Metro

A video has emerged on the internet showing the moment gunmen kidnapped the sister of former minister of power, Adebayo Adelabu and her twin sons. The video shared by user X, Big Sman with the handle @MR_Sulaiman shows a gray vehicle blocking the victim’s red Toyota car on a quiet street. The kidnappers fled the scene after they put the …

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced four men to death by hanging for their roles in the deadly attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, which left over 40 people dead and more than 100 worshipers injured. The trial judge, Emeka Nwite, delivered the verdict after finding the quartet guilty of nine counts of …

Lawyers in the Nsukka judicial axis of Enugu State staged coordinated protests on Tuesday, threatening to disrupt the operations of courts over what they described as the persistent reliance on virtual proceedings by judges sitting in the area. The protesters, hailing from five judicial divisions – Nsukka, Obollo-Afor, Enugu-Ezike, Ogbede and Umulokpa – said the settlement, introduced years ago due …

Police agents in Lagos have arrested four cult suspects linked to a series of violent crimes and murders in Ajanmgbadi, Ojo and neighboring communities in the state. Spokesman of the state police command, Abimbola Adebisi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Adebisi said the suspects were arrested as part of ongoing efforts to eradicate cultism, violent crimes …

Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday disagreed on the competency of a subpoenaed witness presented in his ongoing trial over alleged money laundering charges of N1.35 billion. The disagreement occurred before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, during the continuation of proceedings in the long-running case in which …

The federal government has abolished the long-standing practice of placing civil servants on compulsory leave before retirement, declaring that such a provision does not exist under the Civil Service Rules. The directive, issued by the Federation’s head of the Civil Service, Didi Walson-Jack, orders all ministries, departments and agencies to immediately end the widely adopted three-month terminal leave for civil …

…Link the Oyo kidnapping to a long-lasting national security collapse It assures Nigerians of the “final defeat” of the criminal network National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has said President Bola Tinubu inherited a long-standing and deeply rooted kidnapping crisis, insisting that Nigeria’s current security challenges, including school kidnappings, predate the current administration by more than two decades. Ribadu …

Justice Lauretta Onyeka of the Anambra State High Court in Oba, Idemili South local government area of ​​the state, on Monday sentenced a commercial tricycle operator, Makuachukwu Ezike, to death by hanging for the murder of a passenger. The prosecution told the court that the convict committed the offenses in a “one-off” robbery operation. In his assessment, the judge was …

The persistent and dangerous presence of livestock on major highways and neighborhood roads in Abuja has prompted an official apology from the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, who explicitly accepted personal responsibility for this unresolved issue. While addressing journalists at his monthly media conference in Abuja, the minister acknowledged the public’s frustration with cattle roaming the capital. …

Fear gripped parts of Lagos State on Monday after rumors of alleged bandit attacks sparked calls by parents to withdraw their children from schools in the surrounding communities of Eleko and Imota. The concerns, which spread quickly through social media messages and word of mouth, caused disruption at several schools before state authorities and police took action to dismiss the …