The Sokoto State Police Command has on Wednesday intensified its crackdown on kidnapping and other violent crimes, recording major breakthroughs in separate intelligence-led operations that led to the arrest of two suspected kidnappers and the dramatic rescue of a 10-year-old boy abducted in Tangaza Local Government Area.

‘One of the abductors identified himself as Peter; they spoke Igala, Fulani and Hausa, so we won’t understand their conversations’

The  military has recorded a 213 per cent increase in the number of terrorists and associates who have surrendered to troops in the North East in the last one week.

The UK government has announced the closure of 13 more hotels being used to accommodate asylum seekers, as part of its wider plan to end the use of hotels for asylum accommodation.

By Vincent Ujumadu It was an emotional atmosphere at Umuenu Umuawulu in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State when a widow, Mrs Nkechi Obi, wife of the former chairman of Umuenu Quarters Assembly, Umuawulu, Mr Humphrey Obi, broke down in tears to narrate the circumstances that led to her husband’s death while pursuing […]

A 12-year-old girl has suffered a severe burn and permanent deformity to her index finger after a family she was staying with allegedly punished her by burning the finger over an accusation that she stole N500.

Every Nigerian child must be registered — UNICEF By Chioma Obinna & Rotimi Ojomoyela No fewer than 3.5 million children under one year across the six South-West states and Edo State have no birth registration, leaving them without legal identity and effectively “invisible” in government records, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has warned. UNICEF […]

Her rescue began with a viral video. In the footage, which circulated widely on social media, an unidentified interviewer found the young Nigerian on the streets of Abidjan and began asking questions to establish her identity and trace her family.

Farmers and traders in the Ebu community in Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, have been cut off from major markets across the South-South and Northern regions as the Asaba-Ugbolu-Illah-Ebu federal highway has become virtually impassable due to persistent neglect and torrential rains at the peak of the rainy season.

For three agonising years, the Ovia Bridge along the Benin-Lagos Expressway has become a dreaded death trap, claiming lives and properties while subjecting thousands of motorists to hours of frustrating delays.