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In Lagos, job applicants thumb down Immigration

Some applicants at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise on Saturday in Lagos, expressed concern over the poor conduct…

News analysis: When job seeking turns harvest of deaths

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The desire of some Nigerian youths to be employed in the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS ended tragically on…

6 more die in immigration job recruitment exercise

Two applicants slumped and died at the recruitment venue in Minna on Saturday where over 12,000 applicants from the state…

4 women faint at Immigration recruitment in Abeokuta

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta No fewer than four women reportedly slumped in Abeokuta today as thousands of Nigerian job seekers stormed the…

Med-view plane makes emergency landing in Lagos

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent An aircraft belonging to Medview Airline made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhamme Airport in Lagos…

7 job seekers die in stampede, dozens injured

A recruitment drive by Nigeria’s immigration department has turned tragic in Abuja, the nations’s capital. At least seven persons were…

Man Blinds Housewife Over Sex

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 35-year old man, Arinze Kingsley, has left a married woman, Mrs Amaka Ohanwe, partially blind when she…

You Can’t Fight Corruption If You’re Corrupt, Ribadu Tells Govs

Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, says governors in the country…

Musician Saheed Osupa Battles Producer

Funsho Arogundade Popular Fuji musician, Saheed Osupa is embroiled in a cold war with the Music Advertisers Association of Nigeria,…

Do you believe TB Joshua saw Malaysian airliner crashing?

PLease watch the video posted on YouTube by Emmanuel TV that claims that Pastor T.B. Joshua foresaw the Malaysian Boeing…

Update: Boko Haram militants attack Maiduguri barracks

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a residential neighbourhood and a military barracks in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city…

TB Joshua’s video goes viral over missing Malaysian airliner

.Did the Nigerian cleric really predict the missing Boeing 777? As international search continues for the missing Malaysian airplane, a…

Ghana jails Nigerian for stuffing cocaine in fufu

A Fast Track High Court in Ghana has sentenced a Nigerian trader, Isaac Idowu Shobola to 10 years imprisonment for…

UN rights chief blasts Nigeria over same-sex marriage ban

The UN rights chief, Navi Pillay, Thursday said Nigeria’s recent ban on same-sex marriage violated human rights and the nation’s…

I was hit with gun butt, says President Jonathan’s uncle

Chief Inengite Nitabai, 70, the Uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday narrated his ordeal in the hands of kidnappers…

Ex-Ohaneze leader, Ralph Uwechue dies

A former President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, publisher and scholar, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, is dead. Uwechue, 79, died in Abuja on…

UK may jail Nigerian couple for enslaving a Nigerian

A Nigerian couple face a maximum sentence of 14 years’ imprisonment for secretly enslaving a Nigerian in Britain for 25…

Kidnapped President Jonathan’s Uncle Rescued

President Goodluck Jonathan’s uncle, Chief Nengite Nitabai, 70, kidnapped on 23 February by gunmen has been rescued by the police…

Battle Of Thugs: Angry Youths Batter Estate Agent

Mark Itsibor An estate agent, Otunba Kehinde Adeosun, has been battered by angry youths in Abule -Egba area of Lagos…

50 Commercial Power Bikes Seized

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has impounded 50 power bikes being used…

Poisonous Gas Knocks Out Another Student

Kazeem Ugbodaga Students of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, are now studying in fear as another female student…

I once sold nylon bags, wristwatches to survive, says Lagos lawmaker

Eromosele Ebhomele A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly and Chairman, Committee on Economic Planning and Budget of…

Shoprite prices not right all the time: P.M.NEWS Investigation

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Many Nigerians already have the impression that products sold in shopping malls and such outlets, apart from having…

EFCC arrests warder for opening bank account for prisoner

A 29 year-old warder with the old Abeokuta Prisons, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Joseph Emmanuel is at present in the…

10 students going to school killed in ghastly auto crash

No fewer than 10 students were on Wednesday killed in a ghastly accident on Sheme-Kankara Road in Kankara Local Government…

Nigerians in South Africa plan petition against police

The Nigerian Union in South Africa on Wednesday says it is mobilising Nigerians in that country to sign a petition…

Ajudua seeks fresh bail over $1.69mn fraud trial

A Lagos socialite, Fred Ajudua, on Wednesday filed a fresh bail application before Justice Kudirat Jose at an Ikeja High…

Lagos Monarch’s Son Arrested For Robbery

Cyriacus Izuekwe & Yusuf Mohammed The son of the monarch of Ojokoro, Lagos State, western Nigeria, Ade Taiwo, has been…

Abandoned Child Now Undergraduate

Kayode Aponmade Twenty years after Chidinma Sunday was abandoned at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where he was admitted, he…

Fire Razes Shopping Complex In Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga At least 17 shops at the Iponri Shopping Complex, near Surulere area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, were…