Category: City Beat
Updated: Reps to investigate killing of nine boys brigade in Gombe
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, resolved to investigate the death of boys brigade members during Easter procession in Gombe. This followed a motion under...
Two in court for selling fake tickets to motorcyclists
Two unemployed men Michael Moses, 21, and Habeeb Awori, 20, were on Tuesday arraigned in an Ajegunle Magistrates’ Court, Apapa, for alleged sale of fake operation...
Video: Reactions as popular pastor removes lady’s underwear
A Nigerian based Brazilian pastor, Sobrino Valdeci Picanto, has been arrested arrested after removing curvy lady’s underwear for the “holy spirit” to penetrate...
Student jailed 8 months for stealing wallet
A Minna Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 20-year-old student, Osama Abubakar, to eight months’ imprisonment for stealing a commercial motorcyclist’s wallet....
Court remands bus driver for stealing cellphone from accident victim
A Sharia Court l siting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, on Monday ordered that 21-year-old bus driver, Sani Muhammad, be remanded in prison for allegedly stealing a cellphone...
Court dissolves seven-year-old marriage over self-centredness, laziness
An Ibadan based businesswoman, Adejoke Adepoju, has told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her seven year-old union to her husband, Rasheed, due to his...
Suspected robbers stab NANS spokesman to death
Suspected robbers last Friday stabbed to death, the spokesman for the National Association of Nigerian Students’ (NANS) Joint Campus Committee (JCC), Comrade Oshin...
Lagos leads others in job creation
A total of 740, 146 jobs were added in Lagos State between July 2017 and June 2018, a survey of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) as captured in its...
Poisonous ‘ponmo’ now in market, Lagos Govt warns consumers
The Lagos Government has warned consumers about the health risk of some cow hide, popularly called ponmo, being offered for sale in the state. A Press release signed...
VIOs to only check rickety, unregistered vehicles on Lagos roads —Official
The Vehicle Inspection Service in Lagos State says its officials are on road operations only to check rickety, overloaded and unregistered vehicles. Head of Control,...
