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Three escape death as truck carrying 45,000 litres of fuel fell on their vehicle opposite the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on Tuesday

Two oil tankers collide in Lagos, spill content

What could have been a major tragedy was on Saturday averted by the combined efforts of the Lagos State Emergency…

Boko Haram Defeat: Army chief praises gallant Nigerian soldiers

The Chief of Army staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has commended the efforts and sacrifices of gallant officers and men of…

Hurray! Nigerian Army finally crushes Boko Haram, Sambisa forest falls

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja commended the troops of the Nigerian Army for crushing Boko Haram terrorists in…
German court sentences Bai L. a guard of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to life in prison for murder and attempted murder

Gambia: Senegal ready to lead military onslaught against Jammeh

Senegal’s soldiers have been put on alert to intervene in The Gambia if President Yahya Jammeh refuses to step down…

Court freezes Patience Jonathan’s multiple accounts

Federal High Court Lagos has frozen all the bank accounts of former First Lady Patience Jonathan suspected to be proceeds…

Update: All passengers released from hijacked Libyan plane

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Friday said all passengers have been released from a hijacked Libyan plane in Malta,…

Update: 65 passengers released from hijacked Libyan plane

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has confirmed that 65 passengers have been released from a Libyan plane that was hijacked…

Breaking: Libyan plane with 118 passengers aboard hijacked

A Libyan aircraft with 118 people on board has landed in Malta after being hijacked, according to local media. The…

Germany’s Christmas market attacker killed in Italy

Anis Amri, the chief suspect in the deadly terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin this week, was killed…

Lagos faces water and sanitation crisis, UN raises alarm

UN human rights expert, Léo Heller, on Thursday, called for increased funding for water and sanitation in the 2017 budget…

Obasanjo blasts Igbo: You are suffering from spirit of individualism

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged people of the South East zone to shy away from the spirit of individualism…

Pictures: Ibori released from UK prison

Former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori has been released from UK jail where he was sentenced for…

Breaking: Expose corruption and get rich, says FG

The Federal Government has approved payment of not more than five per cent of the recovered loot to any successful…

FG releases postings for 47 career ambassadors

The Federal Government on Wednesday released the postings of the 47 career ambassadors recently appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The…

Breaking: Ambode, Bagudu officially launch Lake Rice

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and his counterpart from Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu on Wednesday official launched the long awaited…

Breaking: James Ibori out of prison

Former Governor James Ibori of Delta State has been released from prison in the United Kingdom. Reports say he was…
FILE PHOTO: Nigerian soldiers accused of mutiny during a court martial session in 2015

Falana begs Buhari to pardon soldiers jailed for mutiny

Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana SAN, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to pardon 70 convicted…

At last, Lagos rolls out Lake Rice Wednesday at N12,000 per bag

The long awaited Lake Rice of the Lagos State Government will be rolled out on Wednesday in the three senatorial…

Pressure mounts on Buhari to probe Bola Ige’s murder afresh

Fifteen years after the murder of the nation’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, activists, social…

FIFA bans Adamu from football for 2 years again

The adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s independent Ethics Committee has opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against Amos Adamu, a former member of…

Breaking: EFCC drags Etete, Adoke to court over Malabu $1.1b oil deal

The anti-graft EFCC has filed fraud charges against Nigeria’s former Attorney-General, Mohammed Adoke; a former petroleum minister, Dan Etete; and…

Strike: Arik Air passengers stranded nationwide

Aviation unions on Tuesday shut down the operations of Arik Air, leaving hundreds of the airline’s passengers stranded across the…

Court issues bench warrant against Osun monarch

A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo has issued a bench warrant against the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Adewale Akanbi following…

I’ll be the best I can — Miss Nigeria

The winner of the 40th Miss Nigeria Beauty Pageant, Miss Chioma Obiadi, from Anambra has promised to be the best…

Killing of Russian ambassador to Turkey in pictures

Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, was killed on Monday by a gunman while attending an art exhibition in…

Breaking: 9 killed as suicide truck hits German Christmas market

A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and…

Breaking: Russian ambassador shot dead in Ankara, Turkey

Shouting “Don’t forget Aleppo! Don’t forget Syria!” a Turkish policeman in a suit and tie fatally shot Russia’s ambassador to…

Southwest will punish Buhari in 2019 – Fasehun

Founder of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasehun, has described the marginalization of the Yorubas in President Muhammadu Buhari’s…

Truck drivers block Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highway to protest N10,000 tax

Protesting truck drivers have blocked the Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highways since the early hours of Monday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
Group petitions EFCC and ICPC against Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai

El-Rufai loses control in Southern Kaduna as 24-hour curfew is imposed

The Jema’a Local Government of Kaduna State on Monday imposed 24-hour curfew on Kafanchan and its environs to forestall breakdown…