Metro

Gunmen suspected to be cultists have shot dead two occupants of a vehicle, along Ubeta Owube Road in Ahoada West Local Council of Rivers State. The Guardian learnt that the victims were the driver of the vehicle and an owner of a building material shop.

Lagos State government through its Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), yesterday, opened “EKO HAVEN”, a shelter for survivors of domestic violence. The Guardian learnt that the effort was part of the state’s commitment in ensuring that holistic support ...

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, condemned the alleged attempted assassination of the gubernatorial candidate for the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Senator Albert Bassey, in Akwa Ibom State.

Accountability Lab has expressed dissatisfaction over the level at which corruption thrived under the immediate past administration led by Muhammadu Buhari. Executive Director, Accountability Lab Global, Blair Glencorse, in a Media chat with journalists Friday in Abuja, said the anti-corruption war under Buhari regime floundered at every step - from investigation, prosecution to policy change.…

Relief has come for Apapa residents in Lagos as the Mohammed Bello Koko-led management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has resuscitated the 2.4 million gallons per day capacity of Apapa Water Works which had become dilapidated since 2012. Speaking during the handover of the rehabilitated facility in Apapa on Thursday, Bello-Koko said the intervention…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), yesterday, paraded two suspects for revalidation of expired products and engaging in selling counterfeit drugs.

LAGOS State Police Command has declared emergency on cultism, saying the menace was the greatest challenge of the Command. Spokesperson for the Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, who paraded the suspects, said a great number of the cultists were arrested in Ikorodu, Badagry and Isolo.

Operatives of the Joint Security Team in Kogi State have killed a notorious criminal, Kabir Bala, who murdered Mrs. Salome Abu, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) woman leader at her residence in Ochadamu, Ofu Local Council, in November, 2019.

It was a relief for people of Okpurukpuali Community in Ogba Egbema/Ndoni Local Council of Rivers State as the council boss commenced construction of the first health care facility in the community in six decades.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced an unemployed man, Lukman Ibrahim, to a year imprisonment for being in possession of fraudulent documents.

Some suspected hoodlums, yesterday, invaded Ogbomoso town, Oyo State and destroyed cars, houses and other properties worth millions of naira.

Oyo State Police Command, yesterday, invited Ibadan-based skit maker, Abdullahi Maruf Adisa, popularly known as Trinity Guy, in connection with a prank video involving a minor.