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Oshiomhole sacks commissioner

 Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has relieved Mrs. Inumidun Idehen, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, of her appointment,…

Army consoles family of Yusuf Ali, Dana crash victim

The Nigerian Army has condoled with the family of Lt. Col. Ali Yusuf who died in the ill-fated DANA plane…

New Lagos chief Judge takes oath Friday

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State will on June 14, swear-in Justice Ayotunde Phillips as the new Chief Judge of…

Dana crash: Fashola offers legal aid to victims’ families

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Sunday met with families and members of the diplomatic community whose members and…

Port Harcourt Paralysed As Tanker Drivers Begin Strike

Motorists and business owners in Port Harcourt, the oil rich Rivers State capital, Southsouth Nigeria, woke up this Monday morning…

$600,000 Bribe: Falana Calls For Lawan’s Arrest, Trial

Farouk Lawan, the quintessential member of the House of Representatives and often tagged ‘face of a true legislature,’ or ‘Mr.…

Court Adjourns N2b Suit Against Bishop Oyedepo

An Ogun State High Court, Monday, adjourned till Wednesday, 13 June, proceeding in the N2 billion suit instituted against Bishop…

Why Disasters Are Rampant —TB Joshua

The General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet TB Joshua, has said that disasters are widespread…

Woman Battles Spinster Over Bath Sex With Hubby

A 35-year old single lady, Mujidat Akintoye, who confessed to having sexual intercourse with her neighbour’s husband in their bathroom,…

Lagos Declares June 12 Holiday

The Lagos State Government has declared tomorrow public holiday in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria to remember the late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale…

Lawmaker Berates Politicians

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Alhaji Bolaji Yusuff Ayinla, has accused politicians of enjoying the dividends…

Nigerian rapist gets a light sentence

A Jos Upper Area Court on Monday may have incurred the wrath of anti-rape groups nationwide when it sentenced a…

Bombs: Plateau cautions youths on law and order

As calm returns to Jos, after Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on Christ Chosen Church, the state government has cautioned youths…

Fire Guts Ladipo Market

Fire broke out early this morning at Warehouse B, Ladipo market in Mushin, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.    Goods worth millions naira were…

Boko Haram: ‘Why we attacked the churches’

A purported spokesman for Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attacks and threatened further violence. “We are responsible for…

NUT counsels Ekiti govt on teachers’ assessment

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Sunday urged the Ekiti State Government to explore professional options in assessing the…

PDP sweeps council polls in Akwa Ibom

The Akwa Ibom Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s local…

‘We prayed against death before the bombing’

Josephine Jacobson, a 63-year-old Deaconess of the Christ Chosen Church of God, said that Sunday’s suicide attack on the Church occurred just after the congregation…

Official: 5 die in Jos church bombing

Nigeria’s Special Task Force (STF) has confirmed five persons dead in the Sunday suicide bomb attack on a church in Jos…

Ndoma-Egba decries bombings

The Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has raised alarm over the rate at which innocent lives are being…

Witness: Jos bomber posed as church member

Richard Jonah, a witness at today’s bombing of God Chosen Church in Jos, the central Nigerian state of Plateau, said…

Akwa Ibom council poll a farce— APGA candidate

Obong Samuel Atang, a chairmanship candidate in Saturday’s local government elections in Akwa Ibom, has alleged  widespread irregularities in the…

Bomb rocks Jos church, scores feared dead

The Nigerian police in Plateau state have confirmed a bomb explosion at a church in the capital city of Jos.…

Obodo: Nigerian police vow rescue

Nigerian police on Sunday vowed to rescue international footballer Christian Obodo unhurt after he was kidnapped near the oil city…

Boko Haram cancels Nigeria’s council polls

The Borno Government has ruled out the possibility of conducting local government polls in the state soon because of security…

ACN rallies for Oshiomhole, welcomes PDP’s Ihonvbere

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the electorate in Nigeria’s Edo state…

Disaster averted on expressway triggers calls for truck ban

Some residents of Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos have called on the state government to ban the movement of trailers…

Dana Air donates materials to victims of crash

Grounded Nigerian airliner, Dana Airline has donated relief materials to families affected by the Dana Air mishap of Sunday, June…

Nigerian abductors want 150k Euro for Obodo

Nigeria international Christian Obodo has been abducted in Warri, southern Nigeria, his family confirmed Saturday. The player’s family said Obodo,…

2 journalists brutalised in Nigerian poll

Two journalists covering the council polls in Eket , Southern Akwa Ibom, were on Saturday brutalised by the Police at…