Category: Metro News

Unidentified Body Found in Osogbo Sparks Health Fears

July 29, 2025

Panic has gripped residents and business owners in Dada Estate, Osogbo, following the discovery of a dead body outside Yoyinade...

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Amotekun Officer Killed in Osun After Alleged Attack by Soldier

July 28, 2025

Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State – July 28, 2025 An operative of the Osun State Amotekun Corps, identified as Peter Samuel Tope,...

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NDLEA Arrests 80-Year-Old Grandma, Chinese National Over Drug Trafficking

July 28, 2025

The NDLEA has arrested 80-year-old Grace Ekpeme and Chinese businessman Liang Tak You for drug trafficking in separate operations across...

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Tragedy on Water: 13 Dead in Niger State Boat Accident

July 27, 2025

A tragic boat accident in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State has claimed the lives of 13 people. The...

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Three-storey student hostel collapses near AE-FUNAI in Ebonyi

July 26, 2025

No casualties recorded as state govt seals building, evacuates students ABAKALIKI — A three-story private student hostel, Pentagon Lodge, located...

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Another Ondo varsity female student killed by boyfriend

July 26, 2025

Barely three weeks after two undergraduates of the Ondo state-owned Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, were murdered, another student of the...

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Police Nab Two Soldiers, 20 Others In Midnight Cult Raid At Abeokuta Hotel

July 26, 2025

The Ogun State command of the Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the arrest of two soldiers and 20 other suspected cultists following...

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Scores Killed As Suspected IPOB Members Attack Imo Community

July 25, 2025

Gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have launched a deadly attack on Ndi-Ejezie,...

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BREAKING: Teacher Injured As Dilapidated Primary School Collapses In Rivers Community

July 24, 2025

A partially collapsed school building in Oyorokoto community, Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, has left one teacher injured,...

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Accident Kills 4, Including School Children In Sowo

July 24, 2025

A tragic road accident which occurred at Sowo Village, along the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway in Ogun State, has claimed four lives, including...

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Edo Police confirm officer killed in robbery attack

July 23, 2025

The Police Command in Edo has confirmed the killing of a police officer, Sgt Aminu Yusuf, reportedly shot dead by...

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Stray Bullet Kills 10-Year-Old Boy, Injures Woman During Wedding Celebration In Katsina

July 19, 2025

A 10-year-old boy has been tragically killed by a stray bullet fired by a member of the Nigerian Hunter Group...

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UNIMED Registrar Murdered In Akure

July 18, 2025

UNIMED Registrar murdered in Akure, suspects forced poison down his throat The Ondo State Police Command has confirmed the suspected...

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Kogi University Lecturer Dies During Sex Romp

July 18, 2025

A Senior lecturer with the Kogi State University, Anyigba, identified as Dr. Olabode Abimbola Ibikunle, has died in a hotel...

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Three-year-old dies in Abuja open soakaway

July 18, 2025

The open soakaway where the three-year-old boy drowned. Photo: FCT Police Command on X   The Federal Capital Territory Police...

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Two One-Chance Robbery Suspects Arrested by Police in Oyo State

July 16, 2025

Two suspected members of a one-chance robbery/fraud gang have been arrested in Ibadan by the Oyo State Police Command. The...

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BREAKING: Gunmen Kill 20 In Fresh Plateau Attack

July 15, 2025

No fewer than 20 persons were reportedly killed on Monday night when gunmen suspected to be Fulani militias invaded the...

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12-year-old girl killed during police, kidnappers clash in Edo

July 12, 2025

BENIN CITY – A yet to be identified 12-year-old girl has been confirmed killed during an exchange of gunfire between...

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School Horror: Student Stabs Teacher to Death Over Seized Cap

July 11, 2025

A Junior Secondary School 3 (JSS-3) student has been arrested in Oju Local Government Area of Benue State for allegedly...

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Terror Strikes Katsina: Bandits Slaughter Six, Abduct Two

July 11, 2025

Suspected bandits unleashed a brutal assault late Thursday night that left six people dead and two women abducted at Jargaba...

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Osun court sentences repeat offender to 24 months imprisonment for Cocoa theft

July 11, 2025

The Magistrate Court sitting in Iragbiji has sentenced 20-year-old Olabosipo Waliyu to 24 months imprisonment for theft of cocoa beans...

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Fear Grips Residents As Mushin-Idi-Araba Crisis Claims Several Lives

July 11, 2025

The Yeti Youth Foundation has claimed that several lives have been lost to the crisis in Mushin and Idi-Araba in...

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200-Level Student Commits Suicide At Redemption Camp City

July 9, 2025

A 200-level student of Babcock University, Olaoluwa Subomi Lawson, was found dead after committing suicide in his room at his...

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Three schoolchildren, okada rider crushed to death in Oyo

July 9, 2025

A commercial truck, on Tuesday, crushed three Junior Secondary School students and one commercial motorcyclist, popularly called an Okada rider,...

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I sleep with 20 men daily and give the money to my madam, says trafficking victim

July 9, 2025

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has confirmed the arrest of three suspected members of...

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Panic in Ondo University as Two Students Go Missing

July 8, 2025

Two students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, Andrel Eloho Okah and John Friday Abba have been reported...

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Cable Thief Electrocuted While Attempting to Steal

July 8, 2025

Cable Thief, Electrocuted who was attempting to steal Uniq FM 103.1 Power Cables. A suspected cable thief was electrocuted last...

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‎Ilorin butchers protest.

July 8, 2025

Butchers at the Abubakar Olusola Saraki Abattoir Market in Ilorin have staged a protest over the recent increase in daily...

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21 killed in Zaria-Kano road accident

July 6, 2025

Twenty-one passengers have lost their lives in a fatal road accident involving a commercial Toyota Hiace bus and a heavy-duty...

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Eight killed, eight injured in Lagos road crash

July 6, 2025

Barely 48 hours after 10 people died in a road crash in Ogun State, at least eight people have lost...

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