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More than 300,000 jostle for 750 EFCC jobs

No fewer than 300,000 applications were received for the 750 positions advertised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),…

Suspected ritualists kill 4 in Edo

Jethro Ibileke/Benin The lawmaker representing Esan South-East local government in Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Festus Udughele, has raised…

Maryland Riot: 3 hoodlums in police net

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested three hoodlums in connection with the vandalisation of some BRT buses at Maryland…

Maryland Riot: BRT did not kill hawker – Lagos Govt

The Lagos State Government has clarified the misconception surrounding the unfortunate incident where a street hawker was knocked down by…

Demand for local rice now outweighs supply

Mr Dipo Onaeko, a rice processor and Chief Executive Officer, Difemis Ventures, on Wednesday said that the demand for locally…

Pakistani schoolgirl Malala joins millionaires’ club

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education activist who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become…

Noise reduction: Lagos shuts down 70 churches, 20 mosques

The Lagos State Government has shut down 70 churches, 20 mosques and about 11 hotels, club houses and beer parlours…

Patent drug dealers protest shops closure by PCN

Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan About 1,000 members of the Nigerian Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED) on Wednesday marched on…
MTN ‘Extremely Sorry’ Over Network Outage

MTN Nigeria wins 2.6 GHz broadband license

Africa’s biggest mobile telecoms operator MTN’s Nigerian subsidiary has won a 10-year radio spectrum licence for mobile broadband services, it…

Civil servants docked for defrauding Oyo State

Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Two civil servants, Mr. Oluwaseun Adegoke and Ojo David Olanrewaju, out of over 16,000 civil servants, allegedly involved…

NBCC calls for urgent passage of Food Safety Bill

Worried by the repeated banning of some Nigerian agricultural produce from European countries, the Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) on…

Be part of positive change, Oshiomhole charges corps members

Jethro Ibileke/Benin‎ Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State Wednesday charged members of the National Youth Service Corps to key into…

Man in court for stealing goat

A 27-year-old unemployed man, Henry Semana, was on Wednesday brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos State, for…

Hoodlums destroy BRT buses in Lagos

No fewer than 14 buses belonging to Primero Transport Service Ltd were on Wednesday vandalised by suspected hoodlums along the…

Kidnapping: IGP orders deployment of special strike force to Kogi

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate deployment of a Special Strike Force…

Labourers arrainged for stealing Industrial machines worth N3.5m

Two labourers, Amusa Yahaya and Lawal Adamu, who allegedly stole industrial machines, valued at N3.5 million, were on Wednesday charged…
Nigerian Navy says its operatives have rescued 15 victims of human trafficking during different operations on the Lagos waterways.

Navy arrests 11 suspected fake personnel in Rivers

Commodore Sanusi Ibrahim, the out-going Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, said on Wednesday that 11…

ASUU calls for autonomy of institutions

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the quality of tertiary education in the country could improve if the…

Court frees robbery suspect due to insufficient evidence

Justice Sedotan Ogunsanya of an Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Wednesday acquitted a 39-year-old painter, Olaleye Eniola, of a…

Court jails Ikechukwu Chukwuma for defrauding Diamond Bank

Justice M.A Onyetenu of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced a former…

Man docked for stealing N65,000 travelling bag

Nineteen-year-old Isaiah Monday, who allegedly stole a travelling bag valued at N65,000 from a shop in Ogba, Lagos, was on…

Court dismisses Fani-Kayode’s detention suit

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, Abuja, on Wednesday dismissed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit…

15-yr-old marriage dissolved over maltreatment by mother-in law

A Lagos Island Customary Court on Wednesday dissolved the 15-year-old marriage between one Dapo Ashorobi and his wife, Titilayo, over…

Kebbi creates 67 Ramadan feeding centres

Alhaji Abubakar Lamne, the Kebbi Director of Sharia, said on Wednesday in Birnin Kebbi that the government had established 67…

LASG approves restructuring of LCC loan facility

…saves over N10bn The Lagos State Executive Council on Wednesday approved the restructuring of the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) Loan…

Filmmaker tells Nollywood to refresh film production

A Nigerian filmmaker, Efe Mike, on Wednesday, urged filmmakers and marketers in the country to revitalise film production by adopting…
Mahama

Ghanian army pledges commitment for forthcoming election

AVM Samson Oje, Chief of Defense Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, pledged that his outfit would do whatever it…
Godwin Izilein

Izilein warns against appointing foreign coach for Eagles

A former coach of the Super Falcons, Godwin Izilein, on Wednesday in Benin warned against appointing a foreign coach for…

Brexit vote is irreversible – Merkel

Britain’s decision to leave the EU is irreversible, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says following summit talks in Brussels with British…

Abortion requests rise amid Zika fears

The mysterious Zika virus has been detected in 61 countries, the majority in Latin America and more pregnant women are…