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Nigeria: Babalakin’s Counsel Withdraws

The trial of the embattled Managing Director of Bi Courtney Ltd, Dr. Wale Babalakin by the Economic and Financial Crimes…

Lagos Police Boss: No Deal With Motor Park Touts

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Umar Manko, spoke with MOYO FABIYI and LUCKY LAWAL on the enforcement of the…

Panic Grips Cops Over Certificate Verification

The Lagos State Police Command has commenced verification of certificates of its men and officers. This has reportedly caused panic…

Nigeria: Wife of retired army general abducted

Titilayo, the wife of retired Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state…

Why Kidnapping thrives in Nigeria

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) for Lagos and Ogun, Mr Mamman Tsafe, has attributed the high rate of kidnapping…

Niger state builds E-library in memory of Ekwensi

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday, described the late renowned novelist, Cyprian Ekwensi, as a “great thinker and lover…

Lagos Chief Judge Frees 46 Prisoners

Henry Ojelu The Chief Judge Of Lagos State, South-West Nigeria, Justice Ayotunde Phillips today granted freedom to forty six awaiting…

Varsity Don: ‘Oshiomhole was my classmate’

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A University lecturer, Professor Philip Agbebaku has told the Edo Election Petitions Tribunal that Governor Adams Oshiomhole was…

Nigerian doctors down tools over taxes

Essential medical services were on Tuesday brought to a halt as Resident Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH),…

Woman In Trouble Over Dead Boyfriend; Thugs Hired To Beat The Man Killed Him

A 22-year old woman, Mrs. Tawa Rawan, has landed in big trouble. That was after she sent thugs to beat…

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…