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The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in Dalston, Hackney...

A 58-year-old driver, Kasali Raji, on Tuesday urged an Agege Customary Court to dissolve his 24-year-marriage with Toyin, over alleged lack of love and unfaithfulness. ‎Raji told the court that he was tired of his wife’s attitude to family matters. The petitioner said that he had to move out...

Invasion by monkeys from natural habitat is forcing many residents of Soluyi/Sosanya Community in Gbagada, Lagos State, to flee. Some of the residents told the News men in Lagos on Monday that they could no longer withstand the situation. They called on the state government to save the...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 60-year-old resident of Adeniji Street, Iyana Ishashi area of the state, Stephen Uwa, for the death of his lover, 45-year-old Joy Vincent. PUNCH Metro learnt that Vincent had visited the suspect in his house last Sunday. He was alleged to have...

The police at Area M, Idimu Command, Idimu, Lagos have ordered a randy man simply known Shonibare, to refund the N200,000 he was said to have collected from a lady, Mrs. Kudi in the interest of peace. The randy Shonibare landed in trouble after he was caught by his wife over an illicit affairs...

A 42-year-old driver, Seyi Olowukere, has confessed to raping seven boys. Olowukere was arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police command for sodomizing a young boy. The suspect lured the victim from a football field to his apartment at Alhaji Marshal Street, Surulere, Lagos where he...

The police in Lagos have arrested the owner of Collabor Hotel , an inn on Ige Street in the Iyana Ipaja area of the state , for allegedly hosting underage sex workers in the facility . The owner of the hotel, John Okon, was apprehended along with the hotel manager, Emmanuel Thomas . Their...

A man simply known as Jimoh (surname withheld) has ended up marrying two wives after he engaged a Lagos State Polytechnic student simply known as Ola in a sex romp and impregnated her. The incident happened at Oboye area of Ejigbo, Lagos where Jimoh met Ola and took her to a nearby hotel for...

When the Lekki Toll Plaza was commissioned about ten years ago, I said the entire project was driven by greed. Today, we see even greater greed in the manic drive for revenues. When the anti-tolling protests heightened, the state promptly rolled out a media campaign and tried to put out a lot of...

After five years of marriage, a 35 -year-old businesswoman, Mrs Bilikisu Azeez, on Monday approached an Igando Customary Court in a Lagos to dissolve her sexless marriage. “Please dissolve this union so that I can move on with my life, my body is not wood or stone,” the sex-starved wife opened...

A man has abandoned his wife, Ijeoma Uzoma, after she gave birth to triplets in a private hospital in Bariga, Lagos. Bariga Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Chairman Kolade Alabi has come to the rescue of the woman and her children, but her husband has yet to show up. The babies were...

It is not the red piece of cloth waved by the matador in a bullfight that enrages the bull. Bulls are colourblind. The red piece of cloth is to mask the blood of the gored bull. Sheer animalistic instinct propels the bull to charge at one of the three matadors, who rides a horse, taunting the...

A day of celebration turned to its direct opposite after a newly married couple and their families were involved in a tragic accident at Jakande, Lekki Epe Expressway on Sunday, March 18 afternoon. According to an eyewitness, the couple and their groomsmen were returning from church when the car...

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A 30 -year – old businessman, Obinna Otigba, who allegedly stole his neighbour’s two Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) cards and withdrew N2 million from her accounts, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The accused was arraigned before Magistrate O.J. Awope on a two-count...

ABOUT 24 hours after a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, bus crushed a 16-year-old school boy, Daniel Ezekiel, to death at Ogolonto Bus Stop, along Ikorodu Road in Lagos, his guardians, Dr. and Mrs. Olajide Oyesanya, are yet to come to terms with the tragic reality of their loss Read more via Vanguard...

It’s 1943. Mary, a young girl, sits in the corner of a small, dark room in Lagos Island. She starts to think of home and better times when her madam calls out to her, loudly. It is time, again. She walks into the open area to see a white man, probably English, smile at her with tobacco stained...

Some residents of Lagos on Wednesday expressed divergent views on the current trend in which some women wear waist chains, beads and anklets as a fashion statement. Some of those who spoke to our reporter, lauded the development saying they usually complemented the beauty of women. “ Read...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arraigned one Olawunmi Dilureni before Lagos State High Court, Ikeja for obtaining money by false pretence and stealing to the tune of N23,320,000. The defendant, alongside Lola Aremu Anjorin, Tunde Jamiu, Oluremi Osobu and Home...

A well meaning Nigerian was touched after seeing a woman and her 10-year-old daughter sleeping on the road in front of a bank in Lagos. According to an online report, the woman was chased out of the house along with her daughter by her husband for failing to produce a male child Read more...