The police in Kwara state on Sunday, October 2, are currently in search of one Abubakar Abubakar over the killing of his 12-year-old brother, Yusuf Abubakar, both sons of one Abubakar Abubakar a hunter in Dutse Gogo town via Kaiama. According to the police, preliminary investigation shows that the fatal incident happened while Abubakar was testing…
Property worth millions of naira was affected as a three-storey building collapsed on Sunday midnight around Adabor Junction, Ashi, Bodija, Ibadan. This is coming few weeks after the collapse of an uncompleted five-storey hotel building adjacent to one of the new generation banks at Awosika in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency raided a mansion in the Lekki area of Lagos State where Tramadol was stored. NDLEA Spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a terse statement on Monday, said the mansion belonged to a drug baron who is now in custody. He said the agency recovered 13 million pills of Tramadol…
As River Niger overflowed its banks due to a downpour, twelve communities in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State have been submerged in flood, leaving residents stranded. The affected communities include Udaba-Ekphei, Anegbette, Ukpeko Orle, Ofukpo, Agbabu, Osomegbe, Udochi, Yelwa, Ake Island and Ifeku Islay. Residents of these communities had to flee because…
A 50-year-old man has been burnt to death following a fire outbreak in a 25-room building located at 48, Jagunmolu Street, Bariga area in Lagos state on Sunday, October 2 Confirming the incident, the Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mrs. Margaret Adeseye, said the agency received a distress call around 3:19am and firemen were immediately…
The US-based hotelier, Olugbenga Owolabi, who was abducted and killed after a N5 million naira ransom was allegedly paid, has been laid to rest. Mr Owolabi was kidnapped along with a student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Rachel Opadele, who was working at his hotel due to the ongoing strike by the Academic…
In what will come across as a really startling development, the decomposed bodies of two women have been found in Kwara State. The bodies were found in a shallow grave in the office of a medical doctor, Abass Adio Adebowale Adeyemi, in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara state. It would be recalled that the…
An ex-footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. He was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa on board an Ethiopian airlines flight with 1.40kg crack cocaine concealed in his bags. Spokesperson of…
The Second Niger Bridge will be fully ready for use by the first quarter of 2024, Seyi Martins, the acting Federal Controller of Works in Anambra State, has confirmed. However, Martins said the bridge would be officially inaugurated by December 2022. He disclosed this over the weekend while receiving members of the Council for Regulation…
A Nigerian lecturer with Umar Bun Khattab College of Education, Tudun Nufawa in Kaduna State, has taken a fourth wife and also welcomed his 19th child. Mohammed Sulaiman trended on social media after he shared photos of his three wives and 18 children during Eid-el-Kabir celebration. Sulaiman, who had said he won’t mind having more…