Metro

A35-year-old man, identified simply as Sikiru, has drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel in the Ishashi area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Sikiru and his girlfriend had visited the hotel – Regional Hotel and Suites – on…

5 homosexuals who allegedly fought one another after contracting the Human Immunodefeciency Virus have been arrested after they caused chaos in Egbe, Ikotun area of Lagos State. According to PUNCH Metro, one of the men, identified as…

A father who allegedly confined his mentally ill son in a small cage for more than two decades was arrested on Saturday in western Japan, police and news reports said. Police arrested 73-year-old Yoshitane Yamasaki on suspicion of…

No fewer than six policemen and six others, including residents and bank customers, have been reported killed after some robbers stormed about five banks in Offa, in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State on Thursday. Sources said…

Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have arrested a man allegedly notorious for robbing motorists held in traffic in the Oshodi area of Lagos State.The suspect, Kayode Oluwole, 27,…

The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested one Okwudili Okoro for allegedly hacking to death his elder brother, Azuibike Okoro and his wife, Jacinta.The suspect was said to have been arrested after one Joseph Nwagu reported at…

Three women, Chinyere Blessing, Mrs. Ifebeche Uguwozor and Miss Chiamaka, have been arrested for hiring babies to beg for alms. A sum of N120,000 was reportedly found on them. The women were allegedly hiring babies from different…

Big Brother Africa host, IK Osakioduwa has miraculously escaped a motor accident which could have possibly claimed his life. The radio and television on-air-personality was grateful to God Almighty for sparing his life and averting…

The Police Command in Kwara Wednesday paraded a suspected ritualist it arrested with three human skulls in Ilorin. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Lawan Ado, said that one Suleiman Adenifuja was caught with three human…

A 25-year-old security guard, Zakarayu Kasumi, is in jail for cutting off the arm of a suspected thief identified as Mr. Adekunle Popoola. The incident happened at Adepeju area of Akowonjo in Shasha, Lagos State. Kasumi who was…

No fewer than 1000 women from Okuni community, in the Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State on Tuesday took to the streets to demand justice for a woman who was allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint in the presence of her…

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 60-year-old resident of Adeniji Street, Iyana Ishashi area of the state, Stephen Uwa, for the death of his lover, 45-year-old Joy Vincent. PUNCH Metro learnt that Vincent had visited the…

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced a man, Lucky Ayosin, to life imprisonment for serially raping his own daughter who later gave birth to a baby girl for him. Ayosin was also sentenced to ten years…

A 36-year-old mechanic, Musiliu Owolabi, has been arrested by Ogun State Police Command over the death of his girlfriend, Fausat Idowu (40) who he reportedly secretly buried in a community in Abeokuta.The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed…

A youth corps member serving in Delta state has been arrested for allegedly defiling an eleven-year-old JSS 2 student in Warri area of Delta state. According to reports, the youth corper was assigned to carry out home lessons for the young…

A retired Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, worker, in Cross River, Godwin Elewana, was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging by the state High Court sitting in Calabar. Elewana was found guilty of the murder of a…

A Kano Senior Magistrates’ Court in Kano has remanded a 20-year-old student, Sultan Bello, in prison custody for impersonating the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II. The accused, a resident of at Ja’oji New Court Road…