Metro News

One dead, another injured as trailer, motorcycle collide along Lokoja-Abuja expressway

The tragedy occurred at Wazobia Park along Lokoja-Abuja expressway around 3:15 p.m. local time.

“Why are you blowing your own trumpet?” Twitter user asks police after tweet on how officers saved Akwa-Ibom residents from robbery

“If the police are so impressive, why are they trying to hard to blow their own trumpet?”

Ikorodu Road again! Car badly damaged after crashing into BRT bus

Three auto crashes on Ikorodu Road this week alone. Two dead.

Mulitple vehicle collission on Ikorodu expressway as naked mad man runs into, stays glued to middle of road

The lives of drivers and commuters trying to navigate Thursday morning’s rush hour almost took a turn for the deadly after a naked man jumped into the path of speeding vehicles.

“Anglican reverend” abandon bleeding church guard in hospital over “high cost of treatment”

A security guard got the shocker of a lifetime after an official of the church he was paid to protect abandoned him in hospital over the cost of treatment.

Drama: Nigerian police gives Enugu car robbers Hollywood-movie-like chase, recovers stolen vehicle

At a point the hoodlums jumped out of the vehicle abandoning same and ran inside the bush. Police continued the chase on foot.

Benin Monarch offers bus as ransom for abducted brother

The monarch brother of a kidnapped Nigerian has offered a bus as ransom to the abductors.

PHOTO: Thugs fight each other over money extorted from truck driver who hit car on Ikorodu highway

“Shut up and take the money!” a man who appeared to be the ring leader shouted at another thug.

Nigerian author rejects high paying Germany cooking job, says he’ll rather continue “cooking words”

What would you do if you were offered a job that pays three times as much as your current one…and in Germany? Most people may jump at it.

Pregnant Nigerian woman, locked up for rejecting prostitution in Burkina Faso, regains freedom

“She came to me and said that I would make more money as a fashion designer if I traveled outside Nigeria,” Ganiyat, who took the offer without informing her parents, said.

#SaveBabyDubem: Month-old Nigerian baby needs N4 million to fix heart hole

One-month-old Elizabeth Chidubem Kezie’s odds at surviving may soon drastically diminish, except we all do something about it…and on time.

Gombe deputy headmaster, “policeman” arrested for “posing as EFCC official, Hajj extortion”

EFCC: “It turned out that the suspect works with Gombe Local Government Education Authority (L.E.A) as assistant headmaster at Madaki Primary School Gombe State.”

Ebute-Metta residents quarrel with LASBCA officials for marking their “shaky” building for demolition

“We are waiting for the ultimatum,” a resident of the house angrily dared officials who were themselves angered by the response.

BREAKING! Another building collapses in Ebute-Metta, Lagos

The building is located at 29 Oloto Street in Ebute Metta.

Lagos bus driver threatens strike over fuel price hike, fraudulent filling stations, extortion by agberos

“I had to park my danfo (commercial yellow bus) the whole of last week because the price of petrol just doesn’t make any sense,” commercial bus driver Aliri said.