Two yet-to-be-identified people have died on Monday in a single-vehicle accident along the Isara-Remo/Erimobi Bridge section of the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. The report identified the accident vehicle as a Suzuki bus with the registration number KRD 194 JW.…

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, on Monday said the command had deployed over 5000 police personnel for the protection of lives and property during the Christmas and New Year festivities. Addressing journalists at a press briefing at…

The newly established Federal University of Education, Pankshin, in Plateau State, has uncovered a syndicate involved in forging and issuing fake academic results and certificates, leading to the imprisonment of two men. PUNCH Metro learnt this on Monday during a…

The Nigeria Police Force has foiled an alleged fraud valued at N17.03m involving imported goods from Canada, with the arrest of a 52-year-old suspect at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. According to a statement made available to PUNCH Metro…

At least nine people were killed, and five others injured when a speeding trailer crashed into their bus on the Kaltungo–Cham Road in Kaluwa community, Kaltungo Local Government Area of Gombe State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the accident occurred at…

An armed bandit has been arrested by security forces after a gun battle in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The incident was contained in a post shared on X on Monday by security analyst, Zagazola Makama. According to…

Human and vehicular movements were halted for several hours on Monday as residents of Idokpa Community in Aduduwawa blocked a major highway leading into and out of Benin, Edo State. The residents, protesting several weeks of power outage in the…

The Kano State Police Command says it has concluded security plans to ensure a safe, peaceful and crime-free Christmas and New Year celebration across the state. In line with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun,…

Two yet-to-be-identified occupants of a vehicle have lost their lives in a road crash along the Isara-Remo area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. PUNCH Metro learnt on Monday from a traffic report by the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency…

The Police Command in Akwa Ibom says it secured 33 convictions out of 563 persons who were prosecuted over various crimes in the state during the year. The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom, Baba Azare, made the disclosure at…

The Jigawa State Police Command has confirmed that a senior officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kundi Dauda Abubakar, was injured after police operatives were ambushed during a raid on a suspected criminal hideout in Jahun Local Government Area of…

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the wife and nine-month-old child of a senior reporter with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, FIJ, the organisation said on Monday. FIJ identified the woman as Adenike Atanda, wife of Sodeeq Atanda, one…

The Edo State Police Command says it arrested 821 suspects for various criminal offences in 2025. DAILY POST reports that the Commissioner  of Police, Monday Agbonika, disclosed this at a press briefing while reeling out the scorecard of the Command in…

No fewer than 821 suspects were arrested for various offences by operatives of the Edo State Police Command in 2025. The state Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika, stated this on Monday at the command’s year-end security review and measures put…

The Jigawa State Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has vowed to investigate a suspected trafficking case involving six persons handed over by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, in the state. The agency’s…