Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Intelligence Response Team (IRT), led by Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Abba Kyari, have arrested Joseph Omoni, the alleged mastermind of the kidnap of Lagos Isheri North Estate Secretary, Mr Dayo Adekoya.

LIB recalls that gunmen numbering about 20 stormed the estate last Thursday and abducted Dayo Adekoya after killing three security men. He was rescued by the police in the early hours of Monday.

A little schoolgirl was knocked down and crushed to death under a truck's wheel this morning at Nonthaburi province in Thailand.

According to eyewitness report, the woman pictured wailing on the ground was taking her daughter to school on a motorcycle when a truck rammed into them from behind, knocking her off the bike. She escaped with minor injury but her daughter was sadly crushed by the truck. Graphic photos after the cut.

It has taken almost 13 years but former President Olusegun Obansanjo has now apologised to human rights activist, Dr. Joel Odumakin for the man-handling she suffered from security operatives back in May 2004. The duo were special guests at an event in Abeokuta, Ogun State when the apology went down. An excited Joel Odumakin took to Instagram to share the news and wrote:

A total of 162 Nigerians stranded in Libya were returned back home on Tuesday, February 14th. The returnees were received by the National Emergency Management Agency along with the office of the Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Matters.

A chartered flight that brought the returnees arrived the cargo wing of Murtala Mohammed International Airport where they were officially received at about 4pm.


The Ikom - Calabar highway is currently completely blocked by tanker drivers protesting the puncture of the tyres of one of their trucks by revenue collectors at Ugep.

Travellers from Ikom, and Abakaliki axis have been advised to take the Idomi road from Ugep town to connect the highway at Adim while those from Calabar are advised to connect Idomi from Adim then to Ugep. Efforts are on-going to resolve the issue. More photos after the cut

This grainy pictures show the woman suspected to have killed the playboy half brother of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-nam. Jong-nam who fell out with their father and left the country had branded his half-brother's regime a 'joke'.

He was at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on Monday morning waiting for a flight when two North Korean women attacked him from behind with poison spray. He died on his way to hospital.


According to Facebook user, Oyinkasola Ife, a woman was caught after she allegedly killed her child whom she gave birth to this morning in Sango Ota, Ogun state. It is also reported that this is not the first time she is committing the crime. See the graphic photos after the cut.

Hollywood star, Harrison Ford was aboard a small plane that landed on a taxiway of a California airport, flying directly over a waiting American Airlines 737 on Monday.
Confirming the incident, the Federal Aviation Administration, which is yet to identify who was piloting the plane said the actor's Aviat Husky single-engine propellor plane was cleared to land on Runway 20L at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West stepped out for Valentine's Day Tuesday night  in New York City, enjoying a romantic dinner at the Swanky eatery Carbone. more photos after the cut.

Police officers stormed into football legend, Diego Maradona's hotel room in Madrid on Wednesday morning, after the manager of the hotel- Eurostar Suites Mirasierra, called the police alleging that he assaulted his girlfriend, Rocio Olivia.

Maradona and his girlfriend have been lodging in the hotel for some days now ahead of his former Club, Napoli's match with Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.


As posted by one of the passengers, Umma Amadi Rimi on Facebook:
"Frustration on Morning Train - Abuja/Kaduna! Nig Railway Authority should come to the rescue of passengers ! Selling more tickets than the number of seats! This is me and other passengers sitting on the luggage rack while others on the floor! Please please any body that is seeing this post who is in a position to assist, should do something" More photos below.

Remember Britain's youngest mum who gave birth at the age of 12 years old? At that time, her name wasn't revealed to protect her identity. She has since grown up and at 23 years old, she now has a fiance and is pregnant with another child. As Tressa Middleton struggled to get pregnant with her fiance, she felt she was being punished for letting her firstborn be taken away and feared she would never have another child.

The police department on Tuesday confirmed that a toddler and a 26-year-old man riding in a car were shot and killed in Chicago in the second deadly incident involving a child in the city in the past two days.  
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the toddler was sitting in a car driven by the child's aunt and was shot in the head. The child was pronounced dead at a hospital. 


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A fish seller who lives in Maraba Jos, Igabi, Kaduna State has been dragged before a Sharia Court for forcefully having anal sex with a 7-year-old Almajiri boy on several occasions. This was revealed by Hajiya Rabi Salisu Ibrahim, the Chairperson of Arridah Relief Foundation of Nigeria, the NGO that confronted the suspect and took him to court. While speaking to journalists, Hajiya Ibrahim revealed that the suspect raped his victim who is an Almajiri at an Islamic school over 10 times without using protection after luring him to his shop.

A 13-year-old girl died after she was flung from a fast-spinning ride at Chaohua amusement park in southwest China.

The horrific footage which was captured on a smartphone shows the moment the girl was thrown out from the ride on Friday.

The female suicide bomber, who was intercepted by men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, on Tuesday in Maiduguri, admitted to had been given N200 to embark on the mission, adding that she was abducted two years ago and later married a Boko Haram commander named 'Amir'

The suicide bombers tried to attack motorists at the NNPC Mega Station along Damboa Road. One was shot dead while the other was arrested.

25-year-old Abdulhamid Abdullahi has been arrested by the Jigawa State Police Command for allegedly killing his 65-year-old father, Shuaibu Abdullahi, in Jigawa. The sad incident took place on February 5th while Abdulhamid was trying to attack his brother whom he suspected was responsible for influencing their father from allowing him to get married.

Mandla Mandela, the oldest grandson of former and late South African President, Nelson Mandela is expecting his first child with his wife, Rabia Clarke. In a joint statement released Monday, Febuary 6, 2017, through their traditional Mvezo titles - Nkosi Zwelivelile and Nkosikazi Nosekeni Rabia Mandela, it reads:


A member of the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) who was wounded during a clearance operation in Boko Haram stronghold, Sambisa Forest last January has passed away.

CJTF secretary Muazu Alhaji Misiya, who announced the sad news this morning, said the deceased identified as Modu Churi had been receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Borno State. May his soul rest in peace, amen. More photos after the cut.

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