Officials on Thursday reported that 19 people were killed and up to 30 missing after a huge fire tore through a casino-hotel complex in a Cambodian town on the Thai border. About 400 employees and patrons were in the Grand…
Two suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo boys, and two of their female colleagues have allegedly abducted another colleague over the sharing of the proceeds of fraud. The suspects were on Monday arrested by men of the Ogun State…
Unknown gunmen (UGM) have abducted a female Nigerian Army officer, P. P. Johnson from Abia State. In a video seen by Newsmen on Thursday, the captors vowed to kidnap other Southeasterners serving in the armed forces. The voice behind the…
An unemployed man was on Wednesday docked in a Grade 1 Area Court, Karu, Abuja for allegedly swindling a trader of N3.95million. The police charged Umaru Adamu, 40, of Saraki line, Dakwa, Dei-dei, Abuja with criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of…
A Karu Upper Area Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, sentenced a 47-year-old man, Solomon Madaki, to seven months imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and cheating. Madaki, a resident of Keffi, Nasarawa State, was convicted on a two-count charge…
Two yet-to-be-identified persons have drowned in Lagos while trying to rescue another person from being swept away by the high current at Baracuda Beach on Monday. It was gathered that the victims were part of fun seekers who thronged the…
The four abducted students of the Kogi State Polytechnic and their driver have been set free by their abductors. The victims were kidnapped on the Akunnu-Ajowa Road in the Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo State last week when…
Seven persons lost their lives, while five others sustained injuries in an auto crash at Gunu village, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State on Tuesday night. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps,, in Niger, Mr Kumar…
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned as “heinous and senseless,” the killing of Omobolanle Raheem, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) shot by an on-duty policeman on Christmas day. According to a statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special…
Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade has expressed sadness over the ugly incident where an errant motorist plowed into a crowd that thronged the Carnival route to watch the bikers parade. A statement by the Special Adviser on Media…
