Year: 2016
Fela comes alive again through Felabration
Artistes in Nigeria and outside the country are getting ready for Felabration, a yearly festival put together to honour the…
Lagos to close 10,444 unregistered private schools
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government says it is set to shut down 10,444 unregistered private schools which littered the…
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Breaking: New York bombing suspect arrested
The suspect wanted in connection with bombings in New York City has been taken into custody after a firefight with…
Militants blow up another oil facility in Delta
A militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), on Monday, claimed an attack on a crude oil pipeline in…
GOtv Boxing Night 9: Fijabi, Joe Boy, Jagaban, others step up training
Boxers billed to fight at GOtv Boxing Night 9, scheduled for the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium on…
Summit: Buhari rallies support for military, countries, victims of Boko Haram
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), development partners and international community to assist security…
Guard jealously newly built 114 roads, Ambode tells residents, leaders
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday urged community leaders, youths and residents of the State to take ownership…
Teenager jailed 6 years for theft
Jethro Ibileke/Benin An Oredo Magistrate Court in Benin, Edo State, has sentenced a teenager, Happy Okotie, to six years…
Traditional Rites: Lagos rejects purported restriction of movement
The Lagos State Government has denounced the purported restriction of movement announced in Itire on Sunday night as part of…
Mechanic in court for slapping keke rider
A mechanic, Christopher Nwachukwu, on Monday, appeared before an Enugu North Magistrates’ Court for allegedly slapping a commercial tricycle rider,…
Rivers govt. denies owing security guards salaries
The Rivers Government has denied owing the salaries of security guards working in public primary schools in the state. This…
NCC to check unsolicited text messages, calls
The Compliance Monitoring & Enforcement Department of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it has drawn a monitoring plan to…
Man pleads guilty to stealing female bathroom slippers
Chiweiko Samuel, a 26-year-old man, was on Monday arraigned before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for stealing female…
Immigration rescues 11 from human traffickers
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) command in Katsina state said it had rescued 11 youths trying to cross into Niger…
Man arraigned for defiling 12-year-old boy in Kano
A Kano Magistrates’ Court sitting in Audu Bako Secretariat on Monday ordered the remand of a 25-year-old man, Mansir Sani,…
Not wearing wedding rings is not disrespect to marriage – FCT residents
Some married men in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have said that not wearing wedding rings is not to disrespect…
Herdsman jailed 2 years for grazing
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced one Ali Haruna to two years imprisonment for taking his cows…
Man who named dog Buhari challenges court’s jurisdiction
An Ota Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, on Monday, fixed Nov. 21 to hear an application by Joachim Iroko, challenging…
4 suspected robbers remanded in Ekiti
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered the remand of four men in prison custody over alleged armed robbery.…
SSGs brainstorm on challenges facing Nigeria
The Secretaries to State Governments (SSGs) of 23 states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) are meeting in Jos…
Nigerian lawmakers employ 2,570 aides – Survey
No fewer than 2,570 aides are engaged by members of the 8th National Assembly, totaling 469, an investigation by the…
Nasarawa govt. warns against indiscriminate dumping of refuse
The Nasarawa State Urban Development Board (NUDB), has advised residents of the state against indiscriminate dumping of refuse, considering its…
Re: ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign – Whose idea was it?
Dear Editor, I have followed with great interest the allegations of plagiarism made against Alhaji Lai Mohammed the Hon. Minister…
28-year-old man sought by New York police over bombing
New York authorities said Monday they are seeking a 28-year-old man in connection with a bombing in the city that…
Kebbi lose 2 pilgrims in Saudi Arabia
Kebbi Pilgrims Welfare Board has announced the death of two pilgrims from the state during the just concluded 2016 Hajj…
Breaking: Boko Haram kills eight in church attack
At least eight people were killed outside a church in a suspected Boko Haram attack carried out by gunmen on…
Borno public secondary schools to reopen after two years
The Borno Government said on Monday that it would re-open public secondary schools next week, two years after they were…
Police rescues 14 abducted oil workers
The Rivers Police Command said it has rescued 14 oil workers abducted by unknown gunmen on Sept. 2 along Elele-Omoku…
Dele Alli signs new Tottenham deal
Tottenham’s England international midfielder Dele Alli has signed a new deal to remain at the club until 2022. Alli, 20,…
Elephant kills Italian tourist trying to take photo
A 66-year-old Italian tourist was trampled to death by an elephant after ‘provoking’ the animal when he moved too close…