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Oyinlola fails in return bid to PDP office

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Embattled former national secretary of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former governor of Osun…

The obscene looting of Nigeria’s wealth, NIMASA style!

How much does a new 200KVA generator cost? Either basic or soundproof, the cost is less than N20million. But an…

Mechanic charged with gang-raping teenager

The police in Lagos on Wednesday charged a 30-year-old mechanic, Taofik Ogunshola, with leading a five-man gang that abducted and…

Right Groups Condemn Detention Of Nigeria Journalists

Media rights groups on Tuesday condemned the detention by police of Nigerian journalists who refused to disclose their source for…

Woman Accountant, Other Suspected Pension Thieves Re-Arraigned

Former Police Pension Officials were on Wednesday re-arraigned before Justice Hussain Baba of an Abuja High Court on an amended…

Man Jailed 6 Months For Impersonation

An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced Aminu Yerima, who was charged with impersonating the National Security Adviser, retired…

Lagos Traders Count Losses After Prolonged Rain

Some traders in the various markets in Lagos sustained financial losses yesterday following the prolonged rain which began in the…

Lightning Kills Lagos Student

Following the heavy rain that fell across Lagos State Tuesday, the accompanying lightning struck dead a Senior Secondary School 3…

Mass Burial For 70 Ore Accident Victims

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Tuesday said the mass burial for the 70 accident victims at Ugbogui, Edo,…

Attack On DPO: 26 TASCE Students Expelled

At least 26 students of Tai Solarin College of Education, TASCE, Omu-Ijebu in Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State,…

Doctor Injects Woman To Death A Month To Wedding

A 24-year old woman, Sophia Ifeoma Obi, has died after she was injected by a suspected quack doctor. She was…

Woman Whips Maid With Wire

A housewife has been arrested by the police in Ikotun division, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, for allegedly maltreating her 10-year…

2013 Hajj: Lagos To Allocate 80% Slot To Fresh Pilgrims

The Lagos State Government says it will allocate 80 percent of the slots given to the state to intending pilgrims…

No More Cancellation Of Sanitation Exercise For WASCE, UTME

The Lagos State Government says it would no longer cancel the monthly environmental sanitation exercise for national examinations, such as…

11 bodies of killed cops found, one still missing

Nigeria’s Security agents Tuesday found 11 bodies of policemen declared missing at the weekend in the southern Bayelsa state, police…

Nollywood legend, Justus Esiri Begins Final Journey

Veteran actor, Justus Esiri, 70, began his final journey home yesterday with a Tribute Night organised in his honour by…

Lawyer’s withdrawal stalls Lagos Speaker’s trial

Akin Kuponiyi Nigeria’s Federal High Court Justice Okechukwu Okeke’s plan to accord accelerated hearing in the money laundering case against…

Protesting TASCE Students attack DPO

Abiodun Onafuye/Ijebu-Ode Protesting students of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State southwest Nigeria, clashed with policemen…

Tenant Sends Landlord To Prison Over Missing Chicken

A Nigerian landlord, Olubukunaji Obajimi, 56, has been remanded in prison after he was arraigned in court for locking his…

Paedophile, 48, remanded after assaulting baby 15 mths old

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year old Nigerian paedophile, Slyvester Ehiyele, who allegedly raped his own daughter, 7, and 15 month-old grand-daughter…

60 Lagos Civil Servants Escape Death

BAYO ADETU At least, sixty workers of the Lagos State Government escaped death early this morning after the brake of…

7 killed, houses burnt in clashes with herdsmen

There appears no end in sight in the bloodletting between Fulani herdsmen and settler-farmers in Nigeria’s Plateau state. With close…

Police: Kidnapped woman a Nigerian not American

Alhaji Usman Abubakar, the Commissioner of Police in the eastern Nigerian state of Abia, has refuted reports that an American…

Nigeria: Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20

A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20…

4 Nigerian journalists detained by police

Nigerian police have detained four journalists after they refused to disclose the source of an alleged presidential document that calls…

Nigeria: Mass burial for victims of weekend tragic accident

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Arrangements have been concluded to bury en masse victims of last Friday’s fatal auto accident that occurred at…

Nigeria’s police boss orders manhunt for cop-killers

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja In a reaction to the killing of 12 policemen at Azuzama, in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa state,…

Assemblyman to pay N300K to colleagues for reciting Yoruba alphabets

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Southwest Nigeria is to give out the sum of…

Akingbola seeks court’s nod to travel for medical treatment

Henry Ojelu The embattled former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, has filed a motion before an Ikeja…

New Law To Tackle Omo Onile Menace Coming —Fashola

A new law to criminalise land grabbing is on the way, says Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, saying government…