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Tinubu commissions Mokola Flyover Bridge, 2 others

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The sprawling city of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, literally stood still on Tuesday, as dignitaries trooped in…

Amaechi vows to lead protest against Police chief, FG

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Nigeria’s Rivers State has vowed that he is just waiting for an…

Politician charged with rape of minor

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria’s central state of Kwara, has ordered the remand in prison of…

Another Deathrow Inmate Faces Firing Squad

A prison inmate on deathrow in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, ThankGod Ebhos, will any moment from…

Fashola To Construct 450 Roads By 2015

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says his administration targets completing 450 roads before the end of his second term…

2 Brothers Rent Out R/Parlour For N2m To 100 Tenants

Two brothers, Idowu Usman, 40, and Rasheed Usman, 38, have  been arrested and charged before Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly…

7 Rapists Jailed 52 Years

Seven rapists have been jailed by various family courts for aggregate 52 years for raping adult female and minor girls…

Jonathan Orders Sack Of Corrupt Civil Servants

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday directed the Head of Service of the Federation to provide immediate solutions to corruption and…

Convicts At Kuje Prison Call For Amnesty

Some convicts at the Medium Security Prison, Kuje, Abuja, on Monday pleaded with the authorities to consider them for amnesty.…

4 convicts hanged in Benin

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Four convicts who had been on the death row were Monday executed by hanging in Benin City, capital…

Amosun Swears in 2 Special Advisers

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The governor of the western Nigerian state of Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun has sworn in two new special…

Bamigbetan’s alleged kidnappers killed by police

By Ayodeji Dedeigbo The Lagos State Special Anti-robbery Squad has killed seven suspected kidnappers and arrested two others during a…

Court Remands Driver For Reckless Driving

Mr. Sunday Ani, a commuter bus driver was Monday remanded in prison custody by an Oredo Chief Magistrate’s Court in…

How Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Others Cause Kidney Failure –Report

As acute kidney failure ravages the world and especially third world countries including Nigeria, various medical research sites on the…

Toddler Dies In Uncovered Soakaway Pit

There was confusion at 36, Damilola Morounfolu Street, Orisumbare, Akowonjo area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, at about 5.30pm Sunday,…

‘Mogaji Was More Than A Mother-In-Law To Me’

The lawmaker representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has showered encomium on the late President/Iyaloja General, Alhaja Abibat…

No Hajj For Previous Pilgrims

The Lagos State Government has barred all Lagosians who have gone on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia before from embarking on…

‘We’re Determined To Stem Maternal, Child Mortality’

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, says the state government is determined to stem maternal and child mortality…

Customs Boss Commiserates With Family Of Slain Trader

The Customs Area Comptroller, Ogun Area I, Prince Ade Dosumu, has commiserated with the family of Fausat Bankole, a trader…

Civil groups want Rivers police boss removed, demoted

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigeria’s Niger Delta Civil Society Coalition, NDCSC, has called for the removal of Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu,the…

Kaigama the new TUC president

With 356 votes, Mr Bobboi Kaigama has been elected as the new President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria…

Teachers suspend strike

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta. The strike action embarked upon by both the public primary and secondary school teachers in the western…

Police: How Facebook girl Cynthia was Killed

Henry Ojelu A Nigerian Police Investigative Officer attached to Area E command of Festac Town Police station,Mr. Joseph Edo today…

‘State Assemblies Must Fight For Autonomy’

The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin, has charged his colleagues in the country to do everything…

25 Teachers In Trouble For Truancy

Twenty-five primary school teachers under the Kwara State Teaching Service are to be penalised for absenteeism. The affected teachers were…

‘We Got N15m To Kill Bank Manager’

A suspected assassin has confessed to the police that N15 million was paid to kill the Deputy General Manager of…

Customs Man’s Bullet Kills Trader

A stray bullet fired  by  a Customs officer identified as Ade, has killed a middle aged woman in a commuter…

EFCC arrests alleged pension fraudsters

GBENRO ADESHINA/IBADAN Officials of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, Thursday June 20, 2013 arrested ten persons accused…

16 Women Freed In Another ‘Baby Factory’ Raid

Nigerian police have raided a home in the commercial town of  Aba in the eastern Nigerian state of Abia and…