Following a health challenge which needed urgent attention for which he flew to Cairo last year before he was arrested by DSS and brought back to Nigeria, family members of Kaduna based publisher of Desert Herald weekly Newspaper, Tukur Mamu…
Ogun security outfit intercepts 22 sacks of Indian hemp
Men of the So-Safe Corps of Ogun State have intercepted four motorcycles conveying 22 sacks of Indian hemp. The corps also apprehended two of the suspected illicit drug dealers at Abule Sikiru, along Igbo-Ora Road, Abeokuta North Local Government Area…
Bandits kidnap mom, 3 children in Abuja
A nursing mother and three children have been kidnapped by bandits in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Residents say the bandits invaded the community on Sunday night between 7pm and 9pm and abducted a…
Gunmen kill 4 in Plateau village, burn monarch’s house
Gunmen have killed no less than four persons in Dungwel village, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Sunday evening. One of the relatives of the victims, Shedrack Gambo, who spoke with our correspondent said the victims all died…
Corruption: 5 LASTMA officials dismissed, 2 others reprimanded
Five officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have been dismissed while two others were reprimanded by the Personnel Management Board by the Lagos State Civil Service Commission (CSC). According to a press statement signed by the Director,…
Thailand’s first Olympic champion accused of sexually assaulting teen: Police
Thailand’s first Olympic gold medal winner has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, police said Monday, an allegation he denies. The 17-year-old filed a complaint late Sunday against Somluck Kamsing, who became a national hero when he won…
Dogs attack 50-year-old Greek woman
A 50-year-old Greek woman has died after she was attacked by three shepherd dogs in her garden in the village of Neochorouda, Greece, Sky News reports Monday. According to police sources, the dogs escaped through a hole in their owner’s…
Husband poses as robber, beats wife to stupor in foiled TV theft
One Tijjani Ahmadu Fiye, a 35-year-old resident of Bauchi metropolis, has mercilessly beaten his wife after stealing their television to raise money for investment in his shop. Police detectives attached to ‘A’ Division Bauchi rushed the victim to hospital in…
LEADERSHIP reports that the agency also disrupted a pre-wedding (Bachelor’s Eve) drug taking competition in Katsina.
The businessman, Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in copper wire was arrested at the airport upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Ethiopian Airline with the 12 consignments consisting of 797 pellets of cocaine weighing…
Netizens knock man who boasted about sleeping with 70 women
Nigerians on social media have bashed a self-acclaimed entrepreneur, Francis Van-Lare, who claimed to have slept with about 70 women and released the faces of the women on the internet to celebrate his 70th birthday. Van-Lare, who took to his…