Metro
Court dissolves marriage over wife’s poor cooking, lack of manners
A Customary Court in Mapo in Ibadan, Oyo State, dissolved a 15-month-old marriage of a sales attendant, Stephen Akinseloye, over his wife’s poor cooking and lack of manners. Akinseloye, who
EKEDC explains outage in Badagry
The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has attributed the outage in Badagry and its environs to early downpour, which destroyed over 20 electric poles along Agbara-Badagry expressway. The
Police recover human skull, body parts in Delta bush
By Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha Police in the Delta State Command has recovered a human skull and other body parts in a bush near Obiaruku, Ukwuani Local Government Area
Family of four perishes in Bida fire disaster
By Wole Mosadomi – Minna The Ancient city of Bida, headquarters of Bida local government area of Niger state was thrown into mourning on Monday as four family members were
Bandits kidnap villagers in Niger state
A criminal gang has kidnapped 25 villagers in two separate incidents in Niger state, an area notorious for banditry and abductions, a local official said on Tuesday. Dozens of bandits,
15 trafficked children rescued, reunited with parents
Parents and some children recovered from traffickers. By Kingsley Omonobi — ABUJA *Suspects charged to court The FCT Police Command has reunited 15 children, who were victims of trafficking, with
Man wants court to dissolve his 27-year-old marriage over wife’s ‘disobedience’
A businessman, Abideen Adebayo, on Tuesday urged an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve the 27-year-old marriage between him and his wife, Sherifat. He told the court that Sherifat
Zamfara eases curfew in Jangebe, town of kidnapped schoolgirls
Bello Matawalle Zamfara state has scaled back a curfew imposed on Jangebe town where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted last month, residents said Tuesday. The 279 girls were abducted on
Boko Haram: 7 years after, hundreds of Nigerian refugees return from Cameroon
Hundreds of Nigerian refugees returned home from Cameroon on Monday, seven years after they were displaced by Boko Haram jihadists and forced to seek shelter across the border, the UN
Indigenes raised alarm about N127m fraud at Lagos scholarship board, EFCC alleges
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said that Lagos indigenes alerted it about the alleged N127 million fraud at the Lagos State Scholarship Board. Usman Adamu, an
