Lagos State is grappling with a devastating waste management crisis marked by overflowing refuse, rising collection costs, health and climate concerns, labour grievances and failing landfill infrastructure. That is even as the government promises urgent reforms and improved waste evacuation. LADESOPE LADELOKUN reports.
A disturbing trend of publicly humiliating suspected thieves — forcing them to eat raw pepper, wear stolen items as crowns, dance, sing and twerk before jeering crowds — is spreading across Nigeria, particularly in Benin City and Asaba, sparking fierce debate between those who see it as deserved deterrence and lawyers who warn it is unlawful jungle justice.
Military sources have told SaharaReporters that officers detained by the Defence Intelligence Agency over an alleged coup plot against President Tinubu are being held 30 feet underground where a radiation-emitting signal-jamming device has caused severe health complications including hearing loss, memory failure, vision impairment and breathing difficulties.
Hundreds of traders at the Mowe/Ofada Market in Ogun State’s Obafemi Owode Local Government Area woke up on Saturday to find their shops demolished and goods worth over N500 million buried under rubble, after government officials allegedly carried out the demolition at 2am without any prior notice.
A 70-year-old man, David Pearce, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after a Metropolitan Police cold case investigation produced a one-in-a-billion DNA match linking him to the sexual assault of children in Barking, east London, in 1990 and 1996, as reported by PM News Nigeria.
Four years after Lagos sound engineer David Imoh — “Dave Sound” — was lynched and burnt alive over a disputed N100 balance, his widow Bolu has revealed the family was weeks away from relocating to Canada when a mob destroyed their lives forever, as three of six convicts received death sentences.
Rev. Chaplain Gbamwuan Samuel Teryima, a teacher at Penworth Secondary School in Gboko, Benue State, born without fingers and without toes on one leg, has built a remarkable life of teaching, faith and football — proving that a human life is defined not by what is missing, but by what it does with what remains.
A CBN report has revealed that Nigerian banks and their customers lost N134.48bn to fraud between 2020 and 2025, with 2024 recording the worst single-year losses largely due to a N30bn internal fraud incident.
At least six serving military commanders and one retired major general have been killed by terrorists and bandits in Nigeria since January 2026, a grim sign that the country’s insurgency crisis is far from over, according to Daily Post.
Survivors of the Ngoshe mass abduction have recounted months of starvation, suffering and personal loss after being rescued from Boko Haram captivity in the Mandara Mountains.
