Year: 2016
Resign or face trial, FG tells Saraki, Ekweremadu
The Federal Government has hit back at the Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, over statements they…
Maduekwe died when PDP needs him most- BoT Chairman
The Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Ojo Maduekwe is dead. The Chairman of…
Pictures: Buhari hosts traditional rulers to breaking of fast
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night hosted some traditional rulers in the country to breaking of Ramadan fast at the…
Brexit may affect $25b UK investment in Nigeria
Britain’s exit from European Union (EU) will have negative consequences on Nigeria’s economy as it may affect 25-billion-dollar UK investment…
Football, News, Sports, World News
Neymar, Costa in Brazil’s Rio 2016 Olympics squad
FC Barcelona’s Neymar and Bayern Munich’s Douglas Costa have been named as over-age players in Brazil’s Rio 2016 Olympics squad.…
Renowned author, Elechi Amadi, is dead.
Renowned author, Elechi Amadi, is dead. The celebrated literary icon passed on, Wednesday, at the Good Heart hospital in Port…
PDP chieftain, Ojo Maduekwe is dead
The Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ojo Maduekwe, has died. He died at his…
Modu Sheriff’s faction elects Iduoriyekemwen Edo guber candidate
Former Majority Leader of Edo State House of Assembly, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Ali Modu…
Tremors: Residents flee Oyo communities
Residents of some communities in Saki West Council Area of Oyo State on Wednesday abandoned their homes in panic following…
More than 300,000 jostle for 750 EFCC jobs
No fewer than 300,000 applications were received for the 750 positions advertised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),…
Suspected ritualists kill 4 in Edo
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The lawmaker representing Esan South-East local government in Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Festus Udughele, has raised…
Maryland Riot: 3 hoodlums in police net
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested three hoodlums in connection with the vandalisation of some BRT buses at Maryland…
Maryland Riot: BRT did not kill hawker – Lagos Govt
The Lagos State Government has clarified the misconception surrounding the unfortunate incident where a street hawker was knocked down by…
Demand for local rice now outweighs supply
Mr Dipo Onaeko, a rice processor and Chief Executive Officer, Difemis Ventures, on Wednesday said that the demand for locally…
Business, Metro, News, World News
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala joins millionaires’ club
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education activist who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become…
Noise reduction: Lagos shuts down 70 churches, 20 mosques
The Lagos State Government has shut down 70 churches, 20 mosques and about 11 hotels, club houses and beer parlours…
Patent drug dealers protest shops closure by PCN
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan About 1,000 members of the Nigerian Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED) on Wednesday marched on…
MTN Nigeria wins 2.6 GHz broadband license
Africa’s biggest mobile telecoms operator MTN’s Nigerian subsidiary has won a 10-year radio spectrum licence for mobile broadband services, it…
Civil servants docked for defrauding Oyo State
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Two civil servants, Mr. Oluwaseun Adegoke and Ojo David Olanrewaju, out of over 16,000 civil servants, allegedly involved…
NBCC calls for urgent passage of Food Safety Bill
Worried by the repeated banning of some Nigerian agricultural produce from European countries, the Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) on…
Be part of positive change, Oshiomhole charges corps members
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State Wednesday charged members of the National Youth Service Corps to key into…
Man in court for stealing goat
A 27-year-old unemployed man, Henry Semana, was on Wednesday brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos State, for…
Hoodlums destroy BRT buses in Lagos
No fewer than 14 buses belonging to Primero Transport Service Ltd were on Wednesday vandalised by suspected hoodlums along the…
Kidnapping: IGP orders deployment of special strike force to Kogi
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate deployment of a Special Strike Force…
Labourers arrainged for stealing Industrial machines worth N3.5m
Two labourers, Amusa Yahaya and Lawal Adamu, who allegedly stole industrial machines, valued at N3.5 million, were on Wednesday charged…
Navy arrests 11 suspected fake personnel in Rivers
Commodore Sanusi Ibrahim, the out-going Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, said on Wednesday that 11…
ASUU calls for autonomy of institutions
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the quality of tertiary education in the country could improve if the…
Court frees robbery suspect due to insufficient evidence
Justice Sedotan Ogunsanya of an Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Wednesday acquitted a 39-year-old painter, Olaleye Eniola, of a…
Court jails Ikechukwu Chukwuma for defrauding Diamond Bank
Justice M.A Onyetenu of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced a former…
Man docked for stealing N65,000 travelling bag
Nineteen-year-old Isaiah Monday, who allegedly stole a travelling bag valued at N65,000 from a shop in Ogba, Lagos, was on…