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Nigeria Law School churns out new baby lawyers

Like a factory producing products, Nigeria Law School today churned out a new set of lawyers to swell Nigeria’s legal…

Oritsejafor: The Pastor and his Controversies

Leader of Nigeria’s Christian community and fiery preacher, Ayo Oritsejafor has made a career of ruffling feathers every step of…

Tragedy in Nigeria’s First Family: Advise Mr. Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan not only marked his 55th birthday today, a month after his wife marked her own with the…

President Jonathan’s younger brother dies

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Bureau Chief On the day that President Goodluck Jonathan clocked 55 years, amidst a blaze of newspaper adverts,…

Ex-governor Sylva moves to stop trial

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former Bayelsa state governor, Chief Timipre Sylva on Tuesday mounted a legal campaign to stall his…

Prosecutor’s Absence Stalls Lagos Speaker’s Trial Again

The trial of Mr. Sabit Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, and his personal aide, Alade Atoyebi,…

UK Jails Nigerian Gospel Singer For Fraud

A court in the United Kingdom has jailed an acclaimed Nigerian gospel singer, Oluwamayola Ajayi, 31 for six and half…

Amosun Budgets N211bn For 2013

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun today presented his 2013 budget of N211.8 billion to the state House of Assembly.…

Hamzat’s Assassination: Ogun Compol Takes Over Investigation

The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, has ordered his men to speed up investigation into the murder…

PDP, ACN Members Fight At Tribunal

Fighting broke out yesterday at the Tafawa Belewa Square, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria venue of the election petition tribunal when…

A Night With Okada Riders Under Lagos Bridge

Time was about 10pm. But the illumination from shops and houses along the roads on both sides of the bridge…

Maltreatment Of Journalist: CACOL Condemns Lagos Police Boss

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has condemned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, for allegedly ordering…

Give Governance Human Face, Women Tell Jonathan

Al-Mu’minaat( the believing women) Organisation, Lagos,  has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to reappraise governance and give it a human face,…

2 Die In Petrol Tanker Fire

An octogenarian was among two persons who died on Monday when a petrol-laden tanker crashed, spreading fire to the Ntezi-Amuzu…

Man Commits Suicide Over Debt

A transport operator has committed suicide over a debt he owed a local thrift association. The transporter, Gabriel Agochi, who…

Alex Ibru’s Children Sue Widow Over Estate

The crisis rocking the estate of the late publisher of The Guardian newspaper, Alex Ibru, has moved to the court…

Youths Advised On Use Of Social Media

A non-government organisation, Ipaja Youth Forum, IYF, has counselled secondary school students on the positive use of social media to…

Malaysia foils N1b Nigerian cocaine cocktail

Cocaine cocktail put inside cans of coconut milk Malaysian narcotics agents have foiled a Nigerian syndicate’s bid to smuggle cocaine…

Nigeria’s flood victims have no home to go

Nigeria’s worst flooding in decades has submerged houses and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, so Gibson Orlu was shocked…

Faces at the investiture of the Tinubus as Egba Chiefs

The Faces at the chieftaincy installation ceremony for the Tinubus in Abeokuta today.

Buhari, Ribadu, grace Tinubu’s chieftaincy ceremony

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been described as an icon and an irreplaceable dogged fighter who has…

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: Nigeria sacks Bi-Courtney

Jamiu Yisa and Ayorinde Oluokun Nigeria’s Federal government has terminated the contract concessioning the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway reconstructiona and maintenance to…

Angling For A New Constitution

Efforts at amending the 1999 Constitution kick off across the country with public hearings The current efforts at amending the…

New man joins tussle over Ibori’s $15million

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja More drama played out on Monday before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja as the…

No To Gays And Lesbians

Just like the Senate had done, the House of Representatives throws its support behind the prohibition of homosexuality and lesbianism…

Jonathan goes to Islamabad for D8 summit

President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja on Tuesday night for a three-day visit to Islamabad, Pakistan to attend the summit…

Stampede at India’s Hindu festival kills 18

PATNA, India(AFP) – At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured following the collapse of a…

South African prisoners hold officials hostage

Inmates took prison officials hostage on Monday at a privately operated maximum security jail in central South Africa, officials said.…

Gunmen Kill 2 Cops

Unidentified gunmen today killed two policemen at Olodo International Cattle Market, Ayetoro in Yewa area of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria.…

388,864 Nigerians Infected With HIV In One Year

At least, 388,864 Nigerians were infected with the HIV disease in 2011 alone, says the Lagos State Government. The government…