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Synagogue Collapse: Court adjourns ruling to Nov. 9

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed Nov. 9 to rule on a suit by an engineer of…

Jobless man impersonates MOPOL to fleece motorists

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 33-year-old jobless man who has been parading himself as a mobile policeman (MOPOL) has been arrested by…

Pa Fasoranti resigns from Afenifere, says it has lost focus

Funsho Arogundade Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said that the body has lost…

Buhari will never lie to Nigerians – Presidency

The Presidency has categorically that President Muhammadu Buhari will always say the truth to Nigerians while dismissing the insinuation by…

U-17 WC: Nigerians hail ruthless Eaglets after Brazil’s victory

Taiwo Adelu It has been praises galore for Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets after they defeated Brazil in the quarter final of…

Ambode appoints new Head of Service

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday approved the appointment of Mrs. Olabowale Toluwalope Ademola as the 19th Head…

Nigeria: Despite $5.2bn fine, MTN is number one telco

On internet subscribers base, MTN is number one telecommunication outfit in Nigeria, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed despite…

APC wins Borno Central Senatorial bye-election

The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Alhaji Babakaka Garbai, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate winner of the bye-election…

IDPs laud UNFPA humanitarian, psycho-social services

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri on have commended the UNFPA for providing humanitarian and psycho-social support services in Borno.…

Rebuild North East, Osinbajo charges CSOs

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has charged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to contribute to the rebuilding, reconstruction, reconciliation and…

NNPC records N5.53bn loss in sale of petroleum products in Sept.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says it recorded N38.67billion from the sale of downstream petroleum products in September down…

Russia holds day of mourning after 224 die in plane crash

AFP – International investigators on Sunday began probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,…

Delay in passage of PIB hurting Nigeria’s economy – Kachikwu

Nigeria looks set to unbundle a long-awaited oil law to speed up its passage through parliament, potentially unlocking billions of…

11 migrants, including 6 children, drown off Greece

Eleven migrants, including six children — four of them babies — drowned on Sunday in a new tragedy off the…

Vote out Wada, liberate yourselves from poverty, Oyegun tells Kogi electorate

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, on Saturday urged the people of Kogi to…
Organised Labour announces nationwide strike from Monday, June 3rd, over failure of to agree on a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.

NLC, TUC directs workers in Kogi to begin strike

Public service workers in Kogi State have been directed to stay off work on Nov. 2 to protest against non-release…

Bishop urges FG to fix bad roads

The Anglican Bishop of Niger, Chiedozie Nwokolo, has urged the Federal Government to repair bad roads across the country to…

Group to Ambode: Review judicial staff composition

Eromosele Ebhomele @selemele2 A Lagos, Nigeria-based right group, the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, on Saturday pleaded with…

PDP needs rebranding -APC insists

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said the resort to crude, personal attacks by PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh‎ in his latest…

Lagos shuts Marina mosque over pollution

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut down Marina’s Workers Mosque on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria over poor…

I was bus conductor— Alex Iziyon

Renowned lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Alex Iziyon has spoken about his humble beginnings and the odds he…

Nigeria issues poster of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants

Nigeria’s army is posting a photographic collage of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants that features the shadowy leader whom they…

Herdsmen warned against negative conduct

The Special Adviser to Imo Governor on Livestock and Hausa Community Affairs, Mr Hassan Adamu, has advised herdsmen in Imo…

Kogi election; Immigration warns foreigners

The Nigeria Immigration Service in Kogi on Saturday cautioned immigrants against taking part in the Nov. 21 governorship election. The…

Court convicts 95 sanitation offenders

Two Mobile Courts sitting in Benin on Saturday convicted 95 people for various sanitation offences in the state monthly environmental…
Scene of a plane crash

Plane carrying 224 passengers crashes in Sinai

A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Saturday in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said. A “Russian…

VIDEO: Nigeria too broke, cannot afford 36 ministers – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has dropped hints that his government would prune the number of ministries in the government bureaucracy because…

Survivors’ Stories: Documenting the human cost of Boko Haram

Ibrahim fled his home in Gwoza, northeast Nigeria, in August last year, when invading Boko Haram fighters took over the…

Emir Sanusi after graveyard of past emirs, says Bayero’s lawyer

Counsel to Alhaji Salim Bayero, the Kano prince who took Emir Muhammadu Sanusi to court has explained that the Emir…
Godsday Orubebe

False Assets Declaration: Orubebe to be arraigned before CCT

Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Peter Orubebe will be arraigned at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over allegations…