MEDICAL STUDENT DROWNS AT OBA SAHEED ELEGUSHI’S BEACH
The Onikate of Ikate land Oba Saheed Elegushi is in the news again for the wrong reason. The other time, it was his wife...
SHARIA COURT APPROVES AMPUTATION OF MAN’S ARM FOR STEALING PROPERTIES WORTH N13, 000
An Upper Shari’a Area Court sitting in Bauchi State has confirmed the judgment of a lower court that ordered the amputation of the arm...
PASTOR BEATEN TO DEATH, DUMPED IN STREAM
There was trouble in the Enugu State capital yesterday following the brutal murder of a pastor, Rev. Victor Nnaduagwu. The pastor, suspected to have...
COURT REFUSES DRIVER BAIL FOR ATTEMPTING TO KILL LAGOS JUDGE
A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, denied bail to a commercial bus driver, Mr. Kasali Quadri, 33, who was arraigned for attempting...
US SECURITY INTERCEPTS POISON LETTER TO OBAMA
United States Security, yesterday, intercepted a letter to the White House meant for President Barak Obama, which tested positive for ricin poison.
The US Secret...
MOB KILLS SUSPECTED BOMBER NEAR EMIR OF KANO’S PALACE
A suspected bomber was yesterday apprehended and killed by angry mob near the entrance of the Emir of Kano’s palace known as “Kofar Kwaru”.
While...
LAGOS LG BOSS KIDNAPPERS DEMAND $1M
The rising cases of kidnapping continued in Lagos State on Monday night, as a serving local government chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan, was abducted by unknown...
EX-LAWMAKER MELAYE ESCAPES ASSASSINATION
A former Nigerian federal lawmaker, Dino Melaye, Monday night escaped assassination in Abuja.
Hon. Melaye, a staunch government critic, was attacked in the high-brow Central...
OGUN TRADITIONAL RULER BEATEN BY HOODLUMS, HOSPITALZED
THE Olofin of Ado-Odo, Oba Lateef Akanni Adeniran, on Monday, was said to have been beaten up by some hoodlums suspected to be loyalists...
BOKO HARAM KILLS WAEC CANDIDATES AFTER EXAM
JUST as Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State is about putting behind it the recent killing of six secondary school teachers, including a...
TOYOTA HIACE PLUNGES INTO LAGOS RIVER, 3 FEARED DEAD
Tragedy occurred in the early hours of yesterday when a Toyota Hiace bus, which belongs to Ikoyi Golf Club, plunged into Majidun River, along...
SOLDIERS BEAT POLICEMEN IN IBADAN
There was confusion at Mokola area in Ibadan North local government area of Oyo State on yesterday evening following sporadic shootings by the police...
OYO EX-COMMISSIONER, WIFE ARRESTED OVER FRAUD
SEVEN months after he was sacked by Governor Abiola Ajimobi, a former Commissioner for Trade and Investment in Oyo State, Kazeem Adedeji, was, on...
4 POLICEMEN ARRAIGNED FOR KILLING 2 OVER N50
Four police officers were, yesterday, arraigned before a high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State for allegedly killing two persons and shooting another...
FATHER-OF-THREE RAPES HOUSEMAID
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a driver, Olusegun Ajayi, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old housemaid in Arepo, Ogun State.
The NSCDC...
3 FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES KILLED IN OGBOMOSO
Not less than three undergraduates of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso were killed by a drunken Okada rider as students went on the...
MASS BURIAL FOR 70 ACCIDENT VICTIMS IN BENIN
The Management of University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, has said that it would conduct a mass burial for 70 accident victims, today.
UBTH Public...
SIX RAPISTS ARRESTED IN JIGAWA, INFECT 12 YRS OLD VICTIM WITH HIV
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Jigawa State Command, has arrested a gang of six rapists led by a 32-year-old Mamman Bashir who...
40 YRS OLD WOMAN ARRESTED FOR SELLING BABIES TO HERBALISTS
Police in Asaba Delta State have arrested a 40 year old woman identified as Gladys (surname withheld), at Oduke camp, near Asaba who specialized...
TRADITIONAL RULER QUIZZED OVER CAR DEALER’S KIDNAP IN OWERRI
NINE persons, including a supposed traditional ruler (names withheld) from one of the autonomous communities in Owerri North local council area are facing inquisition...
