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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,…

Nigerian massacre: Red Cross puts death toll at 187

The Red Cross has revealed that an estimated 187 people died in Baga, in Borno state, weekend after Nigerian soldiers…

Appelate court stall Daniel’s trial again

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje of the Ogun State High Court 3, Isabo, Abeokuta this morning adjourned till July…

Ladipo Market leader arraigned over N52m fraud

Henry Ojelu Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today arraigned the embattled President of Aguiyi Ironsi Market, popularly known…

Amosun promises to complete Ijebu-Ode bridges

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of the western Nigerian state of Ogun, has given assurance to the people of…

Married Man, 2 Others Charged With Rape

A 7-year old girl who was a victim of sexual abuse has narrated to the police how she was serially…

Ekiti state declares 26 April holiday for Olayinka

The government of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti has declared April 26 as work-free day in honour of the…

Accident: Gov. Okorocha In UK for medical check-up

Governor Rochas Okorocha of the eastern Nigerian state of Imo is expected back soon after undergoing a successful head scanning…

Atiku to deliver lecture on African democracy in Geneva

Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will be the guest of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations on…

Late Justus Esiri, Ugbomah, Effah Shine At AMAA

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE/Yenagoa Late veteran actor Justus Esiri last night emerged the Best Actor in Africa at the ninth annual Africa…

Bamigbetan: My Ordeal In The Hands Of Kidnappers

Kazeem Ugbodaga& Jamiu Yisa Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman of the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, in the Nigerian state of…