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Repair work on Third Mainland Bridge to finish October

The current repair works on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos will be completed by the end of October, according…

UNIPORT shut down after students’ protests

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Authorities of the University Of Port Harcourt have shut down the institution as the protests by students…

Nigerian army denies killing rampage

Nigeria’s army on Tuesday denied killing civilians and burning homes and shops after a bomb attack in the city of…

Gombe stops 6 pregnant women from Hajj

The Gombe State Muslims Welfare Board said on Tuesday that it had stopped six pregnant women from performing this year’s…

Flood: Dickson shuts Bayelsa schools

Governor Seriake Dickson of Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa on Tuesday ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of all schools in…

Jonathan presents 2013 budget tomorrow

President Goodluck Jonathan will on 10 October present the 2013 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS).…

Polio vaccine team attacked, 2 cops killed

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Yet to be identified gunmen have shot dead two police men attached to a team of Polio Immunization…

Port Harcourt 4: Protesting Students Block East-West Road

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of students of the University Of Port Harcourt, whose Students Union Week was suspended Monday for…

We Suspect The Sudden Interest In Us -Bakassi People

Some Bakassi people have declared that they have accepted  their fate following the International Court of Justice ruling of 10 October, 2002…

POLICE: We’ll Get Killers Of PH Varsity Students

The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Rivers State Command, Mr. Sam Okaula has vowed…

Lagos Assembly May Review Traffic Law

The Lagos State House of Assembly may review the impact of the state Road Traffic Law signed recently for implementation…

2 Nigerian Pilgrims Held For Drugs

Two Nigerian pilgrims have been arrested in Saudi Arabia for allegedly being in possession of banned drugs. The pilgrims were…

LAGOS LG RULING: No Cause For Alarm —ACN

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has reacted to the judgment of the Lagos State Local…

Unions Threaten Aviation Industry

Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah wants to destroy the Aviation industry in the country, the unions in the…

Man plunges to death from 7th floor

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt There was pandemonium at the Federal Secretariat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, southsouth Nigeria, at…

Iponri Community Wants Fashola To Revoke C of O

The Iponri community in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has appealed to Governor Raji Fashola to revoke the ownership rights granted…

Trafic Law: Lagos Decries Damage To Road Signs

The Lagos State Government has lamented the high rate at which the road signages it erected at strategic roads across…

President Jonathan appoints committee on floods

President Goodluck Jonathan today approved the establishment of a National Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation to raise funds in…

Army in revenge killings after patrol vehicle bombed

Nigerian soldiers indiscriminately fired on residents of Maiduguri, Borno state Monday, killing several people, after a bomb blast targetted an…

Court Grants Journalist N100M For Assault

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nearly three years after being assaulted and battered by men of the Nigerian Police Force and…

Biafra War: Igbo Leaders Deceived Their People, says Ofeimun

Poet, literary and social critic Mr Odia Ofeimun has said Biafran war leaders should be sent to the Nuremberg Trial…

Robbers Kill Supol, Inspector

Armed robbers, in the early hours of today, killed two police officers, Inspector Haruna and Supol Funminiyi, an Assistant Superintendent…

Okada Riders Protest Ban On 475 Roads

Thousands of commercial motorcycle riders known as okada riders in Lagos State, Southwest today protested against the Lagos State Road…

4 Suspected Kidnappers Docked

Four suspected kidnappers have been arrested and arraigned before a Lagos court in southwest Nigeria after the police foiled their…

MURDER OF 4 VARSITY STUDENTS: Manhunt For Villagers

Following the gruesome murder of four male students of the University of Port Harcourt last Friday by the Vigilance group…

Cultists Kill Poly Student

In what appeared to be a resurgence of cult activities in Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, a middle-aged man alleged to…

LASG Restates Commitment To Training Financial Managers

Lagos State Government has pledged to uphold effective financial management in the state through continuous training and re-training of accountants…

We Didn’t Ban Vehicles Without Lagos Numbers — Opeifa

The Lagos State Government has denied banning private vehicles with other states’ number plates from plying roads in the state.…

18 die as truck crushes bus conveying church members

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Eighteen persons were confirmed dead while many others were severely injured today when an 18 seater Toyota…

Heroin Hidden In Football, Rugs Seized At Lagos Airport

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Sniffer dogs, used by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have detected three consignments…