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Traffic Violation: Fashola Declares War Against Military, Policemen

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has vowed to prosecute policemen and military officers violating the state’s Road…

PHCN Workers Threaten Showdown

Thousands of disengaged workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, have threatened a showdown with the Federal Government,…

80 migrants consumed by Sahara Desert

The corpses of more than 80 migrants, most of them women and children who died of thirst, have been found…

Woman Caught With Day Old Baby In Sack

A 40-year old widow who simply identified herself as Mujidat was caught on Wednesday with a dead day old baby…

Police Foil Robbery Attack

The Benue Police Command on Thursday said it had foiled a robbery attack on traders travelling to a village market…

Anambra Has Lost 5,000 Companies —Ngige

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 14 November governorship election holding in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, Senator…

Murder of banker: Defence gets new date to file address

A Nigerian High Court in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos state on Thursday fixed 4 December for the adoption of…

Ex- workers sue Ahmadu Bello University

Ten former employees of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have dragged the institution before the National Industrial Court, Abuja, claiming…

ASUU strike: ABU lecturers in peaceful march

Members of Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria branch, on Thursday, embarked on a…

Nigerian rights body to probe evictions, demolition of houses

Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission said it would conduct public hearings into the demolition of houses and forced evictions by…

Obama ‘not happy’ about glitches with health website

US President Barack Obama said Wednesday he is “not happy” with the glitch-filled rollout out of his signature health reform…

6 pregnant girls rescued in raid of baby factory

Nigerian police have raided a baby factory in the oil city of Port Harcourt and arrested a woman accused of…

Jonathan receives 2013 Peace Award

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday attributed the slow economic growth in the country to the numerous crises that trailed his…

FAAN admits buying 2 armoured limos for Princess Oduah

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Wednesday said the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) purchased…

Police stop another ASUU rally, teargas lecturers

The Nigerian police on Wednesday disrupted a peaceful rally by members of Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), University of…

Senate Committee threatens SURE-P of zero allocation

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on SURE-P on Wednesday in Abuja threatened zero appropriation for the programme if funds already…

Oduah’s BMW cars: Can of worms as Coscharis faces Reps panel

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Wednesday said that the Federal Ministry of Finance granted a waiver of N10.1 million…

Justice Ayo Salami: Tributes To His Integrity

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Stakeholders in the judiciary and the legal practice as well as politicians from across political parties…

National conference ill timed,says Kwara Speaker

Stephen Oni/Ilorin The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Abdulrazak Atunwa, has advised Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to suspend the…

Six Naval Officers Beat Teacher to Stupor

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta If not for the quick intervention of the Commandant of the Nigerian Navy Secondary School,Onikoko, Adigbe area…

Soyinka: Justice Is Never ‘Siddon Look’!

By Wole Soyinka Let me be candid. It was with mixed feelings that I accepted to deliver this lecture. On…

PDP To Set Up State Disciplinary Committees

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has directed its state branches to inaugurate disciplinary committees to ensure discipline among members. This…

No-Work-No-Pay Rule May Escalate Crisis — ASUU

The Delta State University Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday warned that implementing the No-Work-No-Pay…

450,000 People Resistant To TB Drugs Globally– WHO

The 2013 WHO Global Tuberculosis Report says an estimated 450,000 people develop Multi-Drug Resistance to Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). MDR-TB is a…

Strike: UCH Ejects Patients From Wards

The on-going strike of resident doctors has started to take its toll on the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, as…

Lead Poisoning: 29 Villages Still In Danger

Only eight of the 37 communities affected by lead poisoning in Zamfara have been remediated with 29 villages still awaiting…

4 Arraigned For Kidnapping

The police on Wednesday arraigned four men before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for alleged kidnapping. The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Ebenezer…

MWUN Threatens To Shut Down Port Operations

Maritime workers have threatened to shut down the nation’s seaports should the management of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) fail…

Surrender Your Arms, Police Tell Vigilante Groups

The Anambra Police Command on Tuesday ordered vigilance groups to surrender the arms in their possession ahead of the 16…

PDP Drops 20 Gov Aspirants

The PDP in Ekiti State on Tuesday announced that it had dropped 20 of its governorship aspirants. Twenty-nine aspirants were…