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Robbers Stab Couple To Death In Benin

By Jethro Ibileke/Benin Unknown assailants suspected to armed robbers in the early hours of Thursday attacked a couple in Benin…

Court Jails 3 For Drunkenness

An Upper Area Court, Kuje , FCT, on Wednesday sentenced three men, Micheal Adibe, Ogunlade Micheal and Warya Terso to…

Gwoza Villagers Need Help — Lawmaker

Hundreds of people who escaped a Boko Haram attack need urgent help, a local lawmaker said on Wednesday, as those…

Fake Cop Nabbed With Marijuana

Femi Adi/Kaduna A fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ugochukwu Adegoke, has arrested with over 1ookg of marijuana by Kaduna State…

Ebola Drug Arrives Nigeria Today

An experimental drug for treatment of Ebola has been provided by a Nigerian in diaspora and will arrive the country…

Jilted Man Murders Girlfriend

Cyriacus Izuekwe A man who allegedly stabbed his estranged lover to death for refusing to marry him has been charged…

Delegates Conclude National Conference

The National Conference came to an end Thursday, without any rancour. The conference was convened by President Goodluck Jonathan and…
Ebenezer Alabi, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, dump party over alleged extortion

2015: PDP Woos Lagos Okada Riders With Motorcycles

By Jide Osokoya As part of its strategy to capture power in 2015 from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in…

JTF raids kidnappers den in Bayelsa creeks, recover arms

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, on Thursday said its troops swooped on hideouts…

Ebola: Confirmed Nigeria cases rises to 11

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Nigeria has risen by one to 11, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said on…

WHO lauds FG’s response to Ebola outbreak

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday commended the Federal Government’s response to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in…

Heavy security at polling units encourages large voters’ – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Wednesday in Abuja that the heavy presence of security personnel at polling…

Omisore stops panel of inquiry from investigating him

Peoples Democratic Party’s defeated governorship candidate in Osun, Senator Iyiola Omisore on Wednesday secured an order to prevent the panel…

Ebola: Infected nurse leaves Lagos for Enugu, breaking quarantine

A nurse who contracted Ebola at a Lagos hospital travelled to the eastern part of Nigeria before falling sick, raising…

2015 Election: Police arrest Rivers monarch, others over shooting

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt There was pandemonium Wednesday in the Mile Four area near Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, southern Nigeria,…

Deep division in Nigeria after teenager murders husband

Many see Wasila Tasi’u as a victim: a 14-year old girl from a poor, strictly Muslim family in northern Nigeria,…

Ebola Scare At Orile-Agege General Hospital

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Paul Iyoghojie There was pandemonium on Tuesday at the Orile-Agege General Hospital, Agege area of Lagos, southwest…

Lagos Set To Review Okada Ban

Eromosele Ebhomele Commercial motorcycle riders in Lagos State, western Nigeria, may soon have cause to rejoice as the state House…

Germany urges nationals to leave Ebola-hit countries

Germany on Wednesday called on its nationals to leave Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as the death toll from the…

Kano women ditch hijab after suicide bombings

Women in north Nigeria’s largest city Kano are abandoning their traditional religious dress after a spate of suicide bombings by…

Humanitarian crisis warning after Boko Haram attack

Hundreds of people who escaped a Boko Haram attack need urgent help, a local lawmaker said on Wednesday, as those…

Teenager caught sleeping with dog in Benin

By Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 19-year old boy (name withheld), was Tuesday arrested at Iguosa, a suburb community in Benin City,…

ECOWAS official dies from Ebola in Nigeria

An ECOWAS official has died from Ebola in Nigeria, the West African regional bloc said on Tuesday, taking the total…

LASU fees, Ebola: Fashola seeks permission to re-order budget

By Eromosele Ebhomele Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state on Tuesday urged the state House of Assembly to approve a…

Osun Election: We’re attacked because we rejected N14mn bribe – DSS

The Department of State Service (DSS) said on Tuesday that an unnamed political party offered its men N14 million which…

Celestial Church pastor appears in court for rape

A 23-year old self-professed Celestial Church prophet, Adewale Adeleke, on Tuesday in Lagos, appeared before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court for…

Man kills, roasts mum in Anambra state

Anambra state police command has arrested and detained Ekene Ucheagwu for killing and roasting his mother in Ndikpa Awuka, a…

‘Men Commit More Crimes Than Women’

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has revealed that women’s involvement in organised…

Ebola Virus: Do Not Panic —NOA

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged Nigerians not to panic over the outbreak of Ebola virus in the country.…

Fire Burns Two Children To Death In Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Cyriacus Izuekwe Fire ignited by candlelight has razed a storey building and burnt two children to death…