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Lagos Begins Re-training Of 780 Artisans

Lagos State Government has begun the re-training of 780 artisans and tradesmen in modern skills and technology. The exercise began…

We’re Intensifying Efforts To Curb Flood Menace—Bello

Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, says the government is intensifying efforts to curb the menace of…

Fashola Commissions Farm Service Centre

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has commissioned the Farm Service Centre in Oko Oba, Agege, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. This…

Mile 12 Traders Threaten Showdown Over Leadership

Traders at the Mile 12 Market in Ketu, Lagos, have threatened to shut down the market to protest what they…

Free uniforms for State of Osun pupils

About 750,000 pupils in public primary schools in Nigeria’s state of Osun are to benefit from the government’s free uniforms…

Pope honours Oyo, boss of Nigeria’s news agency

Mrs Oluremi Oyo, the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is now a ‘Dame’ of the Catholic…

In Pictures: Tambuwal visits Governor Aregbesola

House of Representatives’s Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal visited Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola at the weekend in Osogbo, amid criticisms by…

Ghastly road accident kills 3 Ekiti Poly students

Three students of the Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti have died and five others critically injured in a ghastly road accident weekend…

Nigeria Police: How we found the Spanish doctor

Nigeria’s Enugu State Police Command has spoken on how the kidnapped Spaniard, Jose Manuel Machimbarrena Corcuera, working with the Niger…

We Depend On Loan, Lagos Agency Cries Out To State Assembly

The Lagos State Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA) has won the sympathy of members of the state House of Assembly…

Stray Airforce Rocket Hits Building In Port Harcourt

Residents of Woji in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital scampered for safety at about 7 a.m. Friday when they…

Thugs On Rampage In Akure

At least 70 hoodlums today invaded the BTO Hall along Ilesha Road in Akure, Ondo State, southwest Nigeria, and disrupted…

Nigerian Pastor Sent To Prison For Preaching To Oba

A Lagos-based clergy, Pastor Aba Peter, who allegedly went to a palace and attempted to preach and pray to a…

Fashola Orders 60 Ferries

Lagos State Government will soon take delivery of 60 ferries, as the state Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Thursday…

Group Vows To Cripple Oil Supply To North

A group, Association of Ethnic Nationalities, AEN, in the Niger Delta region, has vowed to cripple supply of petroleum products…

Nigerian Lawyer Shamed In U.S.

A Nigerian lawyer, Mr. Gbenga Anjorin, who had handled hundreds of cases, has been barred from practising law in Michigan,…

Army Assault Boats Commissioned

Eight Assault boats and eight Fast Assault Craft imported by the Nigerian Army since 2008 without the necessary combat facilities…

Assembly Receives Motion On Gas Eruption

The recent eruption of gas in Egiland of Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria, has been tabled at the Rivers House of…

Subsidy Fraud: NLC Wants Culprits Prosecuted

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called for the prosecution of all those indicted in the report of the House…

63-Year Old Grandma, Accomplice, Sent To Prison Over N200m Property Damage

A 63-year old grandmother, Funmilayo Ajayi and Adebola Kehinde, 44, have been arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for…

‘Cashless Policy ‘ll Eliminate Ghost Workers’

Mr. Fatai Salami, a financial expert, on Thursday said that the cashless policy being introduced by the apex bank would…

Landlord Remanded Over Illegal Ejection

A landlord, Morufu Sanmi, 52, has been arraigned by the police on a four-count charge of malicious damage, illegal ejection,…

Health Workers Blame Govt. For Continued Strike

The Lagos State chapter of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria on Thursday blamed the continued strike by…

Ogidigbodigbo’s Road To British jail

Were it for his political foray, James Onanefe Ibori could have remained unheard of and unexposed, for the rest of…

3 Arraigned Over NAFDAC Label Forgery

Three men, who allegedly forged NAFDAC label and sold some substandard products, were on Thursday charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’…

Man Watches As 2 Men Gang-Rape Girlfriend

Two friends Balogun Babatunde, 25, Farinto Saheed, 24, have been arrested by the police and charged to Apapa Magistrate’s court,…

Lagos Moves To Tackle Unemployment

With a population of 18 million inhabitants, Lagos, no doubt, is the most populous city in Africa and by 2015,…

Student Falls From Mango Tree, Dies

It was a sad day at the Federal Polytechnic Auchi, Edo State when Stephen Etuk, a newly admitted student of…

Child Life-line Gets MTN Lifeline

The telecommunications giant, MTN lived up to its creed of educating and enriching people when Child Lifeline experienced its magnanimous…

Governor Reshuffles Cabinet

Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau has carried out a minor cabinet reshuffle with Alhaji Abdulhammed Gamzaki, the former Commissioner for…