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Nigeria In Litmus Test Vote For 2015 Polls

Nigeria’s Anambra state goes to the polls this weekend to elect a new governor in a vote seen as a…

INEC Deploys 362 Generators

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has began deploying over 362 electricity generating sets to the 362 wards across Anambra State…

ThisDay Bomber Jailed For Life

Mustapha Umar, a self confessed Boko Haram member arrested and tried before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja in…

Jonathan v Amaechi: Suspended peace-making bishops to sue CAN

Jethro Ibileke/Benin “Blessed are the peace makers”, so the Holy Book says. In Nigeria, the efforts by some clerics in…

Another American insults Nigerians over Obamacare

It seems President Barack Obama haters in the US love picking Nigerians as soft targets in their campaign against Obama’s…

Festus Iyayi for burial in December

Jethro Ibileke/Benin The burial ceremony of Prof. Festus Iyayi, the former President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has…

Ajimobi: I was under pressure in selecting aides

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the western Nigerian state of Oyo today reflected on happenings after the dissolution of…

Tunde Sanni, ThisDay reporter dies

The Oyo State Correspondent of ThisDay newspaper, Mr Tunde Sanni, is dead. The 49 year-old journalist died today at Ijebu…

Pension scam accused remanded in prison

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Justice Bolaji Yusuf of the Nigerian High Court, in Ibadan, Oyo state today ordered that the former Head…

Anambra election: Heavy security presence at INEC

FOLARIN ADEMOSU/Awka Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, a large detachment of anti-riot policemen and men…

Fashola vows to sack commissioners using siren

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, has vowed to sack any of his commissioners who will dare to…

Deji Falae Buried

The  the late Ondo State Commissioner for Tourism, Barrister Ayodeji  Olaniran Falae, who died in the Associated Airline  plane that…

Landlord Defiles Tenant’s 10- Yr Old Daughter

Police detectives from Igando Police Station in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a 42-year old landlord for allegedly defiling a…

More Tributes For Festus Iyayi

More tributes have continued to pour in for former President of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Festus Iyayi,…

Land Speculator Shot Dead

Policemen at the Agbado Police Division in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, western Nigeria, have recovered the corpse…

8 Hours Of Work: Why Danfo Drivers Are Restricted

The Lagos State Government has further explained why it decided to restrict commuter bus drivers, popularly called Danfo drivers in…

Anambra Poll: APC Tasks Jonathan To Keep Pledge On Fair Election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to live up to his promise of a free and…

Festus Iyayi’s body moved to Benin

The remains of former ASUU president, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died in an auto crash on Lokoja-Abuja road, were on…

Iyayi Was Murdered —Aturu

Human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu has declared that former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Festus…

3 Remanded In Kirikiri For Armed Robbery

Three suspects were on Wednesday remanded in Kirikiri Prison custody by an Ikeja Magistrate Court, in Lagos, western Nigeria, over…

Outrage Over Killing Of Festus Iyayi

Outrage has greeted the killing, yesterday, of former President of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Professor Festus Iyayi,…

Obi gives laptops, printers to Anambra schools

Governor Peter Obi of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Tuesday distributed 22,500 laptops and 1,400 printers worth N2.65…

Why Amaechi is being persecuted —Senator Abe

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt THE Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Magnus Abe has attributed Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s persecution in the…

Anambra State: INEC restricts movement on polling day

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra on Tuesday said that movement of persons and vehicles would be restricted…

Tinubu warns election riggers in Anambra

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin National leader of All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has warned that the party would react…

Fashola wants polio victims champion campaign as Gates, Dangote visit

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday received in audience the Founder of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr.…
A- yet- to be identified operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has committed suicide at his residence in Abuja.

Estate Agent Swindles Prospective Tenants Of N30.7m

Jamiu Yisa An estate agent, Peter Nwogu, has been arraigned before a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, for allegedly defrauding some…

How Festus Iyayi, ex-ASUU leader died

Award winning Nigerian writer and former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Festus Iyayi, has died…

Tinubu, Buhari, Masari storm Edo for Oshiomhole, APC launch

Top chieftains of the All Progressives Party (APC) including General Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Alhaji…

ASUU Chapters Back End To Strike

The National Executive Committee of Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities, ASUU, may call off its over four months old…