Tag: Lagos
Bricklayer Rapes Daughter
A 39-year old bricklayer has been arrested at Ajah area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria for allegedly raping his 14-year…
Nigeria Police Threatens Strike Over Unpaid Salaries
For delaying the payment of their January salary, junior officers in the Nigeria Police have threatened to embark on strike.…
Son Sends Mom To Prison
A 68-year old woman, Madam Silifat Abeni, broke down and wept at Ijeshatedo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, as…
‘Doctor Bello’ Hits Cinemas
After being premiered in New York, London, Johannesburg and Lagos, Doctor Bello, a movie produced and directed by Tony Abulu,…
Market leader in Lagos charged with murder
Henry Ojelu &Mercy Momoh The western Nigerian state of Lagos has arraigned the President of Aguiyi i Ironsi Market popularly…
Man, 30, charged with raping 6-year-old
A 30-year-old Nigerian businessman, Joshua Collins, on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with raping…
KAI Officers Jailed 3 Months
Kazeem Ugbodaga The special court in Alausa, Ikeja area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria has sentenced two officials of the…
Woman Burns Girl’s Thighs With Hot Iron
By Kazeem Ugbodaga A 39-year old Nigerian woman has burnt a girl’s thighs with hot iron after accusing her of…
Padfootball: 200 Dropouts For Students Tourney
By Sunday Akintoye The organisers of Padfootball Educational Championship have registered 200 students, who dropped out of school to feature…
Youngsters Trade Punches At Rowe Park
By Bimbo Ajayi Nigeria’s Boxing fans will be treated to exhilarating moments tomorrow, as future champions trade punches at the…
Driver, houseboy arrested over school boy kidnap
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Nigerian police command in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria has arrested two persons in connection with the kidnap…
Like the father, mother absolves son of murder.
Henry Ojelu/Judiciary correspondent Just like the father of murder suspect Akolade Arowolo had testified about his son’s innocence, the mother,…
The Fault Lines in Nigeria’s ruling party
BY JAMIU YISA Crisis rocks PDP in Adamawa, Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states Adamawa The power struggle within the ruling…
A New Fun Station makes its debut
Faaji 106.5 FM, Nigeria’s Daar Communications-owned radio station that broadcasts in Yoruba, joins the niche broadcasting segment in the Lagos…
Malaysia-based student scam suspect faces trial
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has concluded arrangement to arraign a Malaysia- based Nigerian fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke and…
Nigerian Soldiers Torture P.M.NEWS Cameraman
Yet-to-be identified Nigerian soldiers on Thursday arrested and tortured a photo journalist with TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS publications, Habeeb Ogunbadejo, under the Obalende…
Man Killed After Shunning Foot Bridge
A middle-aged man who had travelled safely with his wife from Ibadan to Lagos was crushed to death at Ojota,…
Man who owes for sex Sent To Prison
There was drama at a Nigerian court in Lagos when an accused blatantly told the court that he had committed…
Pad/Football: Aderibigbe Eyes Opeifa Trophy
A pad football player, Taye Aderibigbe believes that he is capable of emerging the champion of the ongoing Opeifa Lagos…
Kidnappers Of Nigerian School Boy Charged
Nigerian Kidnappers who abducted for two days a seven-year old boy, Emmanuel Edi, in his school at Satellite town, Lagos…
Martyr of Subsidy Protest Won’t Die In Vain, Vows LG Boss
The Nigerian youngster, Ademola Abe, killed in Lagos during the mass revolt of Nigerians against the steep rise of petrol…
One Way Drive: Truck Driver Jailed
A court in Nigeria’s foremost commercial hub, Lagos has sentenced a truck driver to three months imprisonment for driving against …
Nigerian Traders Urge Fashola On Sanitation Laws
Some small scale traders in Lagos have appealed to the state government to give them concessions in the implementation of…
Fire Guts MRS Tank Farm
Fire has gutted MRS petroleum tank farm at Tin Can Island, opposite PPM Terminal, in Apapa, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Unofficial…
Dele Giwa’s Mom Dies At 87
Elekiya Ayisat Giwa, the mother of the founding Editor-In-Chief of Newswatch magazine, Dele Giwa, who was killed in 1986 by…
Sunny Ade’s ex-guitarist, Fatoke Caught with Cocaine
Simon Ateba/Lagos Fatoke Abiodun, Nigeria’s veteran guitarist, who played alongside legendary musician, King Sunny Ade for three decades, has been…
50 Houses For Demolition In Lagos
Nigeria’s Lagos State Government has concluded plans to demolish 50 houses at the Jakande Estate, Ejigbo, a suburb of the…
Cement stocks fall, breweries gain in Nigeria
The market indices of the Nigerian Stock Exchange depreciated by 0.21 per cent on Thursday due to price losses by…
Truck Kills Nigerian Lady
There was confusion at First Gate bus stop, Tin Can Island Port, Lagos Southwest Nigeria this morning when a lady…
Nigerian Scam: Agent collects N10m on 2 rooms
A Nigerian estate agent and son of a landlord have been arraigned for allegedly conspiring and renting a bedroom and…