Metro

The Itire Division of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman for allegedly kidnapping three children of the same parents. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Mr Fatai Owoseni, who made the disclosure at a press briefing on Thursday, said the children were between ages one and four. Owoseni said that the children,…

A Police Corporal who allegedly shot a woman to death on Wednesday at Isheri Oshun, a Lagos suburb, will be arraigned on Friday. The Commissioner of Police Lagos, Mr Fatai Owoseni, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on the activities of the command on Thursday in Ikeja. Owoseni said the Corporal attached to Isheri Oshun…

The wife of the Deputy Managing Director of the Sun Newspapers, Mrs Toyin Nwosu, on Thursday regain her freedom after spending three nights with suspected abductors. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni, who confirmed her release, said she regained freedom at about 2.20 a.m. on Thursday. Owoseni said that she was…

AN Oredo Magistrate Court has remanded one Rich Arisco Osemwingie and his brother, Patrick Osabuohien, in prison custody till September 29, 2015 for unlawful coronation of Osemwingie as the “Ogiamen of Utuantan Benin Nation” and addressing him His Royal Majesty (HRM) without approval of the Executive Council of Edo State. HRM is a title reserved only for the Oba of Benin.

NINE persons were feared killed in Sarki-Kudu Village of Ibi Local Council of Taraba State following a reprisal attack said to have allegedly been carried out by Fulani herdsmen on the Tiv community.

THE United Nations has condemned the heinous attack against a camp for the Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yola, where some 32,000 people have found refuge

Concerned by their seeming passive role in politics in the country, Nigerian youths have asked for full acknowledgment of their rights, demanding that, as they have voted for older political candidates in past elections, they too, should be voted for.

Following what he termed neglect by successive governments, the National Patron of the Ex-Biafran Soldiers Association (EBSA), Dr Ramas Asuzu, said yesterday that over 500 former Biafran soldiers died in penury not long ago.

THE Senior Special Assistant (SSA), Special Duties to Imo State Governor, Chief Emma Ibediro, a lawyer; his family members and wife of Imo State Governor, Nkechi Okorocha, were in their happy moods on Sunday at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, Aladinma, Owerri, as Ibediro, accompanied by his wife, Uzoma and their children, recounted the story his spine ailment before he was quickly flown out of the country to India at the prompting of the governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, for urgent waist surgery.

SEVEN journalists practising in Ogun State were Tuesday arrested and detained at the Ota High Court premises for the better part of the day on the orders of a judge (name withheld) attached to the State High Court 1.

A Federal High Court, Lagos yesterday fixed October 30, 2015 to deliver judgment in a N2 billion suit filed by juju music star, Dr. Sunday Adeniyi Adeye popularly known as King Sunny Ade against African Songs Limited and seven others.

TWO members of a female robbery gang, Ekpo Grace and Daniel Mfon, have been nabbed by operatives of the State Police Command in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital.