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Ambode, a worker, not a talker

By Ikechukwu Orji I first met Akinwunmi Ambode at the Onikan Stadium when he declared his candidacy for the office…

Ambode sacks Arebamen, appoints ex-AIG new LASTMA CEO

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has sacked Young Arebamen as the Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the Lagos…

Quacks destroying your profession, Obasa tells journalists

Eromosele Ebhomele @selemele2 Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Monday challenged media professionals to come…

Man jailed 10 years with hard labour for stealing 5-year-old baby

Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 42-year-old man, Obasuyi Williams, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail with hard labour, by an…

Ambode charges newly constituted boards, commissions on performance

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday charged the newly constituted Chairmen, Executive Secretaries and Members of…

Man arrested for mounting illegal toll gate for extortion

Cyriacus Izuekwe The police have arrested a man who allegedly erected a toll gate and was using it to extort…

Trial of Gaddafi son adjourned till December

The son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared in a Tripoli court to face charges of murdering a football…

NCC to issue new spectrum licences in 2016

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Monday said that it would issue new telecom spectrum licences in 2016, to create…

Synagogue Collapse: Court adjourns ruling to Nov. 9

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed Nov. 9 to rule on a suit by an engineer of…

Jobless man impersonates MOPOL to fleece motorists

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 33-year-old jobless man who has been parading himself as a mobile policeman (MOPOL) has been arrested by…

Buhari, governors, others offer special prayers for late Emir of Borgu

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in New Bussa, Niger state, joined hundreds of sympathisers to offer special prayers for the…

Pa Fasoranti resigns from Afenifere, says it has lost focus

Funsho Arogundade Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said that the body has lost…

Buhari will never lie to Nigerians – Presidency

The Presidency has categorically that President Muhammadu Buhari will always say the truth to Nigerians while dismissing the insinuation by…

U-17 WC: Nigerians hail ruthless Eaglets after Brazil’s victory

Taiwo Adelu It has been praises galore for Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets after they defeated Brazil in the quarter final of…

Kogi Govt, APC trade words over bailout delay

The APC on Sunday alleged that the Kogi State Government had yet to apply for the bailout funds provided by…

Amaechi’s clearance by Senate not an endorsement of corruption — Sani

Sen. Shehu Sani (APC – Kaduna Central), on Sunday said that Senate’s clearance of former Rivers Goivernor, Rotimi Amaechi as…

19-year-old undergraduate wins MBGA 2015 pageant

Miss Debbie Douglas, 19-year-old Political Science student of Nasarawa State University, has won the 2015 edition of the Most Beautiful…

Ambode appoints new Head of Service

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday approved the appointment of Mrs. Olabowale Toluwalope Ademola as the 19th Head…

Taskforce arrests 279 miscreants, impounds 57 motorcycles

Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Lagos Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have arrested 279 miscreants and impounded…

Nigeria: Despite $5.2bn fine, MTN is number one telco

On internet subscribers base, MTN is number one telecommunication outfit in Nigeria, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed despite…

Nigeria internet users hit 97m, says NCC

The number of internet users on Nigeria’s telecoms networks has hit 97.21 million, up from the 95.37 million recorded in…

APC wins Borno Central Senatorial bye-election

The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Alhaji Babakaka Garbai, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate winner of the bye-election…

Sokoto State rewards cleanest communities with N2.25m

Sokoto State Government on Sunday gave out N 2.25 million as reward to the three cleanest communities in Sokoto metropolis…

IDPs laud UNFPA humanitarian, psycho-social services

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri on have commended the UNFPA for providing humanitarian and psycho-social support services in Borno.…

Rebuild North East, Osinbajo charges CSOs

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has charged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to contribute to the rebuilding, reconstruction, reconciliation and…

NNPC records N5.53bn loss in sale of petroleum products in Sept.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says it recorded N38.67billion from the sale of downstream petroleum products in September down…

Russia holds day of mourning after 224 die in plane crash

AFP – International investigators on Sunday began probing why a Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,…

Delay in passage of PIB hurting Nigeria’s economy – Kachikwu

Nigeria looks set to unbundle a long-awaited oil law to speed up its passage through parliament, potentially unlocking billions of…

11 migrants, including 6 children, drown off Greece

Eleven migrants, including six children — four of them babies — drowned on Sunday in a new tragedy off the…