METRO REPORT

A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja has sentenced a school teacher, Nwatu Isaac, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil of El-Bossaa Nursery and...

A wave of unrest has engulfed Minna, the Niger State capital, following the deaths of 37 suspected illegal gold miners, many of them teenagers, who suffocated inside an overcrowded detention...

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared what he described as a “small state of emergency” on waste management as the government moves to address growing challenges in refuse collection...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have rescued 15 minors who were allegedly trafficked and sold for ₦2 million each in a coordinated child-trafficking scheme originating...

Petrol prices have risen at several filling stations in Abuja, with motorists facing fresh increases despite a recent decline in international crude oil prices. Checks across the Federal Capital Territory...

Pensioners in Lagos State have taken to the streets to demand payment of what they describe as years of outstanding pension entitlements, with some alleging that portions of the arrears...

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested 10 people suspected of involvement in the illegal trade in human body parts, recovering several items believed to be human remains and traditional...

The Bauchi State Government has approved Monday, 17 August 2026, as a work-free day to allow residents to participate in the state’s forthcoming Local Government Council elections. The holiday will...

A family in Gboko, Benue State, has made a passionate appeal to Nigerians to help locate their four-year-old daughter, Yuadoo Shima Kange, who has been missing for several weeks. According...

Traffic was brought to a standstill along the Kara section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday after separate road crashes on both sides of the highway left one person dead,...