Year: 2016
Breaking: Tompolo’s father is dead
A local newspaper in Warri, Delta State, Gbaramatu Voice, has disclosed the death of the father of Niger Delta warlord,…
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Eid-el-Kabir: FG declares Monday, Tuesday public holidays
The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 12 and Sept.13 as public holidays to mark the Eid-el-Kabir. The…
Family friends, sympathisers pay condolence visit to Ibru`s family
Family friends of late businessman, Mr Michael Ibru and other sympathisers on Wednesday visited the family of the deceased at…
Security: Police, DSS urge INEC to postpone Edo governorship election
The Nigeria Police Force ( NPF) and the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday appealed to the Independent National…
Poll: Trump leads Clinton among military and veteran voters
Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 19 points — 55 percent to 36 percent — among voters who are currently…
Lagos begins demolition of illegal structures in Ikoyi next week
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Special Committee on Clean-up of Ikoyi, Lekki, and Victoria Island inaugurated by the State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi…
SSS releases wanted journalist, Ahmad Salkida
A Nigerian journalist, Ahmad Salkida, who was taken into custody on Monday, weeks after being declared wanted by the army,…
Nigeria and the implications of a Donald Trump presidency [Part 2]
Yet as hard as the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumverate may try to cover it up, it appears that the message about the…
The ex-patriot; Nigeria’s own Frankenstein
Eventually, we wisp away into nothingness; into sheer inexistence; into sweet detachedness. We recoil like overstretched springs, like snails back…
Nigerian Army arrests Niger Delta militant leader, others
Nigerian soldiers in ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’ have arrested the leader of a militant group in the Niger Delta, Gabriel Ogbudje,…
Comedian Basketmouth robbed in his Lekki home
Famous Nigerian stand-up comedian, Bright Okpocha popularly known as Basketmouth and his family were in the early hours of this…
Three remanded for conspiracy, adultery in Kano
A Kano Magistrates’ Court sitting at Noman’s Land on Tuesday ordered the remand of three persons in prison custody for…
National Assembly to reconvene Sept. 20
The National Assembly Management on Tuesday announced the postponement of resumption date for Senate and House of Representatives from Sept.…
NCC raid shops selling unregistered SIM cards
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday raided the shops of persons selling unregistered SIM cards in Wuse market, Abuja,…
Salaries: Kwara govt. to assist Local LGs
The Kwara Government, on Tuesday, expressed its readiness to assist the Local Governments in the state in the payment of…
150 abandoned corpses at EKSUTH for mass burial
No fewer than 150 unclaimed corpses at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) mortuary would be given mass burial,…
Kwara gov. seeks tenure extension for Offa council chairman, councillors
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara on Tuesday requested the State House of Assembly to approve the extension of the tenure…
Police arrest 2 for operating illegal gun factory
The Police in Benue on Tuesday said that two persons suspected to be operating an illegal gun factory in the…
Wanted Boko Haram suspects arrested in Yobe
Muhammed Bulama, the Boko Haram suspect on the wanted list number 105, was arrested recently by military troops in Yobe…
Impostor arraigned for N37m fraud
The EFCC has arraigned one Jules Suinner before a Lagos Federal High Court on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy…
Community jubilates as army releases 3 detainees villagers
The people of Akperhe Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta, jubilated on Tuesday following the release of the…
Human right commission begins audit of prisons, detention facilities
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commenced its 2016 audit of prisons and detention facilities in the country beginning…
Oyo House swears in new member
The newly elected member representing Oorelope constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Balogun Lukman, was on Tuesday…
Flood kills 10-year old boy, destroys houses in Oron, Akwa Ibom
A downpour that happened on Wednesday, which lasted for several hours, wreaked havoc and drowned a 10-year-old boy along Stadium…
American hangs self in Lagos hotel
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 57-year old American, Charles Carlson, in a Lekki hotel…
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Life and time of Olorogun Michael Ibru
Several Nigerians and the business world have mourned the demise of Olorogun Michael Ibru who died on Tuesday at the…
Cecilia Ibru loses husband
Eighty-six year old Olorogun Michael Ibru is dead. Michael Ibru, husband of Cecilia Ibru, former Managing Director of Oceanic Bank,…
Ambode asks CP to redeploy police officers over illegal operation
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has sent a formal request to the State Commissioner of Police,…
2 men slammed N10m bail over diesel theft
A Kano Magistrates’ Court has slammed a bail of N10 million on two men, who allegedly sold off a company’s…
Nigeria will be great again – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria will be great again in spite of its current challenges. Buhari made the…