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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…

Lagos Assembly Begins Inspection Of LG Projects

The Lagos State House of Assembly has begun an inspection tour of all the 20 local government areas and the…

Fani-Kayode’s Trial Fixed For 11 Feb

A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Thursday fixed 11 February, 2013 for the commencement of trial of a former Minister…

LASG Floats N80b Bond For Projects Completion

The Lagos State Government has signed financial deal to raise N80 billion through Bond with Chapel Hill Limited as lead…

‘My Husband Behaves Like Animal’

A 35-year old trader on Thursday pleaded with the Grade ‘B’ Customary Court, Orile-Agege, Lagos, to dissolve her 15-year old…

Segun Ogundimu Urges Fashola To Reconsider Stance On Okada Ban

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State and former Commissioner for Transport and Health, Dr Segun…

Ayobo-Ipaja LCDA Donates Patrol Vans To Police

The Chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Shakiru Adisa, has donated two utility patrol vans to…

Lagos to demolish 20 houses at Jakande Estate

The Lagos State Government has marked more than 20 houses for demolition at Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, near Isolo, Lagos following…

Kano restricts motorcycles

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Disturbed by the incessant attacks by gunmen on motorbikes which have claimed lives in recent times, the Kano…

How Fire Gutted TheNEWS/PMNEWS office

It all began like a joke. A reporter came into the newsroom around 7 p.m saying he could smell a…

Shekarau: I’m still Sardauna Kano

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former Governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau on Wednesday in Kano, northwest Nigeria, cleared the air over…

Babalakin slammed with N2b money laundering charge

Henry Ojelu/Judiciary correspondent Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today filed a 20 count-charge against Dr. Wale Babalakin, a…

Nigerian’s hand amputated in Saudi over theft

Saudi authorities on Wednesday chopped off the hand of a Nigerian muslim convicted of theft, in compliance with the Islamic…

APGA leader, Sadiq Masalla jumps bail

The Nigerian police on Wednesday told an Abuja High Court that a suspect in a forgery case, Alhaji Sadiq Masalla,…

Traffic Law: 12,000 Motorcycles Impounded, 50 Riders Convicted

The Lagos State Police Command has impounded over 12,000 motorcycles in less than two months since it began the enforcement…

2 Girls Die In Collapsed House

Tragedy struck this morning at Jakande Estate, Ejigbo, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria when a two-storey building collapsed and a woman,…

Police Release Father Of Missing 30-Minute-old Baby

The Police in Umuahia, the Abia capital, said they have begun investigating the possible involvement of the father of a…

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Contract: We Are Not Aware —Bi-Courtney

Bi-Courtney Highway Services Ltd, concessionaire of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway has disclosed that it has not been formally informed of government’s…

Ikuforiji Bags NUJ Political Leadership Award

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji has been commended for his leadership role in the state.…

Time Bomb In Ogijo

A first visit to Magbo Community in Ogijo, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, reminds one of the many neglected areas in…