The Department of State Services, DSS, has successfully apprehended a suspected fleeing gunrunner tracked from Niger Republic to Zamfara State.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, has pronounced the Lakurawa sect a terrorist organisation and proscribed its existence across the country.

The Court of Appeal in Akure, the Ondo State capital has affirmed the death sentence of a popular hotel owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, who was found guilty in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, an ex-Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has yesterday arraigned Bashir Sa’idu, former Chief of Staff, CoS, to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, administration over alleged forex racketeering and money laundering. Sa’idu, who also doubled as Commissioner for Finance during the El-Rufai administration in Kaduna state was slammed with second charge by the anti-graft agency.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has said that over 18 electricity transmission towers were vandalized in Rivers, Abia, and Kano States between January 9 and 14, 2025 causing blackout nationwide.

The Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, designated 17 areas in the nation’s capital as criminal black-spots. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, on Tuesday.