By Olasunkanmi Akoni There was commotion in Agege area of Lagos State in the early hours on Tuesday, when mob set ablaze a suspected kidnapper with their get away vehicle. According to eyewitness, the incident happened at about 9 am, in Orile-Agege Local Council Development Area, LCDA. Two out of the three suspected kidnappers were […]

Waters surround Lagos State, but the residents are neighbours with water scarcity. The burden of non-availability of potable water, whether pipe-borne or otherwise, was made worse when the Lagos Water Corporation, LWC, Group Managing Director, Badmus Muminu, blamed the situation on customers’ breaking water pipes. Muminu said this during a radio programme, which coincided with the second anniversary of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration.

A police officer on Tuesday pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping of 33-year-old Sarah Everard. Everard, who disappeared while walking home in South London in early March, sparked a nationwide debate about crime against women. Everard’s body was found more than a week later in woodland in Kent, some 80 kilometres from where the Londoner […]

Yobe State Police Command says it has picked up an abandoned boy of about one-year-old in Nyanya Ward, Damaturu Local Government Area. The command’s spokesman, Mr Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this on Monday in a statement in Damaturu. Abdulkarim stated: “The boy was recovered by the Police Divisional Headquarters at about 1800hrs on June 6. “An […]

The Police Command in Delta has apprehended four suspected armed robbers and recovered arms in the state. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Edafe Bright,  disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Warri. Bright identified the suspects as: Efe Oyenikoro; Felix George; Emmanuel Job and Joan Yapiteghe. He said  that the suspects were arrested […]