By Kingsley Omonobi The Nigeria Police Force, through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, has repatriated a Chinese national, Zhang Shijie, to Guangzhou, China, following his arrest in Nigeria over alleged large-scale smuggling of endangered African Rosewood. Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Aniete Iniedu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. According to Iniedu, […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced a 38-year-old South African woman, Will Ann, to 25 years imprisonment for smuggling 5.75 kg of heroin into Nigeria.

By Ndahi Marama, MAIDUGURI The immediate past Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force North East, Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Abdulsalam Abubakar, has said troops killed more than 1,106 JAS/ISWAP terrorists and arrested 758 suspected logistics collaborators during his 17-month tenure. Abubakar disclosed this on Tuesday during the handing and taking-over ceremony at Maimalari […]

By Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR Torrential rainfall has displaced no fewer than 347 people in Cross River State after mudslides and flash floods ravaged communities in the state in August, the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has said. The Director-General of CR-SEMA, Mr Efa Nyong, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Calabar on Tuesday. Nyong […]

The  lone survivour of the Dungus Junction attack, Nasiru Garba, Plateau State, during which nine persons were killed, yesterday, narrated that he hid in the vehicle, as the attackers approached the bus and opened the front door.