Category: Nigerian News

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba has frowned at skit and movie makers using police uniform without approval. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer confirmed this in a statement on Sunday. The statement...

Three rescued Chibok school girls who had been in the captivity of Boko Haram for the past eight years, have been over to the Borno government by the Theatre Commander Joint Taskforce Northeast ‘Operation...

President Muhammadu Buhari is set for a meeting with his security chiefs. The President summoned his service chiefs for an emergency meeting on Thursday. This comes barely 48 hours after the Presidential Brigade Guards...

President Muhammadu Buhari has wished Vice President “Yemi Osinbajo” speedy and full recovery, after the latter went through a surgical procedure on Saturday to treat recurrent pain caused by a fracture in his leg....

Ado Aleiro, a banditry kingpin in Zamfara has been given a chieftaincy title in Zamfara State. The man was on Saturday turbaned as Sarkin Fulanin Yandoto by the Yandoton Daji Emirate in Zamfara State,...

PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA “MUHAMMADU BUHARI” DEPARTS ABUJA AND ARRIVES DAURA FOR SALLAH HOLIDAY. The presidential aircraft NAF with Code Number; NA2F was used in conveying the president and members of...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Thursday ordered the suspension of the “State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications” issued by the Directorate of Family Health and Nutrition in the Ministry of...

Allianz Nigeria   said it has increased the number of women sitting on the board of the company to 43 percent .   The company also said its female executive representation is nothing less...

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has ordered herders and settlers residing inside the forests around Umunneochi Local Government Area, to vacate there immediately.  It would be recalled that the Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, Samuel...

The Asiwaju of Owo Kingdom, Otunba Oyewole Fasawe, has strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack, and killing of many innocent worshippers during a church service at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo city, Ondo State,...

Workers at the National Assembly, under the auspices of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, have commenced an indefinite strike over the non-payment of a backlog of salaries and allowances by the management. PASAN issued the strike notice...

The Lagos State Ministry of Housing has announced plans by the government to preserve and keep facilities in its various housing schemes attractive. According to a statement on Sunday, 5 June, 2022, the state Commissioner for...

Following the deadly attack in a Catholic Church in Ondo State on Sunday morning, 5th-June-2022 by gunmen suspected to be Fulani bandits, Infinity loaded goes down memory lane to recall a prediction made by...

The Nigeria Police Force has approved the punishment of reduction in rank from Corporal to Constable for Isaac Mathew.  The officer attached to Ebonyi State Police Command, was caught in a viral TikTok video on May 7,...

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has urged people in the South East region of Nigeria to expose those engaging in criminality in their land. Kanu said the spate of killing...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it arrested 92 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo boys,’ in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a sting operation on Wednesday. Following an intelligence tip, the arrests...

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has warned that police officers found extorting Nigerian citizens may be treated as armed robbers. Extortion is against the norms, regulations, and ethics of the police, according to NPF’s spokesman, Olumuyiwa...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has ordered banks and Payment Service Providers to accept indemnity from customers for highly secured online funds transfers. Indemnity means making compensation payments to one party by the other for...

A Federal high court in Abuja has scheduled judgment for August 29 in the extradition proceedings involving the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari. After the lawyers for both parties submitted their final...

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Wuse, on Friday, June 3, 2022 remanded Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer, Osinachi, at the Kuje correctional facility, pending the hearing...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is set to spend N1 billion for the renovation of the national mosque and national ecumenical center. FCT Minister, Muhammed Bello who disclosed this on Thursday, June 3, while featuring...

Detained deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari’s request to file more evidence to challenge a suit by the Nigerian government seeking to extradite him to United States of America to face fraud charges, has been...

A Federal court in Abuja, on Thursday, June 2, granted a request by Abba Kyari, the detained deputy commissioner of police, to file more evidence to challenge a suit by the Federal government seeking to...

There are indications that Nigeria may soon start experiencing more cargo diversions to neighbouring West African ports due to the collapse of both Tin Can and Apapa quay aprons. A quay is part of the port...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says commercial motorcycle operators, also known as okada riders, now need to obtain a licence to operate within the city and its suburbs. Director of the directorate of road transport...

Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) accused of drug trafficking, has pleaded with a Federal high court in Abuja not to approve his extradition to the United States of America (USA)...

The suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a N174 billion fraud. Idris was released...

A female banker who works with Union Bank of Nigeria has been reported to the bank’s authorities for allegedly demanding for 10% of N18 million from a customer before she could help lift a ban on...

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the state’s capital, has sentenced a 29-year-old farmer, Tobi Owajulu, to ten years in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl. The charge reads, “That you, Tobi Owajulu,...

The police on Tuesday May 31,  2022 arraigned a 38-year-old man, Ebuka Enuma before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos for alleged possession of a human skull. The suspect who lives at Bariga...

The Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 31, 2022 secured the conviction and sentencing of one Nuhu Zakari, who was arraigned on a one-count amended charge bordering...

The federal government has banned the sale and consumption of bush meat in a bid to curb the spread of monkepox disease.  Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr Mohammad Abubakar on Tuesday May...

The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested three Nigerians over alleged internet fraud. Interpol, in a statement published on its website, stated that the suspects allegedly used a...

A member of the notorious gang responsible for beheading a member of Anambra state House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye, has been arrested by the state’s police command. The deceased represented Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s Aguata...

Ahead of the enforcement of the ban on okada operations in Lagos state, the state’s police command has reacted to fears over Okada riders’ plan to disrupt social and commercial activities in the state. The...

Two siblings, Oluwaseun Ibrahim, and her older sister, Rukayat, have fallen victim to an alleged fraudster posing as a herbalist in their desperate hunt for answers to their spiritual troubles. The two sisters who...

Eight people died in an accident on Friday, May 27,  2022 in Imo State. Two vehicles – a Hilux and a mini commercial bus – coming in opposite directions collided at Akabo market, along Owerri-...

The Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), on Thursday, May 26,  2022 arrested four persons for extorting motorists in Lagos state while posing as officials of the disbanded committee on the Removal of Abandoned...

The Indigenous People of Biafa (IPOB), on Friday, May 27, said the killers of a Hausa woman, simply identified as Fatima, with four children in Anambra State, are not members of the group or Eastern...

Oriyomi Hamzat, a popular broadcaster and owner of Agidigbo FM, in Ibadan, Oyo state, has been released from police custody. Hamzat, who had consistently advocated for justice in a murder case involving Hilton Hotel,...

  A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, May 26, granted the application by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) for the extradition of Lagos businessman, Adesina Surajudeen Lasisi to the United States (US)....

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has taken a swipe at a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, for quitting the Peoples Democratic Party a few days before the presidential primary of the opposition party....

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Ikeja High Court, Lagos State, on Thursday, May 26, 2022 convicted a man identified as “Augustine Ezeama, and his wife, Juliet”, of $120m fraud. The couple were arraigned by the...

Former Rivers State Accountant General, Fubara Siminialayi, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state ahead of the 2023 general election. Siminialayi polled 721 votes to defeat his...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) in Kwara state, on Wednesday, May 25, announced the arrest of a 65-year-old man, Oluwole Akinola, for abduction and s*xual assault of two minors in Ilorin. Spokesman of...

The Ikoyi Federal High Court has ordered the Chairman of the Lagos State Park and Garages Management, Musiliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo, and eight others to stop levying commercial drivers in the state....

Two suspected armed robbery suspects have been apprehended by men of the Bayelsa State Police Command and a Barretta Pistol was seen in their possession. Spokesperson of the command, SP Asinim Butswat, in a...

No fresh plane crash in Lagos says “LASEMA”. The Lagos State Emergency Agency has debunked reports that a plane crash-landed in the Ikeja area of the state on Tuesday.   The agency officials noted...

The Niger State Police Command has arrested and also paraded a 16-year-old suspect  who attempted to exhume a corpse from a grave at Chanchaga cemetery.  The suspect, identified as  “Lawal Abubakar”, of Kasuwan-Gwari in...

Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi has stated that unknown gunmen terrorizing residents of the South East are not outsiders. He made the revelation in a recent interview.   According to him, the attacks on...