The police in Ondo have arrested the man who allegedly killed eight members of his ex-girlfriend’s family, including five children, after setting their house ablaze at Igbodigo, in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Deji Adenuga, was reportedly arrested yesterday, a week after he allegedly committed the act and fled. He […]

A year one Chemical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has been found dead in her locked room. The deceased, identified as Hikmat Gbadamosi, is believed to have committed suicide by taking two bottles of a yet-to-be-identified poisonous substance. One of the reactions to the incident on social media. Her close […]

Bandits along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway kidnapped the chairman of the Governing Board of Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Dr Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar and his daughter after shooting his driver to death on their way to Abuja. It was gathered  that several other travelers were abducted in the operation that occurred at about 3pm at Kurmin […]

The Ekiti State Government has resolved the crisis rocking Ilogbo Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government where the indigenes were locked in dispute with their monarch, the Owalogbo, Oba Edward Ajayi. The Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, called on the stakeholders in the town to allow peace to reign and bury the hatchet of the past. […]

If you are a lover of Ponmo, (cow skin), and you live in Lagos, this may not be a news you will cherish to hear as the Lagos State Government has alerted residents to the circulation of “poisonous ponmo” in some markets in the state. A statement by Adeola Salako, Director of Public Affairs, Lagos […]

Two Royal Dutch Shell oil workers has been kidnapped and their police escorts killed in Nigeria’s restive Delta region, a police spokesman has  said. The workers were in Rivers State, returning from an official trip to Bayelsa State, when they were attacked, according to a Reuters report. It quoted a spokesman for the Shell Petroleum […]

Hell was let loose as people suspected to be herdsmen unleashed violence in which a female singer, Miss Celina Wet, was brutally attacked in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, leaving her with severe machete wounds. Wet was said to have been attacked in her farm in Kop-Mandarken village when she went to apply […]

Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has won the 2018 Zik Leadership Prize for humanitarian Leadership. This was disclosed by the organisers of the annual Prize in Lagos during the week. Her husband, Dr Kayode Fayemi had earlier in 2013 won the Zik Leadership Prize in the political leadership category. Other winners of […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has assured candidates of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that results would be ready from April 29. The Board’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Bwari. Benjamin said that screening of the results would soon […]