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Kidnappers’ Lucky Charm Maker Arrested

Luck has run out on a 75-year old native doctor, Akugbe Ugbo, who specialises in preparing ‘goodluck’ charms for kidnappers…

Osun College shut over protests

The Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun was shut on Thursday, following a violent protest by students of the institution. The News Agency of…

Falae’s Verbal Attack On Tinubu Unfortunate —LG Supervisor

The verbal attack on the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by a…

50 Policemen Get Quit Notice

The Lagos state police command has served a two-week quit notice to over 50 serving members of the command to…

Court Halts Proceedings Against 3 Bank Officials

An appeal court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has restrained a federal high court judge, Justice Okon Abang, sitting in…

NDLEA Arrests Runaway Convict

Nemesis has caught up with an ex-convict, Ejike Martins, who was convicted by a federal high court in Lagos, southwest…

Law Firm Sued Over Intrusion On Premises

A Nigerian oil support service industry expert, Mr. Scott Gregory, has slammed a N10 billion suit on a Lagos law…

Bank Manager Arraigned For Stealing N4M

A Senior Manager of Skye Bank, Aregbesola Michael, alleged to have defrauded a customer of the bank to the tune…

Wole Soyinka: If Religion Was Taken Away, I’d Be Happy

The Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka spoke this week at the Hay Festival in Mexico. In an extract from his talk,…

Graft Killed Eko Today —Ayobolu

Former Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Information and Strategy, Segun Ayobolu has lamented that corruption and mismanagement killed…

Groups Harp On Women Protection

Justice For All in Collaboration with Civil Society Groups on Tuesday launched a handbook on “Guidelines For Responding to cases…

Lions Club Takes Eye Screening To Schools

As part of activities to mark this year’s World Sight Day, the Ikoyi Lions Club recently took its humanitarian services…

Newsweek Magazine ends print edition, goes digital

Venerable US magazine Newsweek, whose first issue rolled out of the press on 17 February 1933, announced Thursday its last…

Corrupt Italy set to tighten laws

Italy, ranked 69th on the Transparency corruption index and with a reputation as bad as Nigeria’s, is set to clean…

2015: Judge’s absence postpones verdict on Jonathan

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The inexplicable absence of Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court on Thursday stalled the…

‘You stole bank’s money’, ex-deputy governor’s son told

Nigeria’s FCT High Court in Lugbe, Abuja on Wednesday ordered Prince Adeniyi Jafojo of Event & Ease Nig. Ltd. to…

In Pictures: Dame Jonathan’s Return to Nigeria

Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president returned to Nigeria from Germany Wednesday to the warm embrace of a large…

Oyedepo plans 4 more universities, blames leaders for woes

Bishop David Oyedepo, chancellor of the Covenant university believes that the problems facing Nigeria today stem from illiterate leadership. Oyedepo…

Oshiomhole sacks permanent secretary over actor’s death

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state on Wednesday approved the removal of the Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of…

Hot Noodle Woman charged with assaulting boyfriend

A 35-year-old Nigerian woman, Ejima Okwusindi, who assaulted her boy friend by bathing him with hot ‘indomie’ noodle was on…

Uruguay legalizes abortion

MONTEVIDEO (AFP) Uruguay Wednesday became only the second country in mostly Catholic South America to legalize abortion. The Senate voted…

30 killed by Fulani herdsmen in Benue village

An ethnic dispute over land in a village in Nigeria’s Benue state that has repeatedly flared up in the past…

2015: Judgment day on suit to stop Jonathan

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Ahead of Thursday’s judgment by an Abuja High Court in a suit brought against President Goodluck…

Fire Guts Sulu Gambari’s Palace

A section of the palace of the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, has been gutted by fire. The…

Jonathan jets out tomorrow to Niamey, Bamako

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, whose wife returned today after spending close to seven weeks in Germany, will undertake a working…

Patience Jonathan back

Moyo Fabiyi Wife of Nigeria’s president, Patience Faka, returned to the country Wednesday afternoon after about two months overseas, declaring:…

Police impose curfew on Ondo state

Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has slammed a curfew on Ondo state, 72 hours to the governorship election.…

Gunmen Abduct 2 School Children, Demand N30m Ransom

Some gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped two children of the same parents in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, Southsouth Nigeria.…

Okada Ban: Police Begin Clampdown

The police at Area ‘G’, Ogba, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday began to enforce the  state Traffic Law banning…

Groom Kidnapped, Tortured To Death On Wedding Day

A groom, Zubairu Balogun, who was abducted on his wedding day in Ilorin, Kwara State, northcentral Nigeria, and held incommunicado…