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Anambra election: Heavy security presence at INEC

FOLARIN ADEMOSU/Awka Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, a large detachment of anti-riot policemen and men…

Fashola vows to sack commissioners using siren

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, has vowed to sack any of his commissioners who will dare to…

Deji Falae Buried

The  the late Ondo State Commissioner for Tourism, Barrister Ayodeji  Olaniran Falae, who died in the Associated Airline  plane that…

Landlord Defiles Tenant’s 10- Yr Old Daughter

Police detectives from Igando Police Station in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a 42-year old landlord for allegedly defiling a…

More Tributes For Festus Iyayi

More tributes have continued to pour in for former President of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Festus Iyayi,…

Land Speculator Shot Dead

Policemen at the Agbado Police Division in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, western Nigeria, have recovered the corpse…

8 Hours Of Work: Why Danfo Drivers Are Restricted

The Lagos State Government has further explained why it decided to restrict commuter bus drivers, popularly called Danfo drivers in…

Kidnappers of French priest leave Paris with puzzles

Who did it? The French Foreign Ministry has been trying to decode the identity of the kidnappers of a French…

Movie: Kemi Lala dazzles in Kelani’s Dazzling Mirage

Kemi Lala Akindoju, one of Nigeria’s famed professional actors, shines in the latest Tunde Kelani movie ‘Dazzling Mirage’, which is…

In Picture: APC Leaders Visit Brg. Gen Samuel Ogbemudia

In continuation of their mobilisation and sensitisation visits to opinion moulders in Nigeria, the leaders of the All Progressives Congress…

Anambra Poll: APC Tasks Jonathan To Keep Pledge On Fair Election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to live up to his promise of a free and…

Boko Haram: The Road to US Blacklist

The United States on Wednesday designated Nigeria’s radical Islamist Boko Haram network and an offshoot known as Ansaru as terror…

37,000 flee Boko Haram battles with Nigerian soldiers

More than 37,000 people have fled violence between the army and Boko Haram insurgents in northern Nigeria for neighbouring Niger,…

Report: Antibiotics combo kills die-hard germs

Scientists Wednesday unveiled a drug combination that destroys antibiotic-resistant germs in mice, potentially opening a new front against chronic and…

Festus Iyayi’s body moved to Benin

The remains of former ASUU president, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died in an auto crash on Lokoja-Abuja road, were on…

Iyayi Was Murdered —Aturu

Human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu has declared that former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Festus…

3 Remanded In Kirikiri For Armed Robbery

Three suspects were on Wednesday remanded in Kirikiri Prison custody by an Ikeja Magistrate Court, in Lagos, western Nigeria, over…

Oshiomhole Has Nothing To Celebrate, Says PDP

Edo State chapter of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged a total of N400 billion has accrued to the…

Outrage Over Killing Of Festus Iyayi

Outrage has greeted the killing, yesterday, of former President of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Professor Festus Iyayi,…

2 kidnapped American sailors freed in Nigeria

The United States has announced the release of two Americans kidnapped by pirates off southern Nigeria in October. “We welcome…

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s terror group to get US upgrade

(Reuters) – The US State Department will formally designate the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist organization”…

Obi gives laptops, printers to Anambra schools

Governor Peter Obi of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Tuesday distributed 22,500 laptops and 1,400 printers worth N2.65…

Why Amaechi is being persecuted —Senator Abe

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt THE Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Magnus Abe has attributed Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s persecution in the…

France’s female black minister racially abused

France’s justice minister has been publicly subjected to racist taunts for the third time in barely a month, triggering a…

Anambra State: INEC restricts movement on polling day

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra on Tuesday said that movement of persons and vehicles would be restricted…

Tinubu warns election riggers in Anambra

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin National leader of All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has warned that the party would react…

Fashola wants polio victims champion campaign as Gates, Dangote visit

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday received in audience the Founder of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr.…

Tukur writes INEC on suspension of Oyinlola, others

The National Working Committee of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
A- yet- to be identified operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has committed suicide at his residence in Abuja.

Estate Agent Swindles Prospective Tenants Of N30.7m

Jamiu Yisa An estate agent, Peter Nwogu, has been arraigned before a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, for allegedly defrauding some…

How Festus Iyayi, ex-ASUU leader died

Award winning Nigerian writer and former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Festus Iyayi, has died…