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Facilities at the stadium station of the Abuja light rail system have been stolen by vandals, leaving the station that was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018 as a caricature. Daily Trust visited the light rail station on Monday, and observed that the industrial and electrical cables as well …

The National Drug law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has announced the arrest of a notorious powerful ‘Drug Queen’ in Taraba state. Newsextra24 gathered that, Femi Babafemi, the agency disclosed that it had been on the trail of the criminal identified as Lami Mai Rigima since 2021. The statement read in part; …

A Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday, sentenced a man, Collins Okechukwu, to life imprisonment for raping and robbing a 25-year-old student at the University of Lagos, Akoka. Delivering judgement, Justice Abiola Soladoye, who described Okechukwu as a pathological liar, held that the prosecution proved …

A landlord in Bonny Island, Rivers State, Mr Donald Pepple, has been attacked and stabbed multiple times by a Fulani herder for complaining that cows were messing up his compound. The herder, who is now on the run, it was gathered, always passed through Pepple’s compound with his cattle, leaving …

A deacon at the Evangelical Church Winning All, Onikoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Francis Ogunnusi, has died while preaching in the church on Sunday. The late deacon was the Baale of Onikoko community, near the Panseke area of Abeokuta. Our correspondent gathered that Ogunnusi was on the pulpit on Sunday preaching against …

Angry mob burnt two suspected motorcycle thieves alive in Kwankwashe community of Suleja, Niger State. The suspects met their waterloo after they engaged a motorcyclist to convey them to another community for work and in the process hit him with a hammer and zoomed off with his motorcycle. Salemgists learnt …

The Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in the south-east of the country has been “90%” destroyed after being besieged by Russian forces, its mayor Vadym Boichenko said Monday. “The sad news is that 90% of the infrastructure in the city is destroyed and 40% is unrecoverable,” Boichenko told a press …

The Italian police have arrested a 24-year-old Nigerian man who allegedly beat his wife and dropped their one-year-old baby boy from the upper floor. According to a report by Ansa News, a police officer dived and caught the child before he hit the floor in a Florence condo on Sunday …

A pregnant woman, Omowunmi Joseph (43), of Odoye area, Alaadorin, Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Monday morning, stabbed her husband, Joseph Nwankwo, to death around 2am while he was asleep. Our correspondent learnt that earlier a crisis started between the two about two weeks ago when …

A Kano-born atheist, Mubarak Bala, has pleaded guilty to all the 18-count charges leveled against him. Mr Bala, who is the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, was arrested at his home in Kaduna state on 28 April 2020 and taken to Kano, where complaints of blasphemy and incitement …