Southeast governors yesterday launched a regional security outfit codenamed Ebube Agu (the glory of a tiger) to battle rising insecurity. They restated that open grazing remained banned and urged security agencies to enforce it. The governors met in Owerri, the Imo State capital, with heads of security agencies in the region. Acting Inspector-General Usman …

some choice property seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under interim forfeiture and investigations are now being used as accommodation and transit camps by their operatives and other security agencies in some parts of the country, investigations reveal. Hotels and residential buildings on which permanent forfeiture orders …

The Police Command in Lagos has arrested two women over the death of one Osita Anwuanwu, 64. The deceased was said to have slumped and died during an altercation with a lady friend Juliet Eguebor, 35. The squabble took place at a bar owned by Eguebor’s friend Ngozi Emezue, 38. …

An unspecified number of women have been abducted by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect who attacked a community in Adamawa State. The insurgents also killed five people, destroyed houses and other property and made away with belongings of residents, a source said. Beadysword gathered on Saturday morning that …

Some naval ratings have reportedly assaulted an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority for apprehending a commercial bus. The Chief Press Secretary to the Lagos state governor, Gboyega Akosile, disclosed this in a tweet on Friday. According to him, the LASTMA personnel was beaten and had his phones …

The immediate past Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdul-Rahman Dambazau (rtd), on Friday, said the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC) and the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are extremist groups like Boko Haram, so Nigerians should stop making it look like there’s anything Boko Haram is doing differently from OPC and …

Five suspected members of a notorious kidnapping gang allegedly responsible for the recent abduction of three managers of Zenith Bank PLC in Delta State have been arrested by operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT). The arrested suspects, whose gang was said to have received a ransom of more …

As part of its contribution to mark World Health Day, a non-governmental organisation, the Zainab Muhammed Bima Initiative, has distributed delivery kits to 150 pregnant women in Minna, Niger State under its Save A Mother campaign. The delivery kit, according to the NGO, would complement the government’s effort towards reducing …

The Federal Government has asked the International Criminal Police Organisation to be on the alert and look out for the inmates who escaped in the recent jailbreaks in the country, including the most recent in Owerri, the Imo State capital. It added that the Nigerian Immigration Service had also been …

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, will take place next week, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday, announcing a stripped-back ceremony due to coronavirus restrictions, and a return for exiled royal Prince Harry but not his wife, Meghan. The announcement came as the couple’s eldest son, heir to …