•A collapsed building Tragedy struck at Anata Anaba, Okpoko, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State as a woman and her 14-year-old daughter died after a three-storey building under construction collapsed on their home last night. The sad incident was said to have occurred at about 9:45 p.m, reports Channels TV. The duo, identified [&...
•Terrorists and NYSC members A mother of one of the freed members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has revealed that she paid N6 million ransom to secure her son’s release. Recall the prospective corps members were abducted on October 1 after gunmen attacked two 18-seater buses travelling from Ibadan, Oyo State, along the […]...
A woman whose twin daughters are due for the one year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme has narrated the action taken by one of the girls who was abducted in Imo State, today. Several travellers, including Youth Corps members heading for orientation camps, were kidnapped after gunmen attacked two commercial buses on the [&he...
•Tonto Dikeh and her late mother, Mrs Veronica Dikeh Actress Tonto Dikeh has marked what she described as ‘one of the most painful days of my life’ with an emotional tribute to her late mother, Veronica Dikeh. In an Instagram post, Dikeh said she chose to celebrate her mother’s life rather than mourn her death. […]
•Fola (left), car and mother (right) Afrobeats singer Fola gifted his mother a car and the land where she built her own church. The singer, whose real name is Folarin Odunlami, shared the emotional moment on social media, revealing that his mother told him what she wanted as his music career began to take shape. […]
•A canal in Lagos Barely two weeks after operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, also known as KAI, rescued four nursing mothers and their children from a dumpsite along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, another five-month-old baby girl and her mother have been rescued from a canal along the same expressway. It was gathered i...
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Nomansland, Kano, has arraigned a young man, Nura Usman, and his mother, Izzatu Aminu, over an alleged plot to kill the man’s father, Alhaji Usman Shanono. The defendants were arraigned on charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in connection with the alleged plot, which prosecutors said was hatched at Dantsi...
•Building collapse A woman, her five-year-old son and a three-month-old baby have been killed after a building under construction collapsed on their residence in Dan Mani Community of Rigasa District, Kaduna State. The incident occurred at about 3:30am today at the Abuja Road, Kwanar Mai Dabino area of Rigasa, reports Daily Trust. The woman’s ...
•Presumed site of 347 mass grave at Batul cemetery A kidnap victim simply identified as Aisha has recounted the harrowing ordeal of being forced by bandits in Zamfara State to bury her children who died in captivity. Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto states remain among the major flashpoints of banditry in the Northwestern Nigeria, where communities...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre, NPF-NCCC, have arrested a mother and her daughter over their alleged involvement in a romance scam that reportedly defrauded a Malta-based victim of more than N18 million. The police said the arrests followed investigations into allegations of computer-related fraud, identity t...

