Nigerians are mourning the death of a student of the
University of Lagos, Oluchi Anekwe, who was electrocuted
on her way to her room in Sodeinde Residence, New Hall on
the campus on Tuesday’s night .
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Showing posts with label Metro. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Saturday, 5 September 2015
01:57
Excellent Johnson
The Head of Mission, Syria embassy in Nigeria, Dr. Shafik
Daiyob has said that the Nigerian supporters of the Islamic
State of Syria and Iraq terrorist group obtained visas to join
the group in Syria from the Turkish embassy in Nigeria.
Daiyob explained that many ISIS sympathisers who were
given visas by the Turkish embassy entered Syria illegally
through Turkey.
The envoy who spoke through an interpreter said this in an
interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.
The son of a former...
01:49
Excellent Johnson
The recent announcement by the Department of State
Security that the dreaded Boko Haram sect has moved into
Lagos and Enugu has led to widespread tension and fear in
the states.
Ever since the security agency made the revelation in a press
statement on Sunday, residents have not stopped
discussing the ominous implications of the development in
the states.
The DSS on Sunday had announced the arrest of 20
suspected Boko Haram commanders in Lagos, Kano, Enugu,
Plateau and Gombe states between July...
01:48
Excellent Johnson
Head of the Sokoto Remand Home, Alhaji Dahiru Lawal,
on Thursday said 13 inmates had escaped from the
centre in the last two years due to the poor state of its
facilities.
Lawal disclosed this in Sokoto when he received a
donation from an NGO, Housewives Initiative
Development Association,
He appealed to the Sokoto State Government to
undertake massive rehabilitation of the centre which
was in very deplorable condition.
Lawal said that the Home, which served as reformatory
for convicted juveniles,...
01:46
Excellent Johnson
Several people were feared dead and others injured
when a six storey plaza in the heart of the popular
Balogun market in Lagos was gutted by fire on
Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) reports that the
plaza is surrounded by several important businesses
which included the Union Bank, Diamond Bank and the
United Bank for Africa (UBA).
NAN also observed that the plaza which was being used
as...
01:38
Excellent Johnson
A 71- year old retired pastor of a pentecostal church in
Abriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, Rev.
Chima Egbochiogum, and his wife, Ugo, have been arrested
for an alleged illegal adoption of a baby.
Commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila, who paraded the
couple in Umuahia, alongside other suspects in connection
with the incident, alleged they bought a stolen baby.
The police boss said...
Friday, 4 September 2015
04:00
Excellent Johnson
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
An
airport cleaner has been arrested with the sum of $271,135 (about N53m)
at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, it has been
learnt.
The suspect was arrested by the aviation
security personnel of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria while
trying to carry the huge sum of money through the screening point.
The airport worker,...
03:52
Excellent Johnson
The Islamic State group has blown up three tower tombs in the
ancient Syrian city of Palmyra that were built between the years 44 and
103 AD, the country’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said on
Friday.
Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed the
destruction of three tombs including that of Elahbel, built in 103 AD,
which he said was four storeys high and had an underground floor.
IS group militants have blown up two other temples over the past few weeks...
03:50
Excellent Johnson
The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body was washed up on
a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his
hometown Kobane on Friday to bury his family, an AFP photographer reported.
Abdullah Kurdi arrived at the Turkish border town of Suruc with the
funeral caskets of his son and other family members who also drowned
while trying to get to Europe, and headed towards the flashpoint Syrian
town with family members and Turkish security forces.
The long convoy...
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
10:56
Excellent Johnson
A 19-year-old boy, identified simply as
Emmanuel, was hacked to death on Monday night
in the Iwaya area of Lagos State after some
hoodlums raided at least six streets in the
community.
Emmanuel was the only son of his widowed
mother.
The hoodlums, who residents claimed were about
100 in number, also vandalised no fewer than 50
vehicles parked on the roads.
Some of the witnesses added that many residents
were...
Monday, 22 December 2014
13:10
Excellent Johnson
Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of a Lagos High Court
sitting in Ikeja, has convicted and sentenced the
trio of James Ettete, Ekene Jude and Abidemi
Adesanya to two and half years imprisonment
each, for stealing the sum of N480,000 (Four
Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira only)
belonging to Skye Bank Plc.
They were arraigned in May 2014, on a six- count
charge, bordering on conspiracy to commit felony,
forgery...
12:57
Excellent Johnson
At least 19 people were killed and more than 40
others wounded on Monday when a female
suicide bomber detonated explosives at Dukku
motor park in Gombe, Gombe State.
The bomber was said to have disguised herself as
a passenger with the lethal weapon hidden in a
sack, which she used in deceiving other
passengers at the park.
Eyewitnesses said the incident happened at about
10.50am when the park was said to be filled with
passengers, who were eager to travel out of the
state capital to their respective...
Thursday, 23 October 2014
05:07
Unknown
The pressure to have a big, flamboyant wedding has landed a Nigerian man in big trouble.
Chike Pauline, 40, was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International
Airport (MMIA) in Lagos, after being caught with one kilogramme of
substance suspected to be methamphetamine, Vanguard reports. He was
apprehended during the outward screening of passengers on a Rwanda Air
flight.
During...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
07:17
Unknown
It
was the end of the road for a human trafficker, Nneka Ebelechukwu when a
Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Adeniyi Ademola
sentenced her to 30 years in prison without option of a fine.
The 30 year old native of Anambra State was accused of organising foreign trips for girls and subjecting them to prosecution.
A
press statement released by the National Agency for...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
23:19
Sergio kun
Some people are taking this Ebola scare too
far. A woman who was afraid of contracting
Ebola from hugging on Monday smashed a beer
bottle on a man’s head for during to hug her in
the Ajah area of Lagos.
The woman identified as Bunmi was said to
have been angry when her friend, Ademola
Ojikutu, held her from behind without her
consent in this “dreadful season” of Ebola.
Her elder sister, Yemi, told...
07:17
Unknown
Armed robbers on Sunday night invaded a drinking joint around Trade Fair complex in Benin City, Edo State and dispossessed fun seekers of their mobile phones, jewelleries and cash.
The gunmen who were about six in number, stormed the bar in an Audi car at about 10: 30pm and ordered all the customers at gun point to submit their personal effects.
The
brisk operation was said to have lasted for about...
07:14
Unknown
Okechukwu Onyemachi,
a 37 year old carpenter who attempted to take his life while at a
police cell was arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Chief’s Magistrate’s
Court on Monday. He was said to have attempted to commit suicide by
using his pair of trousers to hang himself in order not to be prosecuted
for chopping off his ex-lover’s lip.
Onyemachi was apprehended
for beating and chopping off...
04:55
Unknown
Not the real photos
Palpable confusion
reigned in Owerri, yesterday, as a father tied his seven children,
including his triplet, to a wheel-barrow and was heading to an unknown
destination before officials of Ministry of Women Affairs and Social
Development intervened.
The 44-year-old man, Israel Dike, is a native of Odenkume, Obowo
Local Government Aarea of Imo State, but...
Monday, 18 August 2014
11:07
Sergio kun
Find the EFCC press statement below…
“Four bankers: Mansur Danlami, Ejiro
Eborikpo, Nina Stephen and Samson Nwodo
have been arrested by the operatives of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) for conspiracy to steal the sum of N5,
100, 000 (Five Million One Hundred
Thousand Naira Only) from a customer’s
account….
The suspects, all staff of Zoo Road Branch of
First Bank Plc allegedly...
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