Category: City Beat

Lagos: Hairdresser commits suicide over disagreements with boyfriend

A resident of Fadausi Street, Ijeshatedo, Lagos State, Kenile Nwabuzor, has killed herself following protracted disagreements between her and her boyfriend identified as...

Ogun

$350m Loan: Ogun/World Bank finalise economic transformation programme

The Ogun State government and the World Bank have concluded the design and plans for an Economic Transformation Programme, towards the granting of a $350million loan to...

Tension in Delta as Gowon slumps during final military salute to Ejoor

Tension heightened as Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former Nigerian Head of State, slumped mid way during the oration at the grave side of late Maj Gen David Akpodiete Ejoor, in...

LASPARK to enforce beautification of setbacks

The Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK)  will enforce its  law  against recalcitrant corporate organisations and property owners that have refused to...

Tinubu-Ojo installs Computer Village market leaders

The President-General, Association of Commodity Market Women and Men of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, on Thursday installed Mr Adeniyi Olasoji and Mrs Abisola Azeez...

Police

Four feared killed as herdsmen, farmers clash in Ogun

Pandemonium broke out in Iwoye community, in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State when suspected herdsmen and farmers clashed. Four persons were feared...

Amosun defends recruitment of 1,000 new workers

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has declared that his recruitment of 1,000 workers into the state’s civil service barely a month to the end of his...

court

Tanzania police officer hires a friend to get wife pregnant

In Dar-es-Salaam, a Tanzanian Court must decide on a honorable intentions in a case where a man hired his neighbor to get his wife pregnant. It seems that Darius...

‘Why I burnt my wife, eight family members’

Ondo State Police command has arrested 45- year-old Deji Adenuga said to have burnt his wife and eight other family members to death in Okitipupa The suspect was paraded...

Lagos

Updated: Four feared dead in Lagos train accident

  Four persons – three men and a woman – were yesterday killed when an Abule Egba-bound train crushed a tricycle at Iju Ishaga, a Lagos suburb. It was learnt...