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Doctors in Edo state on strike over pay dispute

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Doctors in Edo state have heeded the call of their association to begin an indefinite strike. The strike…

Ewelike, President Jonathan’s photographer shot

Gunmen have shot Mr Callistus Ewelike, President Goodluck Jonathan’s photographer and staff of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The…

Born deformed, Nigeria died long ago, says Bakare

Jamiu Yisa The General Overseer of Nigeria’s Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that the country called Nigeria…

Gay Nigerians mull legal challenge of new law

Gay activists on Tuesday vowed to fight the Nigerian government after the country outlawed same-sex unions, warning the act legitimised…

PDP chairman, Tukur denies resignation rumours

Simon Ateba/Lagos The embattled chairman of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has not resigned, his Special Adviser…

Ex- Commissioner, Akerele Dies After Taking Wife To Hospital

Jamiu Yisa Former Commissioner for Information in the western Nigerian state of Ondo, Ranti Akerele is dead. P.M NEWS reliably…

Breaking news: 17 dead in Nigeria market bomb attack

No fewer than 17 people were killed when a bomb ripped through a busy market in Maiduguri, capital of the…
Amosun

Durojaiye cautions Amosun’s loyalists on second term

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Senator Olabiyo Durojaiye has urged members of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun state to tread softly,…

2 accused tell how police charged them with robbery

Two Nigerian men, who were charged with robbery stunned an Ikeja High Court in Lagos when they related how they…

Jonathan urges Nigerian muslims pray for nation’s unity

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged Nigerian muslims to offer special prayers during the Eid-el-Maulud for greater peace, unity and…

Jonathan signs law banning same sex marriage

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved a bill banning gay marriage and same-sex partnerships that sparked international condemnation, his spokesman…

Politicians influence criminals’ release, says Police boss

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Standing before members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria on Monday evening, the Commissioner of…

Gang leader says he got N45m from Lagos Airport robbery

Dedeigbo Ayodeji A robbery gang leader, Samuel Mayegun, also known as Asiwaju, has allegedly confessed to the police that he…

Lagos budgets N1bn for new buses

LANRE BABALOLA Lagos commuters will have cause to smile this year if the Lagos State Government fully utilised the N1…

Why I Established Compass Newspaper –OGD

Former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, said he established Compass newspaper not to use it to attack his…

Judge Blasts Lawyers For Stalling Cynthia Osokogu’s Murder Trial

Justice Olabisi Akinlade, the Judge presiding over the trial of suspected killers of Cynthia Osokogu who was murdered by her…

Daniel rues losses at Compass, blames journalists

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Former governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has vowed to resuscitate the Compass newspaper, now suspended…

Waste Takes Over MM Airport staircase

Waste has taken over a staircase at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. P.M.NEWS learnt that many travellers and airport…

Pastor Fireman Collects Offering For Bail

Pastor Sign Fireman, who was arrested recently in Lagos by the police in connection with the death of a 12-year…

5 Customers Steal N760m From Bank

Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of the Nigeria Police, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, have arrested five…

Dancer, Kaffy Delivers Baby Girl

Popular Nigerian dancer and choreographer Kafayat Ameh, a.k.a Kaffy, has been delivered of a baby girl. The new baby is…

View from Abroad: Buruji Kashamu, the ‘elusive drug kingpin’

With her prison memoir “Orange is the New Black,” and the Netflix series that followed, Piper Kerman may have spun…

5 drown at Lagos Bar Beach

Kazeem Ugbodaga No fewer than five persons have drowned at the Lagos Bar Beach, Lagos, Western Nigeria, in the last…

Senator’s convoy bombed by fighter jet

Senator Ali Ndume’s convoy was bombed on Saturday by a fighter jet of Nigeria’s military , the senator said today.…

Lagos PDP throws governorship race open

Jamiu Yisa The Lagos State chapter of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has thrown its governorship race open, assuring potential…

Senator Abe in a state of shock, says doctor

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The tense political crisis Rivers State boiled over today as Senator Magnus Abe was shot twice in…

Police kill 5, Senator Abe and Tony Okocha shot at APC rally

The Rivers State Chapter of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has reported the shooting this morning by the police of…

Tukur begs Obasanjo to stay in PDP

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Saturday asked former President Olusegun…

126, 000 graduates register for SURE-P job scheme

The Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE –P) on Saturday in Abuja said 126,122 graduates have registered online for the…
Amosun

I have no plan to join Accord Party, says Amosun

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of the western Nigeria state of Ogun has debunked widespread rumour that he has concluded…