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Fashola, Lagos House Condemn Hamzat’s Assassination

Eromosele Ebhomele Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and members of the Lagos House of Assembly have condemned the assassination last night…

Grandma Set Ablaze

Barely seven months after St. Roberts Catholic Church collapsed and killed not less than 30 parishioners in Adamgbe, Mbayongo,Vandeikya, Benue…

Toyin Hamzat, Ex- Fashola Adviser Assassinated

The former Chairman of Ikeja Local Government, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, and ex Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Health…

2,000 Days: Fashola Counts Gains Of Okada Ban

Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State on Sunday rendered an account of stewardship to commemorate his 2,000 days in…

Lagos Targets 3,000 MW From IPP

The Lagos State Government says it is planning to generate of 3,000 megawatts of electricity in the state in the…

Condoms Distributed For Obudu Mountain Race

The Cross River State Action Committee on HIV and AIDS (SACA) said on Sunday that the committee distributed one million…

Shun Road Abuse, FRSC Tells Nigerians

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Sunday advised Nigerians to shun road abuses believed to be responsible for the…

NASU Gives FG 14-Day Ultimatum

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to government to begin the…

Kidnapping: Hotelier Quits Ijebu Ode

A popular hotelier in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Segun Ayobolu, has closed down all his business outfits in the…

Tinubu Installed Field Marshal Of Egbaland

The ancient town of Abeokuta, capital of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria was agog today as the former governor of Lagos…

Lagos Begins Child Health Intervention

As the second round of this year’s Maternal Newborn and Child Health, MNCH, week celebration begins in Lagos State today,…

LASG Vows To Sanitise Mode Of Meat Transportation

The Lagos State Government has vowed to sanitise meat transportation in the state. The government frowned at the unhygienic ways…

Mass Purge In Lands Bureau

Ninty-eight staff of the Lagos State Lands Bureau have been redeployed to other ministries. The bureau is alleged to be…

Ex-council boss arrested for illegal enrichment

Operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Kasimu Lawal Abubakar (a.k.a Abasco), the former Chairman…

Obasanjo, Dangote attend prayers for Saraki

Stephen Oni/Ilorin Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President Namadi Sambo, business mogul, Aliko Dangote, and Central Bank Governor, Sanusi…

Curfew in Nigeria’s strife torn town

Officials in Nigeria’s northeast Taraba state on Sunday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Ibbi following reported clashes between Christian and…

Jonathan sidesteps questions on 2015

Jamiu Yisa President Goodluck Jonathan has said that it is too early for Nigerians to be asking if he will…

Jonathan: No dialogue with Boko Haram

Lanre babalola/New editor President Goodluck Jonathan this evening dispelled reports that his government has started dialogue with the Islamic fundamentalist…

Nigerian lawmaker killed by assassins on auto bike

Gunmen riding on motorcycles have killed a prominent politician in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, officials said Sunday amid a…

Nigeria’s Soyinka pays tribute to Justice Eso

Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel Literature laureate, has paid tribute to Justice Kayode Eso, the Nigerian judge who presided over…

Ask Goodluck Jonathan a question via Twitter or SMS

Do you think Nigeria is not working? Do you have a question for President Goodluck Jonathan? This is your chance…

Saudi King undergoes back surgery

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 89, has “successfully” undergone a new operation on his back, the royal cabinet announced Sunday.…

Early results favour Koroma as Sierra Leone tallies the votes

Voting has ended in Sierra Leone and the electoral officials have begun the tallying of votes after a general elections…

Revealed: Soldiers watched as Gen. Shuwa was killed

A relation of General Muhammed Shuwa, who was killed 2 November by gunmen believed to be members of the Boko…

Shocking: Nigerians are turning robbers in UAE !

A gang of eight members, seven of them Nigerians has been arrested by the Sharjah Police in the United Arab…

UCH names geriatric centre after Tony Anenih

Nigeria’s University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan has opened a modern Geriatric Diagnostic Centre for the elderly. It was named after…

News Analysis: Nigeria’s Industry of Condolences

By Bayo Onanuga All it takes to switch on Nigeria’s burgeoning industry of paying condolences is for yet another big…

Ahly win record 7th CAF Champions league title

Al Ahly of Egypt won their seventh CAF Champions League title after they defeated Esperance 3-2 on aggregate on Saturday…

Jonathan votes N3b for research in Nigerian varsities

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN In a bid to improve the quality of staffing in the higher institutions and encourage staff development for…

Homosexual lobby mounts pressure on Jonathan

A gay lobby in the United States, All Out, has started a global campaign to collect 100,000 signatures of sympathisers…