Crime and Violence

Electricity workers have threatened to shut down power supply nationwide following the alleged invasion of the Jos Electricity Distribution (JED) Plc office in Bauchi...

Security forces and members of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps have reportedly captured senior members of a notorious bandit network linked to the...

Niger State Governor, Umar Mohammed Bago, has imposed a 24-hour curfew across the state following protests and acts of vandalism triggered by the deaths...

By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja. A witness in the trial of five alleged members of the Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan (Ansaru) on Thursday gave the Federal High Court in Abuja a harrowing...

Grief and fear have deepened across several communities in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State following a fresh report that the remains of...

More than 1,106 Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists were neutralised during the 17-month tenure of former Theatre Commander, Joint Task Force North East, Operation...

The Department of State Services (DSS) will on Thursday, September 17 re-arraign five men accused of complicity in the May 15 kidnap of pupils...

The extradition of six Nigerian nationals from South Africa to the United States has once again placed the Black Axe network  under international scrutiny,...

How allegations over remarks concerning Prophet Muhammad escalated from petitions and threats to a knife attack — and a deadly act of mob justice What began as a bitter theological dispute over remarks attributed to...

Six Nigerian nationals accused of belonging to the Black Axe organised-crime network have been extradited from South Africa to the United States to face charges arising from an alleged international romance-scam operation that prosecutors say defrauded...