Year: 2016
Kano Assembly plans life imprisonment for kidnappers
A bill to provide life imprisonment as punishment for kidnappers in Kano State on Monday scaled the second reading at…
Fire Service rescues 2 children who fell into well
Kano State Fire Service has rescued two children who fell into well in the city, the Director of the service,…
Father of four docked for raping minor
A father of four, Leonard Ekeh, has been arraigned before a Lagos Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Bode Thomas, Surulere,…
Man offers daughter for sale
A man accused of trying to sell his infant daughter online has admitted to posting the advert, which offered the…
Aisha Buhari, Oshiomhole, others for COWLSO women conference
Kazeem Ugbodaga Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari and Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole are among dignitaries…
Lagos moves to streamline revenue collection to tackle multiple taxation
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has moved to streamline revenue collection in the state in a bid to nip…
Barber jailed 2 weeks for breaking into hotel
A barber, Samson Peter, is to spend the next 14 days in jail in Abuja for breaking into a hotel…
Judges arrest: Judiciary not under attack- Group
A socio-political group, National Support Groups for Good Governance (NASUGG) says contrary to opinions in some quarters, the judiciary is…
C & S prophetess remanded for stealing
A C & S prophetess, 41-year-old Sola Ajayi, who allegedly stole a Canadian-breed life turkey valued at N30,000, is to…
Forbes removes Otedola’s name from billionaires’ list
World billionaires ranking outfit, Forbes, has removed the names of Nigeria’s Femi Otedola from its list of African billionaires. With…
Ambode approves N380m for Lagos bursary, local scholarship
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Monday approved the payment of bursary and local scholarship to Lagos State indigenes…
Arrest of Judges: Had they not struck is past history, they struck is history passed
I could not have allowed sleeping dogs lie just like that, not even would I have let go of this…
Release of 21 Chibok girls demonstrates Buhari’s sincerity
Imo Deputy Governor Eze Madumere has said that the release of Chibok girls is a demonstration of President Buhari’s sincerity,…
Man docked for defrauding victim of N6m
A middle-aged man, Fredrick Omorege, on Monday appeared before a Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly defrauding his victims…
Hair dresser steals N16, 000 bucket of paint
A hair dresser in Badagry, Lagos State, Temitope Onifade, who allegedly broke into a shopping complex and stole two buckets…
Felabration 2016 comes to a close
Jennifer Okundia The annual musical festival held in honor of the late legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti ended this morning, after…
Jigawa govt. lauded over HIV status law
The Network of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (NEPWAN), Jigawa chapter, has commended the state government over the enactment of a…
Bus driver beats wife with iron rod
For allegedly beating his wife, Keji,with an iron rod and threatening to kill her, a commercial bus driver, Solari Oputa,…
Nigeria facing shortage of Antiretroviral drugs – UNAIDS
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), says it is working to address the growing shortage of antiretroviral drugs in…
LASU says JAMB set to release admission merit list
The Lagos State University (LASU) says its admissions merit list for the 2016/2017 academic session will be released in the…
Stop collecting bribes, commissioner tells LASTMA officers
The Lagos State Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem, on Monday, told men of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority(LASTMA)…
Kebbi records 35% girl-child school enrolment rate
The Kebbi State Government said on Monday that it had recorded 35 percent girl-child enrolment as a result of the…
Niger Delta Youths laud Buhari for restoring Nigeria’s image
The Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM), Ondo State Chapter, on Monday commended President Muhammad Buhari for restoring Nigeria’s lost image…
NUT urges Kogi to pay teachers’ salaries
The Chairman of the Kogi State Branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr Abdullahi Suleiman, on Monday appealed to…
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Tyson Gay: US sprinter’s daughter shot dead by stray bullet
Former world champion sprinter Tyson Gay’s 15-year-old daughter has been killed in a shooting in the US state of Kentucky,…
Shekau ready to release 83 more Chibok schoolgirls
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammdu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has revealed that the Abubakar Shekau…
Breaking: Obanikoro dares EFCC, arrives Abuja from US
In a daring move to prove his innocence, former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, arrived the country…
Polio: Sokoto govt. to immunise 1.8m children
Sokoto State Government says it is targeting no fewer than 1.8 million children under five years in the ongoing four-day…
Saudi Arabia cracks down on overstayed pilgrims
Saudi Arabia on Monday started a crackdown on foreign pilgrims overstaying their Hajj visas, a local media report says. Saudi…
Shooting Stars defender shot dead in Bayelsa
Shooting Stars defender, Izu Joseph was reportedly shot dead in his hometown of Okaki in oil-rich southern Bayelsa state. According…