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Tiv, Jukun in bloody fight again in Taraba

Five persons were killed on Tuesday and several houses burnt in a fresh crisis between the Tiv and Jukuns in…

A cup of coffee can help fight obesity

A simple cup of coffee may hold the key to tackling obesity and diabetes, suggests a new research.

Video: I’m born again, I have a great body, beautiful – Tonto Dikeh

Controversial Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh says she is born again despite her seductive dressing and vulgar languages.

Sanwo-Olu must help this girl or she dies

Miss Fatimo Yinus, 16, is a brilliant girl and once served as the ‘One-Day Principal’ of Falomo High School, Ikoyi,…
Nigerian

Female manager, others land in trouble for stealing employer’s $298,000

A female Manager with Capital Investment Group Limited, Confidence Onabu 32, and two others have been arraigned before a Lagos…

Insecurity: Read what Vice President Yemi Osinbajo told Nigerians in New York

This is what Vice President Yemi Osinbajo told the Nigerian community in New York on the spate of kidnappings, armed…

Buhari appoints Thomas John acting board chairman for NNPC

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr Thomas John as Acting Alternate Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Governing…
Afenifere declares support for organizers of planned protest

Insecurity: Afenifere tasks Buhari on police strength

The pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to recruit more policemen from the 774 Local Government…

John Sanders US Border chief quits

Amid outcry in the United States over alarming detention conditions of migrant children in Texas, John Sanders, the acting commissioner…

Plane seat hoopla: Soyinka says it’s a minor incident

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has punctured the controversy trailing his being unseated by yet-to-be-identified Nigerian on a flight, describing…

Senate plans separate budget for police commands

The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, says the National Assembly is planning a separate budget for adequate funding…

Buhari meets Afenifere, explains ex-CJN’s suspension

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja met with the leadership of the Afenifere, where he explained why the former…

Togolese cook jailed for life for killing Lagos bizman Bademosi

Akin Kuponiyi A Togolese cook, Sunday Adefonou Anani was sentenced to life imprisonment today for killing a Lagos businessman, Chief…
Rivers

Doctor confirms 7-year-old defilement to court

A medical doctor, Oyedeji Alagbe, on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that there was forceful…
Court jails Lagos man Damilare Adewale 14 years he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl

Sales Manager sent to Prison for stealing employer’s N17.2m goods

A Sales Manager with the Geneith Pharmaceutical Company, Nduka Udachi Brown, 38 has been arrested and arraigned before a Lagos…

We’ll not permit proliferation of Vigilante in Rivers – Wike

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that the State Government will not permit the proliferation of vigilante groups, stating…

Video: Buhari receives report on autonomy of State Legislature, Judiciary

President Muhammadu President on Tuesday received the Report of the Presidential Implementation Committee on the Financial Autonomy of State Legislature…

N26.6m Fraud: ICPC drags ex-Law Reform Commission Scribe to Court

A former Secretary to the Nigeria Law Reform Commission, Mrs. Folake Abiodun Oguneye, has been arraigned before Justice M.B. Idris…

Uzoma Nwagba: The 31-Year Old Driving TraderMoni, MarketMoni, FarmerMoni

In a country scoffed for “eating its young,” it is a rarity to find young people in Nigeria thrust with…

Protests against Abba Kyari unnecessary – Buhari supporters

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has condemned recent protests by some persons claiming to be All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders…

Jailed for life, Togolese cook pays the price for killing boss

The Lagos State High Court on Tuesday sentenced a Togolese cook, Sunday Adefonou Anani, to life imprisonment for the murder…
Nigerian

Court sentences Clergy to 7 years in prison for rape

An FCT High Court Maitama, on Tuesday sentenced a clergyman Pastor Basil Princewill, founder Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya, to…
Airlines

NCAA investigates helicopter’s landing on Benin-Ore Highway

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) says it has begun full-scale investigation to ascertain the viral video of the helicopter…

EFCC arraigns suspected fraudster over $12,000 romance scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt's Zonal Office has arraigned Aretuemhen Frank (a.k.a Williams Rodgers) before Justice…
Federal High Court

Internet Fraudster forfeits N230.6m, $80.59 to FG

Justice Saliu Sai’du of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday ordered the final forfeiture of the…
Air Marshal Mohammed Umar Dikko

N9.7bn Fraud: Court adjourns Dikko’s trial to Oct 2

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of a Federal High Court, Abuja has adjourned the trial of a former Chief of Air Staff,…

Insecurity: Southwest Governors renew call for State Police

Southwest Governors on Tuesday agitate for the establishment of State Police as a panacea to solving insecurity challenges in the…
NDLEA operatives

NDLEA arrests 186 suspects, seizes 61.24kg of illicit drugs in Jigawa

Jigawa Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it had arrested no fewer than 186 suspected dealers in…

Airbus founding figure, Roger Beteille dies at 97

European aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced on Tuesday that one of its “founding fathers,” French engineer Roger Berteille, died on June…

Truck driver commits suicide in Bayelsa

A 45 year-old-man, described as a truck driver, has hanged himself inside his room at Etegwe community the Yenagoa Local…