crime

A middle-aged passenger, whose name was yet to be identified, has died after a bus somersaulted at Piri village, along Abuja-Lokoja road. The accident happened around 9:35am last Friday, when a Toyota Sienna bus number AAA 813 DH lost control and crashed into a ditch. According to Daily Trust, a …

A bus driver has died and several of his passengers injured in an accident while speeding to beat traffic light at Marwa Bus-Stop along the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos State. The accident occurred around 10.44am on Saturday when a Volkswagen bus rammed into a Toyota Highlander while trying to beat the …

One Salish Sanni has been arrested by members of a vigilante group at the Igando area of Lagos for burglary. The suspect, a 28-year-old man, had secretly made his way into the area around 3am and successfully burgled two shops and was about to enter the third shop when he was …

33-year-old suspected ritualist, Volt Blessing Gabriel, who was arrested by the police for allegedly beheading his one year and eight-month-old son, Godspower Gabriel, claims he had a dream where he was told that his action will make him wealthy. Sources had reported that Gabriel took the boy from his wife, …

Tragedy struck in an estate in the Ajah area of Lagos after three children of the same parents drowned in a swimming pool. The parents of the deceased children, who fainted after the tragic incident were said to had gone for an event when the three children left their house …

Bandits wreaking havoc in some parts of Benue State have been neutralised by troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, the Nigerian army has disclosed. According to the military hierarchy, troops arrested four kidnappers and killed three bandits. Defence Spokesman, Bernard Onyeuko, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, also noted that …

Following a fatal gun battle with operatives of the Delta State Police Command and local vigilantes, three suspected armed robbers were shot dead while several others were arrested. According to spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, who made this known via a statement issued on Sunday, June 26, seven suspected …

The Nigerian Army announced that a camp belonging to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) had been cleared at Idara Nnebo, Ihe Mbosi villages, and Ukpor in the Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State by joint operatives made up of the 302 …

On Sunday morning, unidentified gunmen stormed into the Ikabigbo community in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, where they allegedly abducted a priest who goes by the name Reverend Father Osia. The hoodlums reportedly broke into the priest’s home as he was getting ready for Sunday mass …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazil returnee, Igwedum Uche Benson at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos with pellets of cocaine concealed in his private part. The Director, Media & Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed …