A former football coach has been jailed for a further 10 years after pleading guilty to 17 new offences of child sexual abuse. Kevan Tudor was jailed for nine years in 2016 for facilitating child prostitution and sexual activity with…
Lagos residents scoop fuel from fallen petrol tanker (Punch) There was panic in the Funsho Williams Avenue area of Surulere, Lagos State, after a tanker loaded with petrol rammed into a car and spilled its contents on the road. Some…
Thoughts on having and managing expectations I remember when I started job hunting in Lagos after returning from NYSC in Fika, Yobe State. It had been a year spent teaching secondary school students government, a subject I hadn’t taken in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed he is leaving not any inheritance for his children beyond the training and education he gave them. The President spoke at the palace of the Emir of Daura, Dr Faruk Umar Faruk, in Daura, during…
The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has lauded Globacom Limited for the company’s consistent support for the Ojude Oba Festival since 2006, describing the company’s sponsorship as adding immense value to the age-old annual cultural event. The octogenarian…
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of six suspects who allegedly participated in an attack on the Mambillah Hotel at Owutu, in the Ikorodu area of the state. PUNCH Metro had reported that the suspects, on May…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, has arrested a suspected human trafficker, Matthew Bassey, who recruited an orphan, Gift Eno, for drug trafficking. Bassey, a native of Oron Local Government Area, Akwa…
IGP bans use of SPY police license plate numbers (Guardian) The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered a total ban on all use of Police SPY vehicle number plates by vehicle owners across the states ‘without exceptions’.…
A 40-year-old woman, Blessing Emokahare, has been admitted to the Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi, Lagos State, after her legs were crushed by a truck in the Mushin area of the state. The truck driver, Kabiru Arasi, was arraigned on two counts…
The father of one of the pupils who lost their lives after suffocating on a bus conveying them home from school in Lagos, has spoken on how he got the sad news. On Friday, two pupils of a mission school,…
