Punch News reports that the officers of the Ondo State Waste Management Authority on Saturday arrested no fewer than 70 people for violating the state sanitation law. THETALK.NG gathered that the culprits were arrested at different locations across the state during the state’s monthly environmental sanitation exercise on Saturday. The...

The police in Calabar have begun a manhunt for gunmen who killed Sergeant Peter Ikwen, on Saturday morning. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo who confirmed the incident to one of our correspondents, said, “the Commissioner of Police has ordered a manhunt for the assailants who escaped with...

Julius Berger, a construction company has closed down operations in the capital city. The closure was in response to the ongoing security concern within the Federal Capital Territory and Central Abuja. In a statement made available to the press on Saturday, the company advised its staff to avoid public premises...

Three friends were on Friday docked before a Grade I Area Court, Kado, Abuja, for allegedly buying stolen goods. The police charged Bello Musa, Abubakar Bihari, both of Pantaker Dawaki area of Abuja and Said Suleiman of Setraco, Gwarimpa, Abuja with criminal conspiracy and for receiving stolen property. The defendants,...

The police on Friday arraigned a 40-year-old man, Kayode Ayeni, at an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged possession of Indian hemp. The defendant, of no fixed address, is standing trial on a charge of possession of hemp, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. The prosecutor, Inspector Bamikole Olasunkanmi,...

Terrorists have abducted the District Head of Birnin Tsaba in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, identified only as Alhaji Hashimu along with his younger brother, Danbalange, who is a member of the All Progressives Congress in the area. An indigene of the area, Mohammed Faruku, told City...

Akwa Ibom State high court sitting in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area has sentenced a 25-year-old man, Emmanuel Okon, to 21 years jail term for robbing students of the University of Uyo, and dispossessing them of their valuables including laptops and phones.Okon, a native of Eyo Abasi in Oron Local...

Information reaching THETALK.NG has it that A former deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the University of Ibadan, Professor Adigun Agbaje, has been kidnapped. The kidnappers who have contacted the family are asking for a sum of N50m as ransom. According to a report by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Prof. Agbaje,...

The Enugu State Police Command has launched a manhunt for kidnappers of students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and other abducted passengers. Several students and passengers travelling to Nsukka on Sunday were abducted along Nike-Opi-Nsukka Road. The students, according sources, were returning to campus following the resumption of academic...

A Lagos Special Offences Court sitting at Ikeja on Thursday remanded a man, Adeleye Fayose, in a custodial centre over alleged N66.5m oil fraud. Justice Mojisola Dada remanded the defendant in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre after his plea was taken. The defendant was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes...

Residents  of Ologede, Mowodani, Idase, Ajelanwa and Imeko in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State have lamented rising incidents of kidnapping in their communities. PUNCH Metro gathered that there were four reports of kidnapping in Mowodani in September, while residents foiled an attempted kidnap in the same month....

A prosecution witness, DSP Olusegun Bamidele, has told the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos State, how a murder suspect, Chidinma Ojuwku, allegedly transferred N5m from the account of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, on June 15, 2021, the day he was...

He died around 7am the following day. His corpse was deposited at the Federal Medical Centre’s morgue, Ebute-Metta for an autopsy. Lagos - A security guard with Corporate Victoria Gardens Security Company, Desmond Gudyu, has allegedly punched a 26-year-old man, Akeem Nuhu, to death during an altercation on Lugard Avenue,...

Again, the problem of funding has hampered palliative measures on the road over the years. Residents of Oba, in the Idemili South Local Government Area; Awada, in Idemili North LGA; and Okpoko, in Ogbaru LGA, of Anambra State, have decried the deplorable condition of the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway and adjoining streets...

Our investigations revealed that the generator went off on its own and when a technician restarted it, fire erupted. Workers and residents were thrown into panic on Wednesday when fire gutted a section of the West African Examination Council building at Yaba, Lagos State. A vulcaniser, who did not want...

