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Elegushi Beach

How 4 students died celebrating WASSCE results in Lagos

While also confirming the incident, the management of Elegushi Beach, in a statement signed by Ayuba Elegushi said the students…

Sanwo-Olu sets December deadline for relocation of Oko-Baba saw millers

The State Government started the development of the Timberville during the Babatunde Fashola administration. The project was stalled afterwards, creating…
L-R: Omotoso, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde and Sola Giwa at the event

Stakeholders demand total ban of Okada in Lagos 

They said the pockets of riders still found operating on forbidden routes, especially highways, should be arrested and made to…
Police rescue four of the passengers abducted from commercial bus hijacked in the Omerelu axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri road, Rivers State

Rivers man Chima attacks wife with cutlass over lover

Wakaego, now in coma, had challenged her husband for bringing his lover into their matrimonial home at Omerelu community, Ikwerre…
Sunday

My husband is too lazy, Mother of 3 tells court

Sanusi, a businesswoman, said she is further frustrated by her husband’s alleged ineptitude when he barred her from having access…
Eight family die in accident involving their vehicle and a stationary truck at the Amanwozuzu junction, Ikeduru LGA of Imo state.

Four dead, five injured in road crash in Sokoto 

The sector commander said the driver of the Golf car while on high speed tried to overtake a truck and…
Sani Gafar

Suspected male terrorist Gafar dressed in hijab rescued from lynching in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday rescued a suspected male terrorist dressed in hijab from being lynched at Ijora…
The suspected oil thieves

EFCC, Army crack record 120 suspected oil thieves in Port Harcourt

Uwujaren said the arrest of the suspects was made possible by intelligence on the alleged illegal oil bunkering activities in…
Mrs Cecilia Bolaji Dada, Commissioner for WAPA

Lagos moves to checkmate sexual harassment in tertiary institutions 

Dada stated that the aim of this policy was to address and prevent antagonistic situation that violated the dignity of…

20-year-old man remanded for raping friend’s neighbour

An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday remanded a 20-year-old man, Musa Salimon, at the Agodi Correctional facility…
No less than six persons have been reported killed in an accident along Hassan Katsina road in Lokoja, Kogi State

Bus driver crushed while repairing vehicle in Ogun

According to the FRSC Sector commander, the accident was caused by speed on the part of the truck driver, who…
Fraud

Okpa Ijwo, another remanded for certificate forgery

Shaagee said that on July 4, Mr Martin Ogbeche of the College of Education Oju Benue reported the case on…
Edo police command reacts to claim that CP Abutu Yaro, illegally released suspected oil thieves after collecting ₦7 million bribe.

32 Itugbe Kings football players rescued, 5 still missing – Police

The Edo State Police Command through its Uronigbe Divisional Headquarters, in the Orhihonwon Local Government Area, Edo State, on August…
Adekunle and the meth he was caught with

Dubai-bound crystal meth hidden in heads of smoked fish uncovered at Lagos Airport

Babafemi said the suspect was promptly arrested upon the discovery that the seven cartons he presented for export contained parcels…
File: Flooded road in Benin in 2018

(ICYMI) Flood ravages Jigawa, 50 dead, many displaced

Sani Yusuf, Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), confirmed that 50 people have been killed and thousands of home…
Benin woman, Becky Igiebor, petitions the I-G Usman Baba, over alleged cyber-bullying, and threat to life by Canada based Racheal Iyonmana

IGP orders tight security around schools, hospitals, national infrastructure

Baba also ordered regular patrols, stop-and-search, raids and show of force by tactical commanders to clamp down on crime and…
Sola Giwa

Lagos deploys more body cameras for LASTMA personnel’s use

The move is to enhance transparency in the traffic management and enforcement in the state.
Munkaila Ado, Houseboy impregnates boss' 13-year-old daughter, strangles her to death

Houseboy impregnates boss’ 13-year-old daughter, strangles her to death

Ado allegedly impregnated the minor and connived with her mother to take her to Gombe State for an abortion.
Mgbeobuna Victor Eberechukwu

Anambra’s Eberechukwu excretes 77 pellets of cocaine on arrival from Ethiopia

Anti-narcotic officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu had arrested Eberechukwu…
Osun police arrest four men for killing woman for money ritual

Ex-convict Akintunde Joy arrested for burglary

The 22-year-old suspect was arrested after Akinkunmi Oyekola, a cellphones shop owner in Ede reported that his shop was severally…
Operatives of Edo State Police Command have rescued a 65-year-old farmer, Samson Osegbowa and 38-year-old Stanley Peters from the clutches of gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.

No kidnapping on Benin-Ekpoma road in last 90 days – Edo CP

According to Yaro, the only kidnapping activity witnessed in the state was in the last 120 days, that was carried…
The remains of Mr. Kadiri during the funeral service at Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa

Emotion, tears flow as LAWMA’s Public Affairs Director buries husband

Mr. Kadiri, popularly called ‘Solar,’ an accomplished businessman, died on 28 July, 2022, after a brief illness.
The suspected carjackers

Four deadly carjackers cracked in Lagos with guns

The suspects are: Victor Chibuike, 26 aka Azaman; Kingsley Ndubuisi, 33 aka kango; Augustine James, 29 aka Edo boy and…
Police confirm loss of 21 lives in an attack by bandits at Baure Village in Safana Local Government Area of katsina state

13 villagers massacred in deadly terrorists attack in Taraba

Taraba, North Central has been a haven of terrorists (Bandits) attack in recent time with scores of locals reportedly killed…
Babatunde

Businessman Soso docked over alleged $12,000 fraud

He was charged before the court for allegedly conniving with others still at large to obtain the sum of $12,000…
Minister Sambo blows hot over cargo evacuation from Lekki Deepsea Port

‘FG working assiduously to secure release of kidnapped Abuja-Kaduna train victims’

Sambo also promised to liaise with the Works and Housing Minister, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to see how the Tin-Can and…
Former Ebonyi governor David Umahi says he is not quarrelling with his successor, Gov. Nwifuru

Umahi orders demolition of 65 houses at landslide site

Gov. Umahi said that work on the affected area would begin on Aug.15 as the people would indicate where the…
Kogi Police Commissioner, Edward Egbuka

Kogi: Polytechnic staff arrested over murder of daughter

Sherrifah, the daughter of the Polytechnic staff was kidnapped on Aug. 4, at the family residence in Okenya along Itayi…
Chief Mbayin Ndoma, the traditional ruler of Orimekpang in Boki LG of Cross Rivers State: allegedly killed by cultists

Daughter narrates how C/River Chief Ndoma was murdered by cultists

Assailants murdered Chief Ndoma on Aug. 3 at his hometown, Orimekpang, in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River.
Soliu

Fraudster boutique owner jailed for Yahoo-Yahoo in Ilorin, loses house to FG

Muhammed's journey to prison started on August 2, 2022 when operatives of the EFCC, while acting on intelligence on the…