Category: Metro
Buy stolen phone, spend seven years in prison’- Lagos PPRO
The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, has warned Nigerians to desist from buying any phone that was stolen. According to hi [...]
8 ex governors facing corruption charges, now Senators
It is no longer news that the Nigerian Senate has become a retirement home for ex governors as virtually all of the governors end up vying for senator [...]
Zamfara State boils again as 34 people get killed, houses razed
Zamfara State has once again been overrun by bandits. At least 34 people were killed after suspected bandits attacked three villages in Shinkafi local [...]
Gunmen hijack ambulance, kidnap doctors in Ondo
An ambulance, a white Toyota Hiace, conveying medical equipment was attacked at the boundary between Ondo and Edo states on Friday. Some medical offic [...]
Chris Iwarah, Air Peace spokesman, dies in auto-crash
The media world is currently mourning one of its own, Chris Iwarah, who died in a bizarre auto-crash at Mangoro bus stop along Lagos – Abeokuta expres [...]
Bizarre! Gorilla ‘swallows’ N6.8m in Kano zoo
A gorilla has been accused of swallowing N6.8 million in the Kano Zoological Gardens. According to BBC pidgin, a finance officer in the zoo was quoted [...]
UTME 2019: UI rejects JAMB’s 160 cut off marks
The management of the University of Ibadan, UI, has rejected the 160 cut off mark approved by JAMB for the 2019 UTME, insisting on pegging its own cut [...]
Kano anti graft agency says it has evidence of misappropriation against Sanusi
Following Muhammadu Sanusi II, emir of Kano’s response to the query the administration of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, issued to him, on the m [...]
Buhari rode to power on widespread violence – Human Rights Watch
The Nigeria elections in 2019 that gave President Muhammadu Buhari a second term were marred by political violence, Human Rights Watch has said. The r [...]
Nigeria worse off than in 1993 – Abiola’s son, Abdulmumuni laments
Son of the late Chief MKO Abiola, Abdulmumuni Abiola is not impressed with the President Muhammadu Buhari led government despite the honours bestowed [...]