A four-year-old girl, Jesinta Sunday, who was allegedly sold for ₦3.7 million by a child trafficking syndicate, has been rescued by the Ondo State Police Command in Delta State. The child was declared missing on February 3, 2025, when her father, Sunday Kingsley, reported at the Alagbaka Police Division in Akure that Jesinta had disappeared…
The menace of sea piracy has resurfaced along Nigeria’s Southern waterways as suspected Pirates abducted 17 passengers traveling from Calabar, Cross River State, to Oron in neighboring Akwa Ibom. The incident happened on Thursday when gunmen intercepted a commercial boat operated by Sea Express Limited. The vessel, which had about 30 passengers on board, was…
The Ogun State Government has sealed off Imole Ayomi Bakery and End-Time Grace Apostolic Church in Abeokuta following repeated/pollution violations of environmental regulations. Officials of the Ogun State Environmental Protection Agency (OGEPA) carried out the enforcement exercise this week after the two establishments failed to comply with earlier warnings issued by the agency. The bakery,…
The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a Tsangaya teacher accused of subjecting his 11-year-old pupil to inhumane treatment after tying him with a rope and severely beating him with a stick and cable in Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The suspect, identified as 28-year-old Lawal Nasiru, a resident of Unguwar Jarmai, was…
In a harrowing case that has reignited public outcry over child abuse, a housewife in Bauchi State has been accused of burning her five-year-old stepdaughter as punishment for nocturnal bedwetting. The accused, Rabi Nuhu, reportedly resides in the Magama Gumau community within Torono Local Government Area. According to multiple sources, she allegedly inflicted burn injuries…
Tragedy struck in Lagos on Tuesday when a 40-foot container truck with registration number is XP 368 AKD overturned and crushed a commercial tricycle, killing two people, including a serving Police Officer. The fatal accident occurred around Ijora Causeway, inward Ijora 7Up, in Apapa area of Lagos, causing panic and heavy traffic gridlock along the…
The corpses of eight missing security operatives/ Officers have been recovered in Benue State, raising the death toll from Friday’s ambush on a joint security team to 11 officers. The attack occurred at Agu Centre, a border community between Katsina-Ala and Ukum Local Government Areas, where personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, the Benue State…
Panic gripped Atan-Ota in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State on Sunday after suspected cultists hacked a man, identified as Moses, to death during a violent clash. Eyewitnesses said the attackers, believed to be members of the Aye Confraternity, ambushed Moses and struck him repeatedly with machetes. A viral video showed the assailants chopping…
Two people were killed and four others injured on Saturday, 20th September , 2025 when an explosion rocked the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) factory in the Kakuri area of Kaduna. The blast occurred at the factory’s disposal pit while specialists were destroying expired raw materials, including ammonium nitrate, primer caps, and propellants stored…
Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man, identified as Fatai Quadri, for physically assaulting his wife, Rukayat Quadri, in an incident that was captured on video and widely circulated on social media. The assault, which occurred on September 15, 2025, in Illese-Ijebu, Ijebu-Ode, sparked outrage after the disturbing footage showed the victim being brutalized…
