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50 vehicles smashed as granite truck kills 7 students

No fewer than seven students of Itori Comprehensive High School, Itori, were killed on Wednesday in a motor accident that…

Court: Ex-Nigerian governor has a case to answer

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN JUSTICE Akintunde Boade of the Ibadan High Court has declared that former Oyo state governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala,…

Senator Ndume spoke with Boko Haram man 73 times

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian High Court siting in Abuja was on Wednesday told that Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume,…

Mandela responding to treatment, say doctors

Doctors caring for former South African President, Nelson Mandela, said he was responding to treatment for a lung infection, the…

Marwa: ‘I’m still in CPC’

The governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa state, north eastern Nigeria, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa,…

ASUU ready for dialogue with Amaechi

The Rivers State University of Science and Technology ASUU chapter said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt that it was ready…

INEC Chief calls for 5 parties in Nigeria

The state commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers said on Wednesday that a five-party system would…

Nigeria: Bees stop students exam

A swarm of bees has disrupted the on-going second semester examination at Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, in Nigeria’s north east.…

Nigeria: Babalakin’s Counsel Withdraws

The trial of the embattled Managing Director of Bi Courtney Ltd, Dr. Wale Babalakin by the Economic and Financial Crimes…

Lagos Police Boss: No Deal With Motor Park Touts

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Umar Manko, spoke with MOYO FABIYI and LUCKY LAWAL on the enforcement of the…

Pastors Will Buy More Jets —Bishop Oke

The National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Southwest, Bishop Francis Oke, has asked those criticising pastors…

Panic Grips Cops Over Certificate Verification

The Lagos State Police Command has commenced verification of certificates of its men and officers. This has reportedly caused panic…

UN Organ Tasks FG On Slum Development

The youth wing of the United Nation’s City Agency (UN Habitat) has urged the Federal Government to provide social amenities…

Tanker Drivers Protest Killing Of Member

The Kaduna State branch of Petroleum Tanker Drivers Association, has suspended its operation to protest the alleged killing of one…

‘Jonathan Pushing Nigeria To Collapse’

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mufutau Egberongbe, has urged Nigerians close to President Goodluck Jonathan to…

Falana To FG: Obey Rule Of Law To Ensure Peace

A Human Rights Activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has advised the Federal Government to embrace the rule of law rather…

Akande Warns Against Further Development Of Ibeju-Lekki

Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Ad-hoc Committee on the disputed land between Fowoseje Community in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos…

Stop Environmental Pollution, Oshun Warns Lagos Residents

Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs, Moshood Oshun, has warned…

Arsenal Boss Devastated

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his club’s defeat in the Capital One Cup quarter-final is “very disappointing”. The Gunners were…

Currency Trafficking: Governor Lamido’s Son Arrested

Aminu Lamido, son of the Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and…

Dana Air Returns To The Skies This Week

Dana Air would begin flying again this week, five months after one of its aircraft crashed in Lagos, southwest Nigeria,…

Nigeria: Wife of retired army general abducted

Titilayo, the wife of retired Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state…

Why Kidnapping thrives in Nigeria

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) for Lagos and Ogun, Mr Mamman Tsafe, has attributed the high rate of kidnapping…

Fire for Fire: Leukemia defeated with HIV

NEW YORK (AFP) – US doctors in Philadelphia said they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying…

Niger state builds E-library in memory of Ekwensi

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday, described the late renowned novelist, Cyprian Ekwensi, as a “great thinker and lover…

Lagos Chief Judge Frees 46 Prisoners

Henry Ojelu The Chief Judge Of Lagos State, South-West Nigeria, Justice Ayotunde Phillips today granted freedom to forty six awaiting…

Varsity Don: ‘Oshiomhole was my classmate’

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A University lecturer, Professor Philip Agbebaku has told the Edo Election Petitions Tribunal that Governor Adams Oshiomhole was…

Nigerian doctors down tools over taxes

Essential medical services were on Tuesday brought to a halt as Resident Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH),…

Delta state returns seized money to James Ibori

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in a bid to sway the court not to allow…

Boko Haram: Jonathan pleads for US assistance

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has outlined the various security challenges facing his country, especially Boko Haram and asked for the…