosed identity, was said to have resumed work about two months ago. He was reportedly brought by the deceased’s former gate man. When Vanguard visited the house yesterday, security was beefed up in the area, with residents refusing to speak to this reporter. However, a resident who did not want his name in print, said: “Nobody knew that the woman was dead until last Friday. We learned that she was stabbed last Wednesday, but it was not until her church members visited on Friday that they found her decomposing body. “The gate of the building was only bolt...

No fewer than 200 suspects involved in a fracas between the Abagana community in Njikoka Local Government Area and Ukpo, in Dunukofia Local Council Area of Anambra State were arrested on Monday by the Anambra Police Command.

Reports have it on Sunday, August 21 from Iraq that 36 militants were sentenced to death by hanging over the mass murder of hundreds of majorly Shi’ite soldiers at a camp north of Baghdad, the country’s capital at least two years ago.

Boko Haram  The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has said that about 300 Boko Haram members were killed by the Nigerian Air Force in a raid in Borno State. Abubakar said this on Monday in Bama, while addressing men and officers of the Nigerian Air Force. “I cannot but say thank you. I am very happy to note that since  August 16 to now, you undertook extensive air operations and we were able to deal with these terrorists trying to make life difficult for our people. “I want to say from the briefing that I received from the Air component commander that I am satisfied with what you have done. “Of particular note is the operation you conducted on the 19th of this month, it was a night operation and we were very lucky to deal with these guys (insurgents) who had en-massed and were planning an attack . We are very happy to note that about 300 of them will not be available to commit evil again.”

Governor Abdulaziz Yari No fewer than eight persons were killed on Monday in Talata-Mafara community in Zamfara State  after violence erupted over alleged blasphemy against Islam by a student of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata-Mafara.

Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman Troops of 33 Brigade, Nigerian Army, have killed three armed kidnappers and destroyed their camps in Bauchi State.

Olubunmi Uko The whereabouts of a mother of three, Olubunmi Uko, said to have walked out of her Fola Agoro home in Somolu area of the state with one of her sons after leaving a suicide note, was still unknown at press time.

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami The Federal Government has started compiling the list of legislators in both chambers of the National Assembly over constituency projects earmarked for them in the 2014 and 2015 budgets, which were not executed. The sum of N100bn

Members of a syndicate, which specialised in confirming fake prophecies for pastors, have been arrested by the police in Enugu State.

The driver of a tanker carrying petroleum product that fell at Onueke in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, while negotiating a bend on the highway, reportedly died, as two of his conductors are currently lying in critical conditions at a hospital in Abakaliki.

The Nigerian Army and officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC have uncovered another illegal oil well in Lagos State.

Murder weapon  The Sokoto State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the alleged murder of a 43-year-old woman, Yemisi Adio, by her husband, Taiwo Adio. This is

Peoples Democratic Party chieftains, including former governors and ex-ministers, have condemned the spoiler role allegedly being played by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff within the party. Most of the prominent politicians and elder statesmen, who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondents across the country on Saturday, specifically accused Sheriff of being a mole in the PDP and recommended stiffer punishments for him. Among them were a former PDP governor in Ogun and Plateau States, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and Senator Joshua Dariye; Secretary of the ex-PDP Ministers Forum, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman; former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode; and a former FCT Minister, Senator Jeremiah Useni. Others were the PDP candidate in the 2014 Osun State governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore; a former Military Administrator of Bayelsa State, Idongesit Nkanga; the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Leo Ogor; Ebenezer Babatope and Senator Nimi Barigha-Amange, a...

The inch-long scar on the neck of 53-year-old Mrs. Christiana Ashinwo, is one of the physical reminders of the horror of Sunday, April 24, 2016. She sat on a chair quietly in the sitting room of a house in Agbado area of Lagos, which she built with the sweat and suffering of many years as a single mother and plank vendor. Her head

The people of Osumenyi, in Nnewi South Local Government Area, Anambra State have raised the alarm that unknown faces suspected to be hired assassins have taken over the community and therefore appealed to the Nigerian police for safety. The community

Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, last night, in deference to Niger Delta monarchs and leaders, who asked them, on Friday, in Warri, Delta State, to stop blowing up oil pipelines, said it would cease   hostilities in the region. The cessation of hostilities, it said, was in support of

The Federal Government is making a comprehensive arrangement to respond to the attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region through the importation of sophisticated military hardware. A top military source said on Saturday that the

A suspected suicide bombing in Turkey has targeted a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, killing at least 8 people and injuring dozens. Authorities

Members of the Boko Haram sect on Saturday attacked a village in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State, killing 6 persons and abducting 13 others.

