Tenant burns landlord, 83, to death over alleged unpaid rent

Uwa Street in Benin City, capital of Edo State, on Wednesday night witnessed a tragedy when a tenant, Jeff Obasohan, reportedly set his 83-year-old landlord, Pa Joseph Iyen, ablaze, following disagreement over unpaid accumulated house rent.

NAFDAC seizes cartons of fake drinks in Edo State

In Benin, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has seized about 20 cartons of different brands of popular alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, from 12 shops at Upper Sakponba, Mission Road and vegetable market, off Airport Road.

Kogi to immortalise Ocholi

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has described the late Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. James Eneojo Ocholi, as a fearless person, whose life “was extinguished at a very young age”.

Europa League:Man United 1-1 Liverpool (Agg 1-3)

Philippe Coutinho's moment of brilliance extinguished Manchester United's faint hopes and saw Liverpool through to the Europa League quarter-finals.

Europa League:Spurs 1-2 Dortmund (Agg 1-5)

Tottenham were left to focus fully on their Premier League title challenge as Mauricio Pochettino's side bowed of the Europa League last 16 following a 2-1 defeat to Borussia Dortmund.

Leicester Form Earns Top Stars National Call-up

Following their impressive form for their Premier League side Leicester City the duo of Danny Drinkwater and N'Golo Nkante have been called up to their countries' national teams ahead of crunch friendlies later this month.

Man arrested for stealing 4,000 pants

A taxi driver accused of stealing some 4,000 items of women’s underwear in Thailand has been publicly paraded by police, the second time in six years the alleged panty thief has been nabbed for fuelling his fetish.

Police arrest man for marrying wife without parents’ permission

Policemen attached to the Dolphin Police Division in Ikoyi have arrested a 30-year-old man, Ugo Madugba, for marrying his 28-year-old wife without the express approval of her parents.

Aregbesola commissions Ashimolowo’s King’s University

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday reiterated that the goal of his administration’s education reform is to develop the new man in students that are intellectually, socially and morally sound for the growth of the state.

Army confirms officer, soldier dead in Rivers

Nigerian Army 2 Brigade based in Port Harcourt has confirmed an attack and death of an army officer suspected to be a major and one soldier in an encounter with unknown gunmen suspected to be sea pirates.