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Metuh to remain in detention – EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has given reasons for its continued detention of Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP…
Liverpool sign Steven Caulker on loan from QPR
Liverpool have signed Queens Park Rangers central defender Steven Caulker on loan until the end of season. The 24-year-old was…
Dealers move to prevent sale of unwholesome goods in Lagos markets
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Perishable Goods Dealers and Sellers Association of Lagos State has moved to checkmate the influx of unwholesome…
Hard, soft copies of 2016 budget stolen from National Assembly
The hard and soft copies of the 2016 budget documents handed to a joint session of the national assembly by…
FG owes agro dealers N73bn, forces member to sleep inside church
Agro Dealers Association of Nigeria has threatened that its members will boycott the Growth Enhancement Support (GES) scheme after it…
Soldiers storm homes of ex-militants
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigerian Army personnel from 2 Brigade, Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria, have raided the home of an ex-militant…
Court bars FG from freezing MTN bank accounts
Henry Ojelu A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday turned down an application of mareva injunction seeking to bar…
Lagos to spend N17.5b on 114 Inner roads
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Local Governments (LGs) and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs in Lagos State will spend about N17.5 billion…
Man remanded in prison over N85m theft
Henry Ojelu A 33 year-old man, Oyebuchi Okadigbo, has been remanded in Kirikiri prison by a Lagos State High Court,…
Alcoholic burst into tears as court dissolves his 8-year marriage
A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Tuesday dissolved an eight year-old marriage between Ajibike Ajeigbe and her husband Adedapo…
Edo 2016 guber: Group expresses support for Oshiomhole’s candidate
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A pressure group, Edo Accord Initiative, has thrown its weight behind the state Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, over his…
Oby Ezekwesili, Odia, others to speak at Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture
Henry Ojelu Former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, renown writer Odia Ofeimun are among the dignitaries that will delivers…
Minister tasks police to protect vulnerable places from terror attacks
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the police to provide more security for vulnerable…
Oyegun: APC not pushing for one party state
The All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has dismissed talks that the ruling party is pushing to…
APC condemns Bayelsa polls violence, killings
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the violence and killings in the just-concluded supplementary governorship election in Bayelsa on…
AIG says police winning war against cultism
Bala Hassan, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2 Police Command, Lagos, says the police are…
Lagos to unfold three-year tourism roadmap
Funsho Arogundade While still basking in the success of the ‘One Lagos Fiesta’ held for five days in five locations…
APC not apologetic for anti-corruption arrest, interrogation – Oyegun
The national cahirman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has stated that the party is not apologetic…
Female doctor kidnapped in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A medical doctor, Mrs I. B. Apriokor of Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, the Rivers State-owned apex hospital,…
UAE counters Kachikwu, says no need for OPEC emergency meeting
The United Arab Emirates moved to quash talk of a potential emergency meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…
El Rufai sponsors 30 female students on medical course to Uganda
The Kaduna Government led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai has awarded scholarship to 30 female students from the State to study…
Lassa Fever claims one life in Edo
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo state Ministry of Health Monday announced that Lassa fever has claimed its first casualty in its latest…
400 labour cases pending before Industrial Court in Yenagoa
Justice James Agbadu-Fishim of the Yenegoa Division of National Industrial Court, has expressed worry over the high number of pending…
Investors lose N555 billion at Lagos bourse in 7 days
It is certainly not the best of times for Nigeria’s stock market players as they watch the value of their…
Court grants printer who forged NAFDAC documents bail
An Apapa Magistrates’ Court has granted bail to a printer, Bamidele Afolabi, who allegedly forged product registration documents belonging to…
When IMF Visits, Tears Follow
By Owei Lakemfa International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Madam Christine Lagarde was on a four-day visit to Nigeria from…
Zone 2 Police promise criminals hell with new crime-fighting technology
Criminals in Lagos and Ogun States may not have breather any longer to operate as the Zone 2 Police Command…
Tenant lands in prison for accusing landlord of witchcraft
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year-old tenant has been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ court and remanded in prison for allegedly…
Two traffickers arrested with 29 victims in C/River
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Cross River Command, said on Tuesday in Calabar that two suspected human traffickers with 29…
NDLEA advocates law prohibiting brewing of ‘goskolo’
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Plateau Command, has urged the Plateau Government to enact a law that would…