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JAMB Warns Candidates Against Exam Malpractice

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates, who will sit for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination…

I Want To Rescue Delta From Tyrants —Keyamo

Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Festus Keyamo, who recently announced his plans to contest in the forthcoming governorship election…

500,000 Benefit From Lagos Waste Management

At least half a million people now benefit from the management of wastes in Lagos state, southwest Nigeria through direct…

Distressed Buildings: Lagos Pays Landlords, Gives Them Quit Notice

The Lagos State government has issued two weeks quit notice to occupants of three distressed two-storey buildings at Oke-Afa Housing…

KAI Shuts Shops On Awolowo Way

The Lagos state government, southwest Nigeria, Thursday shut all the shops on Awolowo Way, Ikeja. The exercise which was carried…

Poisionous Amala Meal Wipes Out Family Of 3

Three members of a family, Isioma Ufili, 4, Victoria Ufili, 30 (mother) and Favour Nkiruka Ufili, 26, have died after…

Family of murdered Sa’adatu Rimi to appeal verdict

The family of late Hajiya Sa’adatu Abubakar Rimi, who was murdered in 2006, on Thursday said they would appeal against…

Fayemi, others shower encomiums on Olayinka

GBENRO ADESINA/ADO-EKITI Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and other members of the state council and the legislators at the…

Fayemi weeps as body of Deputy Governor arrives

GBENRO ADESINA/Ado Ekiti Hundreds of Ekiti State residents, including top government officials, politicians, senior civil servant, students, traders, artisans and…

Bamigbetan recounts abduction trauma

Jamiu Yisa Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area,in Nigeria’s most populous state of Lagos, has…

Child Trafficking: Nigerian Woman In Police Net

A 40-year old woman from Niger Republic, west Africa, Mrs Bose Saliu, has been arrested by the police for her…

Baga Massacre: Jonathan Vows Action

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday assured Nigerians and members of the international community of the commitment of his administration to…

16 Street Traders Jailed For Attacking KAI Officials

A Lagos magistrate’s court sitting at the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI brigade office, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has…

Tax Evasion: Lagos Sues 20 Companies

The Lagos State Government has sued 20 companies in the state for defaulting in tax payment as it steps up…

Lead Poisoning Treatment Starts In Zamfara

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday that it had begun treating children exposed to the worst-ever lead poisoning epidemic, after…

Man Remanded For Killing Own Father

A 20-year old man, Ibrahim Sanni Mai-Gunjo, arraigned before a magistrate’s court, Ilorin, Kwara state capital, northcentral Nigeria, for allegedly…

In Picture: Jonathan and the masked woman

What could be going on in the mind of Nigeria’s President Ebele Goodluck Jonathan when shaking hands with this woman?…

Okebukola blames sub-standard education on policies

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The former secretary National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola (OFR) has blamed the falling standard of education…

Amosun Flags Off Climate Protection Project

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwestern, Nigeria has declared his government’s readiness to support the initiative…

Judgment day fixed in Nigeria’s battle of first ladies

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Indications emerged Tuesday at an Abuja Court that the negotiated out of court settlement between the…

Ajimobi promises aid to tanker fire victims

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of western Nigerian state of Oyo has promised to assist victims of Monday’s fire incident at Omitowoju…

Alleged Forgery: FG trims counts against journalists

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Federal government on Tuesday intensified effort in the trial of Leadership newspapers’ journalists as it…

Soyinka Wins Anisfield-Wolf Award

The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday in America, won the Lifetime Achievement award of the…

Ogun Sacks Kara Scavengers’ Colony

The Ogun State Ministry for Physical Planning has demolished the scavengers’ colony in Kara, Ogun State. The makeshift houses built…

Pregnant Tenant Loses Baby To Forceful Eviction

A pregnant woman, Mrs Fatimah Idiris Idoko, has lost her six months pregnancy after her landlord allegedly ejected her family…

Nigerian leaders need psychiatric tests, says Ganiat Fawehinmi

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Widow of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Mrs. Ganiat, has described political leaders in the country as having…

Oshiomhole Warns Igbinedion on ‘elderly rascality’

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Monday sounded a stern warning to 79 year old Chief Gabriel…

Houses razed in Ibadan in petrol tanker fire

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN About fifty houses, a mosque, shops, vehicles and other property worth several millions of naira were lost to…

ACN slams PDP over council polls

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo State Monday slammed the state chapter of…

US condemns Baga massacre

The United States Monday condemned clashes between troops and Islamist militants in Baga, in Nigeria’s north eastern state of Borno,…