Category: City Beat
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,...
Accident: 10 die in Auchi-Okene, Abeokuta-Sagamu road crashes
Five people died in a multiple road accident on Sunday along the Auchi-Okene-Highway, the Federal Road Safety Corps in Edo has confirmed. This is just as another set of...
Human parts thieves caught inside church’s cemetery
A bricklayer, Kunle Adewunmi, an alleged specialist in breaking into cemeteries to steal human body parts, and his two accomplices have been arrested in Abeokuta, Ogun...
Suspected ritualists kill 80- year-old woman in Ondo
There was confusion yesterday in Arigidi, Akoko Northwest council area of Ondo State, following the killings of an 80-year old woman by suspected ritualists. In the last...
Caretaker, 60, docked for allegedly stealing N541,000 from landlord
A 60-year-old caretaker was on Friday docked before an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly stealing N541,000 from a landlord. Tony Joshua, whose...
