Women farmers lament activities of herdsmen in Enugu
Members of the Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) have cried out to government to find lasting solution to the continuous herdsmen criminalities in Enugu State. The state...
View ArticleTaraba governor bans public demonstrations
Darius Dickson Ishaku As NLC Vows Not To Be Intimidated Not comfortable with the incessant demonstrations by public servants, students and other governmental organisations, as a result of unpaid...
View Article‘Students learn better when they see, touch’
Onyegbule and teachers with a cross section of students at The Guardian Vice Principal of Ajayi Dahunsi Memorial Baptist School, Ilasamaja Lagos, Gladys Onyegbule, has stressed the need to expose...
View Article‘ I poisoned food to punish community’
The police command in Cross River State has confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man, Paul Nchui, for allegedly poisoning food at a restaurant in Ogoja. ASP Irene Ugbo, the state Police Public...
View ArticleKidnappers of Caleb University student demand N10m ransom
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Fatai Owoseni After a few weeks of respite, suspected kidnappers have swooped on a family at the Epe area of Lagos State, and abducted a 16-year-old student...
View ArticleHerdsmen invade Prison Farm Centre in Benue, kills inmate
The Benue Prisons Service on Monday confirmed that herdsmen invaded its Jato-Aka Farm Centre and killed an inmate, one Tersoo Agidi. ASP Stephen Nwanchor, Public Relations Officer, Benue Prisons...
View ArticleEko DISCO warns electricity customers against bribing its workers
Eko Electricity Distribution Company has warned its customers to desist from offering bribe or any form of gratification to its workers. Mr Godwin Idemudia, General Manager, Communications of the...
View ArticleGunmen kidnap 2 businessmen in Sokoto
The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of two businessmen – Labbo Giyawa and Murtala Dantata – by some unknown gunmen. El-Mustapha Sani, the Command’s spokesman, told the News Agency...
View ArticleCourt to resume trial of ex Oyo state governor
High Court A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned until March 31, the trial of a former Governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, charged with N4.7 billion fraud. Ladoja is charged alongside...
View ArticleLagos to regulate employment of domestic workers, guards
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode The Lagos State Government is set to sponsor an executive bill before the state House of Assembly to regulate the employment of domestic workers and security...
View ArticleFather of abducted Caleb varsity student pleads for her release
Her father’s house. Inset is the wound inflicted on her father, Mr. Umejuru• Police confirm kidnap of two businessmen in Sokoto Five days after his daughter, Rachael, a student of Caleb University, was...
View ArticleFive-year-old burnt to death in Edo
• Fire in Jos destroys police facility worth over N20 million Ijorbgo Street in Upper Sokponba Road, Ikpobha Okha Local Council was on Sunday thrown into mourning following an unexplained inferno that...
View ArticleEdo council workers receive salary arrears, Benue counterparts protest...
Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki Local council workers in Edo State were yesterday paid their outstanding salaries. The Guardian learnt that workers in Oredo local council received eight months...
View ArticleCommunity laments invasion by land grabbers
land It was a story of tears and pains for members of Oko Ado Village, Ado Nla town in Eti-Osa Local Council of Lagos State when suspected hoodlums and people allegedly close to the state government...
View ArticleBody found floating in hotel’s swimming pool in Lokoja
Pool Tragedy yesterday occurred in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, when the body of a young man identified as Mohammed Suberu, was found floating in the swimming pool of Idrinana Hotel, located in...
View ArticlePolice arrest suspected fake tyre vendor at Ladipo Spare-parts Market
tyres The Lagos State police command has arrested two men, who allegedly specialise in changing the expiry date of used vehicle tyres, engine and chassis numbers. The men, who claimed to be traders at...
View ArticleMan kidnaps his landlady to offset rent
PHOTO: google.com/search • Police avert another ‘Cynthia Osokogu’ tragedy The police yesterday paraded one Ifeanyi Ezechukwu and Chinedu Amadi over the alleged kidnapping of Ezechukwu’s landlady and...
View ArticlePolice dismiss sergeant for allegedly killing teenager
For allegedly killing of a 16-year-old boy, Obinna Iwuoha, last week Thursday at a police checkpoint in Ugwu Omiri, Okohia community of Isiala Mbano Local Council, Imo State, the Commissioner of...
View ArticleAfenifere accuses police of bias against Yoruba in Ile-Ife crisis
The pan-Yoruba socio political group, Afenifere, has accused the leadership of the police of being sectional in its approach to the crisis that erupted in Ile Ife, Osun State, between the Yoruba and...
View ArticleHow whistleblowers exposed suspects who buried Jumia deliveryman in septic tank
The three suspects: Mbatumukeke, Naabe and Joy Saturday, March 25 turned out to be a gloomy day for the family of a courier service personnel for popular e-commerce platform, Jumia. The middle-aged...
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