A popular Kano singer known as Yahaya Sharif-Aminu has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Sharia court in Kano for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad.
According to the reports, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22 was convicted by an upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state...
UN, Commonwealth, ICC, EU, US, UK, Canada, Vatican, Australia, Brazil, Israel & others written & asked to intervene
1, 421 Christians Hacked To Death By Nigeria’s Jihadists In Seven Months Of 2020 (1st Jan-31st July)
Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law is continuously alarmed over ceaseless and untamed...
The United States government says members of the deadly Al-Qaeda insurgent group have started penetrating the North-Western part of Nigeria.
The Cable reports that Dagvin Anderson, commander of the US special operations command, Africa, made this known during a press briefing. According to the report, Anderson said
“We have engaged with Nigeria...
A 35-year-old man, Ajibola Olaoye, has been confirmed dead in a gas explosion that took place at Alafia bus stop beside Atlas, in Orile Iganmu, Lagos state on Monday, August 3.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Nosa Okunbor, said four other persons sustained various degrees...
Some 109 trafficked Nigerian girls have been evacuated back to the country through Mali, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has disclosed.
IOM disclosed this in a statement published on its website on Wednesday titled “Homecoming: 109 Stranded Nigerians Return from Mali Via Humanitarian Corridor“.
According to the humanitarian organisation, on 28...
The second victim who died when a 20-feet container fell on a bus has been identified as Chima Nnaekpe, 29.
On Sunday, July 27, two people were killed and three others were injured after a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway in Lagos...
Two commuters died on Sunday, July 26, when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus in Ojota, Lagos, crushing them (read here).
One of the victims has been identified as Chidinma Ajoku, aka Deedee, a staff of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.
Chidinma was on her way home from...
President Buhari says Nigerians know that his administration has done its best in fighting insecurity.
A statement from the Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the President said this when he spoke to state house correspondents after observing the Eid El-Kabir prayers with his family members and...
Senator Ali Ndume, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Army, has kicked against the reintegration of ex-Boko Haram fighters into the society.
The Nigerian Military last week, released 601 repentant Boko Haram terrorists into the community after they completed the Deradicalization, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration program organized by the...
Two persons have been confirmed dead in a gas explosion that rocked Afariogun Street in the Ajao area of Lagos State this evening Tuesday, July 28.
The explosion started from a shop used in refilling gas cylinders. Nine shops were razed in the explosion and a number of cars were also burnt.
According to...
Islamic scholars in Kano under the aegis, Council of Ulamas, state have kicked against the decision made by state Assembly for the castration punishment for the offense of rape in the state.
The state House of Assembly had on July 15, adopted the proposal for the castration of confirmed rapists following a...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised an alarm of plans by some people to destabilize the country.
The secret police's spokesperson, Peter Afunanya said some unnamed persons are planning to take advantage of the insecurity in the country to destabilize it.
It was further alleged that some prominent personalities and socio-cultural groups...
Two persons have been confirmed dead while three others were injured after a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway in Lagos state.
A statement released by the Director-General Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, today July 27, said the accident occurred on...
At least 14 people were shot by gunmen outside a Chicago funeral home after a service for a murder victim on Tuesday night.
There has been a rise in violence in Chicago recently and according to Chicago TV network, CBS2, one woman was shot multiple times while several others have...
A fire being investigated as arson at a historic cathedral in western France Saturday morning has been contained, according to the local fire chief, though not before the Gothic church’s great organ and rose window sustained severe damage.
Fire Chief Laurent Ferlay told French television BFM July 18 the...
The police have arrested a Chinese couple in Abuja for allegedly locking up their Nigerian employees in their apartment for the past four months.
Eight domestic workers were rescued by the personnel of the Utako Divisional Police Station on Tuesday following a tip-off by a resident, who reported the incident...
Newborn twin sisters died after they were savagely attacked by their family dog in Brazil. The premature twin girls — Anne and Analú — were mauled to death by the animal when their mother, Elaine Novais, left them briefly to speak to a neighbor.
According to The Sun, the baby...
THE Enugu state command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has within the last six months arrested 66 drug courier suspects, and convicted 16 of them.
The number comprised of 62 males and four females. The Command also seized about 292.399 Kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa; 35.27 Grammes of...
Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says many Nigerian looters are hiding in neighbouring Ghana. Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Magu said the commission was putting resources together to go after them and recover the country’s wealth stashed in that country.
The EFCC...
A Nigerian soldier has been arrested for blasting the Chief of Army Staff and other security chiefs in a viral video.
In the video, Lance Corporal Martins berated the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, and other security chiefs in the country for not acting to stop the incessant killings of Nigerians by...
CITIZENS’ Gavel, a civil society group and civic tech organisation improving the pace of justice delivery through technology, has urged the Nigeria Police to conduct a mental health assessment for all its officers across the country “or face legal action”.
The reason for this call, the group said in a press...
Despite Governor Bello Matawalle’s continuous dialogue with the bandits and reports of constantly giving them millions of naira allegedly to pacify them to stop their criminal acts, twenty-one residents were shot dead by bandits who stormed six remote villages in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara earlier this week, the...
Spokesperson for the state command, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, told SaharaReporters that the older Nyako was abducted in the early hours of Thursday at his residence in Mayo-Belwa town.
he police in Adamawa State have confirmed the kidnap of a 90-year-old man, Dahiru Nyako, who is the elder brother of former...
The 30-year-old serial predator, Mohammed, of Kwanar Dangora Village according to Kano Police spokesperson, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confessed that the victims were young girls, married women and old women.
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a man, who raped 40 women in one town within the span of a...