She overheard the men asking my father, ‘Where is the document?’ My mum ran through the backdoor to our neighbour’s house, where she called policemen. The Ondo State Police Command on Wednesday said it commenced investigation into the alleged murder of a consultant, Michael Adesitimi. Some yet-to-be-identified persons allegedly killed...

“The accident involved a red BRT bus which had a brake failure, and a Volkswagen, popularly called Danfo. Three persons were confirmed dead and several others injured on Wednesday when a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle rammed into a market fence at Alapere in the Ketu area of Lagos State. THETALK.NG...

The Enugu State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the kidnappers of students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and other abducted passengers. It also said that nine suspected kidnappers have been arrested in two other kidnap incidents with three victims rescued. Several students and passengers whose numbers were...

A cook, Godspower Mathew, has breathed fresh air after Chief Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi of the Samuel Ilori Court, Ogbà Lagos, ordered his release after three years in remand. Mathew and three others were arraigned in 2019 on counts of conspiracy and theft. While the other defendants enjoyed bail, Mathew could...

There is anger in Imo State following reports about a father, Confidence Amatobi, who allegedly broke the arm of his two-month-old son. THETALK.NG gathered that the suspect, who is on the run, said the toddler was disturbing his sleep. The kid was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, where...

There was panic at Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Tuesday, when masked gunmen reportedly abducted a yet-to-be-identified motorist. According to eyewitnesses who narrated the incident on Twitter, the man was forced out of a black Toyota Corolla, which he was driving on Medical Road in the area. A user,...

My mother was going for a burial when they were attacked and kidnapped. Even the vehicle carrying the corpse they were taking home was in front of their bus when the incident happened THETALK.NG learnt that Gunmen who kidnapped 11 passengers on Friday along the Nasarawa-Benue borders have reportedly demanded...

Justice Olalekan Olatawura, who found the defendant guilty, sentenced him to 14 years on count one and seven years on count two. An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a burglar, Jimoh Dele, to 21 years’ imprisonment. According to the charge, the defendant, on May 11, 2020,...

...Before Bamise, he succeeded in raping another passenger, Maryjane, on November 25, 2021. A Superintendent of Police, Goddy Ihende, has told a Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square that a driver of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit, Andrew Ominikoron, who allegedly raped and murdered his passenger,...

Imo, Owerri - A 60-day-old baby, Miracle has been assaulted by the father for the mere reason of the poor baby disturbing his sleep. Confidence Amatobi, the 31-year-old father of the baby hails from Isu LGA, Imo state, southeastern Nigeria. As reported by The Nation newspaper Amatobi used a plastic...

Members of Umueri community in Anambra have expressed appreciation to the wife of the state governor, Mrs. Nonye Soludo for her quick response to their call for more government’s interventions to the plight of flood victims in the area.The President General of Umueri community, Ambassador Chief Johnny Chukwudi Metchie had...

... The colony of millepedes was a traditional way of “summons.” There was mild drama, yesterday, at Atimbo, Calabar Municipal Local Government Area, in Cross River State, following the invasion of an apartment by a colony of millipedes sent by an ex-lover (man) to a lady who reneged on her...

No fewer than 11 persons were on Thursday confirmed dead in two separate accidents which occurred on the federal highway across the Ogun State corridors. While one person died in one of the accidents that occurred around 11 p.m on Wednesday night along the Abeokuta – Sango Ota express road,...

THETALK.NG learnt that a yet-to-be-identified young lady was said to have jumped into the Osun river around the Gbodofon area of the state capital on Thursday. It was gathered that the lady was walking on the Gbodofon bridge and after receiving a call, dropped her wallet and jumped into the...

News reaching THETALK.NG has it that there was chaos in the Alaba International Market, Lagos, on Wednesday, October 19, as traders reportedly clashed with hoodlums demanding levies from them. Daily Trust reports that the violence broke out in the morning when the hoodlums approached the traders to collect levies as...