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Actor Jailed For Having Sex With Another Man

A 28-year old actor, Bestwood Chukwuemeka, was on Monday sentenced to three-month imprisonment by a Karu  Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja,…

Trans-Border Robbery Gangs Smashed

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Lagos State Police Command, has smashed two robbery gangs who  allegedly snatched posh…

Tight Security As Jonathan Graces Braithwaite’s Book Launch

A horde of police officers and soldiers as well as State Security Service officials mounted security on  Tuesday around the…

Thousands Besiege Alausa For Jobs

In the last 10 days, at least 10,000 job seekers have besieged the Lagos State Government Secretariat, Alausa  in Ikeja,…

Group Commends Manko’s Visit To Police Stations

A non-government organisation, Association of Good Leadership Advocates Peace Development, Lagos, has  commended the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar…

Gowon, Jonathan, others praise Ogbemudia at 80

JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and prominent Nigerians, including State governors on Monday paid…

Rep Tasks FG on Help for Anambra Flood Victims

 Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, who is representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency , Anambra State, in the House of Representatives, has described…

12 petrol laden ships arrive as scarcity bites in Lagos

Scarcity of petrol has been reported in most parts of Lagos, as the Nigeria Ports Authority revealed the arrival of…

Police Housing Scam: Court Freezes Accounts Of Mortgage Firm

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria has frozen all the accounts of a mortgage bank, Centage Savings…

Lagos Shuts 15 Illegal Hospitals

Officials of the Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, HEFAMAA, at the weekend shut down 15 illegal hospitals…

Traffic Law: 7,916 Officials For Training

In readiness to enforce the new road traffic law, the Lagos State Government has sent 7,916 enforcement officers on four-week…

Fashion Designer Disrupts Wedding Over Hired Gown

A Lagos-based fashion designer, Theresa Iyamu, 36, has been arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court for allegedly disrupting a church…

300 Health Volunteers Deployed To PHCS

The Lagos State Government has graduated the first batch of 300 health volunteers trained to provide assistance to patients at…

Gridlock as major link bridge collapses in Port Harcourt

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Motorists in the Nigerian oil-rich city of Port Harcourt,the Rivers State capital, were this morning trapped in…

69 Suspects Arrested

The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has begun fresh onslaught against suspected hoodlums across the…

Adenuga, others honored by Nigeria

President Good luck Jonathan on Monday morning in Abuja conferred the nation’s second highest honour of Grand Commander of the…

Nigerian varsity don slumps, dies in market

  GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN   The Dean of Faculty of Arts at the University of Ibadan, Professor Kolawole Olu-Owolabi aged 51 today slumped…

Boko Haram: Nigerian-Lebanese deny fleeing Kano

Mr Tahir Faddalah, the Chairman, Lebanese Community in Kano, has denied media reports that  members of the community were fleeing Kano State…

Edo deputy governor’s press aide abducted

JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Unidentified gunmen suspected to be kidnappers Saturday night in Benin City, abducted Kelly Odaro, Chief Press Secretary…

Boko Haram assassins wipe out family in Kano

Four men suspected to be agents of the Boko Haram sect have shot dead a member of the Nigerian Security…

PDP wins Zaria bye election

Alhaji Shehu Malami Nuhu-Babajo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won Saturday’s by-election into Kaduna State House of Assembly for…

Kings College PTA plans N180m hostel

The Parent-Teachers’ Association of King’s College, Lagos, plans to tackle some infrastructure challenges in the institution by constructing of a…

HAJJ: Lagos begins airlifting of pilgrims October

The Lagos State Government is set to commence the airlifting of the State Muslim pilgrims to this year’s Holy Pilgrimage…

Oba Akiolu urges job creation for Nigerian youths

The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, on Saturday in Kano called on governments at all levels to focus on youth…

FRSC: No disease kills Nigerians like road accidents

Mr Osita Chidoka, the Corps Marshal of Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), said on Saturday that road accidents are…

Bye election ends in Zaria

The by-election in Zaria constituency of Kaduna State House of Assembly held peacefully without complaints from voters. According to the…

Tukur, 77, launches biography, The Global Villager

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the 77-year old chairman of Nigeria’s ruling party launched his biography, The Global Villager in Abuja today.…

Benue PDP shifts council primaries

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) local government primaries scheduled to hold on Saturday across Benue State has been shifted till…

Special church service for Nigeria

An Interdenominational Church Service to celebrate Nigeria’s 52nd independence anniversary is scheduled to take place on Sunday 30 September. In…

PDP Candidacy: Akpabio Floors Opponent

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Akwa Ibom state, Engr. Frank Okon, who had been seeking to…