Edo pensioners protest 42-month pension arrears
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki Edo State pensioners, on Tuesday, in Benin protested the non-harmonization of their pension since 2008. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pensioners,...
View ArticleFamilies of slain policemen in Ishawo get lifeline
Owoseni presenting money to the son of one of the victims. Inset is a wounded officer In what appears to be a rare gesture by the police institution, the Lagos State Police Command yesterday rewarded...
View ArticleMan jumps into well in Lagos, rescued alive
The man after being rescued...yesterday • Lagos govt get knocks for arraigning woman who attempted suicide Weeks after some respite in the growing incidence of suicide in the state, the Lagos State...
View ArticleLagos Island organises free medical outreach
Head of Administration Lagos Island East LCDA, Mr. Olanrewaju Olalere, team leader, Dr. Adeyanju Johnson, Sole Administrator, Mr. Bashiru Are and two members of the medical team at the event ...on...
View ArticlePolice arrest suspects in alleged rape of Delta princess
Police operatives investigating the case of an alleged rape of a 15-year-old princess and secondary school student (names withheld) in the palace of the Obi of Idumuje-Ugboko, Aniocha North Local...
View ArticleMan allegedly murders neighbour
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Fatai Owoseni • 74 condemned prisoners in Kirikiri Prison seek Ambode’s prerogative of mercy A man, Odukoya Idowu, has been arrested and detained at Area M...
View ArticleNDLEA arrests police van with Indian hemp in Kano
The police vanOperatives of the Nigeria Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday intercepted a suspected police van loaded with over 700 tonnes of India hemp worth millions of naira in Kano....
View ArticleLagos rescues 237 abandoned babies in one year
AFP Photo/PHILIPPE HUGUEN • Plans to establish three care centres for the aged The Lagos State government said it rescued 237 abandoned babies from across the metropolis in the last one year. The...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists rally to save Lekki coast
The Lekki shorelineThe scourge of erosion hitting the Alpha Beach area, before Lafiagi village in Lekki, Lagos has swept away dozens of the last remaining coconut trees, where their dense root zone...
View ArticleWhy I was attacked at Adeleke’s funeral - Aregbesola’s ex-aide
A former Special Adviser on Federal Matters to Osun State Governor, Idiat Babalola, who was molested at the burial of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke on Monday, said she was attacked over rumours of...
View ArticleTwo die, another injured in Lagos collapsed building
LASEMA official at the scene • Trailer crushes commercial motorcyclist at Isolo • Missing two-year-old boy found dead in septic tank, genitals severed Two artisans were yesterday killed and another...
View ArticleAmbode, others seek oriented PPP strategy for infrastructural growth
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday called for a more efficient and resulted oriented strategy in the development of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in infrastructural development...
View ArticleMan sentenced to death for fatally stabbing flatmate’s wife
The accused was reported to have dashed into his room, only to appear with a knife and stabbed the deceased on the chest. For stabbing Mrs. Stella Avwenayerhe, the wife of his flatmate to death with a...
View ArticleDelta Police charge three princes with rape
State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, who confirmed the arrest, said: “The main suspects are at large, but we arrested these two because they compounded the issue by settling a crime using...
View ArticleIndustry operators to pay N100,000 fine for violating Sanitation laws
The Kano State Tasks Force Committee on Environmental Sanitation says henceforth any operator of small scale industry that violates the state sanitation law would pay N100,000 fine. The State’s...
View ArticleUNIBEN student drowns in River Benue
A yet to be identified University of Benin student has drowned in River Benue, on the closing day of Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) in Makurdi.. A yet to be identified University of Benin...
View ArticleFive die in fresh gang war in Rivers
• Police arrest seven suspects Two rival gangs terrorising communities in Emohua Local Council of Rivers State, Deygbam and the Icelander clashed at the weekend during a battle for supremacy in the...
View ArticlePolice hunt for motor-boy’s killer
Nigerian Police The Ogun State police command has launched a manhunt for a suspected soldier who allegedly shot a man dead simply because a truck was not well-packed. According to an eyewitness, a...
View ArticlePOWA donates relief materials to less-privileged in Kaduna
Members of POWA with a cross section of the orphans • Promises to give soft loans to wives of deceased officers The Police Officers’ Wife Association (POWA) Kaduna State chapter, has extended its...
View ArticleBaby Buhari to undergo surgery for genital implant in United Kingdom
Baby Buhari The baby, whose stepmother cut off his genital, Buhari Dauda, will soon undergo another phase of surgery where a genital implant would be carried out on him. The Director General (DG) of...
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