Crime

The driver of the government staff bus that collided with a moving train in the Shogunle, Ikeja area of Lagos on Thursday, Oluwaseun Osinbajo, has been arrested and will be prosecuted soon, according to the Lagos Police. The ill-fated bus, with the Lagos registration number 04A- 48LA, number 33, was...

An Owerri Magistrate Court yesterday ordered that the immediate past Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona be remanded in the Owerri Correctional Service facility. Magistrate C. N. Ezerioha gave the order immediately after hearing the prosecution and defence counsels respectively, in the suit filed by the state government...

There are reports that a fatal accident has occurred in Lagos, involving a train and a BRT Bus. Newsmen learnt that the incident occurred around Ikeja, Thursday morning. Several passengers are feared dead following the impact of the collision. As of the time of filing this report, it was not...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of 14 internet fraudsters before Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court in Benin City. The suspects were arraigned by the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC each on a one-count charge of fraudulent impersonation on Tuesday. They...

The Taraba State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of the two wives of the traditional ruler of Sarkin Kudu, Dansalama Adamu, in Ibi local government council of the state. Kidnapped alongside with the wives, is a son of the monarch. Their wheareabouts were still unknown as the time this...

At least two persons were burnt to death in the violence that hit Kano during the parliamentary and presidential elections. The New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, campaign office in Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano State has also been burnt down. Kano State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP...

A 300-level Mass Communication student of the Benue State University, Erekaa Naomi Dooshima, has been reportedly found dead a few days after she went missing. The student, also known as Affection, was reported missing three days ago and all efforts made to locate her whereabouts proved abortive. According to a...

A man suspected of killing a woman on Wednesday in Florida returned to the scene of the crime hours later and gunned down a television reporter and a nine-year-old girl, authorities said. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said that a 19-year-old man, Keith Melvin Moses, had been taken into custody...