Year: 2018
Cultists attack LASPOTECH, one dead, several wounded
One person was killed while several others were wounded on Tuesday following a bloody attack on Ikorodu Campus of the…
Female Manager, 3 Others Sent to Prison for Defrauding Employer N250m
A Female manager with the Mind The Gap Company in Yaba, Lagos, Oluwatosin Ogundana, 36, has been arrested and arraigned…
Gallant Nigerian soldiers rescue Yobe schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
Some of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at Government Girls secondary school Dapchi in Yobe have been rescued…
Tax Evaders’ll Be Exposed, Fowler tells company directors
Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Tunde Fowler, has urged members of the Institute of Directors (IoD)…
Lagos paedophile jailed 60 Years for defiling 12-year old girl
The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday sentenced a 58-year-old paedophile, Obinna Iziejen to 60 years…
Lagos Reviews Procurement Plans of MDAs
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday reviewed the procurement plans of all the Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs with a…
Security guard gets 10 years imprisonment for defiling 5-year old girl
The Lagos High Court has sentenced a 27-year old security guard to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a five-year old…
Niger state records 31 meningitis cases, 4 deaths in 2017
Niger Government has confirmed the outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) with laboratory tests confirming 31 cases and four deaths…
Social Media Week 2018: Organisers promise mind blowing experience
Ms Ngozi Odita, the Co-founder of the 2018 Social Media Week (SMW), says the edition will assist in the creation…
Commonwealth Games 2018: States urged to support for Team Nigeria
A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Exporting Corporate Nigeria Projects (ECNP), on Wednesday appealed to some state governors to support Nigeria’s contingent…
Market women sensitised on Cleaner Lagos Initiative
The Lagos State Government, under its Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) has called on traders to ensure that markets in the…
FCT communities protest poor access to water facilities
Residents of some communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Wednesday protested lack of access to the only source…
Libya, UN to continue to work on political agreement
Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives (parliament) and the Tripoli-based Higher Council of State agreed to continue consultations to amend the…
CLI: Akiolu warns against dumping refuse in public places
Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has warned residents of Lagos against dumping refuse in public places, saying the Cleaner Lagos…
ECOWAS inaugurates Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has inaugurated Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja to strengthen regional…
Diesel theft: Nigerian Navy arrest 7 suspects
The Nigerian Navy has arrested seven men for allegedly transporting 522 tonnes of diesel believed to be stolen from pipelines,…
Onanuga tasks media practitioners on human trafficking
The Managing Director, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday called on the media to effectively play…
Federal, State Govts urged to engage healthcare workers on Child mortality
Dr Mathew Ashikeni, the Acting Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, has urged Federal and State Governments to…
Congolese refugees besiege UN office in Rwanda, protest food cuts
Anti-riot police in western Rwanda on Wednesday surrounded at least 3,000 Congolese refugees, who had camped at the UN Refugee…
Anambra state set to regulate gaming industry
The Anambra House of Assembly is set to look into the gaming industry with a view to making it healthier…
36 participants for Youth weightlifting Championship in Ibadan
Thirty six Weightlifters will participate in the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) South West Zonal Championship slated for Ibadan, an official has…
Health Workers’ strike halts services at Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu
Activities at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Enugu has been grounded following an industrial action by the Joint Health Sector…
Osun Assembly rejects constitution Amendment input
The Osun State House of Assembly has unanimously rejected the proposed constitutional amendment to allow for independent candidature during elections…
Farmers/herdsmen clash as a result of climate change
Mr Chido Onumah, Coordinator, Africa Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has attributed the farmers/herdsmen crisis in Benue to…
Edo Govt. accused of diversion of rice meant for IDPs
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo on Wednesday accused the Edo Government of diverting 4,721 bags of rice donated…
Turkey concludes plan to recriminalise adultery
The Turkish government conclude plans towards recriminalising adultery Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Wednesday.
Fuel Scarcity: Charlyboy leads protest to NNPC headquarters
Charles Oputa, a.k.a Charlyboy, on Wednesday led the `Ourmumudondo’ group, on a peaceful protest to the headquarters of the Nigerian…
Billy Graham: Trump says ‘There was nobody like him’
U.S. President Donald Trump is mourning Billy Graham as “a very special man,” after the famed preacher’s death at 99.
Legendary evangelist Billy Graham dies at 99
The Rev. Billy Graham, a North Carolina farmer’s son who preached to millions in stadium events he called crusades, becoming…
Banky W re-brands E.M.E. record label
Pop artiste Bankole Wellington (aka Banky W), has announced the rebranding of his record label, Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E.).