A man identified as Amos Christopher has been arrested by the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly beating his younger brother to death and beheading him. The police said that 24-year-old beat up his youngest sibling called Thyson until he died before he went on to cut his head. The deceased was four years old. Christopher, who is of Dobi …

A 30-year-old photographer, Usman Sani Goga, has committed suicide in Babura Local Government area of Jigawa State. The deceased father told newsmen that the incident happened on Wednesday at Akula Quarters, Babura Local Government. He said the deceased used a rope and hung himself in his bedroom. NSCDC spokesman CSC. Adamu Shehu also confirmed the incident to newsmen. He said …

A 32-year-old carpenter, Onyekachi Agu, who was accused of pouring acid on his ex-girlfriend and his rival, was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja. Justice Oyindamola Ogala handed down the jail term after finding Agu guilty of a count of causing grievous bodily harm to two persons, Aishat Adefarati and …

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Ojo Akerele in the Idoani community, Ose Local Government Area of the state, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl. In an interview with journalists in Akure, the state capital on Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Funmi Odunlami said: “A case of defilement was reported against one Ojo Akerele, …

Tope Akinusi, 35, was remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Center on Monday by an Ikeja Magistrates’ court in Lagos State’s Ogba district after it was claimed that he attempted to steal from the Gospel Faith Mission International Church in the state’s Ayobo district. The Magistrate, Mrs L. A Owolabi, made the remand order after the defendant who is facing two-count …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has taken into custody one Hassan Ahmad in possession of N2 million cash allegedly meant for a politician in Gombe. In a statement in Abuja, ICPC’s spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua said the cash was in both old and new notes She said that the suspect was arrested on Friday by …

An engineer has developed a security robot that can remotely launch a gun attack during a robbery invasion. The Head of the Electrical Engineering Unit, Emmanuel Wireko-Brobby, who is also a senior clinical engineering manager at a teaching hospital, disclosed that he built the four-feet robot from waste plastic. Wireko-Brobby revealed that the ”RoboSniper” has an inbuilt surveillance camera, a …

Barely two weeks after the sectoral group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) raised an alarm over a proposed additional 20 percent Ad-Valorem Excise Tax on the Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD) segment, the group has decried the emotional campaign to string up the sugar angle to the issue. The group has been using the sugar angle to rationalise an economic …

The carbonated soft drinks sub-sector of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has raised a discomforting alarm over the Federal Government’s proposed 20 percent ad-valorem excise tax on non-Alcoholic beverages which covers the widely consumed Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD) segment. Rising from a meeting last Thursday in Lagos, the heads of the sectoral group argued that such a move would …

The N4 trillion approved on Thursday by the National Assembly to fund fuel subsidy this year has been condemned by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), which says the action would ruin the economy. Fuel subsidy fund was N442.72 in the budget earlier passed by the legislature and assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari. But with this new development, it …