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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…

Sanusi Lamido honoured in Kano

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was today turbaned the Dan Majen Kano…

Nigerian Suicide bomber kills 5

A suicide blast at the police headquarters in Nigeria’s restive city of Maiduguri on Friday killed at least one police…

PDP Leads Nigeria With Thieves, Criminals -Uranta

Close friend of President Goodluck Jonathan and Co-convener of the National Summit Group, Tony Uranta, has declared that the Peoples…

Court Jails Forex Dealer Over N300m Scam

A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has sentenced a 36-year old foreign exchange dealer, Ibrahim Mohammed Bashir to one year…

Supreme Court Affirms Suswam’s Victory

In a unanimous decision on Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the victory of the Benue state governor, Gabriel Suswam, in…

Cobbler Speaks About Marriage To Deaf & Dumb Wife

A 42-year old blind shoemaker, Sunday Owoyemi, who is happily married to a deaf, dumb and autistic wife, Tawa, has…

Buhari, Tinubu In Merger Talks

The entente cordiale between the leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change continued this…

Lebanese, Married Nigerian Lover Crushed To Death

A Lebanese, Hassaini Habi working with a construction company Hajaig Construction has been crushed to death with his married Nigerian…

Nigerian Planes Flying Coffins —Ex-Pilot

In brawny language, a veteran Nigerian ex-pilot, Captain Hosa Okunbor, has branded some planes operated by Nigerian airlines as flying…