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Outrage Over Ban On Tokunbo Cars

Nigerians have decried the Federal Government’s ban on the importation of fairly used cars, popularly known as tokunbo cars, into…

Disagreement Stalls Trade Fair Facelift

Redevelopment of the Lagos International Trade Fair site has stopped due to some disagreement between the concessionaire and traders at…

I Have Burgled 15 Houses —Suspect

A suspected serial house burglar, Sunday Johnson, has confessed that he has burgled at least 15 houses after he was…

Plane Crash: Agagu’s casket intact, but 2 children die

The casket carrying the corpse of Chief Olusegun Agagu, the former governor of Ondo state was found intact in the…

Plane crash latest: FAAN confirms 15 dead, 5 survivors

Simon Ateba/Lagos An Associated airlines plane crashed on Thursday morning, killing at least 15 people, just minutes after taking off…

8 bodies recovered in Lagos plane crash

Five persons were said to have survived the Associated Airline plane that crashed in Lagos, Nigeria this morning. The plane…

Plane crashes in Lagos, 20 feared dead

An Associated Airline plane bound for Akure, capital of Ondo State in western Nigeria, has crashed in Lagos. The plane…

Ojude Oba 2013: Awujale drums up support for Ijebu State

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, in western Nigeria, has for the umpteenth time canvassed support…

40 Thugs Chase Away Redeemed Church Workers

Armed hoodlums, numbering over 40, have invaded Agufoye village, site of the proposed new 3-kilometre auditorium of the Redeemed Christian…

Institute Treats 169,962 HIV/AIDS Patients

Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) said it had treated and administered anti-retroviral drugs to 169,962 people living with HIV…

Fibroids Now Common In Younger Women —Expert

Uterine fibroid has become common among younger women and not older women alone as it used to be in the…

Trader Arraigned Over Sex Slavery

For allegedly luring a woman into sex slavery in Libya, a trader, Iyabo Adefioye, was on Wednesday charged before a…

Murdered Banker: Court Fines Defence Counsel Over Delay

An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday adjourned till 31 October the adoption of final written addresses in the trial of…

Lawyer Sues FG, ASUU Over Strike

A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Daniel Onwe, has dragged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff  Union of Universities, ASUU, before…

Murder Of Housemaid: Couple To Know Fate 23 October

A Nigerian high court in Ikeja, capital of Lagos state has fixed Oct. 23 for judgment in the case of…

Dangote to build diagnostic centre, hospital in Kano

Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said on Tuesday that he would construct a 1,000-bed…

Amaechi rallies citizens against jackboot reign in Rivers

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Hacourt After repeated crackdown by the Nigeria police on peaceful assembly in Rivers state, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi…

Fashola condemns Nigeria’s centenary celebration plan

Kazeem Ugbodaga As Nigeria marks 53rd independence anniversary, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has condemned the plan by the…

Resident doctors to begin nationwide strike

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has directed its members nationwide to proceed on an indefinite strike…

SSANU joins ASUU, declares indefinite strike

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) on Monday began indefinite strike. This followed by a unanimous resolution adopted…

Jonathan faces the nation again

Less than 48 hours after he faced a panel of interviewers on television Sunday, President Goodluck Jonathan will make an…

Court proceedings end as NURTW members clash

Proceedings at the Federal High Court, Adeoyo, Ibadan, Oyo state, western Nigeria ended abruptly on Monday when two factions of…

Canada Condemns Terrorist Attack In Yobe

Canada has strongly condemned Sunday’s attack at the College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe, where more than 40 students were killed.…

Court Remands 2 Motorcyclists For Murder

An Akure Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded two commercial motorcycle riders (Okada men), Folorunso Aliu, 37, and Akinwale Ogunro, 30,…

Civil Defence Shuts Illegal Security Companies

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, says it has shut down over 65 private security companies for operating…

ASUP To Join ASUU Strike Friday

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, saysit  will  embark on an indefinite strike from Friday, 4 October, 2013 to…

Students’ Massacre: Our School Not Guarded —Provost

The Provost of Yobe State College of Agriculture where Boko Haram massacred at least 42 students of the college in…

Okonjo-Iweala’s Dad Fight Over Throne

The  battle between Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo, father of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, and a royal family over the…

Fashola Opens West Africa’s Tallest Hotel

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos, built at a cost…

APC Appeals To Boko Haram To Ceasefire

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Boko Haram to immediately cease all attacks and embrace dialogue in the…