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21-Year Jail Term For Lagos Land Grabbers

The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, on Wednesday proposed 21 years imprisonment for anyone convicted of land grabbing.…

Nigeria’s booming methamphetamine business

Simon Ateba/Lagos On the plane, up there in the skies, a 32-year old Nigerian woman began to excrete wraps of…

British woman jailed for drugs blames Nigerian gang

A former British police community support officer Andrea Waldeck, jailed for 14 years in Indonesia after pleading guilty to smuggling…

52 senators warn on declaring defectors’ seats vacant

Fifty-two members of the Nigeria Senate, nearly half of its membership of 109, have written to the leadership of the…

ASUP to discuss FG’s proposal

Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has expressed dissatisfaction with the Federal Government’s proposal to the union. ASUP President…

Nigerian mob stones homosexuals in court

A Nigerian court in the northern state of Bauchi adjourned abruptly hearing a case of sodomy on Wednesday after a…

Mu’azu urges PDP defectors to return

The new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu`azu, said that a reconciliatory committee would be…

Stripped women: Rights commission to punish the culprits

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will ensure that those involved in the alleged torture of a woman and her…

Rivers Crisis: Senate summons IG

After its proceeding was held up for some minutes as a result of rowdiness among members, the Senate agreed to…

‘My Girlfriend Made Me Rape Young Boys’

The police in Benin have arrested and paraded a 33-year paedophile, Justine Olise, who allegedly raped five boys aged between…

Trader Killed At Ladipo Market

A trader has been stabbed to death as fresh crisis has erupted a Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin,…

APC Disowns Interim Chairman

The All Progressives Congress, APC,  in Kwara State, northcentral Nigeria, has disowned Rev. Bunmi Olusona, who is parading himself as…

Comedian, Saka Loses Father

Bereaved Nollywood actor and comedian, Hafiz Oyetoro, popularly known as Saka, has expressed sadness that his father, Pa Dauda Oyetoro, …

Jonathan Set To Retain Oduah

With the submission of 12 ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening on Tuesday by President Goodluck Jonathan, there are…
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Cleric Warns Jonathan Not To Contest 2015 Election

President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised not to contest the 2015 presidential election in the interest of the country. Giving…

Fashola sued to provide school funding details

A human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Governor of Lagos State Babatunde Fashola to…

Lagos gridlock: Mega city, Mega Commute, Mega agony

Ochuko Oghuvwu is surprisingly chirpy for a man who spends upwards of 30 hours a week in his car, commuting…

Boko Haram gunmen kill teacher

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead a teacher in a northeast Nigerian village on the border with Chad, police and…

Tennis: Azarenka, defending champ ousted

Two-time defending champion Victoria Azarenka was bundled out of the Australian Open in the quarter-finals on Wednesday by fifth seed…

Obama to invite 47 African leaders for summit

President Barack Obama will invite 47 leaders to a landmark US-Africa summit in August, seeking to widen US trade, development…

Mugabe attributes long life to ‘God’s Will’

Africa’s oldest leader and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, whose state of health has sparked speculation in recent years, on Tuesday…

Rowdy session in House of Reps over leadership change

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The expected change of some presiding officers of the House of Representatives did not happen on Tuesday, but…

APC warns of anarchy in Rivers State

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned of the impending anarchy in Rivers State that may have far-reaching consequences beyond…

Jonathan’s new ministerial list

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday forwarded the names of nominees to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation. The names were read…

Deinde Fernandez’s Daughter Hopes To Be New Rihanna

Abimbola ‘Bim’ Fernandez, daughter of Nigerian billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, has got her sight on being the next Rihanna. The Nigerian…

N1.5m Bride Price Drove Me Into Robbery —Suspect

A robbery suspect, Mr Godwin Olukporibe, has confessed that he was forced to form a robbery gang when his father-in-law…

Otudeko Fights Dangote Over Land

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, western Nigeria has adjourned till 6 February for hearing in the suit instituted…

How Suspect Exposed Buruji Kashamu

The drug trafficking case involving the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the southwest, Buruji Kashamu, first blew…

South African goes on a space mission

No one in Mandla Maseko’s family has ever stepped outside South Africa, but the young township DJ is set to…

Gunmen kill Jonathan, ex-council chairman

Gunmen on Monday killed Mr Morris Jonathan, 34, former Chairman of Peremabiri Community Development Committee (CDC) in his residence in…