A middle aged man alleged to have forged the letter headed paper of the Presidency with the name of a former Chief of Staff to the President with an intent to defraud others over a nonexistent oil deal, was on Monday sent to Prison, as the trial opened in Abuja.

A Nigerien man stabbed two Danish journalists in Gabon, allegedly saying it was a revenge attack against the United States for recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

A newly-wedded bride in Sokoto, Shafa Muhammad, 28, has attacked her husband with a razor blade and injured him on the head.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has arrested five of its traffic officials for extorting motorists last week at various parts of the State.

Like a clairvoyant, Lagos  State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, held the bull by the horns, just few weeks after assuming office at the command headquarters, Ikeja.

ABEOKUTA—A 29-year-old, driving school instructor, Festus Udoh, yesterday, narrated how he lured, raped and killed a  Batch A 2017 member of the  National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Abeokuta, Ogun State,  Ms Modupe Taiyese, in a forest.

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a cable thief syndicate who specialise in vandalising government and private company’s cable in different parts of the metropolis.

The police in Ogun say they have arrested a 29-year-old driving instructor, name withheld, for allegedly raping and killing one Ms Modupe Taiyese, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Abeokuta, Ogun.

PORT HARCOURT—Thirteen women allegedly selling the country’s currency were arrested by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Rivers State Police Command in a joint sting operation in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Four suspects involved in the gruesome killing of a Redeem Pastor, a mother and her son in Ikorodu area , at different dates, have been arrested by the police in Lagos.