Year: 2016
Nigerian doctor convicted for fraud in UK
A disgraced doctor who moonlighted while on sick pay must pay back £75,000 to the NHS or face two years…
Cavaliers, Warriors to settle NBA championship in Game 7
LeBron James scored 41 points, Kyrie Irving added 23 and the Cleveland Cavaliers sent the NBA Finals packing for California…
Books, Entertainment, Lifestyle
Dis Fela Sef!: He lives
By Reuben Abati On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Benson Idonije, who is arguably Nigeria’s most informed analyst of…
Dead doctor’s organs save 6 lives
The organs of a doctor who died from a sudden illness were on Thursday donated by his relatives and they…
162 Nigerian migrants voluntarily return home from Libya
An Airbus 320 aircraft with registration number 5A-WAT on Thursday arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Lagos with 162…
Clerics praises Anthony Cardinal Okogie at 80
The Archbishop Emeritus of the Ibadan Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev. Felix Alaba Job, on Thursday, described Anthony Cardinal Okogie as…
Over 700 Boko Haram insurgents surrender- Defence spokesman
The Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, has disclosed that more than 700 repentant Boko Haram insurgents in the…
FG alerts Nigerians to ISIS indoctrination mobile app targeting children
The Federal Government has alerted Nigerians to the existence of a newly-launched mobile application developed by the Islamic State of…
5,700 Lagos youths for agro-business training
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN and the Association of Micro Entrepreneurs of Nigeria, AMEN in…
Fire guts MTN warehouse in Ogba, Ikeja
Abu Jimoh Mobile telecommunications giant, MTN’s warehouse located off Acme Road, Ogba, Lagos State, has been gutted by fire. The…
46-year-old man docked over air-conditioner theft
The Police on Thursday arraigned a 46-year-old man, Kayode Shoneye, over the theft of an air-conditioner valued at N45,000. Shoneye,…
Businessman loses $86,000 to EFCC, gets 6 months imprisonment
The Federal High Court in Enugu on Thursday sentenced one Samuel Duru to six months imprisonment for failing to declare…
You want federalism? Fight for it!
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò If I hear another Southern governor, especially from the Western states of old, call for “true federalism” one…
Oshiomhole advises against long adjournment of corruption cases
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Thursday advised members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) against long adjournment in corruption…
Ambode honours 555 with long service merit award
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday presented long service merit awards to 555 public servants who had distinguished…
“My husband is going through some type of medical crisis”- Van Vicker’s manager
Liberian-Ghanaian actor, Joseph van Vicker aka Van Vicker, has been in the news for allegedly having a sexual relationship with…
Nigeria may experience food shortage, UNDP warns
The UN Development Programme (UNDP), on Thursday, warned that Nigeria might experience food shortage, if urgent interventions were not put…
2 teenagers arraigned for stealing cooking pots
Two unemployed boys, Rowland Agbra and Dare Fatai, both aged 18, were on Thursday charged before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’…
My husband attempted to rape my sister several times -Wife
A 45-year old trader, Mrs Cecilia Ayayi, has approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos to end her 20-year-old marriage…
Police refute alleged pipeline attack in A/Ibom
The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom, Mr Murtala Mani, on Thursday refuted an alleged explosion of pipelines at Ikot…
Man bags 2 years imprisonment for defrauding Canadian woman
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old, Patrick Ezeji, to two years imprisonment for defrauding a Canadian woman,…
Six dead, 23 injured in Lagos ghastly motor accidents
Kazeem Ugbodaga Six people have been confirmed dead and 23 others injured in two separate accidents which occurred in Lagos…
Reps to serve 14 railway projects contractors bench warrant
The House of Representatives on Thursday threatened to issue bench warrant against 14 companies handling of rail projects in the…
Buhari extends vacation by 5 more days
President Muhammadu Buhari is no longer arriving the country today as scheduled. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed on Thursday that…
Fuel queues resurface in Port Harcourt, sells for N160 per litre
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The strike declared by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) over sack of its…
IDPs, vulnerable groups to benefit from World Bank $7m in Edo
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), less privileged and physically challenged are among the vulnerable groups expected to benefit from the World…
The Revolt Of Mandela’s Grandchildren by Okey Ndibe
South Africa is in the midst—some would say the very incipient stage—of a major political and cultural revolt. One of…
Wike’s SSG, Kenneth Kobani, charged with terrorism
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital has started the trial of Kenneth Kobani,…
Pictures: Osinbajo presides over June FEC meeting
Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday, 15 June, 2016 presided over the Federal Executive Council Meeting at the Council…
2 Nigerian migrants going to Europe perish in Sahara Desert
Two Nigerian migrants seeking greener pastures in Europe, via Libya, have died in the Sahara Desert, within the borders of…