By shooting at a taxi which was trying to make a turn at the front of a bank he was guarding, an action which allegedly led to the killing of a pregnant woman, a police officer instigated the burning down of a branch of Zenith Bank in Mpape, a suburb of Abuja this today. Eyewitnesses [...]
At least three people were killed in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, South-West Nigeria when two cult groups engage in a free-for-all. P.M.NEWS learnt that the fracas occurred at about 7 p.m. yesterday which forced the residents to stay indoors and shops closed earlier than expected. A popular night market called Ita Ale in Ijebu-Ode, adjacent the [...]
A 36-year-old woman, Olukemi Gbelee, who was reported missing by P.M.NEWS last Thursday while on her way to the voter registration centre at Baruwa in Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area has been found dead. She was alleged to have been abducted and killed by suspected ritualists, the second such incident in the last four months. [...]
Protests to oust recalcitrant Egypt’s leader Hosni Mubarak have continued with the country’s most prominent democracy advocate, Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, taking up a bullhorn Sunday and calling for President Mubarak to resign, reports The Associated Press. ElBaradei spoke to thousands of protesters who defied a curfew for a third night. Fighter jets streaked [...]
The former Executive Director of Finance and Information Technology of African Petroleum, Mr. Clement Maku Aviomoh has sued the Chairman African Petroleum Plc. Mr Olufemi Otedola for N500 million. He took Otedola to a Federal High court in Lagos, South-West Nigeria, and also asked the court to declare him unfit to hold any executive position [...]
As the elder statesman, Pa Anthony Enahoro begins his final journey home, the Lagos State Government is hosting a valedictory interdenominational service and day of tributes for him tomorrow. The celebration of the life and time of Enahoro is being packaged by the state government in collaboration with the Western Region Associates of Enahoro; the [...]
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, South West Nigeria today signed into law the 2011 budget of N450.8 billion which was passed by the State House of Assembly last week. The initial budget sent to the House for approval by the governor in December 2010 was N445.18 billion, while he later sent additional N3.033 billion [...]
