Year: 2016
Olympics: D’Tigers lost to Spain again
Nigeria’s D’Tigers lost 87-96 to Spain on Thursday to further narrow their chances of squeezing through into the quarter-finals of…
Pastor in police net over wife’s death in Edo
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Detectives at the Zone 5 Police headquarters in Benin, Edo State, have detained the pastor of a…
Rugby: Fiji makes history, wins first Olympic gold medal
Fiji won the first Olympic medal in its history Thursday by beating Great Britain in the final of the inaugural…
Watford striker, Ighalo signs new five-year deal
Watford striker Odion Ighalo has signed a new five-year deal. The 27-year-old Nigerian joined the Hornets from Udinese in July…
Budget Padding: It’s a family affair – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it would not sanction House of Representatives Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, or Rep. Abdulmumuni…
Olympics: Kenyan coach expelled for posing as athlete
A Kenyan athletics coach has been sent home from Rio after allegedly posing as an athlete and giving a urine…
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South Africa dethrones Nigeria as Africa’s biggest economy
South Africa has regained the title of Africa’s largest economy, two years after Nigeria rebased its economy to claim the…
Gunmen kill varsity lecturer
The police in Benue State have confirmed that a lecturer at Mkar University, Gboko was killed by unidentified gunmen at…
Nigeria reports first polio cases since 2014
The Nigerian government has reported two cases of polio, the country’s first in two years. It said two children had…
Nobody can prosecute me, Speaker Dogara boasts
National Assembly members cannot be investigated or charged to court for performing their constitutional responsibility of lawmaking, including budget, Speaker…
UN investigating Syria ‘chlorine gas’ attack
The UN is investigating evidence of a toxic gas attack on a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo.…
Deregulation: FG saves N1.4 trillion on subsidy payment
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Federal Government says it has saved N1.4 trillion which could have been paid as subsidy to oil…
INEC clears Ize-Iyamu, Obaseki, 17 others for Edo guber poll
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had cleared Osagie Ize-Iyamu of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 18 others…
Son dumps father’s corpse in septic tank
Chukwuma Udenwa, 37-year-old bricklayer, has been arrested by the Delta Police Command for allegedly dumping the corpse of his father…
Lagos, FG partner on affordable housing for federal, state civil servants
The Lagos State Government and the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation on Thursday commenced talks on…
Poly lecturers to embark on strike August 22
Following the alleged refusal of the Federal Government to honour its agreement with it, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics…
We have paid nine years of pension arrears in Edo – Oshiomhole
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo has dismissed the allegation that his administration’s failure to settle accumulated pension arrears will cripple…
Ambode unveils first State-owned Helipad for medical emergency
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday unveiled the first state-owned Helipad for medical emergencies in Nigeria at the…
NOUN to phase out textbooks for computers
The National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN) is working toward producing its course materials as tablet computers rather than textbooks, its…
16 Kano pregnant women barred from Hajj
The Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board on Thursday said that 16 female intending pilgrims, discovered to be pregnant, had been…
Lagos targets increase in staff training fund by 2017
The Lagos State Government says it is planning to inject more fund for staff training and development by next year.…
Ogun to demolish illegal structures on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
The Ogun State Government said on Thursday that it would soon commence the demolition of illegal structures along the Lagos/Ibadan…
Court imposes N2m bail each on cheating couple
A man and his wife were on Thursday arraigned in a Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for cheating.…
Wicked! 2 men push 70-year old man to death
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court has remanded two men Sodiq Fatusi and Adewale Ogunsanya in a Lagos prison for…
Nigeria counters US misinformed advisory to citizens
The Federal Government said on Thursday that every state in the country is safe, contrary to a recent negative report…
Time to call the question of Biafra
Can somebody please remind me, again, why Nnamdi Kanu is still sitting in jail? Of course, I know the various…
LASG welcomes collaboration with NAN
The Lagos State Government says it will collaborate with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to disseminate prompt information to…
Police arraign driver for mischief
A 30-year-old driver, Muzammil Mohammed, on Thursday, appeared in a Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, for alleged mischief. Mohammed…
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Pictures: Buhari meets Wole Soyinka
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met the Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka at the State House, Abuja. Photos: Sunday Aghaeze
Man caned for fondling lady’s buttocks
A Gudu Upper Area Court, FCT, on Thursday, sentenced a 26-year-old Wilfred Inacho to six strokes of the cane for…