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Candle Fire Burns 2 Kids To Death

Cyriacus Izuekwe Two kids of the same parents were burnt to death at the weekend in Ejigbo, Lagos, southwest Nigeria,…

A 20-Storey Building Where Criminals Hide

Yusuf Muhammed A 20 storey building abandoned by the federal government some years back at Abule Odan-Era, a suburb of…

Group tells UN Nigeria violates job seekers’ rights

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-Moon, requesting him to…

Tight security as Jonathan gets set to open confab

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Security has been beefed up around the Federal Capital Territory as delegates to the National Conference which will…

Osoba expresses confidence in confab

Former Governor Olusegun Osoba of Ogun State and an All Progressives Congress chieftain, has expressed confidence in the ability of…

Job stampede deaths sign of PDP misrule, says APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has blamed the deaths of 19 job seekers at the venues of the Nigerian Immigration…

PDP wants deaths at NIS job test centres probed

Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called for immediate investigation of the death of some Nigerians who died during…

Jonathan splitting Nigeria on religious line, says Senator Ojudu

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE A Nigerian Senator, Babafemi Ojudu, representing the Ekiti Central Senatorial District, has cautioned the country’s President, Dr. Goodluck…

In pictures: Immigration department’s tragic show of shame

Four pregnant women and three others died in the stampede at the National Stadium in Abuja Saturday as thousands of…

Obi, outgoing governor decorated with traditional title

The traditional rulers council in Anambra state, eastern Nigeria, has conferred the chieftaincy title of “Okwute” meaning Rock on Governor…

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…