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Police arrest son for killing father at RCCG Camp

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested Tolani Ajayi, a 21-year old student of the Department of History and International…

US, Nigeria exceptional countries – Entwistle

Simon Ateba United States top diplomats in Nigeria on Saturday 5 July said the US and Nigeria are two exceptional…

Suicide bomber kills five outside Borno mosque

A suicide bomber targeting worshippers at a mosque in Konduga village, Borno state killed five people and injured scores, a…

Two Nigerians arrested in S.Africa for scamming Australian

Magnus Ikechukwu Kamah, 38, and Nbubusi Sunday Okeke, 34, have been arrested and charged in South Africa after an attempted…

Wrongfully detained atheist freed from Kano psychiatric ward

A Nigerian man was detained on a psychiatric ward for 18 days because he did not believe in God, a…

Censor board approves viewing of ‘Half A Yellow Sun’

Nigerian censors on Friday approved the release of the civil war film “Half of a Yellow Sun” after a more…

Fashola condemns soldiers for burning BRT buses

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola has condemned Friday’s mayhem at Palmgrove area on Ikorodu Road in which irate…

Pandemonium as armed policemen invade Edo Assembly

Jethro Ibileke/Benin About 50 fully armed policemen from the Police Mobile Force unit of the Nigerian Police Friday stormed the…

Nigerian troops arrest three female Boko Haram members

Nigeria Defence headquarters said on Friday 4 July that in the aftermath of the failed suicide bombing attempt on a…

Lavish Nigerian conman, ‘Fizzy’ jailed eight years

A Nigerian fraudster nicknamed ‘Fizzy’ because of his love for champagne has been jailed for eight years for conning vulnerable…

Most Lagos BRT Drivers Are Not Fit —Lawmaker

Eromosele Ebhomele The Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Transportation, Commerce and Industry, Bisi Yusuf, has…

2 Men Face Trial For Throwing Rival Into Well

Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, have arraigned two suspects over the murder of…

Human Rights Lawyer Murdered

Yusuf Muhammed A human rights lawyer Barrister Kunle Fadipe has been murdered in his home in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. He…

Soldiers go berserk, set BRT buses on fire on Ikorodu Road

Kazeem Ugbodaga, Tunde Adekeye & Simon Ateba Irate soldiers went on the rampage on Friday morning at Palmgroove area of…

N220,000 fraud: Man Bags 14 years Jail term

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court Kano on Wednesday sentenced one Stephen Onyekachi to 14 years…

Fashola employs 265 health tech graduates, appeals to striking doctors

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has appealed to the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to call of its…

INEC sends Osun REC on compulsory leave

Ambassador Rufus Akeju, Osun state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), has been requested to proceed on leave of absence – for…

Physically challenged man dumped in refuse heap

Jethro Ibileke/Benin A man living with disability and the only child of his late mother, identified as Danjuma, has been…

Confab: Nigeria to adopt new system of government

The National Conference on Thursday 3 July voted in favour of Modified Presidential System of Government following a recommendation by…

Knocks For FG Over ASUP Strike

Damilare Okunola & Harrison Iyoha Students of various Nigerian polytechnics have blamed the protracted industrial action by their lecturers on…

‘Lagos Not For Politics Of Poverty And Stomach’

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has assured Lagosians that it is ready and prepared to…

Omisore Can’t Win Osun Election —Uncle

Eromosele Ebhomele A Lagos lawmaker and uncle to Iyoola Omisore, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the…

Jilted Graduate Commits Suicide

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A young graduate, Oluwatosin Otaiku, has stabbed himself to death because he was jilted by his fiancee. The…

Police Corporal Lynched By Driver

A driver has lynched a Police Corporal in Benin City, the Edo State capital, southern Nigeria. The incident happened on…

Confab Delegate, Niyi Akintola Suffers Cardiac Arrest

There was panic at the National Judicial Institute, NJI, venue of the ongoing National Conference, when a delegate from Oyo…

Boko Haram Attacks: Security Beefed Up In Abuja

Sola Adeola/Abuja Security surveillance over the nation’s capital, Abuja, has increased following recent bomb attacks in the city. Soldiers this…

Seadogs call for credible 2015 election

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) has called for free, fair, credible and acceptance general election in 2015 saying it…

How Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko Was Foiled 30 Years Ago

Thirty years ago, there was an attempt to kidnap a Nigerian minister, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, who died in London on…

Engineering Student Jailed For Kidnapping

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Ndudi Ogwu, an ND II Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has been convicted and sentenced…

Olu Of Ikeja Dies, markets shut down

Yisa Jamiu The Olu of Ikeja Kingdom, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi, is dead. He was said…