The police in Lagos have arrested one Sheriff Balogun, 35, for allegedly killing his neighbour, Mr Peter Elebo, over an altercation over the locking of their compound’s gate. DSP Bala Elkana, Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos police command, said in a statement on Sunday that the suspect, a car wash operator who lives at 32, Ola Street, Itire, had been ...

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has dispelled rumours making the rounds that the newly launched Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Operation Amotekun is a regional police. Fayemi who spoke in Ibadan at the launch of the security apparatus stated that the South west governors were not out to undermine the integrity and sovereignty of Nigeria but were providing the ...

British police on Friday shot dead a man wearing a fake suicide vest who stabbed two people to death in London and injured three more before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack. The attacker went on the rampage just before 2 p.m. (1400 GMT), targeting people at Fishmongers’ Hall near London ...

The Federal Government on Friday explained the circumstances that led to the “repatriation” of  the leader of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-zakzaky, from India. Mrs. Grace Gekpe, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said that “acts of misconduct exhibited by El-Zakzaky in India necessitated his repatriation”. ...

…Declares War against Vandals …As Sanwo-Olu Holds Close Door Meeting with Security Chiefs ROTIMI ASHER Lagos State government is adopting a new security measure that will tighten the noose on criminals engaging in pipeline vandalism and kidnapping. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the weekend, held a close-door meeting with the commanders of all security formations in the state to review the ...

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu state, Mr Sulaiman Balarabe, on Sunday, said that the police have been tracking some individuls suspedted to be the killers of a Catholic Priest, Rev.-Fr. Paul Offu. Balarabe made the disclosure on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, while speaking on the efforts of the command to arrest ...

The Ogun State Police Command has released the names of five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, kidnapped on Friday while they were on their way to the Redemption Camp to attend ministers’ conference. The police also said they have located the forest where the five abducted pastors were kept at the Ogbere – Ijebu – Ode ...

A South African court on Friday found Duduzane, son of former president Jacob Zuma, not guilty of culpable homicide and negligent driving over a fatal car crash that killed a woman in February 2014. The court said that the prosecutors had failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt. Duduzan’s Porsche sports car collided with a minibus taxi on a ...

Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has welcomed reports the government of Brunei Darussalam has placed a full moratorium on the death penalty, inclusive of the Syariah Penal Code Order (SPCO).   The SPCO, which came into effect on 3 April, introduced punishments such as the death penalty, amputation and public flogging. She said, “I have been in contact with the government of ...

Carole Ghosn wife of the arrested former Nissan boss has fled Tokyo as her husband is set to name the people he believes are responsible for his downfall. Carole said in an interview on Sunday that she fled Tokyo out of fear she could be detained. Carlos Ghosn was re-arrested last week in the Japanese capital over fresh allegations of ...