A 72-year-old man, Titus Agunbiade, has reportedly hanged himself in his late father’s house at Kajola on Barracks Road in Ondo town, Ondo State. The deceased was said to have climbed the two-storey building with a ladder and hanged himself…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has more than double its funding appeal to provide humanitarian resources for Nigeria from $55 million to $115 million. This is to assist an additional 750,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),…

•Arrests 10 ward heads for alleged fraud Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) command in Borno State said yesterday it had uncovered a sex workers’ ring in colleges and tertiary institutions. The Commandant, Mr. Ibrahim…

•Victim locked inside coffin Gunmen have abducted and tortured the Coordinator of Ikwo South Development Centre, Marvin Anari. The incident, it was learnt, occurred at Ukwuachi playground, Amagu in Ikwo Local Government, venue of a…

•Police deny killing sect members Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) yesterday said the police allegedly killed two of its members during their Arbaeen annual trek in Kano State. The Nation reports that  thousands of IMN…

Minister of Communications Adebayo Shittu has revealed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was already investigating allegations of impropriety in award of some contracts by the National Information Technology and…

The police in Ogun State have arrested two herders for alleged kidnap and murder of another herder, Taye Amodu. Hassan Amodu and Abubakar Abdullah, the police said, allegedly kidnapped and murdered their victim on October 23, at Obada Oko,…

A 37-year-old man, Kunle Omotosho, has been arraigned at an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court in Ekiti State for allegedly stealing cocoa trees. The defendant, of no fixed address, is standing trial on a two-count charge of malicious damage and…

Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris has told a Federal High Court in Lagos that the Federal Government has no record of spending of N388.304 billion London Paris Club Loan refund by 35 states. Idris stated this before…