Man picks prescription papers, makes N300,000 begging

Olatunbosun and Ajayi

A suspected drug addict, Kehinde Olatubosun, says he picks prescription papers from the waste bins of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, and has made over N300,000 in one month, begging Lagosians to help him with money to buy the drugs.

I know my four-year-old brother’s abductor – Sister, 8

Oyindamola Ojelabi, the eight-year-old sister of a Nursery 1 pupil, Michael Ojelabi, who was abducted on Wednesday, says she knows the captor of her four-year-old brother.

Mum was bedridden ─ Son of woman burnt by cultists

Gbenga Adefuye, the son of Adejoke Adefuye, a 65-year-old woman, who was killed by cult members in the Bariga area of Lagos State, says his mum was on her sick bed when their house was set on fire during a cult clash on Saturday.

Lagos gang leader, Sunday Terror, killed

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni,

A gang leader popularly known as Sunday Terror has been shot dead in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State during a shootout with policemen.

Lagos bloody clash suspects paraded

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday paraded eight suspected cult members said to have been involved in a brutal clash that claimed three lives.

Security man arrested for using unlicensed pistol

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a security guard, who claimed to be working with the Yaba College of Technology, Babatunde Lawal, for allegedly being in possession of an unlicensed pistol.

Court jails cop for killing student

An Edo State High Court in Benin on Monday sentenced a police corporal, Amadin Idahosa, to life imprisonment for killing a 22-year-old student, Ibrahim Momodu, in 2013.

Hoodlums slaughter 23-year-old, ask residents not to panic

Some hoodlums have invaded Iya Agan Street on Old Apapa Road in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State, killing a 23-year-old, identified only as Dada.

We use charms to steal cattle from grazing sites – Suspects

The menace of cattle rustlers has assumed a violent and worrisome dimension in the country, with the attendant cases of rape, murder and destruction of farmlands in some parts of the country.

Tenant removes neighbour’s 7-mth pregnancy with kitchen knife

A mother of two, Mrs. Oyinyechi Chinaka, is recuperating after she was reportedly stabbed several times by her neighbour (names withheld) in Mushin area of Lagos.

Woman, 53, dies of Lassa fever in A’Ibom

The Lagos State chapter of the Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria on Monday said it had killed no fewer than 7,243 rats in eight major markets in the state under its ‘De-rat Market’ programme.

Evaluate your relationship

A new year often calls for some introspection and mind searching especially in your private life. This year, evaluate your relationship to know if its time to call it quits or not

Police arrest man with human head in Enugu

A young man, John Igwe, has ended up in police net in Enugu for illegal possession of human head while attempting to acquire wealth through money ritual.

She’s my lover; I had sex with her, not rape – Prime suspect

The scenario at the Gender Office of the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Wednesday, where a teenager who alleged that she was gang raped was brought face-to-face with the suspects, left everyone, except the policemen, in the dark over the true position of things.

Edo court convicts man for assaulting neighbour

An Oredo Magistrate’s Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has sentenced a 20-year-old man, Okoro Onuwa, to seven months imprisonment for assaulting his neighbour and inflicting an injury on her forehead.

Man arrested for N11m bank fraud in Enugu blames poverty

A 56-year-old man, one Felix Onyebuchi, who is in police net in Enugu for allegedly using fraudulent means to withdraw the sum of N11m from the account of a bank customer, has blamed “lack” for his venture into crime.

I went into robbery to maintain my chieftaincy title–Ex-Niger Delta militant

Before his recent arrest by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, 42-year-old Clement Millions was a titled chief, perhaps a respected one at that.

I have been Alfa’s sex slave for two years –Lagos housewife •I’m just a spiritual doctor – Alfa

It was like madness had come over 50-year-old Dayo Kamorudeen, a taxi driver in the Lekki area of Lagos, when he heard the most shocking secret his wife of more than 20 years had been keeping from him.

NDLEA intercepts 3,000kg of Tramadol disguised as condoms

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted a shipment of Tramadol disguised and packaged as condoms and other illicit drugs at the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos.

Man, 51, dies of Lassa fever in Lagos

A 51-year-old man has died of Lassa fever at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.