Metro

At least five people were killed in a car accident in Biliri, the Headquarters of the Billiri Regional Government Area in the Gombe State on Monday. The victims were two men and three women. Spokesman for State Police Command, Buhari Abdullahi. Confirming the incident in a statement on Monday in Gombe. He said eight other injured people were currently receiving …

The tail that destroyed from the three-storey building in the Ojodu-Berger area in Lagos had worsened, with the death toll now reached seven. This gloomy figure follows the recovery of two additional bodies from the ruins on Monday afternoon. Rescue efforts, which involve the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (Lasema), Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Nigerian police, and other …

A encouraging Easter procession in the Billiri regional government in the Gombe State turned into a tragedy scene when the truck accident claimed the lives of five people and left eight others who were injured, triggering widespread public anger and subsequent protests. The Gombe State Police Command confirmed the destructive incident in a statement released on Monday, which stated that …

Seven passengers traveling from Abuja to offfa in the state of Kwara were kidnapped on Saturday when armed people ambushed their Toyota Sienna passenger vehicles on Jalan Obbo-Aiyegunle/OSI in the Ekiti Regional Government in the State of Kwara. The report shows that the suspected kidnappers saved three children who were traveling with their parents. The oldest child of the children …

Judge Akintayo Aluko from the Federal High Court who sat in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, April 17, 2025 was sentenced and punished a businessman, Aniogor Godswill Obiajulu and his company, ICE by CW with five years in prison for their rejection to accept Nira as a legal tender. Obajualu, together with ICE by CW, was charged on Thursday on the …

Two Nollywood actors in IMO died on Friday after eating rice in the state. The IMO State Command spokesman, Henry Okoye, confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday at Ontorri. He said the order had begun an investigation to reveal the situation around the incident. The spokesman said: “Yes, the order is aware of an unnatural death case. I …

Fires in the early days of Friday destroyed six shops in the Kurmi Market (Yan ‘butcher) in the state canoeing. Spokesman for the State Fire Department, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, revealed this in a statement on Friday in Kano. He said: “We received a hard time from the Jakara Police Division at around 1:35 that there was a fire outbreak at …

Three officers of the Narcotics Law Enforcement Agency (Ndlea) had been treated in the hospital with a gunshot wound after an attack by criminals during the attack on Abuja. The Director of the Ndlea Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Friday that officers were attacked in the Jahi area in the Federal Capital Region (FCT), Abuja. …

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday approached three people in the Lagos Special Violation Court, Ikeja, for alleged Forex N46.3 million fraud. The suspects Nduh, Ugbine Elder, and Idika Williams were charged with a company, Destiny Ocita International Limited, on charges of four conspiracy counts, stealing, gaining with false reasons and receiving cheating properties. They, however, claimed …

The Nigerian Civil Defense Corps and Defense Corps (NSCDC) has found five illegal crude dumps in Abuja. NSCDC spokesman, Afolabi Babawale, revealed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He also confirmed the arrest of seven suspects related to the production and distribution of illegal crude oil. The spokesman said the special intelligence squad of the NSCDC Commander (CG’ssis) …