A 47-year-old woman, Joy Egeonu was yesterday, arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for the murder of an 11-year-old, Chibuike Egeonu for stealing N6, 500. It was gathered that the victim, a nephew to the suspect’s husband, was beaten to death and the body taken to Ifo, a suburb of the state, where…

No fewer than eight persons allegedly lost their lives on Saturday in an accident that involved two vehicles in Warri. Eyewitness account said the two vehicles which included a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a commercial bus rammed each other and plunged into a river along the ever busy NPA Expressway in Warri. The source…

Three persons at the weekend lost their lives while 24 others were hospitalised in an accident involving a trailer loaded with cows along Kalgo-Jega road in Kebbi State. The loaded trailer was heading to Lagos from Birnin Kebbi when the accident occurred on Saturday evening. An eyewitness, Malam Saidu Ibrahim, told newsmen that the accident…

A car bomb killed at least nine people including five civilians near a pro-Turkey rebel post in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Sunday, a British-based war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear who was behind the blast in the city, which was seized from Kurdish forces…

A driver died in Belgium near the border with France on Friday evening after hitting a truck which had slowed down due to a blockade by "yellow vest" protesters, a local government official said. The death takes to seven the number of people who have died in incidents linked to the anti-government protests in France…

A family was thrown into sadness recently in Lagos, as their two children were both found dead inside their parents’ refrigerator at Igbogbo-Baiyeku area in Lagos. Reports showed that the kids and their dad were observing siesta when he woke up and didn’t find the kids. After searching without avail, he called his wife who…

There was pandemonium in Akure metropolis, the Ondo State capital, yesterday, as commercial motorcycle riders chased all traffic wardens off the street following the death of one of their colleagues. A fully loaded petroleum tanker belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) crushed a commercial motorcyclist, Mr. Kayode Esan, to death around 8am. It…

At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned Saturday after their bus plunged into a canal in India, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest roads. Police said they retrieved 28 bodies from the private passenger bus after it veered off the road and fell into the canal in the Mandya…

The Society of Occupational and Environmental Health Physicians of Nigeria (SOEHPON) has called on the Federal Ministry of Health as well as the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment to implement policies, laws and interventions that would strengthen the provision of occupational health and safety best practices in Nigeria. It noted that the existing regulations,…

NPF & ORS v. OMOTOSHO & ORS CITATION: (2018) LPELR-45778(CA) In the Court of Appeal In the Lagos Judicial Division Holden at Lagos ON TUESDAY, 30TH OCTOBER, 2018 Suit No: CA/L/1078/2016 Before Their Lordships: TOM SHAIBU YAKUBU, JCA UGOCHUKWU ANTHONY OGAKWU, JCA GABRIEL OMONIYI KOLAWOLE, JCA Between 1. THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE 2. THE COMMISSIONER…

Four persons were reportedly killed yesterday along Polo Club and Mandela Car Wash at Government Reservation Area (GRA) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that the driver of a private car had hit and killed someone along Polo Club and fearing arrest and possible lynching by angry residents, he moved on…

Again, gunmen suspected to be local militias struck at Zaki Biam in Ukum Local Council of Benue State at 10 am yesterday killing four persons and a police officer. The Guardian learnt that the gunmen in their numbers invaded Tse-Ujondo, Tse Uvia and Zaki-Biam Mechanic Village shooting sporadically and killing the victims. It was gathered…