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Dr Tomi Coker. Ogun State Commissioner for Health: cholera scare in Magboro

Ogun to become Health Tourist Destination of Choice – Commissioner

Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker has hinted that the present administration is determined to make the health…

Elegushi resumes as Home Affairs Commissioner

Sequel to the recent reshuffling of some members of the State Executive Council of the Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu administration, the…

College of Education to begin study of Kambari language

The Niger State College of Education, Minna says it will soon include Kambari, one of the state’s local dialects, as…
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Nigerian Govt begins distribution of cooking gas in Nasarawa

The Federal Government on Tuesday in Nasarawa state commenced the distribution of cooking gas to 13,000 rural women across the…

NIJ sacks lecturer over sexual assault

The management of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) has sacked one of its part-time lecturers, Tene John, who was…

Nigerian Navy evicts residents of Tarkwa Bay

Hundreds of people in Tarkwa Bay, an island near Lagos were evicted at gunpoint Tuesday by Nigerian navy personnel.
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Edo men face life imprisonment, caning for rape

Two men, Jimoh Imade and Matthew Chigozie, risk being committed to life imprisonment, with or without caning, if found guilty…

Army warns motorists against irregular check points

Maj. Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, has cautioned motorists against stopping at irregular security checkpoints on the…

Fashola sent to prison over alleged N20m fraud

A Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja has ordered the remand of a lawyer, Lere Fashola, in the custody…

We’ll fish out vandals who caused Abule Egba pipeline explosion – Hamzat

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat on Tuesday called for collaboration among the relevant stakeholders on how to end…

Ikosi-Isheri LCDA Chairman is dead

The Chairman, Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State, Abdulfatai Oyesanya, is dead

Lagos-Ibadan rail no longer feasible – Amaechi

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has announced that completion of the Lagos-Ibadan rail line by April 2020 is no longer feasible. 

Amotekun Protest: Police take over Gani Fawehinmi Park (UPDATED)

Armed mobile policemen, have taken over Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos, proposed venue for a protest code-named "Amotekun Solidarity…

Photos: Commercial bus on fire in Lagos

A commercial bus has caught fire at Alaromi area of Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Lagos issues illegal occupants of Jankara market ultimatum to quit

The Lagos State Government has given two weeks ultimatum to some occupants of the old Jankara market site.
Hike in Electricity tariffs to take effect July 1.

Boko Haram plunges Maiduguri into darkness

Maiduguri, capital of Borno State has been plunged into darkness since 17 January, after Boko Haram insurgents destroyed its connection…

Assembly Clerk in detention over N220m fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is investigating Mr. Torese Agena, Clerk of the Benue State House of Assembly…

Pipeline explosion: Sanwo-Olu orders security operatives to hunt down perpetrators

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered security operative to hunt down vandals whose action led to the pipeline explosion…

Massive crackdown: EFCC raids Ibadan club, arrests 89 ‘Yahoo-Boys’ 

The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested 89 suspected internet fraudsters at the…

Photo News: Trucks, cars, houses burnt in Lagos pipeline explosion

Sunday’s pipeline explosion in Ile-Epo, Abule Egba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has claimed five lives, with 33 trucks and…

UPDATE: Death toll hits five, 33 trucks, 11 houses burnt in Lagos pipeline explosion

Death toll in Sunday's pipeline explosion in Ile-Epo, Abule Egba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has reached five, with 33…

Lagos pipeline fire put out 

The raging pipeline fire in Abule Egba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has been put out by a combined team…

UPDATE: 3 dead, 11 trucks, 7 houses razed in Lagos pipeline explosion

The pipeline explosion at Ile-Epo area of Abule Egba, in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has left three persons burnt to death,…

N1000 to pass through Lekki-Ikoyi bridge from tomorrow

The Lagos State Government has warned that from 20 January anyone who turns up with cash at the Lekki-Ikoyi Toll…

Ikoyi/VI clean-up: 29 vehicles impounded in night operation

The enforcement campaign of the Special Committee on Clean Up of Ikoyi and Victoria Island was stepped up over the…

Lagos woman fakes own kidnap to extort N10m from employer

The Police in Lagos State have arrested a 26-year old woman and her boyfriend after she allegedly faked her own…

Lagos Safety Commission declares zero tolerance for safety infraction

The Director General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Lanre Mojola has declared zero tolerance for safety infractions across the State.

How bizman Odunukwe was baited by kidnappers to his death

An Anambra businessman, Ignatius Odunukwe kidnapped in December last year has been found dead, hiss body already decomposed in a…

Survivors of 2015 military massacre of Shiites in Zaria tell their stories

A new book that documents the 12-14 December 2015 massacre by Nigerian soldiers of defenceless Shiites in the Nigerian university…

Cross River bulldozes illegal shops at Calabar’s Etim-Edem Park

Over 100 illegal shops including containers erected within Etim-Edem Park in Calabar metropolis, have been demolished by the Cross River…