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Like the father, mother absolves son of murder.

Henry Ojelu/Judiciary correspondent Just like the father of murder suspect Akolade Arowolo had testified about his son’s innocence, the mother,…

2 year old boy Kidnapped

By Kazeem Ugbodaga & Cyriacus Izuekwe Emmanuel Oluwatumise, the two-year old son of a Nigerian  school proprietor, Olusegun Alonge, was…

Okada Robbers On The Rampage

By Cyriacus Izuekwe & Ayodeji Dedeigbo Despite the restriction placed on commercial motorcycle operators also known as okada riders in…

Man narrates loss of child in Lagos Fire

By Jeminat Adamson Twenty-seven days after the 2012 Boxing Day fire incident that occurred at  Jankara Market on Lagos Island, …

Police Blame Gang For Attack On Soldiers

The Commissioner of Police in the central Nigerian state of  Kogi , Mr. Mohammed Katsina, says a three-man gang was…

Okah: NBA Seeks Overhauling Of Justice System

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday called for the overhauling of Nigeria’s justice system in order to speedy the…

Divorce: Wife Tackles Hubby In Court

By Bello Oluwakemi  A Nigerian housewife, Mrs. Helen  Monago, 33 has told an Igando Customary Court, Lagos that her husband’s…

3 Charged With Armed Robbery

BY OLABISI BALOGUN The Nigerian police in Lagos have charged three men before the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly stealing…

Lagos Traders Protest Continued Closure Of Shops

Traders on Breadfruit and Davis streets in Balogun Market, Lagos Island, where some warehouses were gutted by fire in October…

Bayelsa Speaker’s Mother Regains Freedom

 By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The78- year-old mother of Mr. Kombowei Benson, the Speaker of the Nigeria’s oil rich state, Bayelsa…

ACN flays Jonathan over comments on police college

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that while President Goodluck Jonathan’s surprise visit  to the Police College in…

Fashola gags Commissioners

By Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Nigeria’s Lagos State  has banned commissioners, other political office holders and all civil…

Declare Emergency Against Poverty, urges Group

BY EROMOSELE EBHOMELE  Nigeria’s  National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations (NACOMYO) has decried the level of poverty in the country…

Ex-NIMASA Boss Re-Arraigned

By Akin kuponiyi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, re-arraigned the former Director-General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and…

One In 3 Adults Has High Blood Pressure —WHO

 BY EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that one out of every three adults worldwide has high…

Sex worker gets six year jail for manslaughter

 By Henry Ojelu/Judiciary Correspondent A Nigerian commercial sex worker in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State, Nkechi Okafor has…

Nigeria: A Murder so cruel

BY GBENRO ADESINA/Ibadan   A 35-year-old Nigerian graduate, due to marry in less than two months from now, is felled by…

The Injustice In Church-Owned Schools

Cardinal John Olufemi Onaiyekan, Catholic Archbishop of Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, tells OLUOKUN AYORINDE and SOLA FOLORUNSO-ADEOLA about his…

Robbers attack ex- deputy governor

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The former deputy governor of Nigeria’s western state of Ogun, Alhaji Abdul Rafiu Ogunleye was early this…

Governor Akpabio plays the Good Samaritan

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Nigeria’s south eastern Akwa-Ibom state on Saturday joined officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)…

NURTW deputy chairman killed

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Some unidentified gunmen have killed the Oyo state Deputy Chairman of Nigeria’s National Union of Road Transport Workers…

Jonathan, Tukur, Okorocha extol Obasanjo

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta It is still some six weeks away to the 76th birthday of Nigeria’s former leader, Olusegun Obasanjo,…

Nigeria: 2 Mali bound soldiers killed, 5 wounded

Two Nigerian soldiers were killed and five others injured Saturday in an explosion in Okene city in Nigeria’s central Kogi…

New date for Akingbola’s case against EFCC

A Nigerian Federal High Court, Lagos has fixed Feb. 12 for hearing in a suit filed by former Managing Director…

Trial of Facebook lover adjourned again

For the third time, a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court on Friday adjourned the trial of Arthur Obiora, the Facebook lover, who…

No deal with NIPOST pensioners yet

Aggrieved pensioners of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) on Friday said that post offices nationwide would remain locked as their…

Lagos To Complete Light Rail Project With N158b

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has disclosed that the ongoing construction of the Blue Line of the Light Rail…

4 sentenced For Vandalising Cables

Four youths, Oliver Onyekachi, Tochukwu Chukwu, Sunday Ade and John Eze in Ogoja, northern Cross River State have been sentenced…

Police Report: Murder cases reduce In Lagos

A report just released by Nigeria’s Police Command in Lagos state indicated that 106 cases of murder were reported in…

Nigerian Soldiers Torture P.M.NEWS Cameraman

Yet-to-be identified Nigerian soldiers on Thursday arrested and tortured a photo journalist with TheNEWS/P.M.NEWS publications, Habeeb Ogunbadejo, under  the Obalende…