Metro Archives — Page 20 of 41

March 19, 2022 No Responses

Court Orders DNA Test To Determine Paternity Of Children

A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan, Oyo State has ordered for DNA tests on the three children of a divorce-seeking couple, Alhaji Lukman Shittu, and embittered wife, Fisayo Shittu. The court gave the order so as to unravel...

February 26, 2022 No Responses

Uromi Bank Robbery: Edo CP Confirms Recovery Of N37m, Five Abandoned Vehicles

The Police command in Edo on Friday confirmed that some monies suspected to be carted away by robbers during Thursday’s armed robbery attacks on some banks in Uromi, have been recovered. Mr Phillip Ogbadu, the State Commissioner of Police confirmed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...