Year: 2017
Badagry records first rain in 2017
The coastal town of Badagry, Lagos State, on Tuesday witnessed its first rain of the year. The rain which began…
Algeria coach resigns after AFCON exit
Algeria coach Georges Leekens has resigned following the team’s early exit from the Africa Cup of Nations. The Desert Foxes…
Al-Makura tasks LG councils to declare internal revenue
Gov. Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has ordered Interim Management Committee chairmen in the 13 local government areas in the…
YouTube, essential aid for building confidence in cooking
Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone West Africa on Tuesday described YouTube as an essential aid…
Man remanded in prison for forging diploma certificate
A Magistrates’ Court in Rijiyar Zaki, Kano, on Tuesday, remanded a 28-year-old man, Oluwaseun Lasisi, in prison for allegedly forging…
1,000 bags of underweighed rice confiscated from Osogbo markets
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in Osun says it confiscated more than 1,000 under weighed bags of rice in…
Kerosene scarcity: Jigawa residents blame product dealers
Residents of Hadejia in Jigawa have blamed petroleum products dealers for diversion of kerosene resulting to the current acute scarcity…
Court adjourns N22.4 million suit against Gilmore Engineering
Mr Moses Ibu, an aggrieved employee of Gilmor Engineering Nigeria Limited has instituted N22.4 million suit against the company for…
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BREAKING: EFCC Chairmanship: Buhari re-nominates Magu, sends name to senate
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted another letter to the Senate re-nominating Mr Ibrahim Magu as substantive Chairman, Economic and Financial…
Applicant in court for alleged impersonation
Azeez Ganiu,36, an unemployed, who allegedly impersonated an officer of the Lagos State Task Force on Tuesday appeared in an…
Accountant in court for stealing employer’s N623,000
For allegedly stealing his employer’s N623,000, a 33-year-old accountant, Kamardeem Raji, was on Tuesday brought before an Ikeja Magistrate’s’ Court…
SON confisticates 1,000 bags of underweighed rice
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in Osun says it confiscated more than 1,000 underweight bags of rice in Osogbo…
FG distances self from arrest of Premium Times publisher
The Federal Government says it has nothing to do with the recent arrest of Mr Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of the…
More reactions trail Nnamani’s defection to APC
Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South East have described the defection of a former Senate…
I’m intersex, top Belgian model confesses
A top fashion model has revealed that she is intersex, saying that she hopes speaking out will help break a…
Vigilante docked over alleged rape
An Ile-Ife Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday ordered a vigilante member, Sunday Arewa, 25, to be remanded in Ile-Ife Prison over…
Conductor pleads guilty to stealing bus window
A 18-year-old bus conductor, Afeez Junaid, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to stealing a bus side glass window worth N5,000. Junaid,…
Edo govt to ensure fair taxation
The Chief of Staff to Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, Mr Taiwo Akerele, on Tuesday pledged that the state government…
Victims of tanker fire get N28m relief materials
Niger Government has distributed relief materials worth N28 million to victims of tanker fire in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Areas…
Kwara farmers bemoan herdsmen menace
Some farmers in Kwara say the menace of herdsmen on their farms are destroying farm produces and causing economic loss.…
9 year old marriage dissolved over provocation, beating
An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Tuesday dissolved a nine-year-old marriage between Yemi Lawrence and her husband, Alaba, for frequent provocation,…
Factory worker granted bail for can Coke theft
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday admitted a 30-year-old man, Adeniyi Babatunde, to bail in the sum of N20,000 for…
NYSC resumes orientation in Adamawa after 3yrs suspension
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has resumed orientation of corp members in Adamawa after three years suspension due to…
Nigeria’s economy will grow in 2017- Expert
Prof Uch Uwaleke, an economic expert says he is optimistic that Nigeria’s economy will be ‘out of the woods’ this…
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Breaking: UK’s Brexit suffers setback as government loses at Supreme Court
Parliament must vote on whether the government can start the Brexit process, the Supreme Court has ruled. The judgement means…
29-point guideline on Nigeria Delta operations released
The National Council on Hydrocarbons on Tuesday released guidelines on how to review, strengthen and initiate robust policies for the…
Madam Minister, please don’t borrow $30 billion for our unborn children!
Nigeria has never borrowed more than $3 billion at once and we constantly get into trouble. How can we manage…
Did Minister Babatunde Fashola get it wrong?
We cannot, for the sake of some agreement and a rigid reading of the law, continue to short-change ourselves by…
President Trump bans abortion in US
U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked the Presidential Memorandum on Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning, which…
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Stay away from Libya, FG tells Nigerians
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has warned Nigerian migrants to avoid…