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Kidnapped Motor Dealer Pays N4m for freedom

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A motor dealer in Ijebu Ode, Abiodun Olokodana, popularly known as Abbey Motors who was abducted last Tuesday…

PDP Panics As Amaechi Tours Rivers LGA

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State has flayed Governor Amaechi’s tour of the 23 local…

Tinubu will be betrayed in 2015 – Nigerian Witches

The Witches & Wizards Association of Nigeria (WITZAN) has said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will be betrayed in 2015 by his…

Lawmaker cautions colleagues against removing Al-makura

A lawmaker in Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Othman Bala, has appealed to members not to impeach Governor Umaru…

Stop using youths as thugs, Kwara governor tells politicians

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara state urged politicians to shun all forms of violence and refrain from using youths as…

Gowon Estate residents spend N1m to fix roads

Gowon Estate Community Development Association on Friday said that it had spent about one million naira to fix roads in…

Man Kills Sister Over Plot Of Land

Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni A member of the Eiye Confraternity and Jehovah’s Witness, Adeola Omotayo, 28, has killed his sister, Omotayo Rukayat…

RCCG appeals to doctors to return to work

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has appealed to medical doctors in public hospitals to consider lives lost daily…

Lagos assembly ponders health insurance scheme

Suru Avoseh, the chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health, said on Friday the committee was proposing a…

23 promoted corps commandants at FRSC

Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, has charged 23 newly promoted Corps Commandants of the…

Boko Haram kill scores in attack on Damboa

Boko Haram gunmen killed many people in an attack in the restive northeast, throwing explosives into residential homes and shooting…

FG explains purpose of 1b dollar loan

The Federal Government has clarified that the one billion dollar loan it is seeking is not only to prosecute the…

Police arrest 22 over impeachment protest in Nasarawa

Police Command in Nasarawa State on Friday said it arrested 22 people in Lafia following violent protest by some groups…

Police shut filling stations, arrest managers

The Nigeria Police has shut down two petrol stations in the Ikorodu area of Lagos and arrested their managers for…

Child obesity in Africa increases from 4 to 10million – UN

The number of obese and overweight children in the world could balloon from 44 million in 2012 to 75 million…

Police Cells Overcrowded

Cyriacus Izuekwe The ongoing industrial action by the Judiciary Staff of Nigeria JUSUN, has resulted in overcrowding in police cells…

FIFA lifts suspension on Nigeria

World football governing body, FIFA on Friday lifted the suspension clamped on Nigeria on 9 July as a result of…

Nigeria Must Not Split – US Consul General

By Simon Ateba In spite of all the religious and cultural differences in the country and the killings by Boko…

Lawyers justify JUSUN strike, tell govt. to obey court order

Lawyers in the FCT said on Thursday that the ongoing strike by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) was…

176 teachers killed in north-east Nigeria

One hundred and seventy-six teachers have been killed and 900 schools destroyed in Nigeria’s Borno state since Boko Haram militants…

Terrorism: Jonathan approves purchase of military hardware

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of additional funds for the purchase of military hardware, the Minister of State…

Police nab 9 over robbery, kidnapping in Rivers

Tunde Ogunsakin, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers, said on Thursday that they had arrested 11 persons in connection with…

8,000 Ekiti APC members now in PDP

A chieftain of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bode Ola, says no fewer than 8,000 members of…

Dead brother of Oba Adetona to be buried today

Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta Prince Abdul Rasheed Adesupo Adetona, the immediate younger brother of Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba…

Nigerian army seeks technology to sustain operations

The Nigerian Army says it is desirous of developing indigenous technology that will sustain operational needs of its personnel to…

Aregbesola Splashes N375m On Women

The crowd at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, capital of Osun State, southwest Nigeria, on Thursday, comprising mainly of…

My defeat in Ekiti not due to stomach infrastructure – Fayemi

Nkrumah Bankong-Obi Ekiti state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has debunked insinuations that he lost the 21 June governorship election because…

Ogun Teachers Protest Career Stagnation

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Hundreds of Secondary School teachers in Ogun state today stormed the office of the Chairman of the State…

Lagos Teachers Angry With Fashola

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Eromosele Ebhomole Primary and secondary school teachers in public schools in Lagos State, western Nigeria, have expressed…

298 people on board crashed Malaysian flight, 154 Dutch – Airline

There were 298 people, including 154 Dutch nationals, on board the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in strife-torn eastern Ukraine…