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NURTW backs Lagos Traffic Law

The new Lagos Road Traffic Law Monday garnered more support from stakeholders in the transport sector as the National Union…

Pastor jailed for stealing $20 sheep

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a pastor, Oloruntoba Ibitoye, to nine months imprisonment for stealing a sheep. According…

Woman Bites Off Policeman’s Ear

A 36-year old woman, Mrs. Gloria Ugonnaya, has been arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate’s court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, charged…

Man Caught Stealing Car Blames God

A man who was caught attempting to steal a Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, during church service at an Anglican Church…

Robbers In Military Uniform Kill Petrol Station Attendant

Armed men dressed in military uniform invaded a petrol station in Calabar on Friday, at about 10am and shot dead…

Traffic Law: Okada Riders Beg For Time

Following the ban on okada riders from plying 475 roads in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, some commercial motorcycle operators, also…

Pregnant Woman, 4 Others Nabbed For Robbery

Members of a  three-man robbery gang  that operate in Lagos and Ogun states, southwest Nigeria have been arrested by men…

Lagos state appoints new accountant-general

Mr Babatunde Fashola, governor of Nigeria’s Lagos state, has approved the appointment of Mr David Olabanji Adewale Sunmoni as the…

Breastfeeding Week Marked In Lagos

Lagos State, last week,  joined the rest of the world to mark the 2012 Breastfeeding Week, an annual event organised…

Judicial Sector Reform: Lagos Ready To Assist Other States —Ipaye

The Attorney General and Commissioner or Justice, Lagos State, Ade Ipaye, has declared the readiness of the state government to…

Ndigbo leader wants Jonathan check North’s Hisbah Guards

JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to check the activities of the Hisbah Guards in Sharia state…

Lottery body stops unsolicited lottery SMS

The Nigerian Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) has directed the stoppage of unsolicited lottery text messages on cell phones, its Director-General,…

Traffic law: No immunity for Lagos government drivers

There will be no immunity for any LAGBUS driver that flouts the new Lagos traffic law, says the executive director…

VC appointed for North-West University

Governor Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano State, has appointed Malaysian Professor Dato Mohd. Razali Bin Agus as the substantive Vice Chancellor…

2 persons die as ancient wall collapses in Bauchi

A two century old high mud wall has collapsed after a heavy downpour in Bauchi, North western Nigeria, killing two…

5 Boko Haram suspects killed in attack on troops

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said on Saturday that it killed five suspected terrorists after…

Go to court, Governor Amaechi tells ASUU

Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State in Berlin on Saturday called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities…

2 Children Drown In Minna

Musa Aliyu/Minna Two children, Basiru and Mustafa Muhammed Kudu of same parents drowned Saturday in Minna, Niger state capital, northcentral…

Bayelsa injects taxis to replace motor cycles

Nigeria’s Bayelsa state government has injected 300 ‘ restoration city cabs’ to replace motor cycles as a means of transportation…

29 die as 2 speeding buses collide

Two speeding buses on Friday collided head-on and burst into flames killing at least 29 people and injuring 16 others…

Fire: LUTH relocates patients

The management of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), on Friday said alternative arrangements have been made for patients seeking care…

Police rescue abducted baby

The Imo State Police Command on Friday said that it had rescued a nine-month-old baby boy from suspected traffickers in…

Oyerinde’s murder: Benin court remands Ugolor in prison

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Environmental rights activist, Rev. David Ugolor and nine others were on Friday arraigned at an Oredo Magistrate court…

Traffic Law: We’re Ready, Say Police

The police in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, say they are battle-ready to enforce the new road traffic law, which has…

Student Arrested With Pistol, 82 Bullets

Men of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a self-acclaimed undergraduate of a university in the…

Contracts: Oyinlola Faces Probe

Former Osun State governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola and 69 others are to appear on Monday before a panel of inquiry set…

Funeral Boss Docked For Battering Journalist

The Funeral Director, POS Funeral Services, Bayo Ogunsola, was today arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s court for allegedly assaulting a …

Ebute Metta Gang War Claims 2

At least two persons were feared dead and several others injured as hoodlums invaded some streets in Ebute-Meta, Lagos State,…

36 Jailed For Flouting Edo Traffic Law

At least 36 persons have been convicted by the Ikpoba-Okha and Oredo Mobile Magistrate’s courts in Edo State, southsouth Nigeria,…

‘New N5000 Note’ll Fuel Inflation’

A member of the House of Representatives, Kehinde Odeneye, representing Ijebu Central Federal Constituency, has disclosed that the plan by…