A police officer attached to Orile Division died in a motor accident opposite Fatgbems Filling Station, along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway at about 9a.m., yesterday.
It was learned that the deceased, while attempting to apprehend a commercial bus (Danfo) driver, who was picking up passengers along the road, jumped into the moving bus with number plates KJA305XL.
The atmosphere at the Mobile Police Force 20, in the Ikeja area of Lagos, had been tense since Tuesday after a police inspector, identified simply as Medugwu, mistakenly shot himself dead, while adjusting a faulty rifle.
The inspector, who was attached to MOPOL 20, was the second-in-command to the armourer. At 10am, a colleague had given him the faulty rifle to examine and readjust for him, Medugwu was said to have accidentally pulled the trigger of the rifle, which projected a bulletin to his jaw.
Peter and Lola Okoye lost their Nanny of 7 years to Cervical cancer today. Lola mourned the loss of their nanny, Esther Ngobor who had battled the deadly disease for 5 years until she lost the battle today. She shared this message on her page:
LA County prosecutors are now determining whether to file charges against Caitlyn Jenner, who was involved in a deadly chain-reaction crash on Pacific Coast Highway in February.
In July it was claimed Joan Rivers' Upper East Side apartment in New York City had sold to 'Middle Eastern royalty' for $28 million.
Now DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively the buyer is Muhammad bin Fahd, the son of the late King Fahd and the former governor of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
The 65-year-old prince has been remodeling the property - a 5,100-square-foot, four-bedroom penthouse - since the purchase, and neighbors are 'shocked,' according to an insider.
Halloween is a long way off but one costume already has emerged as controversial. Several retailers are offering Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costumes featuring variations of the ensemble worn by the transgender trailblazer for her iconic Vanity Fair cover.
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday the Federal Government would take measures to tackle all forms of violent extremism and promote economic development.
Police operating in the boundary between the Federal Capital Territory and Niger State have recovered some vehicles allegedly stolen from an Abuja-based oil and gas company.
Abuja - No fewer than 6 000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), reports Daily Trust.
NollYwood actress , Mercy Aigbe took ro instagram to flaunt her lirrle boy. The actress woh also run a boutique is getting her son to rep mums fashion outlet!.... A cute boy he is!
The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has commiserated with victims of the helicopter that crashed into the Lagoon at Oworosonki area in Lagos on Thursday.
Comedic indigenous rapper Falz has just signed a deal to become the
latest ambassador of telecommunications firm, MTN, reports Nigerian
Entertainment Today
A woman calmly called the emergency dispatcher to report her baby son wasn't breathing on Tuesday and then hours later confessed to killing him and her two other young sons over the past several months because her husband ignored their daughter, authorities said.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Lagos State has asked the
former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Vice Chairman, Bode
George, to keep quiet and continue to lick his wounds, following the
colossal defeat his party suffered at both the national and state level
in the just concluded federal elections.
Barrister Aisha Kalil Wakkil, a human rights activist with the
National Human Rights Commission, who claims to be a very close
confidant of Boko Haram foot soldiers, has said she knew some of the
insurgents right from when they were circumcised
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has welcomed the donation of a forensic work station
by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
White House, as in - US govt official house - and transgender as in a man that transitioned into a woman. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan (pictured above) has become the first openly transgender woman hired by the White House.
A Special Adviser to Osun State Governor, Mr Bode Olugbore, has been arrested by the police over the death of his girlfriend, Miss Kemi Arobieke.
Our correspondent gathered that Kemi, a graduate of the Lagos State University, visited Bode in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Thursday, August 6, all the way from Lagos and promised to return on Saturday.
The deceased’s elder brother, Ayo, who confirmed the death of his sister to our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday, said Kemi had known Olugbore for about four years, but the family did not know about their relationship.
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has blamed the People's Democratic Party (PDP) looting of the national treasury as the reason why the state government is borrowing $75million from the world bank, Premium Time reports.
Los Angeles - Rihanna insists she has "never even met" Matt Barnes.
The 27-year-old singer has been left outraged by the basketball player after he hinted they had a blossoming romance that had already "passed the crush stage".
Are you in love with those killer stilettos that keeps rubbing against your toes and hurting your feet or do you always walk with the wrong shoes? Well if your answer is yes, then your toes and feet are just going to respond by growing corns and calluses.
Corns and calluses are hard, thickened areas of skin that form as a consequence of rubbing, friction or pressure on the skin.
Corns generally occur on the tops and sides of the toes.
Marvel Studios continue in their quest to dominate the superhero film category as they forge on towards the launch of “Captain America – Civil War”. The film which would be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is the sequel to 2014’s ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’.
Chief Femi Fani- Kayode on Monday berated the Convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, describing his comments that President Muhammadu Buhari owes Igbos nothing as most most insensitive, cruel and Puerile.
The UN said on Monday in Abuja that it has sponsored 500 victims of Boko Haram violence from three North-East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe to acquire vocational skills.
Two passengers were reportedly dead while one sustained severe injuries when two trains collided on Sunday in the Agege Area of Lagos State.
Mr Akin Osinowo, Lagos Railway District Manager (RDM), confirmed this to the News
Highly premature quadruplets born to a 65-year-old German woman three months ago are doing well and will leave hospital in a few days, media reported Monday.
Seven men have been convicted of gang raping a teenager in northeastern Romania and sentenced to prison in a case that has caused national outrage, AP News.
