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Health workers protest non payment of 7-month salary

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of primary healthcare workers attached to health centres across the 23 local government areas of Rivers…

Valencia defeat NPFL All-Stars 2-1

The Nigeria Professional Football League All-Stars side lost 2-1 against Valencia in their first game of the NPFL La Liga…

AFRIMA 2016: AU to announce official host city Monday

The African Union Commission in partnership with the International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, will on Monday,…

Clinton: Trump incited violence with ‘Second Amendment’ remarks

Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton has said Donald Trump incited violence when he said gun rights supporters could stop her…

Police arrest robber, recover locally-made pistol

Kazeem Ugbodaga The police in Lagos have arrested a suspected armed robber with a locally-made pistol at Maroko area of…

Local chief nabbed for car snatching

The police have arrested a local chief in Kokoro near Idiroko for allegedly being part of a car snatching syndicate…
Court jails Lagos woman, Bose Lateef arrested by EFCC while hawking naira notes at Eko Club after she pleaded guilty to money racketeering.

Naira strengthens against dollar

The Naira on Wednesday appreciated against the dollar at the parallel market. The Nigerian currency on Wednesday afternoon gained 5…

Shell declares force majeure on gas supply to NLNG

Following the discovery of a leak on its pipeline, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) has declared force…

Pictures: Completion of pedestrian bridge at Berger bus stop

Pedestrian Bridge at Berger bus stop being used by the people shortly after completion along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by the Lagos…

Groups launch campaign to support Leprosy patients

By Daniels Ekugo The Junior Chamber International, Nigeria (JCI) in collaboration with NIPPON Foundation has launched a nationwide campaign titled:…

Suspected rapists to face trial

Three young men who allegedly gang-raped a 20-year-old undergraduate in the Agege area of Lagos, will on Thursday face trial…

Olympics: Basketball fans sad D’Tigers lost to Lithuania

Basketball fans on Wednesday expressed disappointment with the D’Tigers who fell to Lithuania 80-89 in their second group game of…

Resident doctors begin strike in Ogun

Resident doctors in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria have begun indefinite strike to demand for non-implementation of the skipping of Consolidated…

List of unaccredited courses in varsities out

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released a list of unaccredited courses in Nigerian universities. The NUC warned that any…

Community policing curbed kidnapping in Imo – CP

The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, has said that community policing helped in subduing kidnappers in the…

Killer of 21-year-old woman arrested in Kano

The Police in Kano on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old barber, Mr Shamsu Isah, for allegedly killing a 21-year-old lady at…

Jail break: 15 allegedly escapes from Nsukka prison

No fewer than 15 inmates were believed to have escaped from Nsukka Prison in Enugu state in a jail-break that…
Gov. Badaru Abubakar dissolves cabinet

Jigawa governor sacks Commissioner

Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa on Wednesday sacked the state Commissioner for Land, Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Adamu Sarki.…

3-year sore forced me into stealing-Suspect

Kazeem Ugbodaga A twenty-year old man arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) for allegedly stealing a…

UNFPA to introduce Nigerian husbands’ school

Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), says a Husbands’ School will be introduced in Nigeria to…

Husband seeks divorce because wife patronises herbalists

A 52-year-old businessman, Lateef Oteshile, approached an Igando Customary Court on Wednesday in Lagos to dissolve his 24-year-old marriage over…

SS 3 student defiles 3-year-old girl

A 17-year-old secondary school student, Muyideen Lawal, who allegedly defiled a three-year-old girl, was on Wednesday brought before a Surulere…

Ambode orders repair of Agege Stadium scoreboard

The Chairman, Lagos State Sports Commission, Deji Tinubu, on Wednesday said that Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the repair of…

20 soldiers face Army court-martial

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday constituted a General Court Martial to try 20 soldiers of different ranks for offences ranging…

Fake estate agent, faces N1m theft charge

A 55-year-old man, Suleman Akinyemi, was on Wednesday charged before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding four…

LASG vows to flush out kidnappers, other criminals

The Lagos State Government has said that it would be resolute in its efforts at flushing out kidnappers, armed robbers…

White House Race: Some U.S. Republicans want Trump to quit

Nearly one-fifth of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to…
MACBAN alleges that killings of innocent herders by a vigilance group is going on in Sokoto State with 16 lives lost so far.

Enugu men divorce women raped by Fulani herdsmen

Eke Town Union in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State has decried the increasing rate of divorce occasioned by…

Cambodian judge ends trial of 8 suspected Nigerian drug dealers

The trial of eight Nigerians arrested on suspicion of selling hard drugs from their church in Cambodia has been concluded.…

Father puts pepper in daughter’s privates

An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday remanded a 37-year-old father, Okoro Odia, in prison custody for putting grounded pepper…