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Tenant Sends Landlord To Prison Over Missing Chicken

A Nigerian landlord, Olubukunaji Obajimi, 56, has been remanded in prison after he was arraigned in court for locking his…

Paedophile, 48, remanded after assaulting baby 15 mths old

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year old Nigerian paedophile, Slyvester Ehiyele, who allegedly raped his own daughter, 7, and 15 month-old grand-daughter…

60 Lagos Civil Servants Escape Death

BAYO ADETU At least, sixty workers of the Lagos State Government escaped death early this morning after the brake of…

7 killed, houses burnt in clashes with herdsmen

There appears no end in sight in the bloodletting between Fulani herdsmen and settler-farmers in Nigeria’s Plateau state. With close…

Police: Kidnapped woman a Nigerian not American

Alhaji Usman Abubakar, the Commissioner of Police in the eastern Nigerian state of Abia, has refuted reports that an American…

Nigeria: Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20

A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20…

4 Nigerian journalists detained by police

Nigerian police have detained four journalists after they refused to disclose the source of an alleged presidential document that calls…

Nigeria: Mass burial for victims of weekend tragic accident

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Arrangements have been concluded to bury en masse victims of last Friday’s fatal auto accident that occurred at…

Nigeria’s police boss orders manhunt for cop-killers

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja In a reaction to the killing of 12 policemen at Azuzama, in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa state,…

Assemblyman to pay N300K to colleagues for reciting Yoruba alphabets

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Southwest Nigeria is to give out the sum of…

Akingbola seeks court’s nod to travel for medical treatment

Henry Ojelu The embattled former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, has filed a motion before an Ikeja…

New Law To Tackle Omo Onile Menace Coming —Fashola

A new law to criminalise land grabbing is on the way, says Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, saying government…

Achebe: Nigeria’s South East leaders plan befitting burial

Governors of the South East on Sunday in Enugu agreed to give the renowned author, Prof. Chinua Achebe, a befitting…

Gaps in MEND’s claim of killing 15 cops in Bayelsa

A statement on Sunday purporting to be from the main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-producing region, MEND, claimed an attack…

Missing 12 Nigerian cops confirmed dead

Governor Seriake Dickson of Nigeria’s oil rich southern state of Bayelsa on Sunday confirmed the death of 12 Nigerian policemen…

Alade, Popular Lagos Market On Fire

Simon Ateba/Lagos Fire broke out at Alade, a Lagos popular market, located at the busy junction of the Obafemi Awolowo…

Late Olayinka Was Optimistic Of Making It Through

Jamiu Yisa The family of the late Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Olayinka, said their daughter never gave…

PDP accuses opposition of plot to discredit party

On a day that Nigeria’s leading opposition party, ACN accused the PDP of planning some chaos ahead of the 2015…

More tributes as Ekiti declares 7-day mourning for Olayinka

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti on Sunday declared a seven-day mourning for his Deputy, Mrs…

Senator David Mark at 65: send your birthday wishes

Here is a golden opportunity: Nigeria’s Senate President, David Mark will clock 65 years on 8 April. It is an…

Church offers free breast, cervical screening for women

The Women of Destiny Group of Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos, on Saturday conducted free breast and cervical screening for 500…

Tinubu, Ribadu, Amosun mourn departed Ekiti deputy governor

Messages of condolence and tributes have started pouring for Mrs. Funmilayo Adunni Olayinka, the deputy governor of the western Nigerian…

Funmi Olayinka, Ekiti Deputy governor passes on

Mrs. Olufunmilayo Adunni Olayinka, the deputy governor of Ekiti State is dead. A terse statement by the Ekiti State Government…

Nigeria: Over 60 die in ghastly multiple crash

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Over 60 persons were Friday afternoon burnt to death in a fatal multiple accident involving a trailer, an…

6-Yr Tenure: Go To Court, Deputy Speaker Tells Falana

The Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Taiwo Kolawole, says the lawmakers are not scared of the…

Report: Software that can grade essays emerges

Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor…

Boy With Hole In The Heart Needs N2.8m

If nothing is done urgently, two-year old Muhammed Lawal may die in two weeks’ time as he has been diagnosed…

3 Nigerian Men Caught With Box Of Fake Dollars

The police at Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested three suspected  fraudsters who dupe unsuspecting…

Professor Slumps, Dies In Office

Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo State, was thrown into mourning Thursday, after Professor Solomon Momoh of the Institute of…

Quack Doctor Damages Woman’s Uterus

A herbalist who claimed to be a medical doctor, has landed in trouble after he allegedly forced pepper and other…