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APC says Jonathan’s letter crosses line of decency

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has deconstructed President Goodluck Jonathan’s response to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s scathing open letter and its…

Reports: Deposed Akure monarch pleads for reinstatement

The deposed monarch of the western Nigeria town of Akure, Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina, has urged the government of state of…

Justice Kawu to be buried today

The burial rites for retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Saidu Kawu, will take place today in Ilorin, capital…

FG repatriates 80 Nigerians from Saudi Arabia

The first batch of 80 Nigerians of the 508 scheduled to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia arrived in the country…

Primate Akinola: My abductors took my shoes, my shirt

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The immediate past primate of Anglican Church, Peter Akinola who was abducted by gunmen in Abeokuta yesterday and…

Kwankwaso teaches Okonjo-Iweala how to balance budget

Nigeria’s finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said Nigeria will be spending 78 per cent of its income on recurrent…

Lawal, ex-commissioner in Lagos dies

JAMIU YISA Former governorship aspirant in Lagos State, Professor Kunle Lawal, is dead. He was aged 54. It was learnt…

Political drama in Kano House as Kwankwaso presents budget

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Kano State House of Assembly has received the 2014 budget from Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. The ceremony was…

Police: Primate Akinola rescued

Most Rev. Peter Akinola, retired primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, kidnapped Tuesday by an armed gang, has been…

3 PDP members in Zamfara Assembly defect to APC

.say they quit PDP because it was heading to self-destruction Three members of northern Nigeria state of Zamfara House of…

Airforce corporal, 6 others arrested for kidnap, death of bizman

Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS), has arrested Lance Corporal Suleiman Mohammed of the Nigerian Air Force and six others…

Fashola visits the Ogunros, Tinubu sends condolence

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday described as shocking the death of the Managing Director of Eminent…

Nigeria: Primate Akinola kidnapped

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokutaand Seun Bisuga The retired Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, along with his driver, was…

Lagos Shuts 429 Houses

To stem the tide of collapsed buildings in the state, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has revealed that 429…

Youths Make Brisk Business In Livestock Markets

In some markets, on Tuesday in Enugu, some young men between the ages of 14 and 20 were seen involved…

No, Obasanjo Should Not Be Your Navigator —Soyinka

  Professor Wole Soyinka,has reacted to a statement credited to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu  that APC would like General Obasanjo…

Rights group petitions Lagos speaker over 2 brutalised women

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Women Arise for Change Initiative, a rights based in Nigeria’s city of Lagos, has petitioned the Speaker…

Arrest of Kano lawmakers politically motivated, says Kwankwaso

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, northwest Nigeria, Monday evening described the arrest and detention of the Speaker…

836 Deadwood teachers sacked in Edo State

Edo Government on Monday confirmed the sack of 836 deadwood teachers following a verification carried out by the Department of…

EFCC arrests Kano speaker, 10 others

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Authorities of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday invited 11 principal officers of Kano State…

How Sesan Ogunro was Killed

FOLARIN ADEMOSU A developing story on last Sunday’s killing of the Managing Director, Eminent Communications, Mr. Sesan Ogunro, has revealed…

Ogun government donates 50 patrol vans to Police

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, western Nigeria boosted the protection of the citizens by donating 50…

Obasanjo to Jonathan: ‘I have done my duty to you’

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo today declined to make fresh reaction to the open letter sent…

Hassan Zein, Lebanese national kidnapped in Nigeria

The Police Command in the northern Nigerian state of Kano on Monday confirmed the abduction of a Lebanese national, Mr…

2 Nigerians shot dead by kill-and-go cops

Stephen Oni/Ilorin Two persons have been killed by stray bullets from a team of Police officers on patrol around the…

Advertising Guru, Sesan Ogunro Murdered

—Funsho Arogundade & Ayodeji Dedeigbo Marketing communications guru, Mr. Sesan Ogunro Snr., has been shot dead. Ogunro, the Managing Director,…

Mother Attempts To Kill Day Old Baby

A housewife who cheated on her husband and got pregnant has been arrested by the police at Ajegunle Divisional Headquarters,…

Kumuyi stirs fresh controversy in Christendom

Just after Pastor Chris Okotie created some tremor effect by his declaration that ‘Catholics will go to hell’ and that…

Dino Melaye a beast, alleges ex-wife’s brother

FOLARIN ADEMOSU Since news of their bitter divorce, it has been the word of former House of Representatives member, Dino…

Full Copy: Jonathan ‘s letter to Obasanjo

The much awaited response by President Goodluck Jonathan to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter has come. Jonathan wrote his open…