No fewer than four students of the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Noforija, Epe, Lagis State, were reportedly shot as police tried to disperse protesting students on Monday afternoon. However, there are conflicting reports on the status of the injured students with some of their colleagues alleging three of them ... Read More »
More than 32 persons were reported killed in the early hours of Tuesday when gunmen numbering about 150 attacked Kizara village in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara. It was learnt that the heavily armed gunmen, who came in 38 motorcycles, invaded the village at about 4 a.m., shooting sporadically at anybody in sight. ... Read More »
The authorities of the Kwara State Polytechnic have distanced itself from media reports that a student of the institution was killed by a police escort of one of the banks in the state on May 28, 2013. In a statement signed by the Registrar of the school, M.O. Salami, the ... Read More »
Emotions ran high at number 9, Oyebola Close, Ikorodu, Lagos on Monday after a delegation of senior police officers visited the family home of Timilehin Ebun, a nine-year-old boy who was killed by a police stray bullet at the Mile 12 end of Ikorodu Road last Thursday. The spokesman for ... Read More »
A former staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Bashiru Majorette, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force on anti pipeline vandalism, while allegedly siphoning petroleum product at Odi Ifediwo area of Ogun State. Officer in-charge of the unit, Friday Ibadin,an Assistant ... Read More »
A 30-year-old woman, Precious Adebayo, yesterday, narrated how she escaped from a suspected ritualist, Taiwo Balogun, who disguised as a commercial bus driver. Precious told Vanguard that at about 8 p.m. on June 5, 2013, she boarded a commercial bus at Iyana Orile bus stop in Orile Agege Local Council ... Read More »
A 73-year-old man and his grandson have been arrested in a Pittsburgh drug raid after police say they found heroin bricks, drug packaging material and guns in a search of their home. Police say they raided the home Friday morning after a three-month investigation by plainclothes officers. They arrested Albert ... Read More »
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Ekiti State chapter has urged the state police command “to conduct a thorough investigation” into recent claims by a former governor of the state and gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Ayo Fayose, that his car was shot at by suspected ... Read More »
When on June 13, 2013, the Ebun family went to pick up their son, Jide, from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, everybody was happy because the 17-year-old boy had been in Canada where he was schooling and had not seen his family for two years. The family comprising the ... Read More »
A nine-year-old boy was allegedly killed by a police stray bullet in Lagos on Thursday. His parents were hospitalised following the tragic incident, as sources say they are still in shock and are being watched closely. Timilehin Ebun, the last child of the family was said to have been killed ... Read More »
We’re not sure if it’s more surprising to learn that the last telegram in the world will be sent next month… or that people are still sending telegrams somewhere. They are, though: 5,000 telegrams are still sent every day in India. But that’s all coming to an end on July ... Read More »
Claims by the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) that it bombed two fuel-laden tankers in Abaji area of the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday, have been dismissed by the police. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Altienne Daniel, while debunking the claim by MEND as untrue, added that ... Read More »
A Chinese farmer who claimed he had electrocuted an extraterrestrial and put it in his freezer for safe-keeping is now in the cooler himself. The farmer, whose name is only being given as “Mr. Li,” posted photos online of the alleged alien discovery, but was quickly arrested by police in the Shandong ... Read More »
Contrary to its earlier confirmation that two vehicles plunged into the Lagos Lagoon, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said that its findings revealed nothing of such happened. NEMA said the distress call on a commercial bus and a car plunging into the lagoon was a hoax. After confirming ... Read More »
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Police say a man who robbed a Foxborough home had to call a tow truck after getting stuck in the mud while making his getaway. Chief Edward O’Leary says a man broke into the home on Tuesday, and loaded up his pickup truck with two ... Read More »
UK — Runaway teacher Jeremy Forrest told a 14-year-old schoolgirl ‘I love you’ days before kissing her in his classroom, a court heard yesterday. A few weeks later, the married 30-year-old had séx with her at his cottagé while his wife was away. He also researched the maximum jail sentence he ... Read More »
Former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose on Tuesday night, narrowly escaped being assassinated on Ado Ekiti – Afao road when his car was shot at by unknown gunmen. It would be recalled that last November, Fayose’s car was similarly attacked by gunmen in a while Hilux van enroute Ado-Ekiti ... Read More »
An angry mob on Wednesday along stadium road, Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, smashed a robbery syndicate that specializes in snatching money and valuables from unsuspecting passengers. Narrating his experience in the hands of the suspected thieves, their victim said, “I went to change some currency from naira to dollars ... Read More »
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed the death of a student, following the violent protest by students of the University of Uyo on Wednesday. The Commissioner of Police in the State, Umar Gwadabe, confirmed the death of the student in an interview with a correspondent of the News ... Read More »
Former Lagos State commissioner of police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, yesterday lampooned the special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Public Affairs, Dr Reuben Abati, over his attack on former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu. In a statement, Tsav said Abati left ... Read More »
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