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Seven people were rescued from the rubble of a seven-storey building under construction that collapsed in the Banana Island area of Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria. “Construction workers were performing their daily tasks in the building that had been under construction for months when it suddenly caved,” reports said. Some of …

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested two suspects for stoning a 35-year-old man to death in the Ijoka Area of Akure in Nigeria, reports said. The deceased was killed by an angry mob for alleged reckless driving leading to a road crash. The accident resulted in the death of …

Police in Nigeria’s Osun State announced the arrest of a man, for allegedly attempting to traffick four teenage girls from Osun to Kano state enroute Tripoli in Libya, local media reported. This is contained in a statement released by SP Yemisi Opalola, spokesperson for Osun Police in Osogbo, quoted by …

Four people have been arrested for allegedly torturing a suspected watermelon thief to death in Bauchi State, Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased was caught after stealing seven watermelons valued at N2,000 from a summer farm in Dallaji Village,” Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil said. “His hands …

Gunmen have killed 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, according to reports. “47 people were killed in Umogidi village in Benue state and three other people had been slain in the same place,” the chairman of the Otukpo local government, Ruben Bako said. The motive …

24 suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in cultism, armed robbery, terrorism and other criminal activities in the Ogun state, Nigeria. “The suspects confessed to being members of the Eiye, Vikings and Aiye confraternities,” according to the state Police Public, Abimbola Oyeyemi. “The arrest of the suspects followed the recent …

A Federal High Court in Lagos State in Nigeria has sentenced a 49-year-old businessman to six years imprisonment for illegally exporting 9.40kg of cocaine, reports said. “The convict was arrested on March 4, 2023, during the outward clearance of passengers of a Qatar Airways flight to India via Doha, at …

At least 10 students from the Government Secondary School in Kaduna state were abducted during an attack in northwest Nigeria, reports said. “The exact location of the incident is yet to be ascertained but detailed reports being awaited will clarify whether the incident occurred within the school premises or elsewhere,” …

Men of the Kano State Police Command have arrested a man for strangling his 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend in Tudun-Wada Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria, reports said. “We received information from a Good Samaritan that a lady was seen lying on the roadside, unconscious on Kano-Jos Road in Anadaria …

An Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court has remanded a 27-year-old man for defiling a nine-month-old baby belonging to a neighbor in the Ijora-Badia area of Lagos, Nigeria. “The 16-year-old mother of the baby had her child in the care of the suspect to buy noodles not too far from her home,” …