Category: Metro
How hoodlums sold two policemen’s skulls for N1,000
The two suspected hoodlums, Adewale Abiodun and Aliu Mubarak, arrested for being in possession of the burnt skulls of the two policemen set ab [...]
How SARS bullet killed my 3 day old baby – Man tells panel
A 50-year old man, Norde Sylvester, on Wednesday said a bullet from the gun of personnel of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad killed his three- [...]
North, worst place to live in Nigeria, bandits operate freely – Sultan
The Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said that the n [...]
Black Friday: ‘Focus on kidnapping and killing’ – Yesufu, Sani tell Hisbah police
In the wake of a warning given by Hisbah Police to Cool FM, Kano, to refrain from using the phrase 'Black Friday', activist and co-convener of Bri [...]
Black Friday is derogatory, it is a holy day – Hisbah warns radio station
The Kano State Hisbah Board, which is tasked with the duty of enforcing Sharia law in Kano State, has written a letter to a radio [...]
Just in: Gunmen kill Ondo monarch, Israel Adeusi
Ondo monarch, the Olufon of Ifon, Oba Israel Adeusi is dead. He was killed by gunmen in the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State around 4pm [...]
IGP lists conditions for policemen to use firearms
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday, visited the Oyo State Police Command, Ibadan to encourage his men to go back [...]
Slain vendor’s widow rejects family’s demand for N500m, says, ‘I only want justice for my late husband’
Josephine Okereke, the widow of the Abuja-based vendor allegedly killed by a security aide of Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representat [...]
Maina’s lawyer applies to quit case but court turns him down
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday rejected the application by a lawyer, Mr Ademola Adedipe, for permission to quit from the N2bn money laun [...]
SARS demanded N200k after shooting me —Victim
A 29-year-old victim of men of the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Obinna Onuka, on Tuesday, told the Abia State panel on police brutality [...]