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195 Suspected Hoodlums Arrested In Lagos

At least 195 suspected hoodlums have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The hoodlums,…

Driver Arraigned For Stealing 4 Goats

The police on Monday arraigned a 24-year old driver, Abubakar Umar, before a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital,…

Armed Robber Sentenced To Death

A Makurdi High Court in Benue State, Northcentral Nigeria, presided over by Justice Elizabeth Kpojime on Monday sentenced Oghenemaro Kesena,…

Makoko After The ‘Clean Up’

The Lagos State Government recently demolished the shanties and other illegal structures along the Makoko/Iwaya waterfront in Yaba Local Council…

Soldiers on patrol after bombs, gunfire rock Gashua

Explosions and gunfire rocked the prison town of Gashua in Yobe state early today, with soldiers deployed to maintain the…

Decision Day for Obama, Romney

Washington (AFP) Americans today decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney…

Obama, Romney tie in first US ballot

DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (AFP) – The first ballots of the 2012 White House race were cast in the tiny…

Supreme Court decides Nyako’s fate 20 November

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Supreme Court on Monday fixed November 20, 2012 to deliver judgment in an appeal brought…

Bruce Springsteen wins votes for Obama

Bruce Springsteen said Tuesday’s US election was a vote on narrowing the gulf between the American Dream and reality as…

363 die in Nigeria’s worst floods

Flooding in Nigeria since July has killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million in what the president has called an…

Jonathan Asks Amaechi, Dickson End Media War

President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the Bayelsa and Rivers State government to stop the ongoing accusations and counter-accusations in the…

Suspected ritualist held for removing boy’s eyes

The police in Matari area of Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, have arrested a suspected ritualist, Tukur Adamu, for allegedly plucking…

100 Biafran Zionists Arrested

The police in Enugu on Monday arrested at least 100 people parading themselves as members of the Biafra Zionist Movement.…

Terrorism Trial: Court rejects witnesses against Ndume

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The ongoing trial of a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria before an Abuja…

Police Arraign Bizman For N.4m beefy fraud

The police on Monday docked a 30-year old businessman, Isiaka Ayinla, before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly receiving…

King’s College ’78 Set To Embark On Peace Tour

Members of the 1973-1978 set of King’s College, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, reunited in Calabar, Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, over…

Achebe’s Biafra Book Full Of Lies

 Odia Ofeimun, poet and public affairs analyst, rips up Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country. He speaks with ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE…

Biafra: Endless Sniping

Weeks after it broke out, the debate provoked by Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is still as bruising and…

Allow Your Starving People To Be Fed

 Being the full text of the resignation letter of Robert S. Goldstein, Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the United…

My Pikin Syrup Maker Dies Of Stroke

The producer of ‘My Pikin’ teething mixture, Kola Gbadegbesin Okunlola, is dead. He had been standing trial alongside his company,…

How Police Recruit Criminals In The Force

The lack of trust between the citizens and members of the Nigeria Police Force has compounded the security challenges in…

Lagos Lawyers Back State Police

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lagos chapter, on Sunday said that the establishment of state police would check the activities…

LG FUNDS: OBJ Slams State Govts

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the review of the local government laws to check among others, the excesses…

Okoli, Ladipo Market Leader Charged With Armed Robbery

The factional leader of Aguiyi-Ironsi International Market also known as Ladipo Market, Mushin, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Jonathan Okoli has been…

Voter turnout may decide Obama v Romney

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remained in a virtual tie in the latest opinion poll released Sunday,…

Boko Haram: ‘We did not kill General Shuwa”

Nigeria’s dreaded insurgency group, Boko Haram, has denied involvement in the killing Major General Muhammed Shuwa, a Nigerian civil war…

Clashes in Libyan capital, car blast in Benghazi

TRIPOLI(AFP) – Libya’s two largest cities were rocked by violence on Sunday with clashes between militias wounding five in the…

Boko Haram:Tambuwal urges FG to embrace peace

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin To put an end to the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu…

Groom killed by gunmen on auto bike in Kano

A groom along with two friends were shot dead today by gunmen, operating on a motor bike, in Kano, northern…

Boko Haram bomb police station, school, phone towers

Boko Haram gunmen with explosives have attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in Fika, Yobe…