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Lawyer Sues FG, ASUU Over Strike

A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Daniel Onwe, has dragged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff  Union of Universities, ASUU, before…

Murder Of Housemaid: Couple To Know Fate 23 October

A Nigerian high court in Ikeja, capital of Lagos state has fixed Oct. 23 for judgment in the case of…

Dangote to build diagnostic centre, hospital in Kano

Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said on Tuesday that he would construct a 1,000-bed…

Amaechi rallies citizens against jackboot reign in Rivers

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Hacourt After repeated crackdown by the Nigeria police on peaceful assembly in Rivers state, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi…

Fashola condemns Nigeria’s centenary celebration plan

Kazeem Ugbodaga As Nigeria marks 53rd independence anniversary, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has condemned the plan by the…

Resident doctors to begin nationwide strike

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has directed its members nationwide to proceed on an indefinite strike…

SSANU joins ASUU, declares indefinite strike

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) on Monday began indefinite strike. This followed by a unanimous resolution adopted…

Jonathan faces the nation again

Less than 48 hours after he faced a panel of interviewers on television Sunday, President Goodluck Jonathan will make an…

Court proceedings end as NURTW members clash

Proceedings at the Federal High Court, Adeoyo, Ibadan, Oyo state, western Nigeria ended abruptly on Monday when two factions of…

Canada Condemns Terrorist Attack In Yobe

Canada has strongly condemned Sunday’s attack at the College of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe, where more than 40 students were killed.…

Court Remands 2 Motorcyclists For Murder

An Akure Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded two commercial motorcycle riders (Okada men), Folorunso Aliu, 37, and Akinwale Ogunro, 30,…

Civil Defence Shuts Illegal Security Companies

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, says it has shut down over 65 private security companies for operating…

ASUP To Join ASUU Strike Friday

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, saysit  will  embark on an indefinite strike from Friday, 4 October, 2013 to…

Students’ Massacre: Our School Not Guarded —Provost

The Provost of Yobe State College of Agriculture where Boko Haram massacred at least 42 students of the college in…

Okonjo-Iweala’s Dad Fight Over Throne

The  battle between Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo, father of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, and a royal family over the…

Fashola Opens West Africa’s Tallest Hotel

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos, built at a cost…

APC Appeals To Boko Haram To Ceasefire

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Boko Haram to immediately cease all attacks and embrace dialogue in the…

2 Principals In Soup Over Illegal Levies

Two Principals of junior secondary schools in Ilorin, Kwara State, central Nigeria, are in soup for allegedly imposing and collecting…

PDP denies APC allegation on poll rigging

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has no plans to rig the 2015 presidential and general elections as alleged by the…

Kogi deputy governor unhurt in road accident

Mr. Yomi Awoniyi, the Deputy Governor of the central Nigerian state of Kogi on Sunday escaped unhurt in an accident…

Governor cries after another Boko Haram massacre

It was an emotional scene as the Governor of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Yobe visited the capital’s specialist hospital…

Police, in new crackdown, stop pro-Amaechi group launch

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Hracourt The Nigerian police in Rivers State has moved to stop the inauguration of a Pro-Governor Chibuike Rotimi…

Jonathan on hot seat Sunday

President Goodluck Jonathan will face a panel of interviewers on Sunday, beginning from 7p.m. The Presidential Media Chat will be…

42 die,100 missing in boat mishap on River Niger

No fewer than 42 people were drowned in a boat mishap on River Niger close to Malilli village in Borgu…

Lagos Assembly honours Oshinowo, late first speaker

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE It was a solemn moment at the Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria on Friday as the…

Kwara CAN boycotts Nigeria’s independence anniversary

THE Kwara state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has rejected the state government’s request to be part…

600 acres of hemp farm found in Ekiti

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday discovered a 600-acre hemp farm at Ode-Ekiti in the Gbonyin Local…

Traditional Ruler In Court Over N3.3m Land Fraud

A traditional ruler, Chief Wasiu Maiyegun, on Friday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with duping…

Police Arraign 23 Traffic Offenders In Ogun

Twenty-three persons who violated various traffic laws on Friday pleaded guilty before a Senior Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun. The…

Appeal: Bode George Knows Fate Dec

Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Thursday fixed 13 December to deliver judgment in an appeal filed by a stalwart of the…