Metro

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the revenue generated from Value Added Tax (VAT) from sectoral distribution from first to third quarters of 2018 was N808 billion.VAT is a consumption tax placed on a product whenever…

A  35-year-old man, identified as Gabriel Elijah, has been arraigned in court after he allegedly beat his neighbour’s wife into coma in Kaduna. Elijah, a resident of Barnawa Complex Area of Kaduna State, is standing trial on a charge…

The Benue Police Command has arrested one Godwin Raphael, 21, with 26 brands of mobile phones, a locally made pistol and other items in Otukpo Local Government Area.The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Moses Yamu,…

A man has been arrested after he stoned 7 months pregnant wife to death on Christmas day in Eliozu, Obio-Akpor Local government area of Rivers State. A middle aged man identified as, Amos Ogbo is now cooling off his heels in…

A man identified as Mr Chinedu Okeke has killed his younger brother, Celestine, while celebrating a court judgment in a protracted land tussle which favoured his village. It was gathered that a recent Appeal Court…

Four policemen attached to Ijanikin division in the Lagos state police command have been arrested for allegedly robbing one Theodore Ifunnaya of 350,000 CFA (about N221,508). Chike Oti, police spokesman in…

Policemen attached to Ilasamaja division have arrested two suspected members of a robbery syndicate that specialised in attacking customers, who had gone to withdraw money from banks at Sadiku/ Ilasamaja, along the Oshodi-Apapa…

Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigation into the alleged murder of a 58-year-old woman by her daughter. The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said that the 34-year-old woman allegedly hacked…

A fake AIG who had 11 ATM cards, 10 cheque books on him, has been arrested at a bank in Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory. Olawale Olatunji, the 59-year-old man posing as a retired Assistant Inspector-General…

A 35-year-old man, Seun Okwuyigbo, who police accused of beating and injuring his mother-in-law in the eye was arraigned in an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on Wednesday. The police charged Okwuyigbo with…

Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos on Tuesday said that it had arrested an 85-year old man and four others for being in possession of human heart and other body parts. Mr Lawal Shehu, Assistant Inspector-General of…

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved the marriage of a woman who claimed that her husband regarded her as performing less in bed than his girlfriends.The Court President, Mr. Adeniyi Koledoye, held that although…

Commercial sex workers in Abraka community in Delta State on Monday blamed the current low patronage in their sex trade on the crack down on ritualists including ‘Yahoo, Yahoo boys’ in the state by the police. The…

Osofo Maame Nketia, the wife of late Reverend George Akwasi Nketia of Heirs church at Bubuashie in Accra disrupted the church’s Sunday service in a bid to claim ownership of the church.Adom News reported that a pastor was…

Two female robbers in Anambra State have been arrested by the Police after they engaged them in a gun battle in a hotel in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state.According to Southern City News, the robbers locked…

A man reportedly set himself ablaze in Abia State, after butchering his wife over an alleged misunderstanding they had. Though what led to the sad incident is not known, however eyewitnesses disclosed that the man who set him himself…

A kidnap gang member who alongside his colleagues abducted one Abubakar Umar of Auna Magma Local Government Area of Niger state, have landed in police net over N13.4m ransom. The suspect identified as Muktar Abubakar (24) who…

Employees at a courthouse in India had a fright on Friday after a young leopard was spotted prowling around the building, authorities said.“Seeing the leopard the court staff ran out of the room and locked it from outside and…

Zimbabwean man has discovered that his four-year-old son is not actually his but that of his wife’s lecturer.According to iHarare, Lovemore Mlambo had always suspected that the boy wasn’t his son, because he didn’t bear any…

A self-confessed commercial sex worker in Umunede, Ika North Local Government Area of Delta State has alleged that her clients stole her four-year-old son after a sex romp with him. The woman (name withheld) revealed how…

One Johnson Okon, aged 58, has been accused of defiling his 14-year-old daughter. Edgal Imohimi, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, stated this on Tuesday, at a press conference highlighting the activities of the command.…

….hangs self, chases wife away, sets house ablaze It was a horrifying scene Tuesday at Alesa, near Port Harcourt, in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, as a man killed his four sleeping children, after chasing his…

The Assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry, Okota, Lagos, Mike Oliseh, has been detained at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, for allegedly defiling the 12-year-old twin daughters…

A Kenyan woman, Rukia Wasuna, 26, on Monday, killed herself along with her two children by setting her home on fire after she learnt that her husband wanted to marry a second wife.According to Citizentv, Wasuna locked her two…