By Bose Adelaja Residents of Obalende, Ikoyi, Lagos state, were, on Thursday, thrown into confusion, following a clash between two suspected rival cultists group in the area. The fight was said to have started with gunshots at about 8 am and lingered till 9 am. Following the gunshots, residents, commuters and road users were said […]

Pandemonium broke out in the early hours on Thursday, at Obalende area of Lagos Island following a violent clash between rival groups of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW.

A man who chopped off his wife’s hands for failing to bear him children has been handed a 30-year jail sentence. The court in Machakos, Machakos County, jailed Stephen Ngila, 39, for attempted murder for chopping off Jackline Mwende’s hands with a machete in 2016. READ ALSO: Libya’s decade of turmoil since Kadhafi’s fall He […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong – Jos The Plateau state police command on Wednesday paraded over 40 suspected criminals who allegedly committed various crimes ranging from kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearms, homicides among others in different parts of the State. The State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ebuka who intimated journalists of the Command’s […]

A 27-year-old fisherman, Fatai Yussuf, has been remanded in a custodial centre in Lagos over alleged killing of his six-week-old daughter whom he threw into a lagoon because she was sick. The Chief Magistrate, P.E. Nwaka, gave the remand order at a Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos on Wednesday. Yussuf is facing a count charge […]