23+ hour, 2+ min ago   (550+ words) The Lagos State Government has handed 2,000 Cowry Cards to the Lagos State Police Command, giving selected officers three months of free travel on designated state-run public transportation services. The intervention covers Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) services, electric boats, as well…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (393+ words) ABEOKUTA, Nigeria — The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Bode Ojajuni, has ordered an immediate manhunt for a man identified simply as Kola over allegations that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old boy on three occasions and threatened him into silence....

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1080+ words) By Esther Pius Ekong/ On one of those days, while returning from school in the company of my schoolmates, we saw a deaf and dumb girl, judging from her school uniform to be a student of Junior Secondary School, running…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (660+ words) A late-night traffic incident on Lagos Island has ended in tragedy after a motorist, Basit Kolade, was allegedly attacked and killed by a mob following a collision involving his vehicle and a motorcycle. The Lagos State Police Command, which confirmed…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1155+ words) The mother of 22-year-old Samuel Ezekiel has recounted the chilling moment she learnt, not from her son, doctors or relatives, but through an unexpected telephone call, that one of his kidneys had allegedly been removed. “I was in the shop…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1203+ words) A kidnapped traditional ruler freed from captivity. A seven-year-old girl rescued after disappearing from her community. Suspected kidnappers, murder suspects, armed robbers and drug peddlers arrested. Firearms, stolen vehicles and government property recovered. Across several Nigerian states and the Federal…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (525+ words) The police in Ogun State have dismantled a suspected illegal “baby factory” in Mowe, rescuing two heavily pregnant women and four children while arresting six suspects allegedly linked to human trafficking, child trading and illegal adoption activities. The Ogun State…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (704+ words) A 23-year-old American man who used ChatGPT while planning an armed bank robbery has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison after investigators found evidence of his preparations on his mobile phone. Deron Lewis-Payne, of Omaha, Nebraska, was…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (556+ words) South African police have arrested two suspects over the killing of former two-division world boxing champion Zolani “Last Born” Tete, who was gunned down in an ambush outside his home in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. Tete, 38, was killed on Friday, August…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (411+ words) The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five suspected telecommunications infrastructure vandals and recovered a truckload of iron rods allegedly stolen from a mast construction site in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state. The arrest marks another breakthrough in the…...