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Farmer, 22, Remanded Over Murder Of Man, 70

A Makurdi Chief Magistrate’s Court presided over by Mrs. Theresa Wergbah on Tuesday remanded a 22-year old farmer, Aondoyila Agbidye,…

Man Loses 3 Kids In Lagos Boat Mishap

The man who lost three of his children in a boat mishap at Imude in Otto Awori Local Council Development…

Gunmen Rob, Kill Car Dealer

Four armed men on Monday robbed and killed a middle-aged car dealer, Chief Emeka Ekwerendu, at Modebe Avenue Junction in…

Kaduna Bombing: Expose Terrorists Now-Makinde Tells Jonathan

The Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr. Ola Makinde has called on the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government and all…

13 Prisoners Freed In Ijebu-Ode, Sagamu

The Ogun State Chief Judge, Justice Tokunbo Olopade, on Monday set free 13 inmates in Ijebu-Ode and Sagamu prisons. The…

21 Nigerian Pilgrims Die In Saudi

Twenty-One Nigerian pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia, the National Hajj Commission has announced. Male pilgrims that died were 13. The…

AJEGUNLE: Rise And Fall Of ‘ One Million And One’ Robbery Gang

For months, residents of Ajegunle, in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, found sleep a luxury. Why? They…

Trade Fair: Construction Of Pavilions, Shops Begins At TBS

Construction of exhibition halls and shops have picked up at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), the venue of the 26th…

Couple Arraigned For Neglecting Parental Duty

Mr Sikiru Adebayo and his wife, Fatimo, were on Monday arraigned before an Oyo Magistrate’s court for neglecting their parental…

Balogun, Edo State Police boss bows out

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Edo State Police Commissioner, Olayinka Balogun this morning bowed out of the police service after attaining the retirement…

Edo House sacks council committees

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Edo state House of Assembly has dissolved the 18 local government transition committees with immediate effect. This was…

Oshiomhole gives doctors sack warning

JETHO IBILEKE/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has threatened doctors and other medical workers on the pay roll of…

Nigerian paedophile,62, arrested by police

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Police in Ogun state, western Nigeria have arrested a 62 year old man, Mr Alabi Ibraheem who…

Disabled beggar donates ”widow’s mite” to flood victims

A middle aged Nigerian beggar, identified as Simon Ozoemena, has stunned government officials in Anambra state, eastern Nigeria, by making…

Bombing: Catholic Church leader calls for true dialogue

The Kaduna Catholic Archdiocese, on Monday called on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to dialogue with the Federal Government…

Kaduna: Residents indoors as troops patrol city

Nigerian soldiers patrolled the streets of Kaduna Monday, a day after at least 10 people were killed and 145 wounded…

Dead man boarded Arik plane from Lagos

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s biggest airline, Arik Air, said on Monday it has established that the man whose corpse was…

SUICIDE BOMBING: Shops Shut In Kaduna

Following reprisal attack in the wake of the bombing of Saint Rita Catholic Church, Anguar Yero, Malahi, Kaduna, Kaduna State,…

Lawyers Decry State Of Courts In Lagos

Some Lagos-based lawyers have appealed to the Lagos State Government to provide electronic gadgets in magistrates’ courts to facilitate court…

Police Smash 3-Man Robbery Gang

The police in Lagos, southwest Nigeria have smashed a three-man armed robbery gang and arrested two of them while the…

Community On Rampage Over Dead Man Found In Well

Hell was let loose recently in Abayawo,  Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Southwest Nigeria after a middle aged man’s corpse was…

Fashola-Okada: When The Going Was Good

In the heat of electioneering campaign for the 2011 Governorship election, the romance between Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State…

Why Fashola, Amosun Failed To Resolve Ode Omi Crisis

Although, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his counterpart in Ogun State, Mr. Ibikunle Amosun, were able to resolve…

Army raid yields arms in Damaturu

The Joint Task Force (JTF) security outfit in Nigeria’s Yobe state, said on Monday it had recovered assorted arms in…

Driver on phone in fatal crash

An accident has happened in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, after the driver of a lToyota Tundra, deep in a…

10 drown as boat capsizes in Lagos Lagoon

Kazeem Ugbodaga and Yisa Jamiu/Metro Reporters Tragedy struck today in Otto-Awori Local Council Development Area, LCDA of Lagos State, Southwest…

4 prisoners escape in Nigerian jail break

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Two prisoners of the Federal Prisons in Ahoada in Nigeria’s Rivers state were killed yesterday in a…

10 dead, many wounded in Kaduna’s day of violence

The suicide bombing of Kaduna’s St Rita Catholic Church and the counter attack that it has spawned has Nigerian church…

Kaduna: Christian mobs in counter attacks

Christian mobs with machetes and sticks took to the streets of Nigeria’s Kaduna state targeting people they suspected to be…

Bloody Sunday as Bomb blast rocks Kaduna

FEMI ADI/KADUNA Correspondent Just when Nigerians thought it was going to be a violence-free Sallah weekend, a bomb blast has…