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Aba trader sent to prison over dollar theft

Paul Iyoghojie A trader based in Aba, Abia State, Southeast Nigeria, Ogbonnaya Mba, 54, has been arraigned before a Lagos…

Lagos police arrest 375 robbers

Kazeem Ugodaga Lagos State Police arrested 375 suspected armed robbers and killed 40 other robbers during gun battle in the…

Man arrested for killing neighbour over missing cloth

Cyriacus Izuekwe The police in Lagos State, western Nigeria, have arrested a middle aged man identified as Akeem Fuwad for…

NANCE to hold campus editors in Unilag

Lukmon Akintola The National Association of Nigerian Campus Editors (NANCE) is set to hold its second edition of Campus Editors’…

Steer clear of Lagos, APC warns Biafran protesters

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned those planning to hold demonstration in…

Youth Minister withdraws Certificate of Recognition of VYOs

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Minister for Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalong has deregistered all the Voluntary Youth Organisations, VYOs, with the Ministry.…

N32bn Fraud: Lagos court fixes date for trial of Indian businessman

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday fixed February 2 for continuation of trial of a Nigeria-based Indian businessman,…

Ghanaian police arrest suspect with arms – Police Commander

Ghanaian Police have arrested a 72-year-old Ivorian for possessing a cache of arms and ammunition in Kumasi. The Ashanti Regional…

IMF approves $28.7m credit facility for debt distressed Chad

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam approved immediate disbursement of…
Chidi Odinkalu

Nigeria military killed hundreds of Shiites – Activists

Activists say Nigeria’s military has killed hundreds of, perhaps as many as 1,000, Shiite Muslims in what the country’s top…

Court sacks Akwa Ibom Assembly Speaker

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja A Court of Appeal in Abuja division on Tuesday sacked Aniekan Uko, the Speaker of Akwa Ibom State…

High calibre expired explosives to be destroyed in Ogoniland

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Police Command has announced that approval has been granted to Halliburton Oil Services Company in…

Police rescue woman, daughter from kidnappers

BY YUSUF MUHAMMED The police at Alakuko Division have rescued a woman Mrs. Oluyemi Ogunmuyiwa and her daughter Miss Oreoluwa…

5 suspected impersonators of Buhari’s first son denied bail

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Five persons who allegedly impersonated Salisu Buhari, the first son of President Muhammadu Buhari, to dupe a…

Fashola dismisses fake Facebook accounts opened in his name

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing and former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has disclaimed several Facebook…

FG to peg fuel price at N97 per litre

Petrol price in Nigeria will go up in the new year going by official disclosure that over N1 trillion had…

Nigerian troops kill Boko Haram terrorist, rescue 31 in Aulari

Troops operating in Bama axis has cleared Boko Haram terrorists out of Aulari area located within the Sambisa forest. The…

FG inaugurates FISH to address civil servants housing needs

Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, Acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federal (HOS), says Federal Government is poised to address…

Biafra: Court to rule on Kanu’s bail application Dec. 17

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed Dec.17 to rule on a bail application for the detained leader…

Saudi Arabia forms Islamic counterterrorism coalition

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that 34 nations have agreed to form a new “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism with…

Nigeria army raids Shi’ite sect; hospital says 60 killed

At least 60 people were killed this weekend when the Nigerian army raided a minority Shi’ite sect and arrested its…

I have no issues with Buhari, says Sylva

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has dissociated himself from…

Senate pledges support for anti-corruption war

The senate on Monday, December 14 pledged its support for the ongoing fight against corruption in Nigeria. Chairman Senate Committee…
Aisha Alhassan also known as Mama Taraba

Alhassan’s governorship ruling true symbol of change

Tarabans in Diaspora has called on the judiciary to save Taraba State and it’s people from what it called bad…

Construction of 114 roads in Lagos LGs begin Janaury – Ambode

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode says he will flag off the construction of 114 roads in the 20…

Segun Osoba Donates Media Book to 25 Higher Institutions

Veteran journalist and former governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, has donated two volumes of a major media book,…

Oshiomhole budgets N111.5bn for 2016 ‎fiscal year

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole on Monday presented the state’s 2016 budget of N111.5 billion to the state…

Court jails Ex-DPO over 2012 subsidy protest killing

Henry Ojelu A Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere on Monday sentenced a former Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Mr.…

Court dissolves 43-yr-old marriage in Ibadan

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Monday dissolved the 43- year-old marriage between one Disu Onifade and his wife,…

Siasia optimistic of winning Rio Olympics football

Coach of the National U-23 Team, Dream Team VI, Samson Siasia, says he is optimistic that Nigeria will win the…