The Osun Police Command has rescued seven people kidnapped on the Ibokun-Osogbo Road on Tuesday. A statement made available to newsmen on Saturday in Osogbo by the police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated that the effort of the state Commissioner of Police and other security agencies led to the release of the kidnapped people. “The […]

Gunmen have killed 16 people and injured nine others at a village in Sokoto near the border with Niger, a local official and a resident said Friday. The pre-dawn attack on Tara village, in Sokoto state, is the latest in a series of attacks by criminal gangs known locally as “bandits” who for years have […]

By Bose Adelaja Barely two months after a fuel-laden tanker fell and exploded on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, another tanker belonging to Mrs on Friday, fell on the road thereby causing traffic gridlock in the axis. Details of the incident which occurred in the evening were sketchy at press time though a multi-team of responders like the […]

It’s been one week since the northern traders agreed to resume the supply of food items to southern states, thereby ending the blockade.

A 28-year-old cleaner, Idoko Akochi, on Friday appeared in a Wuse Zone Six Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for allegedly stealing laptops worth N5.6 million. The defendant, attached to National Health Insurance Scheme Wuse 11, Abuja, is being tried for theft. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Peter Ejike, told the court that […]