Author: Lanre Babalola
Christmas message: Remember our soldiers fighting Boko Haram – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to remember soldiers fighting Boko Harram insurgents in the northeast as they celebrate the…
Nigerians in America don’t want to return to their huts – Trump
United States’ President Donald Trump described Nigerians as people living in huts which they would not want to return to…
Wicked! Jilted lover slits girlfriend’s throat
The Katsina State Police Command says it has arrested a 23 year-old man, Abubakar Musa, who slashed the throat of…
Scarcity: NNPC to flood market with petroleum products
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it is intensifying efforts to flood the market with petrol and other products…
Police begin stop and search operations nationwide
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris has directed immediate commencement of Stop and Search operations throughout the yuletide period.
Federal Govt’ll not increase fuel price – SGF
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is not…
Bleak Christmas for Owerri residents as food prices rise
The current fuel scarcity has triggered hike in the prices of food items in Owerri as traders attributed the rise…
GOtv Boxing Night 13: Fijabi’s Opponent Arrives
Shadrack "Punch To Punch" Kobero, the Tanzanian boxer billed to fight Olaide "Fijaborn" Fijabi for the African Boxing Union (ABU)…
How Governor Dickson’s former aide died in Patience Jonathan’s hotel
The Police in Bayelsa on Saturday confirmed the death of a former aide to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, Mr…
Free train ride for Osun indigenes to celebrate christmas
Scores of Osun indigenes, resident in Lagos and its environs, on Saturday, enjoyed free train ride to Osogbo to celebrate…
Air fares rise as airports record heavy passengers’ traffic
Many airlines operating domestic routes in Nigeria have hiked air fares due to volume of traffic of passengers travelling for…
Gunman kills 4, injures 8 during Christmas carol in Kaduna
No fewer than four people have been killed and eight others injured in an attack by a lone gunman at…
Commuters groan as transport fare rises by 100% in Ibadan
As the scarcity of petrol persists in Ibadan, transport fare has gone up by 100 per cent.
DPR shuts 6 stations, arrests 4 persons for hoarding petrol
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Ogun, on Saturday, sealed off six petrol stations and arrested four persons in…
Prices of goods soar in Ile-Ife as Christmas approaches
As the Yuletide celebration approaches, prices of goods and services have soared in major markets in Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Nasarawa Govt. increases minimum pension to N5, 000
Mr Abdullahi Sani-Oseze, the Director-General, Nasarawa State Pension Bureau, has said that the State Government, had increased the minimum pension…
Gov Dickson Presents N295 Billion Budget Estimate For 2018
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has presented a total of N295.2 billion as the budget estimates for the year…
Firecracker is for fun, not biblical – Clergymen
A clergyman, Pastor Jonathan Olaoye, has described the throwing of firecrackers by youths during Christmas festival as mere fun rather…
2 days to Christmas, Lagos in lockdown
Chaotic traffic scenes continued in Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital on Saturday morning with commuters spending hours on the road…
Christmas warning: Don’t accept wrapped gifts from strangers – Police
The Commissioner of Police in Niger, Mr Dibal Yakadi, on Saturday advised Nigerians against accepting wrapped gifts from strangers during…
Petrol pump price hits N250 per litre
The supply and price of petrol in Anambra have worsened as customers now pay between N250 and N300 per litre…
EFCC Arrests Fake Investigator Over Attempt to Defraud Gov. Al Makura
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday arrested Mohammed Momoh, a farmer, for attempting to defraud the governor of…
I-G bans SARS from conducting stop and search operations
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has banned the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force…
Pope Paul VI set for sainthood in 2018
Pope Paul VI, who led the Catholic Church through a tumultuous reform period in the 1960s and 1970s, could be…
1,500 PDP members defect to APC in Lagos
No fewer than 1500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State on…
Christmas hampers too costly in Lagos, buyers complain
Ahead of Christmas and New Year celebrations, hampers have flooded markets and shopping centres in Lagos, but dealers complain of…
Shortage of cash at ATMs, customers complain
Residents of Kuje Area Council in the FCT, on Friday decried paucity of cash at the Automated Teller Machines (ATM)…
Yuletide: Police deploy 6,000 personnel in Akwa Ibom
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has deployed 6000 personnel to provide security in the state during and…
Woman burned to death by suitor
A 25-year-old woman died on Friday after she was set on fire in southern India by a former colleague who…
Christmas: FCT residents lament high cost of goods
Some residents in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have decried the high cost of goods in the market due…