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Two men — Promise Oluwabunkenoye and Kehinde Abiola — on Wednesday appeared before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with anal sex. The accused — Oluwabunkenoye, 24, and Abiola, 29 — whose addresses are unknown, are facing a two-count charge of same-sex, having sexual...

A hired killer has been apprehended while trying to strangle a woman in Lagos. The assassin was said to have come all the way from Sapele, Delta State to assassinate a woman in Jakande, Lagos State. He reportedly entered the boutique of the unsuspecting woman and strangled her with a rope...

Onlookers could do little as a bus conductor and passenger got into a fist fight in a canal in Lagos. The identity of both are unidentified. See video below:

A suspected cult member identified as Ahmed Suleiman is being held in police custody for allegedly killing a man said to be a member of a rival gang. Punch reports that 27-year-old Suleiman connived with two others at large to throw the victim, whose name had yet to be ascertained, into a...

Teenage daughter of a pastor with the Assemblies of God Church, Rev. Uche Okereke of Iyana Ipaja branch, Lagos State, Chioma, has abandoned her home and followed her Muslim lover, Sadiq Moruf. There has been a serious fight playing out between Pastor Okereke and his daughter over Moruf...

A gang of four last week stormed the Christ Apostolic Church, Sanctuary of Blessing, in the Iju Ishaga area of Lagos State and stabbed the head of the ministry, Pastor Ibukun Adeyinka. They, however, did not leave with any property of the church as they immediately scaled the fence of the...

A suspected Badoo member was lynched and burnt to death this morning in Oni-Ogunsanya Street, Olomomeje Mosque Area, Aga in Ikorodu, Lagos State. READ: Lagos: Cult Group, Badoo, Kills Family of 5 Including Pregnant Woman [Graphic PHOTOS] According to Ikorodu Ambassadors Group on Facebook, he...

Lagos State government on Monday announced the indefinite suspension of all union activities in seven branches of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oshodi area of the state. The government took the decision after crisis broke out in Oshodi following the murder of a...

There are indications that the police have traced the den where six pupils of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, are held hostage to a creek in Ogun State. Although the exact location was not disclosed, Punch learnt from a competent source that the den shared borders with Epe and...

A Lagos based pastor, Lewa Timothy of First Born Of The Spirit Ministries, Lagos, has been arrested and will be arraigned at a Lagos state magistrate court for allegedly having sex and impregnating 14 year old Chineye, the daughter of one of his members. In an interview with LIB, Barrister...

A notorious gang known as Badoo has reportedly wiped out a family of five in Ikorodu, including a pregnant woman. The gang has been terrorising residents of Ikorodu and environs with many people killed. According to reports, the cult members killed the pregnant woman, opened up her womb and...

Policemen of the Area M Command, Idimu have arrested a woman who allegedly sold her four children in Lagos state. According to PM express, the woman sold four out of her five children to different buyers without the knowledge of her husband. A petition by her husband to the Area Command...

As part of the events marking the 50th celebration of Lagos state, is the Eyo festival ongoing at Tafawa Balewa Square, Onikan, Lagos. Below are some of the photos from the event: PHOTOS:

Alias ''Iyabo'', Yetunde Oladipupo, drank sniper – which led to her death – shortly after seeing off some friends who had visited her at her residence, Onabola Street, Owotutu, in the Somolu area of Lagos State. Journalists could ascertain the cause of the friends' visit, but it was gathered...

An Ikeja High Court was on Thursday thrown into confusion after an unnamed witness slumped and died in the court just before testifying before Justice O.A. Olayinka in a land case. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased, who was in his late 30s, had come court to testify in...

Man, 22, has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for his involvement in breaking into the anti-robbery section of a Police Station and stealing money, phones and others valuable belonging to officers. Onyeka Mba stole from the Olsosan police division in Mushin, Lagos state. Police...

The Lagos State Government has distanced itself from the demolition of Sabo market on Itoikin road in Ikorodu. In a statement issued on Friday by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Government said it did not demolish the market and would not demolish any...

Some officials from the Lagos State Government (LASG) on Wednesday inspected the burnt portion of Iga Iduganran, the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, on Lagos Island. The visit followed a fire that gutted a section of the palace on Tuesday. A reliable source within the palace...

The police in Lagos have commenced an investigation into a case involving one Oladele, 45, a prophet at a church in Oke Ira, in the Ogba area of the state. The police at the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, said the prophet was being held for allegedly defrauding a businesswoman of N70m, a duplex...

The Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi appears to have moved on after he was snubbed and humiliated by the Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu who refused his handshake and passively greeted him at public event. The revered Osun monarch (Ooni of Ife) was recently spotted having a good time with the...