The Nasarawa State Police Command has rescued two kidnap victims and arrested a suspected kidnapper in separate operations across the state, as part of its ongoing clampdown on kidnapping and related crimes. In the first incident, which occurred on February…

A fire on Tuesday night gutted five offices in a storey building along Commissioner Log Way in the Government Reserved Area of Ilorin, Kwara State. The Kwara State Fire Service confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Wednesday. According…

Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation HADIN KAI, have recorded major operational successes in the North-East with the arrest of a suspected logistics supplier to ISWAP terrorists and the safe repatriation of 700 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon into Borno.…

Gunmen killed at least 162 people in Nigeria’s Kwara state in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent months, a Red Cross official said Wednesday. The attack late Tuesday on a village in the west-central state came…

A High Court in Kebbi State has sentenced Suleman Jidda, a 30-year-old resident of the Bayan Kara area of Birnin Kebbi, to life imprisonment for committing an unnatural offence against a 10-year-old boy. Jidda was arraigned on November 8, 2024,…

Two students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, have died after drowning in a hotel swimming pool during a party organised for newly matriculated students. The victims, identified as Oludere Opeyemi, 22, and Adegbola Blessing, 19, were said to…

Security personnel stationed at the Food Basket Brewery in Makurdi, Benue State, successfully prevented an attempted arson attack on the facility in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident was confirmed by the Management of the Benue Investment and Property…

The Adamawa State Police Command has announced a one-day shooting range exercise by operatives of its Special Protection Unit at the Counter Terrorism Unit Base along Mubi Road, Girei Local Government Area of the state. The exercise, according to the…

Communities across Borgu and Agwara Local Government Areas of Niger State are facing a deepening security crisis. DAILY POST reports that coordinated attacks, killings, abductions, and arson continue to spread across the northern corridor of the state. What was once…

A Lagos-based auto dealer, Quadri Balogun, has alleged that some policemen in the Ikorodu area of the state pointed guns at him and a friend and threatened to shoot them before extorting N100,000. Balogun recounted the incident in a telephone…

The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said it arrested 46 suspected drug traffickers and seized 6,439 kilogrammes of narcotics in January, securing seven convictions within the same period. The state Commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this…

A 59-year-old Chinese national has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman at a quarry site in the Kobape area of Ogun State. PUNCH Metro gathered on Wednesday that the incident occurred on January 25, 2026, at the facility located…

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted nine members of the same family, including a nursing mother and several children, along the Benin-Akure Road in Edo State. The victims were reportedly seized at about 5 p.m. on Monday, February 2,…

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a Ghanaian national, Samuel Frimpong, for allegedly removing the roof of his tenant’s apartment in Mgbuoba, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The suspect was accused of de-roofing the residence…

A commercial motorcyclist has been allegedly stabbed to death by a member of a transport union tax collection group, popularly known as agberos, following an argument over a N100 ticket in the Ijoko area of Ogun State. PUNCH Metro gathered…