He did not envisage what befell him penultimate Saturday, after coming back to his house in Sango-Ota area of Ogun State. Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, 40, a trader, said he was relaxing with his family when one of his neighbours from Niger Republic accosted him and demanded why he named his pet dog ‘Buhari’. Before he knew what was happening, friends of the foreigner also burst into his house and were threatening to deal with him if he failed to give a reasonable explanation.

11 South African military officials were killed on Friday when the bus transporting them fell down an embankment.

An 80-year-old woman, Kuburat Ayinde, has been arrested by the police after she was caught with a dead baby boy in the Oshodi under bridge area of Lagos State. The woman had allegedly abducted the baby alive from Abeokuta, Ogun State, and strapped him to her back. The infant, however, died before she arrived in Lagos. The octogenarian was arrested on Sunday. Newsmen gathered that Ayinde wanted to board a bus to Ikorodu from Oshodi at about 2pm on Sunday when a commuter noticed that she was fidgeting. The man and other passers-by were said to have asked her about the whereabouts of the baby’s mother, but she could not give a convincing reply.

Following the recent flood alert issued by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMET, the Bayelsa State Government has stepped up the clearing of major drainages and canals in Yenagoa and its environs as well as dismantling of illegal structures along the canal right of way. •Gov Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa Bayelsa, which is predominantly riverine was the worst hit state along the lower River Niger during the 2012 flood.

6 students of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have graduated from the Benson Idahosa University, Benin, Edo State with First Class honours. The Media and Communications Consultant of the Amnesty Office, Mr. Owei Lakemfa, said in a statement on Tuesday that that the result issued by the institution on Monday revealed that one of the six delegates made a first class degree in Mathematics, two in Business Administration and three in Political Science and Public Administration.

A 30yr old trader has been arrested by the police in Ogun state for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’ The trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, of No 10, Omikunle Street, Sango-Ota, Ogun State, was reportedly arrested last weekend, after one of his neighbours of Northern extraction complained bitterly that he named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.

For the second time in three weeks, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has received an express order from President Muhammadu Buhari to explore for oil in the North. This time, the President directed the national oil firm to commence exploration activities in the Benue Trough. The Benue Trough is a major geological formation underlying a large part of Nigeria, extending about 1,000km North-East from the Bight of Benin to Lake Chad.

Soldiers have launched a manhunt for publishers of pro Biafra newspapers in Aba, Abia state. A vendor who spoke on the condition of anonymity told reporters that a group of soldiers accosted him and some of his colleagues demanding them to disclose the identity of the publishers of the Biafra newspapers circulating in the city. One of the vendors identified as Emeka is suspected to have been arrested by soldiers.

6 suspected burglars have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command in the Ikoyi area of the state. The suspects were sharing their loot when they were arrested by police operatives. The men, identified as Friday Eze, Stanley Ejiofor, Femi Miracle, Raphael Ijoha, Emmanuel Omojuwa and Daniel Thomas, were arrested by men of the Ikoyi Police Division on Tuesday, August 9.

No fewer than five people, including two children, have been confirmed dead and 13 others injured after three vehicles crashed on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos State.

The Nigerian Military on Tuesday in Abuja said that no fewer than 8000 Boko Haram members had voluntarily surrendered to its “Operation Safe Corridor’’ in the North-East. The Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, disclosed this at a lecture organised by the FCT Correspondents’ Chapel of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).

A 50-year-old Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, and daughter, Salamat, 18, were on Tuesday arraigned at a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly distributing poisoned “akara’’, a local snack, to beggars.

Two mobile policemen were killed in the early hours of Tuesday at Hawan Kibo along Jos – Abuja road as armed robbers attacked a convoy of bullion vans belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Information was gathered that

As Nigerian troops intensifies fighting to rid the north east of remnants of Boko Haram terrorists, three members of the group were on Monday killed by soldiers in separate operations while a total of 88 captives held hostage by the group were discovered and rescued in the operations. While one of the terrorist was killed in the Mopol and Boccos area, two of the terrorists were killed in the Mongonu area of Borno state. Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees has moved into Bama to begin the registration of Internally Displaced Persons from the ages of 17, with a view to providing food and relief materials for the IDPs. Making this disclosures in a statement last night signed by Col Sani Usman, the Army said, “As part of ongoing clearance operations of the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in the north-eastern of the country, troops have been conducting clearance operations and patrols in various areas of operation.