Sunday 5 June 2016

ISIS suicide bombers kill 148 in Syria


No fewer than 148 people were killed on Monday in bomb explosions in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Monday in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, Reuters quotes monitors and state media as saying.

Interstate driver kills passenger over N5,000 fare


Tragedy struck in the Ojota end of the Ikorodu expressway after an interstate bus driver, Eze Gabriel, crushed his passenger, identified as Sunday, to death.

Court remands Lagos teacher for raping 10-year-old pupil


A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court has ordered the prison remand of a teacher of Maromipin Nursery and Primary School, a private school in Makoko, Lagos, for allegedly raping a 10-year-old pupil.

Policemen celebrated our son’s death with beer, family alleges


The Uchenwoke family in Mbosi, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State and the State Chapter of the Civil Liberties Organisation, have petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, accusing the police in the state of allegedly clubbing 40-year-old Nonso Unchenwoke to death.

Seven feared killed in Anambra students’ hostel collapse


No fewer than seven persons were feared dead when a three-storey building collapsed at Nwagu village near the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, on Sunday night.