By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Operatives of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police have arrested a 22-year-old vulcanizer, Dele Ope, for allegedly stealing a pant of her client for money ritual. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who revealed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday, […]

By Vincent Ujumadu A 34-year old man, Mr Ifeanyi Apusiobi from Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State reportedly ran amok yesterday and killed his two children with a pestle and used the same object to inflict injuries on his 72 –year old father. Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Haruna […]

Decades  of alleged neglect, political and socio-cultural contradictions have culminated into a crisis situation in the North,threatening the fabric of cohesion and social existence.

By Onozure Dania – Lagos Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has discharged and acquitted a man, Niyi Oyelami, who was accused of defiling his neighbours’ 9-year-old daughter. The court discharged and acquitted the defendant after finding him not guilty of the offence of defilement after five years of trial. […]

By Dayo Johnson – Akure Three suspected cultists have been arrested in lgbokoda area of Ondo state over the death of a cult leader during a bloody supremacy clash. Vanguard learnt that the deceased, who was reportedly hacked to death in a bush, was hurriedly buried by his killers to cover up the crime. The […]

By Ikechukwu Odu – Nsukka A 17-year-old barber, Kelechi Onah, was, Wednesday, allegedly shot dead in his shop at Owerre-Eze Orba, in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State. The late Onah was said to had cut the hair of one of the suspects, who pretended to be a customer only to alert his accomplices […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi A 28-year-old commercial motorcycle operator (also known as Okada rider), Terver Awuha, of Idye community in Makurdi town has been remanded by a Chief Magistrate Court for allegedly raping 6-year-old Bella Omachi, twice. Arraigning the suspect, the Police Prosecuting Officer, Sergeant Friday Kanshio told the court that the mother of […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia A truck on Thursday crashed into a church fence at Azikiwe Road, Umuahia, in Abia State as a revenue taskforce team struggled for control of the vehicle with the driver. Vanguard gathered that the “revenue touts” had continued to harass motorists despite the directive of the Abia state government banning […]

By Ibrahim Hassan – Wuyo The Zamfara State Police Command has commenced investigation into the gruesome murder of a Consultant Medical Doctor, Dr Enoch Okpara in Gusau. Journalists were told that gunmen stormed the deceased doctor’s residence, shot him and subsequently, roasted his body at his residence in the Mareri area of Gusau, the Zamfara […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia A pregnant woman escaped death in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, as a team of policemen said to be enforcing the 4 pm closing time for keke operators in the state, attacked a tricycle conveying her and her two children. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the police team had trailed the […]