Category: Metro

Gunmen Raid Four Banks, Kill Seven Persons
February 25, 2022 No Responses

Gunmen Raid Four Banks, Kill Seven Persons

Gunmen attacked four banks and a Police Divisional Headquarters on Thursday as they laid siege on Uromi town in Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several...
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Stanbic IBTC Bank Customer Protests Alleged Frozen Of Account  
February 23, 2022 No Responses

Stanbic IBTC Bank Customer Protests Alleged Frozen Of Account  

Chief Oluwarotimi Fadoju, a Customer at the Stanbic IBTC Bank, Ring Road branch, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday created scene inside the banking hall, protesting alleged frozen of his account over Tax Identification Number (TIN) certificate.  Fadoju, who c...
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Dangote Faults FRSC On Ogun Accident Report  
February 19, 2022 No Responses

Dangote Faults FRSC On Ogun Accident Report  

By ebosele@hotmail.com  — The management of Dangote Group has denied ownership of a truck involved in a fatal crash that claimed several lives on Friday along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.  In a statement sent to City BusinessNews Online, Dangote Group...
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Abba Kyari: Police Unravel Identities Of Suspected Drug Barons, NDLEA Collaborators
February 15, 2022 No Responses

Abba Kyari: Police Unravel Identities Of Suspected Drug Barons, NDLEA Collaborators

The Force Headquarters, on Monday unraveled the identities of the suspected drug barons who allegedly colluded with DSP Abba Kyari and four others to ferry illicit drugs into the country.  Abba Kyari and his team were declared wanted by the...
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School Bus Driver Bags Life Sentence For Defiling 4-Year-Old Pupil
February 11, 2022 No Responses

School Bus Driver Bags Life Sentence For Defiling 4-Year-Old Pupil

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 39-year-old driver, Abiodun Matthew, to life imprisonment for defiling a pupil of University of Lagos (UNILAG) Women Society School.  Matthew, who was charged with sexual assault...
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Okomu Oil Suspends Operations
February 4, 2022 No Responses

Okomu Oil Suspends Operations

The Okomu Oil Palm Company in Edo State has suspended operations in the aftermath of what the management described as a “terrorist attack“ on Tuesday.  “For now, we are forced to shut down our operations to save lives from possible...
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Railway: Firms Drag Minister To Court Over Alleged Unlawful Award Of Contract 
February 4, 2022 No Responses

Railway: Firms Drag Minister To Court Over Alleged Unlawful Award Of Contract 

Three construction companies have dragged the Minister of Transportation and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged unlawful award of 190-km rail line construction to a Chinese Firm without due process. ...
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Buhari Commiserates With Innoson’s CEO Over Mother’s Death  
January 31, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Commiserates With Innoson’s CEO Over Mother’s Death  

President Muhamadu Buhari has Commiserated with the Chief Executive Officer of Innoson  Group of Companies Limited, Innocent Chukwuma, over the passing away of his mother, Madam Martina Chukwuma, at the age of 101. The president, in a statement ...
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Buhari Mourns Ex-Customs Boss, Hamman Ahmad
January 27, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Ex-Customs Boss, Hamman Ahmad

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed heartfelt condolences to the Ahmad family on the passing of the former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hamman Ahmad.  In a condolence message released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media an...
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Wife, Three Others Arrested Over Hotelier’s Death In Lagos
January 26, 2022 No Responses

Wife, Three Others Arrested Over Hotelier’s Death In Lagos

The Police in Lagos have arrested the wife of an hotel owner and three others after the wife was alleged to have stabbed her hotelier husband to death.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the wife of the...
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Buhari Mourns Murdered 5-Year-Old Hanifa
January 22, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Murdered 5-Year-Old Hanifa

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the nation’s condolences to the family of the five-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Kano after nearly two months of fruitless search.  The president, in a sta...
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Buhari Mourns Shonekan
January 12, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Shonekan

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the news of the death of a great statesman and former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan.  The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Tuesday...
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Police Pledges To Rescue Kidnapped Retired Customs Officer
January 8, 2022 No Responses

Police Pledges To Rescue Kidnapped Retired Customs Officer

The Police Command in Kwara State on Friday pledged to do everything humanly possible to rescue a retired Customs officer, Mohammed  Zarma, abducted in the state.  The command Spokesman, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, in a statement explained that as part of...
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Customs Confirm One Death In Sokoto Checkpoint Accident
January 5, 2022 No Responses

Customs Confirm One Death In Sokoto Checkpoint Accident

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Sokoto and Zamfara area commands, have confirmed the death of one person in a checkpoint accident which occurred at Asara village, Sokoto-Illela road.  The command’s spokesman, Mr Balarabe Yusuf, in a statement on Tues...
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