Tag Archives: local news from Nigeria

A 52-year old man, Jacob Alonge, has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for raping his late 12 years old daughter, Gift Alonge. Gift was impregnated by her father from the sexual assault before her death. She and some members ...

Veteran Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi, was Thursday rushed to a hospital in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, after falling ill due to the stress associated with hajj exercise, TheNation reports .It was gathered that Afolabi had been showing symptoms of illness while ...

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has said that the police will treat members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) as terrorists. Adamu said this on Tuesday at the monthly conference with senior police officers in Abuja, Igbere ...

A Nigerian Shiite group on Sunday condemned a court order that allows the government to ban it on “terrorism” grounds after a spate of deadly protests in the capital. At least six protesters, a trainee journalist and a senior police ...

A three-storey has reportedly collapsed in the Ososa section of Bariga, Lagos State. The building was said to own collapsed around 9.30pm on Sunday. Five persons were considered rushed to a personal hospital without any death recorded. As at Sunday ...

Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari directed the implementation of the newly approved minimum wage  of N30,000 to all federal government workers who earn below the amount.  But the announcement, rather than elicit joy, dampened the spirit of workers across the ...

Niger State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Ahmadu Mohammed for illegal possession of firearms. Mohammed was arrested at Garatu village in the Bosso Local Government Area of the state after he was found with a fabricated AK – ...

A 36 -year -old mother of one , Mrs Joy Kuje, has been electrocuted in the Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area of Nasarawa State . Northern City News gathered in Lafia on Thursday that the deceased was electrocuted when she ...

The family of a musician , Chinedu Obi, aka Zinquest , has been thrown into mourning after the personnel of the Ogun State Police Command shot him in the Sango area of the state. According to PUNCH Metro learnt that ...

Heavy downpour rainfall that started in the early hours of Thursday has paralysed movement of commercial activities and disrupted vehicular moments in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Reporters observed that several vehicles and automobiles have stucked as a result of ...