A bomb exploded Monday evening at a popular shrine in the heart of Bangkok, an area frequented by thousands of tourists, office workers and shoppers, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said.
There may come a day when Vin Diesel can no longer reduce a whole roomful of people to tears with his heartfelt tributes to Paul Walker, but after his speech at last night’s Teen Choice Awards, it’s safe to say that day definitely hasn’t come yet.
This year’s Teen Choice Awards is jam-packed with everything from a performance from 5 Seconds of Summer and Fifth Harmony to appearances from all your favorite teen ~dreams~, but lest we forget that it’s still an awards show with actual awards to give away. Keep checking back here to find out all the winners going home with the coveted surfboard.
The abandoned baby was found in street inside a box by Police patrol in the Saudi city of Makkah. According to Dubai-based Al Bayan Daily, the police came to know after it heard the sound of the crying baby with the umbilical cord still attached to it.
He is only 13, but he has accomplished more in his short years than most have by 30. His bow ties have produced $200,000 in sales, and he has five employees on payroll which include his mother and grandmother. Not to mention, he has been celebrated by Oprah’s O Magazine, Steve Harvey and mentor/FUBU founder Daymond John.
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to tread cautiously and be mindful of the body language of those hailing him today, saying; “the president should be cautious enough to know that the former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar led National Peace Committee tactically told him to tread cautiously and be mindful of the fact that he is not heading a military government.”
One patient at a hospital in France got the most unlikely of shocks when he went for a check-up on a leg injury - to be told he was missing half of his brain.The 44-year-old father-of-two, who has not been identified, amazed doctors who could not believe he had survived.
Kylie celebrated her birthday in both the United States and Mexico and then Kylie Jenner was partied in Montreal, Canada where she was paid to show up at her own party on Sunday.
The newly 18-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashians star flew into Montreal, Canada via helicopter on Sunday.
During the weekend, a Claretian priest of the Catholic Church was murdered in Owerri, Imo state. The priest, whose full identity could not be ascertained at press time, was an academic staff of Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, confirmed the incident, he said the priest was murdered by assassins on a bush path. Enwerem said:
Nigeria's U-17 side, Golden Eaglets on Saturday, relocated to Katsina from Abuja for their closed-camping ahead of the Chile 2015 FIFA Under -17 World Cup.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device strapped on her body near a market in the northeastern Nigerian State of Borno, killing at least three people, police and civilian vigilante sources said on Saturday, Reuters Reports.
The APC on Sunday called on Nigerians to support efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to recover billions of dollars lost to government corruption and punish the perpetrators in the graft-plagued nation, AFP NEWS.
Two former Governors of Lagos state, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mr Babatunde Fashola are poised for a confrontation as the crisis between the duo deepened on Friday following reports that their loyalists have drawn up battle plans, even as stakeholders in both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Lagos State are said to have waded in, calling for a truce.
OAP Toolz and her man Captain Tunde Demuren are having some nice time out in the USA. The couple paid a visit to the Universal Studios in Orlando yesterday.
It appears the Federal Government may have been monitoring the social media accounts of Nigerians, especially those suspected of having links with various terrorist groups, including Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, The Punch has claimed.
It has been gathered that through an ongoing covert operations, Nigerian security agencies hack into the Facebook and Twitter accounts of several persons of interest in a bid to frustrate terrorist attacks on the country.
The project is allegedly being managed by the Office of the National Security Adviser and is costing the country millions of dollars in taxpayer's money.
The Convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has dismissed the sentiments shared by the former Governor of Anambra State, Gov Ezeife that the Igbos have not been treated fairly in the governance of Nigeria.
Ezeife argued that President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, who hails from the Igbo-speaking part of Delta State, to head the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was not enough to satisfy the South-East.
Transgender teen Riley Middlemore is freezing his eggs - so he can be a biological dad once he becomes a man. Riley, 16 born a girl called Rebecca,dropped the bombshell he wants a sex change to his mum last year. Now Riley, who has shaved off his long brunette locks and started binding his 34C chest, is awaiting full gender reassignment on the NHS – a mastectomy, hysterectomy and having a penis constructed once he’s 18. But, before then, he has decided to freeze his eggs. Riley said: “I want to get married one day. I’ve always wanted a family and I love children. My partner would be the surrogate and carry my eggs. That way I can have children that are biologically mine with my partner.”
The Nigerian Military in its resolution to incapacitate and further degrade Boko Haram Terrorist has carried out several bombings and air strike missions in Sambisa Forest, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, Director of Public Relations and Information of Nigeria Air force said in a statement on Saturday.
49-year-old supermodel, Cindy Crawford who was voted one of the 100 hottest women of all time by Men's Health, showed off her silhouetted figure while wearing a transparent dress and pumping gas into her Bentley.
London - Alex Iwobi is back with Arsenal’s Under 21 team after there were speculations that he would be thrust into a first team role this season, having trained with the squad during pre - season training.
Authorities has recovered the black boxes of an helicopter that crashed into a lagoon in Lagos, killing six, including the American pilot, a spokesman for the Accident Investigation Bureau said Saturday.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has expressed concern at the shortage of skilled medical personnel such as nurses and midwives in Nigeria.
Sierra Leone lifted its last major Ebola quarantine on Friday as President Ernest Bai Koroma expressed confidence that the country would soon be free of the virus.