Gunmen on Monday morning attacked the Owerri Correctional Prison in the Imo State capital and freed over 1500 inmates, The PUNCH has learnt. The attackers also razed the ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a prominent religious leader in the North, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have recommended special courts to try bandits and kidnappers promptly.

No fewer than five persons were killed by bandits yesterday, just as two others were injured in Chikun and Jema’a Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Kaduna State.

Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, on Sunday, assured the people of Ebonyi State that Federal Government will ensure diligent investigation into the killings in Egedegede Community in Ishielu local government area as well

More than 130 choice assets have been bought with looted funds in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), by some ex-governors, ministers and senators.

The Chief of Air Staff (COAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, has stated that the events of the past few days involving the crash of an Alpha-Jet aircraft should inspire and spur Nigerian Air Force pilots, technicians and ground troops

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has stated that Nigerian passports would be issued in each of the 774 local government areas in the country to reduce the problem of getting it.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) South West Zonal Caretaker Committee has apologised to the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) over the alleged threat and insult by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, over the Zonal

Two days after one Mr William Aduwoma was rescued from the clutches of kidnappers at a bush in the Arhade community, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, the police in the state command have arrested four persons

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday advised a former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to eschew politics of division and acrimony among others as he is getting close to

Two prominent clerics, Reverend Father Matthew Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare, have advised President Muhammadu Buhari, over the high level of insecurity in Nigeria, warning that the country is rapidly descending into anarchy.

The Middle Belt Forum on Sunday faulted the recent attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State by alleged Fulani armed bandits, describing it as “a declaration of war.”

Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, the wife of the late spokesman for Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, has reacted to the outpouring of tributes in honour of her late husband.

The upturn in the price of the international oil benchmark, Brent crude, has pushed Nigeria’s oil revenue above the estimate in the 2021 budget.