According to the release, two cult groups had engaged themselves in a battle over which was stronger along ilaje, bariga. A team from the Bariga division were immediately tipped off and dispatched to the scene where the cultists, on sighting them, opened fire. The officers responded by returning fire.

Human trafficking is a dent on the country’s image and needed to be removed in line with the change agenda of the Federal Government. This was the position of National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other Related Matters, NAPTIP, at a briefing yesterday.

Top Nigerian music act, Dbanj was at Ikeja, this morning to sign a deal with a Lagos-based company. He also shared Koko Garri to some of his fans.

ZAHRA, daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed on to be the brand ambassador of the Sickle Cell Aid Foundation (SCAF), an NGO with a mandate to raise awareness on sickle cell and to guarantee that less privileged people with this disorder have access to quality healthcare.

Jose Mourinho says he will select a good-quality team to face Walsall because he has complete respect for the League One opposition.

THE office of the president of any country is not a post people get at easily, especially a country like Nigeria, the giant of Africa, little wonder many do all sorts of things in order to be there.

NIGERIA’s master print maker and greatest experimental artist, Bruce Onobrakpeya is 83. And as part of activities held to celebrate the renowned and well-documented icon, a group exhibition opened at the prestigious Princess Theresa Iyase-Odozi’s GreenHouse Art Empowerment Centre in Olambe, Ogun State.

A fleet-footed Japanese centenarian raced into the Guinness World Records reference book on Wednesday and declared himself a “medical marvel” as he continues to stalk sprint king Usain Bolt.

Army authorities disclosed, Wednesday that the Special Forces prosecuting the war on terror have arrested a Boko Haram Commander, one Bulama Modu, long wanted by security agencies even as another 241 hostages particularly women and children were rescued after an operation

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday said the state government will explore the potentials that abound in the entertainment and arts industry as a viable platform to create jobs for the teeming youths in the state. The Governor spoke when some members of cast and crew of ’93 Days’, a film which chronicles how Lagos was able to effectively contain the Ebola Virus Disease last year, paid a courtesy visit to him at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.