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An apartment building blaze early Thursday killed seven people in the southern French city of Nice and police were investigating the fire as a possible arson, authorities said. The dead include three children – 5, 7 and 10 years old – and a 17-year-old teenager who tried to escape by jumping from a window, they…
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a suspect in connection with the discovery of the body of the missing boat driver identified as Owei Ibolo days after he was declared missing in the Bakana Waterway in Degema Local Government Area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that Ibolo, aged 47, a…
Thirty-year-old Adebayo Samson was on Wednesday arraigned by the Lagos State Police Command for alleged assault and theft. He was arraigned at the Chief Magistrate Court, Yaba, before Magistrate O.Y. Adefope. The defendant was charged with two counts of assault and theft. The charges alleged that the defendant, on July 13, 2024, allegedly assaulted one…
The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday said Arthur Angel Jr., the 17-year-old son of the 70-year-old deceased human rights activist, Arthur Judah Angel, killed his father with a sledgehammer over monetary demand at Ugboha, in Esan South East Local Government Area of the state. The anti-death penalty advocate, Angel, was killed and buried in…
The Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, has apprehended no fewer than 24 persons for various criminal offences. The corps also said it rescued a student, Bisola Olisa, who was kidnapped by bandits along the Ikare-Ado Ekiti Expressway. Speaking on the arrest, on Wednesday, the state Commander of the Corps, Akogun…
There is outrage in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State following the stabbing to death on Monday of a final-year student of the Niger Delta University. Community sources said the victim, Francis Palowei, was at the Sand Dump, a popular spot among the students for relaxation and socialising when some youths in…
The police in Oyo have advised citizens to ignore a viral video by suspected separatist groups which surfaced on social media issuing eviction ultimatums to herders in the Igboho area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Adewale Osifeso, made the call in a statement Wednesday in Ibadan. Osifeso said…
A police officer attached to the Ogudu Police Station, Ojota, Lagos, (name withheld), has been accused of raping a 17-year-old girl (name withheld). City Round gathered that the officer had promised to help the teenager retrieve her phone, which had been taken by ‘one chance’ robbers on June 16 while she, her grandmother, and her…
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has said its operatives were not responsible for the dead body found hanging by the gate of an estate along the Lagos-Sagamu Expressway. The LASTMA General Manager, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, disclosed this in a statement by Mr Taofiq Adebayo, the agency’s Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, on Friday….
Commercial drivers at the Toyota Bus Stop in the Ladipo Spare Parts Market have complained of alleged extortion and harassment by some Lagos State task force officials operating in the area. Speaking with our correspondent on Wednesday, the aggrieved drivers lamented that the officers specifically targeted commercial car drivers during what they described as “illegal…