Community
The PPRO described the victim as a university graduate, with a degree in guidance and counseling, adding that he was beaten repeatedly with a bamboo stick by EDEBIRI TEMITOPE until he collapsed and died.
Controversial
President BOLA AHMED TINUBU approved the composition of the probe committee from Paris, France where he is currently enjoying his annual vacation.
Controversial
Governor UMARU BAGO also imposed a twenty-four-hour curfew across the state capital, effective after the Friday Muslim prayers.
Foreign
The latest victim was found half-naked and wrapped in a sheet on the side of a road in Dawn Park on Thursday morning.
Crime
While the spouse was rescued by some women in the vicinity, KOLADE was rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital, where he was confirmed dead.
Controversial
PETER OBI and his team arrived at the airport in Makurdi, the state capital, at about 9am, but their motorcade was prevented from entering the town, en route an Internally Displaced People camp for victims of the recent Yelwata massacre.
Corruption
The NDLEA said a search of DUNU's residence at No.6 Yemishola Street, Ejigbo, Lagos on Friday, September 4, led to the recovery of phone chargers similar to those used to conceal the intercepted cocaine, which had their internal components removed to create space for drugs concealment.
Community
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, ASP OLUBORODE OPEYEMI, said a night watchman had observed suspicious movements inside a market stall, upon which police patrol teams were mobilized to the scene, and arrested the suspects.
Crime
The #EndBadGovernance group further noted that the right to peaceful assembly was under serious and growing threat in Lagos State, and urged human rights groups and people of good conscience to beam their searchlight on Lagos State in order to arrest the dangerous drift into authoritarianism.
Crime
The Police Public Relations Officer, OLUSEYI BABASEYI, said operatives of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit tracked down the suspects along the Ita-Oshin area of Abeokuta.
Community
ATIKU ABUBAKAR, who is the 2027 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, says he feels devastated by the incident and extends his sympathy to the bereaved families and the people of Sokoto State.
Breaking News
The consignment comprised of 246,864.535 kilograms seized by the Lagos Strategic Command of the NDLEA between April 2025 and May 2026, while 83,001.05 kilograms came from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Tincan and Apapa Strategic Commands, as well as the Marine Command, and others.
Breaking News
Ezeokafor, the father of popular social media personality Jowi Zaza, was abducted in the early hours of Tuesday while on his way to a prayer ground in Awka, Anambra State.
Crime
The PPRO said the suspect is currently in police custody, while the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, TIJANI FATAI, has commended the operatives who made the arrest for their prompt response and intelligence-driven operation.
Politics
The Force PRO advised parents to warn their children against engaging in electoral offences, including intimidation, stalking, vote-buying and ballot-box snatching.
Breaking News
The Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent ABIMBOLA ADEBISI, who made this known in a statement, identified the suspects as KAREEM ABIODUN, ‘m’, 26; TANSIRU EMMANUEL, ‘m’, 29; LATEEF USMAN, ‘m’, 28; and ALASHE AZEEZ, ‘m’, 32.
Breaking News
In the accompanying message, TOKUNBO WAHAB said the miscreants damaged “critical structural components of the bridge by removing iron rods, steel reinforcements, cables, and other supporting materials essential to the integrity of the infrastructure”.
Breaking News
PSC Commissioner 1, Hon. Justice Paul Adamu Galumje, JSC (Rtd), performed the handover ceremony at the Commission's Corporate Headquarters in Abuja, on behalf of the Chairman.
Crime
The spokesman for Defence Headquarters says there was no deadline for non-state actors wishing to lay down their arms, while emphasizing that the military's kinetic operation was also being intensified.
Breaking News
The PPRO said notwithstanding the outcome of the operation, the Imo State Police Command strongly condemns the unprofessional conduct of the personnel as captured in the viral video.
Breaking News
The Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lieutenant Colonel OLABISI OLALEKAN AYENI, said one of the suspects volunteered to lead the soldiers to exhume the site where the traditional ruler was buried within Umudike forest.
Featured
The Police Public Relations Officer for Headquarters Zone 5 Command, SP TIJANI A. MOMOH, said AIG AGBONIKA assumed duty on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, succeeding AIG SALMAN-DOGO GARBA who recently retired from the Force.
Breaking News
All five suspects were arraigned before Justice SALIM IBRAHIM of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who adjourned the case until September 24 for the commencement of trial.
Controversial
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP ABIODUN OJELABI, disclosed in a statement that IGBALAYE was arrested alongside five others at a property in Osogbo.
The Australian eSafety Commissioner, JULIE INMAN-GRANT, said the offensive materials Telegram failed to remove include a video of the Christchurch shootings, which she says is one of the most notorious acts of extremist violence in recent history.
Crime
These include three-point-three-zero kilograms of cocaine concealed in walls of cartons used to package foodstuffs destined for the United Kingdom, which were intercepted at the Lagos airport, which led to the arrest of 55-year-old businessman ONUIGBO NDUBISI CHINEDU.
Breaking News
Private MOHAMMED YUSUF, 23NA/84/1939, was declared wanted on July 23, after fleeing his duty post at the Nigerian Army Ordnance Kits Factory, Lagos.
Breaking News
The wanted soldier, identified as Private Mohammed Yusuf Amutu, who was serving at the Nigerian Army Ordnance Kits Factory, absconded from his unit on June 3, 2026.
Breaking News
The Presidential spokesman, BAYO ONANUGA, said the approval underscores the President’s unwavering commitment to equipping the Armed Forces to address Nigeria’s evolving security challenges effectively and to strengthen national defence capabilities further.
Breaking News
They are ABDULRAZAK UMAR, alias ABU KHALIFA/ABU KHALID; YUNUSA MUSA, alias YUNUSA BIN MUSA; and SHAMSU ADAMU SANI, alias ABU ITISAR, who are all from Niger State.
