•Road safety officials at an accident scene A middle-aged woman lost her life today following a lone crash involving a truck with faulty brakes that rammed into the bustling Eleyele Market in Ibadan North Local Government Area, Oyo State. The tragic incident left several others injured, with witnesses describing scenes of panic as people scamp...
•Tinubu and son, Seyi The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today, granted bail to Olamide Thomas, the woman accused of threatening President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu, of ₦10 million and one surety in like sum. Thomas was arrested and arraigned on December 20 on three counts for allegedly threatening Seyi Tinubu, the Inspector-General ...
•A mosque A man was flogged inside a Malaysia mosque today after being convicted of an Islamic offence for spending time alone with a woman who was neither his wife nor relative. The 42-year-old construction worker was given six lashes in Malaysia’s conservative state of Terengganu after being convicted by a Sharia court, reports the […...
•The police station The Lagos State Police Command has debunked claims that Monalisa Osayi, arrested for assaulting a Federal Road Safety Corps official on December 7, 2024, is a police officer. The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement yesterday. He stated that Osayi was arrested and prosecuted by the Ajah D...
The Katsina Government yesterday rewarded a woman, Malama Abdulkadir-Yanmama, with N500,000 for returning N748,320 to the state. The N748,320 was meant for the federal government’s Home Grown School feeding programme in the state, reports NAN. The Executive Director, Katsina State Social Investment Programme Agency, Dr Mudassir Nasir, presente...
A young woman has been arrested and paraded for allegedly drowning her 10-month-old baby in a river after initially claiming the child was missing. The suspect, who confessed to the crime, revealed that she killed her child due to fear of societal ridicule, as the father had denied paternity, reports Channels TV. The suspect was […]
•Towana Looney, 53, and Dr. Jeffrey Stern Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail years later due to pregnancy complications. Now, the 53-year-old from Alabama has become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney — and is currently the only living person in the […]
Deep sorrow, wailing and weeping engulfed family members, friends and members of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) when Ms Temitope Bello, a theatre artiste, who died of severe injuries in a road accident which occurred exactly a week earlier on Apete Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, was being laid to [...
•Crocodiles A crocodile attacked and killed a woman as she worked on a palm oil plantation in central Indonesia, local police said, with her body later recovered from the animal’s clutches. Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill humans, reports AFP. The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague [...
A 20-year-old man, Abubakar Adudu is now in police custody for stabbing a 30-year-old woman to death after stealing some quantity of maize in her house. A statement by Adamawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer stated that the suspect was arrested after a complaint was reported by the husband of late woman. The statement […]

