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Pastor Pleads Guilty To Rape Of Minor
An Omu-Aran Upper Area Court, Kwara, on Thursday admitted a cleric, Kunle Odafe, to N50,000 bail with two sureties in…
EFCC Nabs Banker Over N100m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Onyekachi Nwosu, the relationship/account officer of a new generation bank in…
Couple Remanded For Selling Their Twin Babies
Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Agbona, the Ogwashi-Uku-based couple who allegedly sold their set of twins last week have been remanded…
Pastor Sleeps With Church Members
An estranged housewife, Abosede Fasina, has told an Agege Grade ‘A’ Customary Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, that she…
Dozens found alive in Bangladesh factory wreckage
Dozens of workers were found alive Thursday as they huddled in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory bloc in…
500,000 Benefit From Lagos Waste Management
At least half a million people now benefit from the management of wastes in Lagos state, southwest Nigeria through direct…
Distressed Buildings: Lagos Pays Landlords, Gives Them Quit Notice
The Lagos State government has issued two weeks quit notice to occupants of three distressed two-storey buildings at Oke-Afa Housing…
KAI Shuts Shops On Awolowo Way
The Lagos state government, southwest Nigeria, Thursday shut all the shops on Awolowo Way, Ikeja. The exercise which was carried…
Money Laundering: EFCC Raids Hotel, Real Estate Firm
The Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering, SCUML, of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFFC, has arrested officials of…
Poisionous Amala Meal Wipes Out Family Of 3
Three members of a family, Isioma Ufili, 4, Victoria Ufili, 30 (mother) and Favour Nkiruka Ufili, 26, have died after…
N685m Bank Raid: Police Arraign Top Suspect
The police in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have arraigned a top bank robbery suspect, Rasheed Ganiyu, 38, who along with nine…
Ekiti Deputy Gov, Olayinka Begins Final Journey
Right Revd. Dr Peter Awelewa Adebiyi, the Lord Bishop, Diocese of Lagos West of the Anglican Church told dignitaries from…
Money Laundering: Ikuforiji’s Case Adjourned Indefinitely
There is no respite yet for the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his Personal…
Baga Massacre: Jonathan Vows Action
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday assured Nigerians and members of the international community of the commitment of his administration to…
16 Street Traders Jailed For Attacking KAI Officials
A Lagos magistrate’s court sitting at the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI brigade office, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has…
Tax Evasion: Lagos Sues 20 Companies
The Lagos State Government has sued 20 companies in the state for defaulting in tax payment as it steps up…
Man Remanded For Killing Own Father
A 20-year old man, Ibrahim Sanni Mai-Gunjo, arraigned before a magistrate’s court, Ilorin, Kwara state capital, northcentral Nigeria, for allegedly…
Pregnant Tenant Loses Baby To Forceful Eviction
A pregnant woman, Mrs Fatimah Idiris Idoko, has lost her six months pregnancy after her landlord allegedly ejected her family…
Married Man, 2 Others Charged With Rape
A 7-year old girl who was a victim of sexual abuse has narrated to the police how she was serially…
Massacre In Maiduguri As JTF, Boko Haram Clash
Several people have been killed and houses set ablaze following a clash between Nigeria’s military and suspected Boko Haram Islamist…
Man To Lose Arm For Theft
A Bauchi Upper Shari’ah Court on Thursday upheld the judgment of a lower court, ordering that the left arm of …
BRT Lane: 42 Motorists Charged To Court
The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has charged 42 motorists arrested for driving on the…
Police Kill Boston Bomb Suspect, Hunt For Second
Police killed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic street-to-street manhunt…
Clerics Blame Rape On Society
Some religious leaders in Lagos State on Thursday attributed the increase in cases of rape to societal decadence and lack…
NBA, Others Back 10-Year Jail Term For Pension Thieves
Some prominent lawyers on Thursday backed the proposal by the Federal Government to enact a law with a provision of…
Muslim Women Cry Out Over MEND’s Threat
Muslim women have cried out to Nigeria’s Federal Government to put security measures in place to protect the lives of…
25 Suspected Kidnappers Arrested
The Edo Police Command, southsouth Nigeria, said it has arrested more than 25 kidnap suspects, describing their modus operandi as…
2 Bankers Docked Over N30m Theft
The operatives at the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police Force, Milverton Street, Ikoyi, Lagos southwest, Nigeria, have arrested…
EFCC Arrests Imo Finance Commissioner, Accountant General
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two top officials of the Imo State Government. They are the…
UNILAG Medical Student Drowns
A 200-level student of the Department of Dentistry, School of Medicine, University of Lagos, Unilag, Idi-Araba, Eniola Abiola has drowned.…