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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…

Prison warder kills driver, injures pastor

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A taxi driver was shot dead by a trigger-happy prison warder in the suburb of Port Harcourt…

Indian doctors separate Nigeria’s conjoined twins

Indian doctors declared Wednesday that a pair of formerly conjoined twins, born in Nigeria, were healthy and happy after they…

Ajudua Seeks Bail Again

Fraud kingpin, Mr.Fred Ajudua has asked a Lagos High Court in Ikeja for a fresh bail. Ajudua’s counsel, Mr. Olalekan…

Kidnappers Of Lawmaker’s Wife Killed

Two suspected members of a kidnap gang, Freeborn Okwundu and Monday Ekpeki, have been killed by operatives of the Delta…

Housewife Remanded For Murder

An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a 21-year-old housewife, Rebecca Bassey, in prison custody over alleged…

Floods Displace 7m Nigerians —NEMA

At least seven million Nigerians were displaced in various floods recorded nationwide by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in…

6 Jailed For Public Disturbance

An Abuja Grade 2 Area Court in Kado on Tuesday in the FCT sentenced six men to four months imprisonment…

Hunger Drove Me Into Stealing —Suspect

A 27-year old theft suspect, Marvellous Moris, has allegedly confessed in court that hunger drove him into stealing a handset…

Woman Knocks Off Neighbour’s Teeth

A 35-year old woman has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly assaulting her neighbour by knocking…

Niger Delta group threatens Amaechi, new violence

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A new Niger Delta group, styled as Coalition of Militant Action for the Niger Delta, COMA, has…

Atiku denies campaign billboards

Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has dissociated himself from the dramatic appearance of campaign billboards and posters being mounted…

Nigerian Stowaway boy handed over to Edo state officials

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Stowaway 13-year-old Master Daniel Ricky Oikhena was Tuesday handed over to the Edo state Ministry of Women Affairs…

Oil Pollution: Fashola Orders OPD To Sue Civil Defence

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has ordered the Office of the Public Defender, OPD, to take legal action against…

Conduct Of Census In 14 LGs: Lagos Plans Legal Action

The Lagos State Government says it is considering seeking redress in court to compel the National Population Commission, NPC, to…

Housewife Commits Suicide

A 25 year-old housewife, Sakirat Abdullai, allegedly committed suicide in Ijebu-Ode, after allegedly taking a meal of pap, mixed with…

Ngige picks APC’s ticket for Anambra race

Senator Chris Ngige, representing Central Senatorial District of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra, has emerged the flag bearer of…

Police declare Amaechi’s ADC a deserter

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Barely 72 hours after Governor Chibuike Amaechi and other Governors joined a breakaway faction of the Peoples…

Another stowaway arrested in Benin

Simon Ateba A 25-year old man has been arrested at the Benin airport for attempting to gain access into the…

Police charge man for taking ‘offensive photograph’

The Nigerian Police in Lagos on Monday charged Abraham Oshoko, 33, before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly taking “offensive“…