Nigeria

A woman’s lifeless body has been found in one of the rooms at guest house in Igbogbo, Ikorodu, Lagos State, on Saturday, according to the management of the facility.

At least three police officers were killed on Sunday when gunmen stormed a roadblock in Enugu State, according to authorities and locals. This is the latest violent incident in an area where separatist tensions are high.

Mrs. Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika, a widow who is 56 years old and a mother of four children, has been taken into custody by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Rivers State has seized five trucks for carrying illegally refined petroleum products.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, arrested 18 people for allegedly scamming people over the internet.

Echeng Echeng, in charge of the police in Anambra state, has paraded twenty (20) people arrested for various crimes.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will appeal the court’s decision to throw out a fraud case against Babachir Lawal, a former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF).

At a military base in northeastern Nigeria, a Nigerian soldier shot and hurt a UN helicopter co-pilot, then killed a humanitarian worker and a fellow soldier.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate removal of Brigadier-General Mohammed Kukah Fadah from office as the director general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Fadah had only been in his position as director general of the NYSC for a little over six months when the president ordered his removal.