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Tinubu returns, visits plane crash victims

Simon Ateba/Lagos Nigeria’s opposition leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, arrived Nigeria on Saturday after a successful knee surgery in the…

Total paralysis: ASUP joins ASUU, shuts polytechnics

Nigeria’s tertiary educational sector has now been almost totally shut down with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, making…

Tinubu returns, cancels rally in honour of plane crash victims

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will return to Nigeria tomorrow after…

Mimiko absent as ex-governor Agagu buried amid tears

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Amidst tears and wailings, and despite the tragedy that befell the family as a result of a plane…

Extortion: Court Remands Ex-Cop

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered a former policeman to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly extorting money…

Ex-Rivers Speaker, Tonye Harry, Dies

Rt. Hon Tonye Harry, the immediate past Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, has passed on. P.M.NEWS learnt that…

Lagos Begins Biometric Verification Of Pensioners

The Lagos State Government has begun the biometric verification of 9,234 pensioners who retired from the civil service and judicial…

Robbery Suspect Dies In Custody

An armed robbery suspect, Emmanuel Oyibo, has died in prison custody. He was facing trial at the FCT High Court…

3 names missing in manifest of crashed plane

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent The Brazil-made Embraer 120 plane which crashed on Thursday in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, killing at least 13…

Agagu for burial tomorrow

FOLARIN ADEMOSU Barring any last minute hitch, the remains of Chief Olusegun Agagu, former Governor of the western Nigerian state…

Sons of Agagu, Falae on ill-fated flight, Obasanjo’s son not there

It has been confirmed that Feyi, the son of late former Governor Olusegun Agagu, and Deji Falae son of former…

Lagos Mourns Plane Crash Victims

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has mourned victims of the Associated Airline plane crash in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria this…

Lagos Plane Crash Update:14 Dead, Six Survivors

Simon Ateba/aviation correspondent Fourteen people died and six others survived from Thursday’s plane crash in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria, the country’s…

N77m Fraud: Ex-Oyo Commissioner, Others, Remanded In Prison

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the remand of Kazeem Adedeji, a former Oyo State Commissioner for…

Agagu’s Community Got Premonition Of Tragedy —Family Member

A member of the late Dr  Olusegun Agagu’s family, Chief Sehindemi Oguntoye, on Thursday said the community had received premonition…

Lagos Mourns Plane Crash Victims

The Lagos State Government has mourned victims of the Associated Airlines plane that crashed in Lagos, southwest Nigeria this morning.…

Late Agagu’s Ibadan Residence In Gloom

The residence of late former Governor Olusegun Agagu wore a sombre look on Thursday as news of the plane crash…

Outrage Over Ban On Tokunbo Cars

Nigerians have decried the Federal Government’s ban on the importation of fairly used cars, popularly known as tokunbo cars, into…

Disagreement Stalls Trade Fair Facelift

Redevelopment of the Lagos International Trade Fair site has stopped due to some disagreement between the concessionaire and traders at…

I Have Burgled 15 Houses —Suspect

A suspected serial house burglar, Sunday Johnson, has confessed that he has burgled at least 15 houses after he was…

Plane Crash: Agagu’s casket intact, but 2 children die

The casket carrying the corpse of Chief Olusegun Agagu, the former governor of Ondo state was found intact in the…

Plane crash latest: FAAN confirms 15 dead, 5 survivors

Simon Ateba/Lagos An Associated airlines plane crashed on Thursday morning, killing at least 15 people, just minutes after taking off…

8 bodies recovered in Lagos plane crash

Five persons were said to have survived the Associated Airline plane that crashed in Lagos, Nigeria this morning. The plane…

Plane crashes in Lagos, 20 feared dead

An Associated Airline plane bound for Akure, capital of Ondo State in western Nigeria, has crashed in Lagos. The plane…

Ojude Oba 2013: Awujale drums up support for Ijebu State

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, in western Nigeria, has for the umpteenth time canvassed support…

40 Thugs Chase Away Redeemed Church Workers

Armed hoodlums, numbering over 40, have invaded Agufoye village, site of the proposed new 3-kilometre auditorium of the Redeemed Christian…

Institute Treats 169,962 HIV/AIDS Patients

Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) said it had treated and administered anti-retroviral drugs to 169,962 people living with HIV…

Fibroids Now Common In Younger Women —Expert

Uterine fibroid has become common among younger women and not older women alone as it used to be in the…

Trader Arraigned Over Sex Slavery

For allegedly luring a woman into sex slavery in Libya, a trader, Iyabo Adefioye, was on Wednesday charged before a…

Murdered Banker: Court Fines Defence Counsel Over Delay

An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday adjourned till 31 October the adoption of final written addresses in the trial of…