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Kaduna Assembly To Probe ‘Wonder’ Banks

Kaduna State House of Assembly on Thursday resolved to investigate the proliferation of ‘wonder’ banks and unregistered financial institutions in…

Suleja Bombing: Suspects’ Material Could Produce 200 Bombs

An Army Officer told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday that the bomb components seized from four suspects…

Measles Claims 5 In Kebbi

An outbreak of measles in the Ambursa/Kardi Development Area in Kebbi State, has caused the death of five children and…

Woman Docked Over Death Of Unborn Baby

A 25-year old woman, Yetunde Olafemi has been arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate’s court for allegedly causing the death of…

‘Southwest Maginalised’

The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has said that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration has neglected the Southwest, adding that the…

Jonathan arrives Bayelsa for brother’s burial

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived his hometown Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government area of Bayelsa State for the…

1000 Nigerians flee after Boko Haram killings

More than 1,000 Nigerians have fled to neighbouring Niger after six people were killed in an attack on their village…

Teenager changes plea in trial for theft

A Nigerian teenager, who earlier pleaded guilty to stealing four laptops, on Thursday changed his plea as a Surulere Magistrates’…

Housewife wins car at Nigerian sports festival raffle

A Lagos housewife in her mid-50s, Adeyinka Ademola, on Thursday won one of the five Hyundai Verna cars for the…

Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Land Scammer

Justice A. B Mohammed of the High Court of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on Thursday, December…

3 Kwara colleges stopped from running degree programmes

The three Kwara State-owned Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Oro and Lafiagi have been ordered to immediately discontinue all degree…

JTF Impounds 700 Illegal Oil Vessels

The Joint Task Force (JTF) operating in the Niger Delta said on Thursday it impounded 700 boats, barges, vessels and…

Census Tribunal nullifies 2006 census figures for 3 LGAs in Taraba

The Census Tribunal on Thursday declared as invalid the 2006 census figures of three local government areas in Taraba. A judgement delivered…

Cynthia Osokogu: Suspects To Be Arraigned At High Court Soon

The Lagos State Government has said that all suspects found culpable in the murder of Cynthia Osokogu Udoka will  be…

Boko Haram: Bombers Promised 72 Virgins In Heaven

Details emerged yesterday of the incentives promised suicide bombers of the Boko Haram sect to carry out their deadly missions.…

8 Gunmen Arrested In Kano

A team of policemen arrested eight gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect who attacked their vehicle…

No Going Back On Traffic Law —Lagos House

The Lagos State House of Assembly has declared that it will not repeal the Road Traffic Law it passed a…

4 Men Rape Dumb Girl

For allegedly having carnal knowledge of a 15-year old deaf and dumb teenage girl (name withheld), two men have been…

Lagos Assembly Holds Special Sitting For Late Speaker

The Lagos State House of Assembly this morning held a special session in honour of the former Speaker Oladimeji Longe,…

Oyo NURTW Chieftain, Tokyo Detained At SCID

The Oyo State Police Command has clarified that the factional Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),…

Fashola Raises Alarm Over Abandoned 17-Storey Building

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has raised an alarm over an abandoned 17-storey building at Okokomaiko area of Lagos…

Unlawful Detention: Undergraduate Slams N10m Suit On IGP

An undergraduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, Emeka Nnagbo alleged to have been unlawfully detained by…

Capital Oil Workers Cry For Help

When two elephants fight, the grass suffers. Such is the raging battle between AMCON and Capital Oil and Gas Industries…

Lagos Backs Discipline Corps

The Lagos State government has expressed support for  the activities of “Discipline Corps”, an organisation set up to check indiscipline…

Lekki Tollgate: Second Alternative Road Ready —LASG

As the Lekki Concession Company, LCC prepares to begin collection of tolls on the second tollgate on Eti-Osa Lekki-Epe Expressway,…

NURTW Begins Free Transport Scheme For Pregnant Women

The Jigawa State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), on Wednesday said it had introduced free…

Al-Mustapha Sues Ministry Over Landed Property

The former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza al-Mustapha has dragged the Ministry of Urban…

Bank Dragged To Court Over Trespass On Land

Ten children of deceased Lagos businessman, Anicetus Ibhagbe Eikore, have slammed N50 million suit on Diamond Bank Plc for trespass…

Ojudu Unmasks Fake Federal Roads Listed For Ekiti in 2013 Budget

Senator Babafemi Ojudu, representing Ekiti Central, today unmasked what could have been a serious fraud perpetrated in the name of…

Nigerian lawyers boycott court over killing of colleague

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Jalingo, Taraba state in Northeastern Nigeria, on Wednesday, boycotted court proceedings as a mark…