By Bashir Bello KANO— A Kano High Court has sentenced two men to death by hanging for stabbing to death a lecturer with the state-owned university, Northwest University Kano, Buhari Imam. The duo of Aliyu Hussaini and Amir Zakariyya were convicted on a three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide. The trial judge, […]

By Emma Unah CALABAR—A 22-year-old woman, identified as Odama Mary Agado, has reportedly taken her own life by drinking a substance suspected to be Sniper after she allegedly caught her boyfriend with another woman. Mary, who hailed from Woleche-Ipuole in Yahe Ward, Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, was until her death a […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Jos—Troops of the 3 Division and the Joint Task Force, Operation Enduring Peace, JTF OPEP, have recovered a cache of arms and ammunition during a raid in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The operation, according to military authorities, followed credible intelligence indicating that bandits were stockpiling weapons in the […]

By Evelyn Usman Tragedy struck at Obadore, inward Igando, along the LASU-Igando Road, Lagos, at about 11 p.m. on Saturday, when a fully loaded commercial bus rammed into a broken-down Private Sector Participant (PSP) waste truck, leaving one person dead and several others injured. The incident prompted a swift response from the Lagos State Emergency […]

By Evelyn Usman Residents of the Natufe/Animashaun community, off Babs Animashaun Road in the Bode Thomas area of Surulere, Lagos, have staged a protest against the construction of a cemetery in their neighbourhood, describing the project as illegal, hazardous, and environmentally unsafe. Carrying placards with inscriptions such as “No to Cemetery in Nature Estate,” “Don’t […]