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Survivors Of Baga Massacre Still In Hiding

Many survivors of brutal clashes last week in a remote Nigerian town are still in hiding and rescue workers are…

Pastor Pleads Guilty To Rape Of Minor

An Omu-Aran Upper Area Court, Kwara, on Thursday admitted a cleric, Kunle Odafe, to N50,000 bail with two sureties in…

Gunmen Invade JAMB Registrar’s Home

Unidentified gunmen have invaded the home of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde.…

Couple Remanded For Selling Their Twin Babies

Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Agbona, the Ogwashi-Uku-based couple who allegedly sold their set of twins last week have been remanded…

Lagos To Demolish Makoko Floating School

The Lagos State Government says it will demolish the three-storey floating school built on Makoko waterfront the school is illegal.…

Pastor Sleeps With Church Members

An estranged housewife, Abosede Fasina, has told an Agege Grade ‘A’ Customary Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, that she…

Justice Talba, Pension Thief Judge suspended

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar has approved the suspension of Justice Abubakar…

Bank robbed, 5 cops killed in ‘Boko Haram’ attack

The Commissioner of Police in the Nigerian north eastern state of Yobe, Alhaji Sanusi Rufai, said that five policemen and…

Bamigbetan: Suspected kidnappers flee to Ghana

The Nigerian Police in Lagos on Thursday said three of the four suspects who allegedly kidnapped Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman, Ejigbo…

EFCC arrests bank official for serial fraud

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one Onyekachi Nwosu, the relationship/account officer of a bank in Enugu over…

Couple Remanded In Prison For Selling Their Twins

JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba A Nigerian couple who sold their baby twins last week have been remanded in prisons custody by an…

Jonathan sued over amnesty deal for Boko Haram

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja As President Goodluck Jonathan battles to repair the ship of the Presidential Committee set up to…

JAMB Warns Candidates Against Exam Malpractice

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates, who will sit for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination…

I Want To Rescue Delta From Tyrants —Keyamo

Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Festus Keyamo, who recently announced his plans to contest in the forthcoming governorship election…

500,000 Benefit From Lagos Waste Management

At least half a million people now benefit from the management of wastes in Lagos state, southwest Nigeria through direct…

Distressed Buildings: Lagos Pays Landlords, Gives Them Quit Notice

The Lagos State government has issued two weeks quit notice to occupants of three distressed two-storey buildings at Oke-Afa Housing…

KAI Shuts Shops On Awolowo Way

The Lagos state government, southwest Nigeria, Thursday shut all the shops on Awolowo Way, Ikeja. The exercise which was carried…

Poisionous Amala Meal Wipes Out Family Of 3

Three members of a family, Isioma Ufili, 4, Victoria Ufili, 30 (mother) and Favour Nkiruka Ufili, 26, have died after…

Family of murdered Sa’adatu Rimi to appeal verdict

The family of late Hajiya Sa’adatu Abubakar Rimi, who was murdered in 2006, on Thursday said they would appeal against…

Fayemi, others shower encomiums on Olayinka

GBENRO ADESINA/ADO-EKITI Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and other members of the state council and the legislators at the…

Fayemi weeps as body of Deputy Governor arrives

GBENRO ADESINA/Ado Ekiti Hundreds of Ekiti State residents, including top government officials, politicians, senior civil servant, students, traders, artisans and…

Bamigbetan recounts abduction trauma

Jamiu Yisa Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area,in Nigeria’s most populous state of Lagos, has…

Child Trafficking: Nigerian Woman In Police Net

A 40-year old woman from Niger Republic, west Africa, Mrs Bose Saliu, has been arrested by the police for her…

Baga Massacre: Jonathan Vows Action

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday assured Nigerians and members of the international community of the commitment of his administration to…

16 Street Traders Jailed For Attacking KAI Officials

A Lagos magistrate’s court sitting at the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI brigade office, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has…

Tax Evasion: Lagos Sues 20 Companies

The Lagos State Government has sued 20 companies in the state for defaulting in tax payment as it steps up…

Lead Poisoning Treatment Starts In Zamfara

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday that it had begun treating children exposed to the worst-ever lead poisoning epidemic, after…

Man Remanded For Killing Own Father

A 20-year old man, Ibrahim Sanni Mai-Gunjo, arraigned before a magistrate’s court, Ilorin, Kwara state capital, northcentral Nigeria, for allegedly…

In Picture: Jonathan and the masked woman

What could be going on in the mind of Nigeria’s President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan when shaking hands with this woman?…

Okebukola blames sub-standard education on policies

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The former secretary National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola (OFR) has blamed the falling standard of education…