TENSION is mounting in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State as suspected herdsmen, who have been dislodging farmers and dispossessing them of their property, chopped off the two hands of a farmer in the area on Friday.

A magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State on Friday remanded twin brothers, Olabode Kehinde, Olabode Taiwo and one other, Bakare Yusuf for allegedly gang-raping a teenager identified as Rukayat.

By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta A matron in General Hospital, Iperu Remo, in Ogun state on Friday died in a lone accident, while her husband was injured when their vehicle veered off the road and ran into the bush crashing into trees and other objects. Traffic report indicated that the car, Nissan Murano SUV, with number […]

A 30-year-old mother, Ismuha Ahmed, on Friday prayed a Shari’a court II sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, to grant her custody of her two male children aged six years and seven years. The complainant, who resides at Kontagora Road, said the children had been under the care of their father, Abdullahi Zakariyya, since their divorce […]

The Executive Director, FCT Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Dr Mohammed Dan-Hassan, says the practice of open defecation,  especially during the rainy season is a major cause of outbreak of epidemics. He said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja,. According to him, the current outbreak of […]