An Ogbesun Chief Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Wednesday ordered the remand a 41-year-old Prophet, Benjamin Bernard, in prison custody for alleged defilement of his seven-year-old daughter.

The Police in Edo has confirmed the abduction of Mrs Hassana Garuba, wife of former Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly.

Police on Wednesday successfully destroyed two suspected home-made bombs left at a car park near a popular shopping area in the Malaysian capital, a police official said.

The President Nigerians United Against Terrorism, Mr. Jude Feranmi, has enthused that Nigerians must not take the threat posed by Shiites lightly.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has stated that government has not unbundled the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC yet.

The Lagos State Government has expressed its condolences over the death of construction site workers who lost their lives on Tuesday as a result of the collapse of a five-storey building under construction on Kushenla Road, Ikate Elegushi, Lekki.

An Ogbesun Chief Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Wednesday ordered the remand a 41-year-old Prophet, Benjamin Bernard, in prison custody for alleged defilement of his seven-year-old daughter.

Twenty-two people have now died in the collapse of a five-storey building under construction in an upmarket area of Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos, a rescue official said Wednesday.

The 127.6-kilometre-long expressway connecting Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State andLagos State, popularly referred to as “Lagos-Ibadan expressway”, is the oldest and remains one of the busiest inter-state routes in West Africa. As major traffic artery, it has certainly hosted its share of accidents over the years.

A Cambridge University college has removed a bronze statue of an African cockerel from display following a campaign by students amid an increase in activism against symbols of Britain’s colonial past.

A Zimbabwean policeman has appeared in court after calling 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe “too old to rule” and accusing his wife of being a prostitute, local media reported Wednesday.

American National, Jonathan Schwochert and his French-born wife Charlotte Xiong, have won the 9th annual UK’s wife-carrying championship in Dorking, England.

Lionel Messi, who has made a brilliant start to the year for Barcelona, will play his first 2018 World Cup qualifiers this month after being named in a 29-man Argentina squad.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the nation is committed to safety standards in the maritime sector.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday, took over the functions of the Kogi State House of Assembly over the crisis that engulfed the assembly in the last one month.