Nigerian killed over Messi, Ronaldo row

A man was killed after arguing with a friend over whether Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo was the best footballer in the world.

I Beg for Lift and Rob My Victims of Their Cars - Suspect

Nemesis has caught up with a 25-year-old armed robbery suspect currently cooling off in the detention of operatives attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command.

Dangers Of Being Overweight

Human beings are a free moral agent, and therefore has the liberty to chose whatever they chose , how ever and whenever. This includes eating excessively and indulging in practices that invariably make them unhealthy, by piling on , excess weight.

Loud Whispers: Rev King: Don’t Cry for Me

That is the message the Honourable Reverend King sent out to all of us his followers after the Supreme Court proved one more time that it had powers that superseded the spiritual. Those justices must have very strong Juju for them to be able to withstand whatever Rev. King threw at them. 

Olorunfunmi Basorun: I Hawked ‘Ogi’ to Raise 25 kobo to Buy High School Entrance Form

At the age of six, shortly after his father passed on in 1945, he had lost hope in his education pursuit until luck smiled on him when his mother and stepfather, a year after he dropped out of school, took up the responsibility and re-enrolled him.

Clearing agents disguise N222m drugs as hair extension, foodstuff

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, have seized a drug haul worth N222m and arrested two clearing agents who allegedly disguised the drugs as artificial hair and foodstuffs.

Gunmen behead Rivers APC chief, kill wife, son

Gunmen struck again in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State and killed the Ward 4 chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the area, Mr. Franklin Obi.

Serial killer jailed 75 years

Serial killer Sal Perrone was sentenced Friday morning in Downtown Brooklyn, New York.

Pastor catches wife in hotel with choirmaster

A middle aged pastor (name withheld) in one of the new generation churches in Asaba, Delta State, has revealed how he caught his wife allegedly having sex with a choirmaster of his church.

Anambra Court jails mother, daughter for false information

A Magistrate Court sitting in Nnewi, Anambra State, has sentenced a woman, Agnes Izuegbunam, and her daughter, Chiamaka, to six and two months in prison respectively for giving the police in the area false information on an alleged kidnap matter.

40, 000 pregnant women die annually in Nigeria – US

No fewer than 40, 000 pregnant women in Nigeria lose their lives each year, the United States government said on Friday.

Woman in court for bathing neighbour with faeces

A trader, Tope Akinside, on Friday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly beating and bathing her neighbour with faeces.

Mother, four-year-old daughter killed by assailants, buried amidst tears

A 28-year-old woman, Mrs. Itohan Enagbare, and her four-year-old daughter, Iwinosa, who were gruesomely hacked to death by suspected assailants on December 9, 2015, have been buried.

Mile 12 crisis: Community turns to ‘ghost town’ as situation remains tense

Twenty-four hours after a bloody clash between Hausa traders and their Yoruba hosts left at least 10 people dead in Mile 12 area of Ketu, Lagos, the atmosphere on Friday was still like a graveyard with malevolent ghosts.

I don’t want to die like this – Woman shot by SARS men, abandoned at LUTH for eight months

A very fair skin with a face adorned with tribal marks and tattooed eyebrows would have made one conclude that 57-year-old Mrs. Roselyn Adewunmi is hale and hearty, as she sat on a corner bed in Ward B1 of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Housewife bathes husband with hot water for denying her sex

An aggrieved housewife, Awele Nwani, 35, has allegedly bathed her husband, Frank Nwani, with hot water, claiming that her hubby denied her sex for three weeks.

Teacher beheads proprietor’s granddaughter over unpaid salaries

A teacher in a private school, Edet Umoren, in Esugbo, Itamerin near Ijebu-Ife, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Thursday, allegedly beheaded a 10-year-old pupil, Precious Adedeji.

Tourists arrested for taking nude photos

Authorities in Peru on Thursday arrested a pair of European tourists who had stripped naked to take photos at the Machu Picchu ruins, media reported.

Man steals from church offering box

A member of Saint Peter’s Catholic Church, Ejigbo, Lagos, has been arrested for allegedly stealing money from the church’s offering box. 

16 die in Lagos, Ondo auto crashes

No fewer than 16 persons died on Thursday in separate auto accidents in Lagos and Ondo states.

In Lagos, at the Abule Tailor bus stop end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, a widow and trader,