Metro

The Ogun State Government has announced the burial rites for the late Awujale of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona. Which  will take place today at Ogbagba Court, Igbeba, Ijebu-ode, Ogun State, at exactly 4 pm. The revered monarch joined his ancestors on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at the age of 91. However, Mr. Tokunbo […]

At least 70 members of a vigilante group were on Monday, killed after bandits ambushed them at the Kukawa and Bunyun communities of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State.‎‎Chairman of the vigilante group in Kukawa, Aliyu Baffa, who confirmed the incident to News men, said the surprise attack on his team happened when a […]

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old undergraduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Emmanuel Gambo, in connection with the murder of a young woman, Deborah Sam-Praise Ememem, whose decomposing body was discovered under a hotel bed in Obukpa, Nsukka.‎‎In a statement released on Tuesday via X, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP […]

A yet-to-be-identified man has reportedly died in an accident around the Soka area of the Ibadan-Lagos Expressway, on Tuesday. News men gathered that the incident involved a Toyota Camry and occurred at the same spot where more than 10 people lost their lives in a crash last Tuesday. The state capital, Sector Commander, Rosemary Alo, in a statement […]

Over 10 people have reportedly been feared dead in an accident that occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Oyo State this morning.‎‎The road mishap involved three Nissan Micra taxi cabs and three articulated vehicles, they were all coming  from the Iwo Road axis before getting involved in the accident.‎‎However, as of this hour multiple bodies […]

The Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria has strongly condemned the killings in Benue State, calling on the federal government to act decisively to end what it describes as “the valley of blood” that has reopened in Nigeria.This was said in a statement by the Acting National President, Martins Braimah, and the National Secretary-General, Dame Chisara Egwim-Chima, on […]

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday set up a committee to help restore sustainable peace to Benue State following last Friday’s massacre in Yelewata community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, which saw around 200 people killed.  Members of the peace committee selected by the President include former Military Governor of Benue State, Gen […]

The Nigerian Air Force has commenced investigations into the circumstances behind the death of one of its personnel attached to its Bauchi Command, Corporal A. S. Wulumba. The officer reportedly died while confined to a guardroom after being detained for arriving late to his duty post. His grieving sister, Numdarai Wulumba, said her brother informed […]

Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has expressed sorrow over the twin tragedies that struck Kano and Niger states, claiming many lives. In a statement issued today by his Press Secretary, Abubakar Bawa, the governor described the death of 22 Kano athletes in a recent road accident as a national tragedy that has cast a […]

There is looming fuel scarcity as the deadliest flood killed hundreds of persons and brought down the bridge in Mokwa, Niger State, connecting Northern Nigeria with the southwestern part of the country.‎‎Although the death toll from the Mokwa, Niger, flood remained controversial, the Niger State Emergency Management Agency and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) […]