Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta A teacher with Isanbi Comprehensive High School, Ilisan Remo, in Ikenne Local Government area of Ogun State, one Kolawole Sonuga was allegedly given beating of his life by seven dare-devil students of both Senior Secondary School one…
A 47-year-old man, Taiwo Oluyemi, was on Friday arraigned in an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly obtaining the sum of N410,000 from two females to process travel documents for them. Oluyemi is charged with obtaining under false pretence and…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested 12 individuals suspected of vandalising railway sleepers and seized two trucks carrying stolen railway sleepers. According to a statement released by the NSCDC Director of Public Relations, Commandant Olusola Odumosu, the…
…Three guards injured By Sodiq Adelakun Unknown gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, invaded the residence of a former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, on Saturday night and left three security guards brutally injured. The suspected kidnappers, shot sporadically into the…
By Sodiq Adelakun A 32-year-old man, David Shodola, who was suspected to be mentally ill, on Friday, threw Ipara town, Remo-North Local Government Area of Ogun State into confusion after allegedly beheading an 84-year-old resident, Alfred Opadipe. The ‘madman’ was,…
The residence of Alabi Victor Olawumi, the Councillorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state, has been vandalised by some hoodlums suspected to be political thugs. According to information made available to Nigerian NewsDirect, these hoodlums suspected…
Troops of the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services (DSS) have destroyed an enclave of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Asaba, Delta. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement…
NAF airstrikes eliminate 22 terrorists loyal to late kingpin, AbdulkareeOver 22 terrorists loyal to the deceased notorious terrorists’ kingpin Alhaji Abdulkareen Lawal, aka Abdulkareen Boss, were on Monday, 17 July 2023, neutralised by air strikes conducted by the Air Component…
An Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, on Wednesday, heard how a sales representative of a food vendor, Goodness Innocent, allegedly stole N2.3m from her employer. Innocent, 21, is facing two counts of conspiracy and stealing preferred against her by the police.…
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone-2, Mr Ali Mohammed, has warned officers and men in the zone, comprising Lagos and Ogun states against human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings. Mohammed gave the warning during an interactive session with newsmen on…
