Year: 2016
Army to reduce fees in command schools
The Nigerian Army has commenced the process of downward review of school fees paid in Command schools as part of…
Kenya jails smuggling kingpin 20 years
A Kenyan Court on Friday sentenced one ivory smuggling kingpin Feisal Ali Mohammed to 20 years in prison for possessing…
Suswan: CJ overrules judge, asks him to continue N3.1bn fraud trial
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, has returned the corruption case file of a former…
Students appeal to governors to reopen LAUTECH
Some group of students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso and Osogbo campuses, have appealed to Gov. Rauf…
FA names Allardyce as new England manager
The Football Association (FA), the English football governing body, on Friday named Sunderland AFC manager Sam Allardyce as the new…
Football, Metro, News, Sports, World News
FIFA big wigs will no longer visit Lagos – NFF
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Friday released the itinerary of FIFA President Gianni Infantino who is due in Nigeria…
WHO urges countries to reduce deaths from viral hepatitis
Ahead of World Hepatitis Day on 28 July, 2016, the World Health Organisation, WHO is urging countries to take rapid…
Business, Metro, News, World News
Breaking: Mutiple people injured, killed in Munich shopping centre
At least one person has been killed and an unknown number injured in a shooting at a shopping centre in…
Trader jailed 2 years for receiving stolen jewellery
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday, sentenced a trader, Adamu Liman, to two years imprisonment with…
INEC set for Saturday Kogi, Imo legislative re-run polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday expressed readiness for the conduct of outstanding legislative re-run elections in Kogi…
Europe’s medicine watchdog approves preventive AIDS pill
Europe’s medicines watchdog said Friday it has recommended the licencing of the first-ever AIDS prevention pill for the European Union.…
Nigeria, Germany sign pact to deepen trade relations
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and a delegation of German Industry and Commerce (DGIC) have signed a…
2 in court for stealing onions
The Police on Friday arraigned two men, Toheeb Adesokan,20, and Mutiu Olatinwo, 25, in an Iyaganku Senior magistrates’ Court, Ibadan,…
FG not detaining Dasuki indefinitely
Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution has said that the Federal Government is not…
Technician in court over missing laptop
The Police on Friday arraigned a technician, Stephen John, in a Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, over a…
NLC advocates occupational safety health law
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the National Assembly to initiate a new Occupational Safety Health Bill to…
Locust bean promotes good eye sight
Mr Tunde Ajobo, Chief Dietician, Department of Dietetics, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has recommended the consumption of locust beans…
Mimiko’s distribution of rice, an act of electoral fraud-Akeredolu
Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Rotimi Akeredolu has described the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko’s distribution…
Group seeks legislation to sanction governors over unpaid salaries
A group, Aliyu Magatakarda Advocacy Group (AMAG), on Friday, urged the National Assembly to enact a legislation to sanction state…
Kidnappers of Lagos monarch demand N500m ransom
Kidnappers of Oba Yushau Goriola Oseni, the Oniba of Ibaland, are demanding N500 million ransom. The kidnappers abducted the Lagos…
Minister seeks collaboration with Iran on power, agriculture
Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, has called on the Embassy of the Islamic…
Super Eagles: Peterside urges Yusuf to be in charge
Ex-Enyimba keeper, Idah Peterside, on Friday, urged the new Super Eagles coach, Salisu Yusuf, to stamp his authority in order…
NGO lauds Appeal Court ruling on Hijab
The Muslims Right Concern (MURIC), an NGO, has commended the ruling by Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal allowing…
Couple arraigned for N85m fraud
Paul Iyoghojie An Epe-based couple, Abioye Wale Junaid, 41 and his wife, Fausat, 39, aka Iron Lady, have been arraigned…
NAFDAC impounds sex stamina drugs worth N15m
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has in its recent operations in Gembu, Taraba impounded…
3 docked for advanced fee fraud
Three men- Ebun Oduyi, 73, Samuel Akinde, 64, and Daisi Abobadi, 41, were on Friday arraigned in an Okitipupa Magistrates’…
FIFA starts probe of ex-official Makudi
The adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee on Friday said it has opened proceedings against former Thailand football supremo and…
Nigerian soldiers missing after ambush by Boko Haram
Unidentifiable number of Nigerian soldiers are currently missing following an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents at Guro Gongon village in…
Dogara mourns late lawmaker
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described as shocking, the death of Rep. Adewale Oluwatayo, representing…
IGP deploys cops for Imo, Kogi rerun elections
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, has directed the Commissioners of Police in Imo and Kogi to ensure…