The popular Amu Plank Market in Mushin, Lagos, was razed by a midnight fire Saturday destroying properties worth millions of Nigeria. There were no casualties as residents and traders battled without success to put out the fire. Witnesses told our correspondent that officials of the Lagos State Fire and Safety Agency arrived the scene about…
A househelp identified as Uche Soroibe from Ideato in Imo State has been nabbed on his third attempt of poisoning his boss and his family members with an insecticide ‘Sniper’. The boy who was paraded alongside the insecticide he tried killing the family with, initially claimed he wanted to commit suicide with it. Upon being…
A Nigerian writer has taken to his twitter page to share his thoughts on Nigerian in diaspora who always tell their fellow Nigerians to quit the idea of coming to be with them ‘in the abroad’. The man described those set of people as ‘evil’. His tweet reads ; You are evil if you are…
A man, nicknamed Tallest, has been arrested after slapping someone to death in AnambraState. The incident happened during a disagreement, last night, at a club on Abakeleke street, #Awka. . At the height of the fracas, the suspect was said to have landed a slap on his opponent, sending him into another realm, from where…
Senior United Nations officials and other stakeholders on Friday in New York raised concerns about the “alarming crisis’’ in the educational sector with a call on governments to act fast. Speaking at a high-level interactive dialogue on education at the UN headquarters, they noted that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could not be achieved without…
The planned recruitment of personnel and further implementation of the blueprint for the South West regional security outfit named Amotekun are now on hold. It was gathered that some states had already fine-tuned the processes of recruitment before the controversial notification by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, declaring the outfit as illegal….
Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has sold his soul to Satan. The former minister said this on Friday while reacting to Adesina’s op-ed on the killing of Lawan Andimi, the leader of the Christian Association of…
Zachaeus Atte, a former Commissioner for Agriculture in Kogi State, has been jailed for 19 years for diverting over N19m meant for cocoa farmers in the state. Atte was convicted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and convicted on corruption charges by a Kogi State High Court sitting in Okene,…
The FCT Police Command has arrested the Chief of Ushafa in Bwari Area Council, Alhaji Mohammed Baba, following the alleged killing of a police officer by a mob at his palace. The command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Anjuguri Manzah disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the secretary to the…
An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Eric Isaiah, has been killed while attempting to arrest one Moses Peter, aka Dogo, wanted for culpable homicide. The cop was reportedly killed by some persons at the Chief of Ushafa palace in the Bwari Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday, at about 9pm. Narrating the circumstances surrounding…