Operatives of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a Delta State–born pastor, Elijah Oro, over an alleged plot to assassinate a rival in the state. According to Sahara reporters, police sources…
Four persons have been killed in Okporojo-Oso Edda in Edda Local Government Area in a renewed boundary dispute between the community and neighboring Amasiri in Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. According to The Nation, several houses were also…
The trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, continued on Thursday, January 29, 2026, with the continuation of testimony by Prosecution Witness Seven, PW7, Olomotane Egoro, a…
Three police officers have been killed, and two others injured following an ambush by suspected armed hoodlums along the Guga–Bakori road in Katsina State. The incident occurred on Tuesday at about 12:44 p.m., when a team of police officers on…
Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested and detained some of its officers over the death of a motorcyclist identified as Nwanchor Uwaezuruike. The police disclosed that due to alleged “unprofessional” conduct of some officers on patrol on 27th day of…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, January 29, 2026 arraigned BFI Group Corporation, Reuben M. Jaja, Uzor Chidi Jerry, David Femi James, Imeobong Jumbo Udom, Adeola Edward and Emeka Emmanuel Okorie before Justice M.S Idris of the…
A middle-aged man narrowly escaped being lynched on Saturday after he was attacked by a mob in Oso Edda, Ebonyi State, following a violent protest over a fatal road accident in the area. A relative of the victim, who spoke…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the former National Coordinator of the Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP), North East Development Commission (NEDC), Alhaji Danjuma Mohammed and two others over an alleged N2,280,000.00 fraud in Abuja. In a…
Former Nigerian petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to several bribery-related charges as her trial commenced at Southwark Crown Court in London. Prosecutors alleged that she maintained an extravagant lifestyle financed through illegal payments. The 65-year-old is…
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Saturday, arrested two suspected members of a band of sea pirates in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, as they were fine-tuning plans to hijack a crude oil-laden vessel in the Gulf…
