Year: 2016
Lawyer, judicial worker kidnapped in Kogi
A lawyer and a judiciary worker in Kogi State have been abducted by gunmen believed to be kidnappers and taken…
Football, News, Sports, World News
NFF crisis has shot up my blood pressure-Minister
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Solomon Dalung, has lamented the leadership crisis rocking the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. Dalung…
Traditional rulers support new petrol price
The Association of Royal Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (ARTRN) has thrown its weight in support of the Federal Government’s hike…
Metro, News, Tennis, World News
Roger Federer withdraws from French Open
Roger Federer has withdrawn from the French Open after failing to recover from a back injury, bringing to an end…
Breaking: Israel’s defence minister resigns
Israel’s Minister of Defence Moshe Ya’alon announced on Friday morning on his Facebook and Twitter feeds, “I informed the prime…
Miss Serah Luka: Army unveils second Chibok schoolgirl rescued
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The latest girl to be rescued out of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago by Boko Haram…
Fire chief in trouble over employment scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, arraigned Dada Olatunji, a former Assistant Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Fire…
Second Chibok schoolgirl rescued—Colonel Usman
Colonel Sani Usman, Spokesman of the Nigerian army, said another Chibok schoolgirl has been rescued. She is the second to…
Stop Using My Name to Extort People-EFCC Boss
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has warned fraudsters to stop using his name to…
Why Dasuki is in detention- FG
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja: The Federal Government told ECOWAS Court in Abuja on Thursday that former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki…
Business, Headlines, Metro, News
Jonathan’s Sure-P, a monumental fraud- Tinubu
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described former…
EgyptAir confirms wreckage of crashed plane found
Wreckage from an EgyptAir plane carrying 66 people that crashed Thursday in the Mediterranean has been found, the airline said,…
Teenager drowns catching catfish
Tragedy struck on Wednesday in Benin, Edo state when a 15-year-old boy simply identified as Ikponmwosa, drowned while on a…
President Buhari receives rescued Chibok and her 4-month old baby
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received the rescued Chibok schoolgirl Amina Ali and her 4-month old baby inside the Presidential…
Fake drugs dealer Jailed 5 years
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday convicted a businessman, Sylvanus Nwanoro, for dealing in counterfeit drugs. Justice Ibrahim…
Varsity students beg Buhari not to increase tuition fees
The National Association of Nigerian students (NANS) has urged the Federal Government to “halt any further increment of tuition fees…
Debris from crashed EgyptAir plane found
Search teams have found two large orange objects in waters off Egypt suspected to belong to the missing Egyptair passenger…
NLC Strike: Workers resume fully in Edo
Jethro Ibileke/Benin: Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) appears to be loosing the grip on workers in Edo, as the indefinite strike…
NLC Strike: APC threatens to suspend Senator Sani
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State on Thursday threatened to expel Senator Shehu Sani for his opposition to…
NLC cannot fight fuel price increase-Activist
A legal practitioner and civil rights activist, Mr Frank Tietie, says it is not the responsibility of the organised labour…
Niger workers join NLC protest
Alhaji Yahaya Ndako, Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Niger, said the protest against hike in petrol price was…
Rescued Chibok schoolgirl visits Buhari in Abuja
Rescued Chibok schoolgirl, Amina Ali-Nkeki, on Thursday arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for audience with President Muhammadu Buhari. The…
DStv, GOtv to air choice African shows
As Africa Day, 25 May, approaches, viewers are in for a treat, as DStv and GOtv bring more exciting locally-produced…
Strike: Police deploy personnel to flash points in Kano
The Kano State Police Command on Thursday deployed security personnel to strategic places to prevent possible breach of peace during…
Badagry residents lament over abandonment of road project
Some residents of Badagry in Lagos State on Thursday lamented over the abandonment of the Lagos/Badagry expressway project by the…
Trader refuses to pay N700,000 debt
A trader, Wahab Kadiri, who allegedly failed to refund N700, 000, value of the tiles he collected from a distributor,…
Doctors, Dentists to spend 7 years in varsity-NUC insists
The National Universities Commission (NUC) says Medicine and Dentistry are still seven-year programmes in Nigerian universities and not 11 years…
Rolls-Royce extends corruption probe to Nigeria
Britain’s corruption probe into engines maker Rolls-Royce has been expanded to also look at the company’s activities in Nigeria, the…
Nigerian biscuits for ECOWAS market
The Jos-based NASCO Group of Companies has secured an approval to export 19 products under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme…
Oil market slows down as dollar rises
Oil prices extended their retreat Thursday after hawkish US Federal Reserve meeting minutes strengthened the dollar and a weekly report…