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Woman Caught Stealing Baby Through Window

Nkem Taiye-Ulebor & Yusuf Muhammed For allegedly trying to steal a year old girl from her parents’ house early this…

Family Of 4, Others Electrocuted

Kazeem Ugbodaga A fallen high tension wire has electrocuted six people in Oworonshoki area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. The incident…

High murder rate prevalent in Africa – UN

Murders have gone down worldwide but half of them still occur in countries with just 11 per cent of the…

Two killed, many injured, during UEFA match in Yobe

Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed a packed viewing centre in Potiskum, Yobe state and shot dead two…

Navy destroys 265 illegal refineries in 3 weeks

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta, Warri Naval Command said it destroyed 265 illegal refineries and burnt 100, 000 tonnes…

Belo-Osagie speaks on success, failure and importance of family

Nigeria’s businessman, Hakeem Belo-Osagie has shared with students of Wake Forest University, North Carolina, United States some of the peaks…

London court considers confiscation of Ibori assets

Jailed James Onanefe Ibori, former governor of Nigeria’s Delta state has been facing a confiscation hearing at Southwark Crown Court.…

Osoba pushes for return to regionalism at confab

.What Mike Ozekhome, other delegates said on Wednesday at the Abuja National Conference The call for restructuring of Nigeria into…

Enugu officials killed my 17-year old son – Mother

The mother of a 17-year old boy allegedly beaten to death by officials of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority…
About 146,000 Tobacco Smokers die in Africa

Nigeria moves against tobacco firms with new law

Nigeria’s federal government signified its intention to tighten the noose on tobacco companies operating in Nigeria with the proposal for…

Kidnapping Has Reduced In Rivers State, Says Police Boss

The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr Tunde Ogunshakin, on Wednesday said that the spate of kidnapping in the…

APC members protest in Lagos over Ward Congresses

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos stormed the party’s secretariat today, protesting a publication that excluded…

LUTH Doctors End Strike

The Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Tuesday said its members would resume work on…

Lagos Shuts Illegal Orphanage, Removes 5 Kids

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut down an illegal orphanage and rescued five children at Agbado area of…

I’m Not Dating Any Man, Says Actress Funke Akindele

Funsho Arogundade Star actress, Funke Akindele, has described reports that she has fallen in love with a new man and…

Knocks For Fani-Kayode For Meeting With Jonathan

Eromosele Ebhomele Many Nigerians who could not bear the way chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Femi Fani-Kayode, went to…

Fani Kayode meets with Jonathan after APC diatribe

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja There were speculations that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and lately, a member of the…
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Amosun promotes over 2,000 civil servants

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwest, Nigeria has approved the promotion of 2,141 civil servants. In a…

Godswill Akpabio hands Nigeria over to God

The Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Mr Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday urged clerics to pray for God’s intervention in the…

Thai police nabs Nigerian, Briton for selling cocaine

Police in Phuket, Thailand have arrested a Nigerian seller of crack, after a sting operation. The operation involved a series…

Ghana court jails 2 Nigerians for theft

Two Nigerians identified as Obilo Solomon Chigozie and Nande Okafor have been sentenced to a total of 20 years imprisonment…

Ex-deputy governor among Obiano’s commissioners

Governor Willie Obiano of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Tuesday nominated 19 commissioners and 10 special advisers for…

One dead in film shooting fracas in Ilorin

At least one person was killed and many others injured in a fracas that broke out during a film shooting…

JAMB assures hitch-free exams, builds 10 computer-based centers

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it had built 10 Computer-based Testing (CBT) centres for smooth conduct…

Lagos residents lament poor power supply

Some residents of Ojota, Lagos state staged a peaceful protest over what they described as the epileptic power supply in…

Okorodudu’s N82.8m Theft Trial Adjourned Till April 28

Henry Ojelu A Lagos High Court today fixed April 28 for ruling on an application filed by the Economic and…

Gov. Fashola Opens Economic Summit

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola today declared open the 7th Lagos Economic Summit, tagged Ehingbetti 2014, with the…

Island Hoodlums Attack Policemen, Burn Patrol Van

Paul Iyoghojie Eleven suspected hoodlums in Adeniji Adele area of Lagos Island, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have been arrested and …

Crisis Rocks Ladipo Spare Parts Market

Cyriacus Izuekwe Crisis rocked Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin, Lagos, western Nigeria, last weekend after a 48-year old…

Tax Evasion: Lagos Shuts 72 Companies

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has sealed 72 companies in the first quarter of the year for failure…