The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has attributed the outage in Badagry and its environs to early downpour, which destroyed over 20 electric poles along Agbara-Badagry expressway. The General Manager, Corporate Communications, EKEDC, Mr Godwin Idemudia, said on Thursday in Lagos that the March 8 morning rainfall caused serious damage, which damaged the […]

By Wole Mosadomi – Minna The Ancient city of Bida, headquarters of Bida local government area of Niger state was thrown into mourning on Monday as four family members were burnt into ashes in an early morning inferno. Two wives and grandchildren of the owner of the building were consumed by the fire. The name […]

A criminal gang has kidnapped 25 villagers in two separate incidents in Niger state, an area notorious for banditry and abductions, a local official said on Tuesday. Dozens of bandits, sneaked into Kutunku village in Wushishi district around 0030 GMT on Monday while residents were asleep and abducted 24 people, Ismail Modibbo Kagara, political administrator […]

The FCT Police Command has reunited 15 children, who were victims of trafficking, with their parents on Monday. In February 2020, the children aged between two and 13 years, were deceptively taken from their parents in Lapai in Niger State by one Emmanuel Abraham, 30, and Nkechi Udoh, 53, under the pretext of providing them education.

A businessman, Abideen Adebayo, on Tuesday urged an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve the 27-year-old marriage between him and his wife, Sherifat. He told the court that Sherifat and two of their four children were in the habit of bettering him, hence his request for divorce. “Sherifat is such a disobedient and troublesome […]