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Doctors Begin Warning Strike

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Wednesday embarked on a warning strike over poor funding of residency training…

Bank Staff Arrested For Robbery

Robert Olusegun, a staff of a new generation bank who allegedly waylaid a customer and robbed him of N4.7 million…

IG Appoints New Commandant For Police College

The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, has approved the appointment of Malam Yahaya Garba, a Commissioner of Police,…

NDLEA Arrests 194 Suspected Drug Offenders

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 194 drug suspects and confiscated 23.6 kilogrammes of cannabis and other…

N5.2B Fraud: Court Frees Elumelu, Ugbane

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court on Wednesday, quashed a 62 count charge brought…

Bank staff arrested for robbery

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Robert Olusegun, a staff of a new generation bank who waylaid a customer and robbed him of N4.7…

3 Hezbollah-linked Lebanese charged with terrorism

Nigeria on Wednesday charged three Lebanese allegedly linked to the militant Shiite movement Hezbollah with terrorism related offences. Five Lebanese…

8 Arrested At Fake Cement Factory

The Nigerian Army Wednesday disclosed that eight persons have been arrested at a fake cement factory in Ewekoro town in…

Robbers Raid Hotel For Dollars

Unidentified gunmen on Monday struck at a popular hotel in Ajao Estate, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, and carted away millions…

How I Esaped From Prison —Re-Arrested Suspect

A former militant leader turned suspected kidnapper, has opened up on how he escaped from Oko Prison custody. The suspect,…

Reps Member Decries Persecution Of Fani-Kayode

Executive Chairman, House Committee on Human Rights, Rotimi Makinde representing Ife Central Constituency in the House of Representatives, has condemned…

The Highway Of Death

Nigerians are not finding it easy on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway writes EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The refusal of both the Federal Government…

Tinubu commissions Mokola Flyover Bridge, 2 others

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The sprawling city of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, literally stood still on Tuesday, as dignitaries trooped in…

Amaechi vows to lead protest against Police chief, FG

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Nigeria’s Rivers State has vowed that he is just waiting for an…

Politician charged with rape of minor

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria’s central state of Kwara, has ordered the remand in prison of…

Another Deathrow Inmate Faces Firing Squad

A prison inmate on deathrow in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, ThankGod Ebhos, will any moment from…

Fashola To Construct 450 Roads By 2015

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says his administration targets completing 450 roads before the end of his second term…

2 Brothers Rent Out R/Parlour For N2m To 100 Tenants

Two brothers, Idowu Usman, 40, and Rasheed Usman, 38, have  been arrested and charged before Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly…

7 Rapists Jailed 52 Years

Seven rapists have been jailed by various family courts for aggregate 52 years for raping adult female and minor girls…

Jonathan Orders Sack Of Corrupt Civil Servants

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday directed the Head of Service of the Federation to provide immediate solutions to corruption and…

Convicts At Kuje Prison Call For Amnesty

Some convicts at the Medium Security Prison, Kuje, Abuja, on Monday pleaded with the authorities to consider them for amnesty.…

4 convicts hanged in Benin

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Four convicts who had been on the death row were Monday executed by hanging in Benin City, capital…

Amosun Swears in 2 Special Advisers

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The governor of the western Nigerian state of Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun has sworn in two new special…

Bamigbetan’s alleged kidnappers killed by police

By Ayodeji Dedeigbo The Lagos State Special Anti-robbery Squad has killed seven suspected kidnappers and arrested two others during a…

Court Remands Driver For Reckless Driving

Mr. Sunday Ani, a commuter bus driver was Monday remanded in prison custody by an Oredo Chief Magistrate’s Court in…

How Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Others Cause Kidney Failure –Report

As acute kidney failure ravages the world and especially third world countries including Nigeria, various medical research sites on the…

Toddler Dies In Uncovered Soakaway Pit

There was confusion at 36, Damilola Morounfolu Street, Orisumbare, Akowonjo area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, at about 5.30pm Sunday,…

‘Mogaji Was More Than A Mother-In-Law To Me’

The lawmaker representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has showered encomium on the late President/Iyaloja General, Alhaja Abibat…

No Hajj For Previous Pilgrims

The Lagos State Government has barred all Lagosians who have gone on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia before from embarking on…

‘We’re Determined To Stem Maternal, Child Mortality’

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, says the state government is determined to stem maternal and child mortality…