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Tenants Stay-Put At Sinking House

Tenants occupying a sinking storey building located at 5, Chief Bereola Street, Surulere, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have refused to pack…

ASUU Strike: Lagos APC Chides PDP-Led FG

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the continued festering of the strike by…

Lagos Screens 2,500 Jerusalem Pilgrims

The Lagos State Government has begun medical screening of 2,500 intending pilgrims to this year’s pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Israel. The…

Activists Protest With Mock Coffins

Human right activists on Tuesday protested against abuse of power in the country with mock coffins. They warned the two…

Ganiat Fawehinmi: Executors Of My Husband’s Will Dishonest

Mrs. Ganiat Fawehinmi, widow of human rights activist and lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, tells NKRUMAH BANKONG-OBI and SIMON ATEBA about…

French teacher on trial over Lagos acid attack

A French teacher went on trial Monday in Auxerre, France on charges of ordering an acid attack on the former…

Amosun Launches Modern Taxi Scheme

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwestern, Nigeria has reiterated his administration’s commitment to construction of roads and…

Fake Soldier Batters Man Over N3k Bribe

The police at Elemoro Division, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a suspected fake soldier after he battered a…

‘I Buy Fake Naira Notes At Alaba Market’

A DVD seller is now in police custody at Ilasan Division, Lekki, Eti-Osa , southwest Nigeria, over unlawful possession of…

Money Stalls Ozekhome’s Release

Seventeen days after human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome was kidnapped, there are indications from sources close to the family…

Kidnapped Bishop Kattey: Clergy Council vows not to pay ransom

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three days after the abduction of ArchBishop of the Niger Delta Province, and Bishop of Niger Delta…

Ugbome, Ozekhome’s co-captive freed

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The Nigerian police in Benin City, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state Sunday confirmed the release by kidnappers of…

Oyedepo watches beating of OGTV staff by church members

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta For the second time, some members of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, better known as Winners Chapel have…

Police seal secretariat of New PDP

Nigeria’s Police authorities today shut the headquarters of the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje.…

APC rebels vow to fight Governor Ajimobi

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The crisis in the newly formed All Progressive Party (APC) in Oyo State has taken a new dimension…

Archbishop Kattey kidnapped by gunmen

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Most Rev Ignatius Ogboru Kattey, the Dean, ArchBishop and Bishop of Niger Delta North Anglican Communion of…

Winners Chapel workers attack Ogun tax men

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Tax officials of the western Nigerian state of Ogun have been attacked by workers of one of Nigeria’s…

Nigerian soldiers massacre 50 Boko Haram fighters

In a tot-for-tat like operation, Nigeria’s military on Friday said it had killed 50 Boko Haram insurgents in an operation…

Image Of Dead Imam Attracts Crowd

  Muslim faithful have continued to besiege a mosque, popularly called Alfa Shehu Mosque, at Owode-Onirin along Ikorodu road, Lagos…

Lagos Bus Drivers Use Cocaine —Fashola Raises Alarm

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has raised alarm that commuter bus drivers in the state now take…

Blind Man To Blind Friend: You Snatched My Wife

A blind man, Mr Shaibu Ibrahim, 56, of Aso Pada in Mararaba, Nasarawa State on Thursday told a Grade 1…

Attack On Young Shall Grow Boss: Igbo Festac Residents Plan Protest

Following the failed assassination attempt on the Managing Director of Young Shall Grow Motors Limited, Chief Vincent Obianodo, and the rising…

‘Molue’ Banned From Lagos Island

The Lagos State Government has banned commuter buses, popularly known as Molue, from plying routes on Lagos Island, Lagos, southwest…

APC Condemns PDP’s Daylight Vote Robbery In Offa

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the daylight vote robbery by the PDP in last Saturday’s rerun at the…

Lagos Assembly Slams LG Bosses Over Bloated Budgets

The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, has frowned at what it calls a funny trend where council chairmen…

FRSC To Install Speed Limit Devices In Buses

The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, is to make sure that “speed limit devices” are installed in all commercial buses,…

Man charged with sodomy

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigerian police in southern Nigerian state of Rivers has arraigned a 30 year old suspect, Godface…

Nigeria: Car parts thieves invade dep. governor’s home

JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba Stern-faced security operatives at the official residence of Delta state deputy governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, in Asaba the…

Nigeria’s stowaway boy reveals family crisis

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Contrary to the account by Osaigbovo Oikhena, father of 13-year-old stowaway boy, Ricky Daniel, that he did not…

I didn’t win the Offa election, says PDP councillor

Stephen Oni/Ilorin In a rare move, a councillorship candidate of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, in the 31 August council poll…