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Danger Looms In Ejigbo As Petrol Leaks From NNPC Pipelines

Cyriacus Izuekwe Residents of Ejigbo and Diamond Estate in Isheri Olofin are now living in fear over the danger of…

62 Abandoned Babies Rescued In Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga At least 62 babies abandoned by their mothers on the streets of Lagos have been rescued by the…

Fire destroys N23bn property, kills 157 in Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga Fire has destroyed estimated properties worth N23.02 billion and has killed 157 people in Lagos state in the…

5 more die of gin poisoning in Ondo

A total of 23 people have now died from ethanol poisoning blamed on locally brewed gin in southwest Nigeria, the…

I’ll work with opposition for greater Imo – Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo and winner of Saturday’s governorship election has extended a hand of fellowship to his opponents…

Ondo State deputy gov. Alli Olanusi impeached

The Ondo State deputy governor, Alhaji Alli Olanusi, has been impeached by members of the state House of Assembly this…

Court freezes ex-Reps 11 bank accounts over N100m debt

Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, has ordered eleven commercial banks in Nigeria not to…

Bar NDDC from accessing 2015 budget, Activists tell court

Jethro Ibileke/Benin ‎ ‎A group of Niger Delta Activists, Civil Rights Lawyers and Non Profit Organizations, have dragged the President…

Reduce cost of governance, lawmaker tells Assembly

A newly-elected member of the House of Representatives, Mike Etaba, said the 8th National Assembly must facilitate Bills and oversight…

Pedestrian bridge collapses, kills 7 in Kano

No fewer than seven people were killed in Kano on Sunday when a pedestrian bridge at Dorayi quarters, Kano, collapsed,…

IDPs commend Borno on feeding, welfare

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno on Sunday commended the state government for its free feeding arrangement for displaced persons…

NNPC: I’ll probe missing $20 billion- Buhari

Efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan administration to close the curtain on allegations of unremitted $20billion into the national coffers by…

Ignore political defectors, Primate tells Buhari

The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, the Metropolitan and Primate of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), has urged President-elect Muhammadu Buhari…
Aisha Alhassan also known as Mama Taraba

APC rejects Taraba guber result, heads to tribunal

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the just-concluded governorship election in Taraba, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, has rejected the results…

PDP prepares self for opposition, sets up 5 committees

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara has set up five committees to reposition the party after its defeat in…

Buhari won’t disappoint Nigerians, APC promises

Eromosele Ebhomele The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, said it would not disappoint Nigeria and her citizens irrespective of…

APC Warns Against Last-Minute Looting Of Nation’s Treasury

Eromosele Ebhomele The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday decried allegations of last-minute looting of the nation’s resources, hurried recruitment…

FCT Police Arrests Notorious Impostors

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested notorious fraudsters and impersonators who operate in city. FCT Police…
Former Governor Willie Obiano says late President Muhammadu Buhari ensured that Anambra votes truly counted during elections under his watch

Run from Obiano, Group tells Buhari

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja A socio-polical pressure group, Maka Odinma Anambra, has enjoined Governor Willie Obiano and other leaders of the South…
Goodluck Jonathan, former president of Nigeria

FG, EU Sign N325m grant for psychosocial support for Borno children, adolescents

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Government and the European Union (EU), over the weekend signed a financing agreement for the grant…

Nigeria provokes South Africa’s anger after envoys recall

*Pretoria reminds Nigeria of its serious security shortcomings *Boko Haram insurgency and kidnap of Chibok girls The South African government…

Hopes of female governor dashed, as PDP wins Taraba

Darius Ishaku of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won the Taraba supplementary governorship election held on Saturday. The Returning…

PDP’s Ikpeazu wins Abia state

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has been declared winner of the governorship election in Abia…

Okorocha declared Imo state governor-elect

Governor Rochas Okorocha has been declared winner of the governorship election in Imo state, east of Nigeria. Okorocha, candidate of…

USA: Nigerian woman kills husband for sleeping with sister

Temitope Adebamiro, 35, a Nigerian, has been charged with killing her husband, Adeyinka Adebamiro, 37, over infidelity claims. The culprit…

Lagos gas explosion injures three

An explosion at Allen Gas, a cooking gas supplier, depot in Isolo, Ago Palace Way, in Lagos, is said to…

Xenophobic Attacks: Nigeria recalls Ambassadors from South Africa

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria government on Saturday recalled its High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Martin Cobham, and his deputy, Uche…

Okorocha in clear lead, set to be named Imo’s governor-elect

From all indications, Governor Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress will soon be declared governor-elect of Imo state, for…

PDP senator, Uzodinma arrested for poll cheating

Senator Hope Uzodinma of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was among some three dozen poll cheats arrested by the Nigerian…

Man Bags 2years Jail for Internet Fraud

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja An internet fraudster, Okwuka Olisaebuka Ifeanyi, whose modus operandi is to hack into people’s email to commit fraud,…