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Council Boss Backs Calls For SNC

The Chairman of Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, south-west Nigeria, Comrade Ayodele Adewale has joined the calls for…

Another robbery gang arrested in Sagamu

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Less than 24hours after the police command in Sagamu in Sagamu local government area of Ogun state,…

Nigerian Archbishop ponders Boko Haram Puzzle

.Archbishop asks: why are Boko Haram bombers always successful? Nigerian Catholic archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama on Monday condemned as “disturbing”…

Jaji bombings: Top military officer among injured victims

BY FEMI ADI/KADUNA A senior military officer, Air Commodore Alechenu Ekagbo has been confirmed to be among the victims of…

Obanikoro’s supporters protest over appeal delay

Henry Ojelu& Abdul Olamide Supporters of Mr. Babajide Ibrahim Obanikoro, son of former Nigeria High Commissioner to Ghana, Musiliu Obanikoro,…

Football Tragedy: Fans Stab Hotel Manager To Death

The manager of a hotel in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria has been stabbed to death by two football fans during…

Man Rapes 12 Year-Old-Girl, Rejects Marriage

A 25-year old man, Umaru Ismali has been arrested by the police and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly…

NDLEA Impounds 3,500kg Of Indian Hemp

The Zamfara Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has impounded 3,500 kilogrammes of Cannabis Satiba, known as…

Bombing Is Wicked —Northern Govs

The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has described Sunday’s bomb blasts that killed 11 persons at St Andrews Protestant Church,…

NGO Wants Tougher Penalties For Rapists

The Country Director of IPAS, a non-governmental organisation, Dr Ejike Oji, on Sunday called for stiffer measures against rapist in…

Communal Clash: Police Arrest Gang Leader

Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Mr Abayomi Akeremale, on Sunday confirmed the arrest of one Benjamin Jato, gang leader of…

Tuberculosis On The Rise In Kano

A total of 4, 413 new cases of tuberculosis were registered in Kano from January to September this year, Dr.…

‘Inadequate Funds, Bane Of Transportation Sector’

Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa has lamented the inadequate funding of the transportation sector by federal and state…

No Opposition Can Perform Creditably Without The Media —Muhammed

No opposition party can perform its role of being watchdog to the government in power creditably without the media, says…

Remains of Arafat To Be Exhumed Tomorrow

The remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed Tuesday as part of a renewed investigation into his…

MD, Eko Megacity Bus Services Docked Over N14.8m Theft

A prominent Lagos-based transporter, Greg Kadibia Afam Nwosisi, 58, has been arrested by the police at the Zone 2 Command,…

Man Docked For Killing

A 21-year old man, Wasiu Hamza of Osin Odo-Ode village in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State has been…

Lagos Assembly Summons Council Chairmen

Engineer Fatai Oyesanya and Mrs. Morenike Adesina Williams, Chairmen of Ikosi-Isheri and Igando-Ikotun local council development  areas respectively, have been…

Nigerian governor suspends 3 aides for wearing jeans

Three commissioners turned up for a state dinner in Nigeria’s Ebonyi state recently, wearing t-shirts and the casual jeans trousers.…

Couple, child killed by auto-bike assassins

Two motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a Christian couple and their child as they were about to leave their home for church…

Ogun state police foil ATM robbery

Nigeria’s Ogun state police command said that it foiled a robbery attempt on a commercial bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM)…

11 killed as suicide bombers hit Nigerian army church

The Nigerian army said that the two blasts today at a church in the military barracks in Jaji, Kaduna state…

No movement ban as Lagos cancels clean-up

Nigeria’s Lagos State government has cancelled Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise, which normally restricts movement from 7a.m to 10 a.m A…

ACN loses another Lagos council to PDP

. Tribunal orders Fresh poll in Yaba Reported by Cyriacus Izuekwe & KAZEEM UGBODAGA After losing Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development…

Reports: 20 ladies in mini-skirts killed in Maiduguri

Twenty Nigerian ladies in trousers and mini-skirts were killed overnight by yet to be identified gunmen in the troubled Nigerian…

School vandal jailed 18 months

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An Oredo Magistrate Court sitting in Benin, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state, has sentenced 18 year-old Ogunbajo Olumide…

Ibori’s $15m: Court dismisses interloper

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declined to grant…

Governor Uduaghan budgets $2.7 billion for 2013

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented a budget of N398.31 billion, about…

PDP Threatens EFCC Over Ikuforiji’s Trial

The Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed intention to file a petition against the Economic and…

Constitutional Review: Fresh Case For Lagos Special Status

Lagos State, southwest Nigeria had been the Federal Capital of the nation since Nigeria attained nationhood in 1960. Lagos, with…