Author: Lanre Babalola
Falana Quit ThisDay Editorial Board To Protest ‘Fictitious’ Report
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana SAN, has announced his resignation from the editorial board of ThisDay newspaper following the…
Wizkid drops video for ‘Come Closer’, Drake missing
Wizkid has done it again, well without Drake, dropping the much anticipated video for the single, ‘Come Closer’. And it…
Mad man hacks housewife to death
A man suspected to be mentally unbalanced has allegedly hacked to death a beverage vendor, Mrs Ifeyinwa Obalum, 40, at…
UTME: No registration on Saturday, extension possible – JAMB
Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), said on Friday that there would be no registration of…
Buchi Emecheta
The first time I met Buchi Emecheta in person was in 2005, just after my debut novel Everything Good Will…
Eight-year old girl found living with monkeys in forest
Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a…
Trump: Why I Launched a Missile Strike on Syria
President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he ordered a targeted Tomahawk missile strikes on a Syrian airbase as he…
Housing allotees protest re-sell of their plots in Umuahia
Federal Housing Estate allotees in Abia on Thursday, protested against an alleged re-sell of their plots of land at the…
No excuses for non-payment of pensions- Dogara
Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday urged the executive to ensure that backlog of pensions were…
President Buhari mourns Islamic scholar Sheikh Adam
President Muhammadu Buhari says the death of Sheikh Alhassan Saeed Adam of Jos in Plateau has robbed Muslim Ummah of…
Xenophobia: Nigerian auto mechanic killed in S/Africa, others injured
The Nigerian mission in South Africa said it had registered displeasure and protested to the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry over…
Oyo lawmakers reject 2 caretaker chairmen, clear 55
The Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday cleared 55 out of the 57 nominees for the caretaker committee chairmanship…
Market women protest poor power supply in Onitsha
Petty traders, mostly women, have staged a protest round the streets of Awada to Ogidi, near Onitsha in Anambra, against…
Cultists strike in Ilorin, one dead
There was an uneasy calm in some parts of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital Thursday as gunmen, suspected to be…
Photos: Charly Boy, Igbo Chiefs Storm Court For Kanu
The trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) continued today at the Federal High…
#BBNaija Grand Finale: 2Baba, Tiwa Savage and Runtown to perform
Nigeria music star, 2Baba (Innocent) Idibia, Mavin/Roc Nation singer, Tiwa Savage and ‘Mad over you’ crooner, Runtown will perform at…
South Africans march against President Zuma tomorrow
South Africans from different walks of life will take part in the countrywide protests on Friday demanding that President Zuma…
Swiss companies to spread investments across Nigeria
The Consul-General of Switzerland in Lagos, Mr Yves Nicolet, on Thursday announced the readiness of more Swiss companies to increase…
Meningitis: Akwa Ibom Govt on red alert
The Akwa Ibom Government says it has placed medical and health works on red alert to forestall any possible outbreak…
My husband has turned me into a punching bag – Wife
A housewife, Hawawu Isa, on Thursday sought a divorce from her husband, Nuhu Isa, in a Mararaba Grade 1 Area…
Senate asks finance minister to release N15bn for Amnesty Programme
The Senate on Thursday asked the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun to release outstanding N15 billion in the 2016 budgetary…
‘EFCC Did Not Hand over Alamiyeseigha’s Property to Falana’
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied a report circulating in the social media that Lagos lawyer and…
Detained UNILAG Students Arrive Oshodi Court
Students of the University of Lagos remanded at the Kirikiri prison on Saturday have arrived the mobile court in Oshodi.
Reps reject bill to empower National Assembly to sack governors, deputies
The House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a bill seeking to empower the National Assembly to be able to remove…
I was misquoted on cause of Meningitis – Governor Yari
Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari said his comments on meningitis outbreak was twisted by some elements with a view to…
Humanitarian ships rescue more than 700 migrants in Mediterranean
More than 700 migrants were rescued from six rubber dinghies and a wooden boat in the Mediterranean, in international waters…
Man kills uncle over land, blames devil for action
The Enugu State Police Command, on Wednesday, announced the arrest of a man, Daniel Ekemezie, for allegedly killing his uncle,…
Anambra lawmakers move to reduce burial expenses
Anambra State House of Assembly on Wednesday organised Public Hearing to generate input on a proposed law seeking to regulate…
Vice Principal allegedly impregnates JSS3 student
Mohammed Mohammed, a school Vice Principal, arraigned for allegedly impregnating his student, has been denied bail by a Magistrate’s Court…
Minister disagrees with governor over cause of Meningitis
The Federal Government says the outbreak of `Type C’ form of Cerebro-spinal Meningitis (CSM) in some parts of the country…