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JAF Protest: 2 Activists Released

Two of the four activists arrested yesterday by the police during a rally organised by the Joint Action Front, JAF,…

Traffic Law: 35,000 Drivers Attend Driving Schools For Recertification

At least 35,000 professional drivers in Lagos State have visited the various Drivers’ Institutes located in different parts of the…

Okada : Lagos Police Boss Seeks Total Ban

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Umar Manko has advised commercial motorcyclists commonly called okada riders to be grateful to…

‘Traffic, Environmental Laws Have Come To Stay’

The Chairman, Task force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Bayo Sulaiman(SP) has reiterated the Lagos State government’s resolve…

Assembly withdraws impeachment threat against governor

The House of Assembly of Nigeria’s central state of Nasarawa on Tuesday withdrew its earlier threat to impeach Governor Tanko…

Clash Over Property Tax Law In Benin

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin There was commotion at the ever busy Kings Square in Benin, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state Monday afternoon,…

Amosun suspends Ijebu East council officials

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, in Western Nigeria, has suspended the chairman and members of the…

Activists, Okada Riders Protest Traffic Law

Four members of the Joint Action Front, JAF and leaders of commercial motorcyclists, a.k.a. okada riders, were arrested this morning…

Fire Guts 116 Houses In Lagos In November

At least, 116 houses were gutted by fire in Lagos State last month, says the Director, Lagos State Fire Services,…

Traffic Law: Accident Rate Drops By 60% —LASUTH CMD

The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Prof David Oke says that since the beginning of enforcement of…

Infant Mortality: Lagos To Save 6m Children By 2015 —Adefulire

The Lagos State Government says it intends to save the lives of over six million children and 200,000 mothers in…

Mrs. Fashola Lights Up W/Africa’s Tallest Christmas Tree In Lagos

In the spirit of the Yuletide, the First Lady of Lagos State, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola lit up a giant Christmas…

SSS manhandles journalist at Governor Akpabio’s party

Operatives of Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) in Akwa Ibom State on Sunday brutalised the correspondent of The Nation, Mr…

Boko Haram: JTF seizes 11 rifles

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe, north eastern Nigeria on Sunday recovered 11 rifles in Kandahar Area of Damaturu,…

Osun state women protest ritual killings

Women in their hundreds on Sunday protested in Osogbo, capital of Nigeria’s state of Osun against increase in the activities…

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s mother kidnapped

Emerging reports said Professor Kamene Okonjo, the mother of Nigeria’s finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been kidnapped by armed men.…

Nigeria nabs 28 terror suspects

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria have renewed raid on hideouts of terrorists recording 28 arrests within the…

Lagos Traffic Law: 3 sentenced to community service

Lagos government has bared its fangs on its much flouted Traffic Law by commercial motorcyclists in the state. In these…

Nigerian Mullahs force VP Sambo out of daughters’ wedding

It was a double wedding that attracted the movers and shakers of Nigeria and at least 10 state governors. And…

Oyo opens Technical University 2013

The first set of students will be admitted into Nigeria’s new Technical University next September, increasing Nigeria’s universities to over…

Ex-Oyo state governor Olunloyo joins ACN

A former governor of Oyo state, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo and former chairman of Ibadan South west Local, Alhaji Tajudeen Ajibade,…

TY Danjuma clocks 75

General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, the civil war veteran, the coup maker, former chief of army staff, former defence minister, big…

8 year-old Amarachi wins Nigeria’s Got Talent show

Seun Bisuga Amarachi Nyanne was nothing short of stunning. She wowed the crowd everytime she was on stage and when…

Owei Lakemfa, Nigerian heads OATUU

Former journalist, Owei Lakemfa, has been elected as the Secretary General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, (OATUU),…

I won’t resign, SURE-P chair Kolade says

Dr Christopher Kolade, former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Chairman, Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P),…

Melaye the dad of my child, insists Bisi Ibidapo Obe

In African tradition, before the invention of DNA, the belief was that a woman always knows the rightful father of…

Alleged minister’s assailant acquited 9 years after

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday discharged and acquitted an alleged assailant of former minister of information…

Nigerian Pastor charged with rape

The police in Western Nigerian state of Ekiti on Friday arraigned Solomon Olasehinde, 25, before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s court for…

Toothless Traffic Law: Okada Riders Defy Fashola

Two months after the Lagos State Government commenced the enforcement of its new traffic law restricting the operation of commercial…

Front Page Comment: Lagos And Its Laws

As the Lagos State House of Assembly churns out laws to make the state a better place, we expect the…