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Convicted MEND leader, Okah sacks lawyers

A South African court on Thursday was forced to delay the sentencing of Nigerian national Henry Okah, convicted of 13…

Pope Benedict XVI says the final official goodbye

VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Benedict XVI became the first pope to resign in over 700 years on Thursday, waving a…

Babalakin Gets Permission To Travel For Medical

Henry Ojelu Chairman of Bi-Courtney, Dr. Wale Babalakin was today granted permission by a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja…

Gunmen ambush taxi, abduct 5 passengers

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A new dimension has been introduced into the flourishing business of kidnapping in Nigeria as five out of…

UNIPORT 4: Court frees 7 suspects

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A Port Harcourt Magistrate Court in Rivers State today freed Seven suspects out of 18 charged with…

Hip hop artist Damoche, LASU student shot dead

Bayo Adetu Upcoming hip hop music act and a student of the Lagos State University, LASU, Olaniyan Damilola, popularly known…

Landlord’s Son Docked For Raping Tenant

The police in Lagos have docked 30-year old Ayo Adejare on a three-count charge of having carnal knowledge of a…

Hijab: Muslim Students Protest Discrimination

Muslim students in Lagos State public secondary schools today protested at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, over alleged…

Fraud: ‘Lagos Female Judge Must Defend Self’

The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee has dismissed Justice Ibironke Harrison’s objection challenging her invitation to respond to an allegation of…

Bullet Lodged In Ex-Biafran Soldier’s Body For 44 Years

A bullet lodged for 44 years in the body of Israel Nwokoma, a security guard at a company in Ilupeju,…

Lagos Population Our Biggest Challenge —Lagos Speaker

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has disclosed that the continuous growth of the population of…

Pope Benedict XVl hours away from abdication

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday vowed “unconditional obedience” to his successor on his historic final day as leader of the…

House Leader, Councillors Sentenced

A Port Harcourt High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Southsouth Nigeria, has convicted Emeka Godwin, the…

Outrage Over Attack On Ojukwu Library

Prominent Igbo leaders this morning took umbrage at the reported demolition of a library built in memory of the late…

Who killed Nasarawa Varsity students as Army, police deny?

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Contrary to widespread reports, the Nigerian Army on Wednesday denied that its men were involved in the killing…

Man jailed 20 years for patricide

JETHRO IBILEKE/Warri A Nigerian Court in Delta State, has sentenced a 20 year-old man Opukeme George to 25 years in…

Emir of Kano returns from UK

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Emir Ado Bayero, the traditional ruler of Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city has returned home, after spending 38…
Former governor of Niger State, Muazu Aliyu Babangida paid three ghost firms

2015: Gov Aliyu Alleges Blackmail Plot

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Governor Babangida Aliyu of Nigeria’s central state of Niger has alleged that some highly placed politicians based in…

Mali: Chad urges speedy deployment of troops by ECOWAS

Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno on Wednesday urged the Malian army and West African force to speed up the deployment…

Another top lawyer faces disciplinary panel, says NBA

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on Wednesday confirmed that it had set up machinery for the…

Can it happen in Nigeria as Greece sends ex-mayor to life jail

A court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday handed life sentences to the city’s ex-mayor and two other municipal officials…

Pope Benedict admits a stormy reign as he bows out

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday admitted “stormy waters” during his papacy as he gave his farewell speech in St Peter’s…

Lagos assembly mulls extending tenure of council chairmen

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Lagos State House may soon begin the debate on a bill seeking to extend the tenure of…

ACN Wins Ajeromi By-Election

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has won Tuesday’s by-election in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, Southwest…

Nigeria’s Female Banker Steals Customer’s N26m

A staff of a mortgage bank in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Folayemi Oluwayemisi Adedayo, 41, has been charged to court for…

Political Class Has Ruined This Country —el-Rufai

The former minister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has blamed the political class for ruining this country.…

‘My Wife Knows I’m A Fraudster’

A 39-year old suspected fraudster, Tony Obi, who was arrested by the police in Lagos, has confessed that he has…

Tributes For Ogo Oluwa Kitan Boss

Nigerian musicians and stakeholders have continued to pay tribute to late music mogul, Chief Joseph Olayiwola Afolabi, the boss of…

Accountants Can Practice Taxation —ICAN

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has declared that its members have the right to practice taxation unhindered.…

Lagos government begins pilot Saturday work

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday kept faith with the tradition of his administration by rendering an account…