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Inmate Dies In Custody

A 40-year-old man, Toyese Kehinde, who allegedly died in the cells of Benin Central Prisons in the early hours of…

ASUU: Protesters Paralyse Abeokuta

Commercial activities were paralysed in some parts of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, today as civil right groups under the…

Lagos Vows To Weed Out Bad Eggs From KAI

The Lagos State Government has vowed to weed out corrupt officials from the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, Brigade. This follows…

Riot At Yabatech

Reports reaching us from Nigeria’s premier tertiary institution, Yaba College of Technology, YCT, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, have it that there…

Crime rates soar in South Africa

After years of decreasing crime, South Africa is grappling with a rise in murders, home burglaries and car hijackings, the…

Construction worker on the run over murder of lover

The Nigerian Police in Bayelsa State Command has begun a manhunt for a construction worker suspected to have murdered a…

SSS arrests kidnapper whose 5-year-old victim died

Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) in Abuja, the capital, has arrested a 43-year-old man, Saturday Dewakei, said to have abducted…

FG to buy 30 buses for Federal civil servants

The Nigeria federal government on Wednesday approved the purchase of 30 33-seater buses for transportation of civil servants in the…

PDP insists on Nwoye for Anambra, fights court order

Nigeria ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP insisted on Wednesday that Prince Tony Nwoye remains its candidate for the Anambra State…

Nigerian wins Muslim world beauty pageant

A Nigerian, Obabiyi Aisha Ajibola, tearfully prayed and recited Koranic verses as she won a world beauty pageant exclusively for…

Nigeria sends troops to fight ethnic militia

Nigeria’s Federal Government on Wednesday ordered immediate troops’ deployment to North Central State of Nasarawa where clashes between members of…

New PDP: No Deal Yet With Jonathan

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Alhaji Abubakar Baraje-led faction of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has not agreed to any peace…

340 Lagos Students To Get Scholarships

At least 340 indigenous students of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, studying in tertiary institutions across the state will on 5…

UK court sees video of Ibori’s palatial home in Abuja

The confiscation hearing of the assets of former Nigerian governor, James Onanefe Ibori continued in London today, with the court…

US to sponsor training for Nigeria’s NDLEA

Simon Ateba/Lagos The United States government will fund twenty-seven training courses for Nigeria’s narcotic officers in 2014, the Nigerian Drug…

Berger ordered to fix potholes on Lagos-Ibadan road

Nigeria’s Federal Government on Wednesday directed Julius Berger to begin rehabilitation of the bad portions on Lagos-Ibadan expressway to reduce…

Uganda recalls Somali peacekeepers over food scam

Uganda has recalled the commander of its peacekeeping force in Somalia and almost two dozen other officers suspected of involvement…

PDP Challenges Court Jurisdiction To Hear Baraje’s Suit

Henry Ojelu& Doyin Olaiya The Alhaji Bamanga Tukur led Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has challenged the jurisdiction of the Lagos…

2 KAI Officers Arrested Over N800K Bribe

Two officers of the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, have been arrested for allegedly demanding for N800,000 bribe from a trader…

Fraud: 3 Money Doublers Docked

Three suspected money doublers were on Tuesday docked at the Isabo Magistrate’s Court,  Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria, for fraudulently obtaining N4…

Arabic Teacher Charged With Visa Fraud

A 39-year-old Arabic teacher, Yusuf Kamaldeen, on Tuesday appeared before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with conspiracy, theft…

The Lagos State Government has raised the alarm over activities of some fraudulent persons inviting unsuspecting members of the public…

Vigilance Group Arrest Boko Haram Members

The youth vigilante group in Borno, popularly called ‘Civilian JTF,’ has arrested 19 Boko Haram suspects in five villages in…

Buhari Can Run

The Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State chapter, Otunba Henry Ajomale, speaks with P.M.NEWS about how opposition parties…

Jonathan to hold 5 bilateral meetings in New York

President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to hold five bilateral meetings, including one with U.S. President Barack Obama at the 68th…

Nigerian to contest in Muslimah World Pageant

Seun Bisuga Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola, a 21-year-old student of the University of Lagos will represent Nigeria in the Muslimah World…

Nigerian army denies losing many men to Boko Haram

A Nigerian military strike on a Boko Haram camp in the country’s northeast last week left about 150 militants and…

Pandemonium in House of Reps as Baraje PDP Visits

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives returned from their eight weeks vacation on Tuesday and were sucked straight…

Brazil leader puts off US visit over spying allegation

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postponed a long-planned state visit to Washington on Tuesday, the most serious diplomatic fall-out yet from…

Anambra State: Third PDP candidate emerges in court

A Nigerian Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday, disqualified Tony Nwoye, as the PDP governorship candidate…