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Lagos Court Conducts Proceedings With Torchlight

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja presided over by Justice Oke Opeyemi Ikeja today conducted its proceeding with torchlight due…

UNILAG Shut: Students Block 3rd Mainland Bridge, Alumni Reject Name Change

The University of Lagos, Akoka, southwest Nigeria, was this morning shut for two weeks by the authorities of the institution…

HIV Palaver: Man Abandons Wife, Baby In Hospital

A man has abandoned his wife and their new baby in a hospital and insisted that he was no longer…

ACN Celebrates 13 Years Of Fruitful Democracy In Lagos

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has congratulated the Lagos State government and the past administration…

2015 Presidency: Count Me Out —Fashola

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, yesterday urged his supporters to count him out of the race for Nigeria’s…

I Don’t Know What’s Wrong With The FG

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, in this interview stresses the failure of the Federal Government…

Villagers Resist Police Team On Illegal Duty

The battle for supremacy between the Eleku Family of Oko-Oloni in Ibeju Lekki Local Government area of Lagos State, outhwest…

Palmwine Tapper Held Over Colleague’s Death

The police in Calabar have arrested a 40-year -old palm wine tapper, a native of Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom…

Goldsmith Charged With N10m Necklace Theft

A Lagos Island-based goldsmith, Sikiru Adeyemi, 42, has been arrested by the police at Adeniji Adele Division for allegedly stealing…

Jailbird Arrested With Gun

A jailbird who was arrested by the police with a gun and bullets confessed that he was only a thief…

Coalition Urges Jonathan To Reshuffle Cabinet

The Coalition of Niger Delta Ethnic and Civil Society Groups have urged President Goodluck Jonathan to sack some members of…

Lawyers Task FG On Dividends Of Democracy

Some lawyers on Tuesday in Lagos urged the Federal Government to continue to ensure that the dividends of democracy were…

Edo Group Supports Renaming Of UNILAG After MKO

The Edo Consultative Forum (ECF), Lagos branch, on Tuesday commended the Federal Government for re-naming the University of Lagos (UNILAG),…

Lagos Assembly Honours Jakande

Before it was closed down for parliamentary sittings and plenary on Monday, the hallowed chamber of the Lagos State House…

WikiLeaks founder, Assange loses bid to stop extradition

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, but his extradition was put…

Charles Taylor bags 50 years in the slammer

A UN-backed war crimes court sitting at Leidshendam, Netherlands sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison…

Australian,81, loses bid to stop wife rape trial

An 81-year-old Australian man on Wednesday lost a bid to have charges that he raped his wife in the 1960s…

Lagos NBA to honour Tinubu

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (right) with a delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)…

Boko Haram militant arrested

Nigerian troops have arrested a “high-profile” member of the Islamist group Boko Haram during a raid in the northern city…

Michele Obama makes literary debut with gardening book

US First Lady Michelle Obama made her literary debut Tuesday with a book about the White House garden in her…

Renamed UNILAG stirs deep controversy

Nigerians have been commenting on President Goodluck Jonathan’s renaming of University of Lagos as Moshood Abiola University. While some Nigerians…

Abiola’s son shocked by protest over UNILAG honor

The family of the late Chief MKO Abiola, on Tuesday said that they were ecstatic over the renaming of the…

Corruption, Bane Of Nigerian Democracy, Says Abatemi-Usman

Vice Chairman of Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has identified the seemingly endemic corruption, problem of…

NATIONAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON DEMOCRACY DAY, MAY 29, 2012

Fellow Nigerians, One year ago, I was privileged to stand before you, to take the oath of office as President…

Boko Haram: Yakowa Assures Of Security

Few hours after the police detonated a bomb in the state today, Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has reiterated…

EX-Rector Sentenced To 3 Months Imprisonment

A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, northcentral Nigeria, has sentenced the former Rector of College of Advanced…

UNILAG renamed Moshood Abiola University

The University of Lagos, with the acronym UNILAG, will now be known as Moshood Abiola Univerity. President Goodluck Jonathan renamed…

Kaduna police detonates bomb

Femi Adi/ kaduna Democracy Day in the Nigerian city of Kaduna would have been a bloody affair but for the…

Nigerian governor frees 235 prisoners

Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State has ordered  the release of 235 prisoners as part of activities marking his one…