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Sanwo-Olu and others inspecting the project

Lagos Red Rail Line now at completion stage – Sanwo-Olu

It’s the fourth time in a year the Governor would be inspecting the pace of work on the 37-kilometre-long rail…
Pastor Effiong

NDLEA smashes Pastor Effiong for importing drugs from India

According to him, the consignment weighing 90 kilogrammes and loaded into a commercial bus with registration number RSH 691XC at…
The suspect, Ezenagu

Blind date: How Lagos serial thief Ezenagu drugged 30 women, robbed them

A statement issued by the Command’s spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin said the suspect robbed the women of their 3 iPhones 12,…
An inspection team checks the runway of the Ekiti airport

Work goes on at Ekiti Agro-Allied International Airport to meet October deadline

The Ekiti Airport’s 3.2km runway was constructed with the capacity to accommodate all types of aircraft, Fayemi said
Buhari still grieve for Chibok girls in captivity

Buhari laments beastly killings in Southeast, vows action as usual

Buhari’s reaction came amidst reports of the slaying of six Nigerien citizens and the brutal killing of a number of…
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

4-year-old boy abducted in Ekiti after escape of father

The traditional ruler explained that the boy was returning from Ayede-Ekiti with his father, who managed to escape, after sustaining…
Ex-Governor Yahaya Bello summoned over breach of trust charges

Kogi govt speaks on efforts to rescue 3 kidnapped children

The three children of one Mr Kadiri were abducted from his house on Wednesday at gunpoint in Ajaokuta area of…
NSCDC operatives nab four suspects while conveying petroleum products worth over N1.7m to two security-compromised communities in Zamfara

Imo: NSCDC intercepts truck with stolen diesel, nabs 3 suspects

According to Imo State NSCDC Commandant, Matthew Ovye, the truck loaded with the product in Port Harcourt was en route…
Tafa Balogun

Ex-IGP Tafa Balogun buried in Ila-Orangun

Balogun was appointed Nigeria’s 21st Inspector-General of Police on March 6, 2002. He left the office in 2005. He passed…
Lagos House of Assembly summons of Gov. Sanwo-Olu's aide, commissioner over refusal to bring contracts before the lawmakers for ratification

Lagos Assembly begins probe of LGs, LCDAs

By Adekunle Williams The Lagos State House of Assembly has begun probing the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Government…
3D photo of Alade Market being reconstructed

Masters Reality denounces reports of stoppage of work at Alade Market

Imam added that the Court never ruled that Ikeja Local Government (the 1st Defendant in the suit) should stop adjudicating…
Sanwo-Olu briefing newsmen

Security threats: Sanwo-Olu allays fear, directs security agencies to be vigilant

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, received firsthand briefings on the level of alert from the commanders of all…
Bongos Ikwue and late wife Josephine Ifeyinwa

Bongos Ikwue loses wife Josephine Ifeyinwa, Buhari sends message

Ikwue's wife hailed from the Ijeh Royal family in Issele –Uku Town in Delta, but by providence shared most of…
Edo police command reacts to claim that CP Abutu Yaro, illegally released suspected oil thieves after collecting ₦7 million bribe.

7 policemen arrested for corruption in Edo

Edo Police Command has set up an Ad-Hoc committee to checkmate the ugly incidents of corruption among its operatives.
University of Port-Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH

UPTH medical doctor arrested for abusing wife, teenage son

Though Okeke and his wife have been married for the past 15 years, they have had toxic relationship laced with…
Sunday

My husband spread charm on bed to kill me – wife alleges

The petitioner further begged the court to grant her divorce, saying: “I don’t want to die in this marriage.”
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

4 Ikare-Akoko chiefs kidnapped in Ondo

The police spokesperson stated also that police, local hunters and vigilantes in the area were combing the bush to rescue…
Tafa Balogun

Tafa Balogun to be buried in Ila-Orangun Osun Saturday

He died at 74, a few days before his 75th birthday on August 25. Balogun was appointed as Nigeria’s 11th…
Tafa Balogun

Burial date for Tafa Balogun announced by family

According to the family, his body will leave Lagos early tomorrow, and he would be buried at his home in…
Gunmen kill Divisional Police Officer in charge of Maru LG of Zamfara SP Kazeem Kareem, and Inspector Rabiu Umar early Sunday morning.

How brave Police Inspector shot 2 gunmen dead in his Imo residence

Orogwe is the same community where gunmen killed seven people and left six others critically injured last Monday.
the two Ghanaian fishermen receiving medical attention

Nigerian Navy rescues 2 Ghanaian fishermen 48 hours after boat mishap

Ayo-Vaughan said that the fishermen, who reside in Takwa Bay, Lagos State were rescued on Aug. 2 while on patrol…
Mohammed Dikko Umar

Fraud: Appeal Court sets aside acquittal of ex-Air Chief, Umar

The former Air Chief was prosecuted on one count of money laundering involving N66 million allegedly stolen from the account…
Adetuberu Christopher Adetoyese

EFCC smashes ‘Yahoo Corps member’, two others

EFCC, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren on Thursday, said the suspect’s arrest followed credible intelligence on…
CoS to Makinde, Segun Ogunwuyi, Min of Trade and CEO Sahil Vaswani launching the vehicle

Makinde, Adebayo launch new ride-hailing service in Ibadan

Codenamed: 'AFRICAR', the ride-hailing service was launched at a well-attended ceremony with over 115 vehicles in Ibadan
Sunday

Ene, Uloko caught on CCTV stealing N1.5m goods from supermarket

Two women, Janet Ene, 25, a sales woman, of 15, Oredapo St., Shasaha, and Ann Uloko, 25, a cashier, of…
defilement

Peter Udoh remanded for defiling 9-year-old daughter

By Moronke Boboye An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that an aluminum fabricator, Peter Udoh, 40, be remanded…
Sunday

77-year-old cleric Gabriel Shittu, 1 other docked for N750k visa fraud

The two clerics obtained N750,000 from the complainant, Mr Emmanuel Adeitan, on the pretext of securing an Australian visa for…
The victims and the children

Police rescue 4 persons from jungle justice on Eko bridge

They were suspected of being kidnappers because they had with them in their vehicle twelve children (ranging from seven-month-old to…
Iniobong Umoren and her killer Uduak Frank Akpan

Breaking: Akpan, killer of Akwa Ibom job-seeker Umoren sentenced to death

The 20-year-old Akpan had in May 2021 raped and killed Twitter job-seeker Iniobong Umoren and buried the body in a…

Delta police declare two brothers wanted for terrorism

Edafe said that a warrant of arrest had been issued against the suspects, by a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Asaba.