An unconfirmed number of travellers on Wednesday were confirmed dead after a vehicle conveying them ran on explosives planted along the Dansadau-Gusau Road in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An anonymous source told Daily Trust that the…
1 dies as another building collapses in Rivers
A two-storey building under construction on Monday collapsed in the Egbelu Mgbaraja area of Ogbogoro Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, killing one person and leaving another severely injured. The incident, which occurred around 2 p.m. on Monday, is…
5-yr-old girl dies after dog bite in Oyo
A five-year-old girl identified as Moriana Maruf has died as a result of injuries sustained after she was attacked by a dog. It was gathered that the little girl was attacked by the dog owned by one Mrs Eunice Kolade…
Singer who raised thousands for NHS during lockdown killed in pub attack
A singer who raised thousands for the NHS during the Covid pandemic has been killed during an attack in a pub over the Bank Holiday weekend. ‘Local hero’ Robert Hiscoe, 37, was rushed to hospital after being seriously assaulted at…
School mourns 14-year-old British-Nigerian killed in London sword attack
Bancroft’s School on Wednesday mourned 14-year-old British-Nigerian boy, Daniel Anjorin, who died from injuries sustained during a sword attack in London. The United Kingdom Metropolitan Police released details of the boy killed in the sword attack on Tuesday and explained…
1 feared killed, others injured in LAUTECH students’ clash
One person has been feared killed in a fight that broke out among students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) at a nightclub in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, on Monday night. The development was owing to a misunderstanding which…
Adamawa police arrest butcher for stabbing wife To death
Men of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested a 33-year-old butcher, Ibrahim Abubakar, residing in Sabon Gari-Futy, Girei Local Government Area, for stabbing his 25-year-old wife, Hajara Sa’adu, to death. This was made known in a statement by the…
Bandits kill villager, kidnap 7 women in Kaduna
Bandits operating around villages in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State have attacked Banono settlement under Angwaku community in Kufana Chiefdom where one person was shot dead and eight other people abducted. The deceased has been identified as Christopher…
Taraba auto crash kill 10 as 15 passengers kidnapped
Ten passengers were killed in an auto crash along Serti-Bali Road in Taraba State on Monday when a bus conveying twenty-two passengers from Gembu to Jalingo crashed at Garbabi, close to Bali town. Daily Trust gathered that the driver of…
10 hospitalised as police, cult groups clash in Lagos schools
There was pandemonium on Wednesday, January 31, after a fight broke out among some cult groups said to be students of Community Senior Grammar School and Ikotun High School at Ikotun in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.…