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Late Ghanaian leader’s final journey begins

Ghanaians in black traditional garb and shirts bearing images of late president John Atta Mills filed through a hall where…

74 drug traffickers arrested in West Africa

Law enforcement officers from agencies responsible for drug investigations in three ECOWAS countries have completed a week-long capacity building training-cum-operational…

Jonathan Leads Delegation to Atta Mills Funeral

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will travel to Accra, Ghana tomorrow at the head of Nigeria’s official delegation to the burial…

Alleged Certificate Forgery Stalls Edo NUJ Election

The national secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists on Wednesday shelved election of officers to run the affairs of the…

Bodies of Dana plane crash victims to be released

Simon Ateba The Lagos State Government, today, announced that it will begin releasing corpses of the Dana plane crash from…

Gabon’s censored media vow to publish

Two opposition newspapers in Gabon vowed Wednesday to keep the presses rolling despite the National Communications Council’s (CNC) decision to…

Clinton Must Urge Nigeria To Address Violence: HRW

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should urge Nigeria to address violence by militant Islamist group Boko Haram as well…

Herdsmen Strike Again On Long Bridge

Barely  a month after Fulani herdsmen killed Brig. Gen. Sylvester K.  Iruh (retd)  on the long bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan…

2 Die As Building Collapses

The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed that two people lost their lives and nine others were injured when  a…

32 Sex Workers Sent To Jail

The Special Offences Court at Alausa, Ikeja, Southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday sentenced 32 sex workers to four months imprisonment for…

Collect Bribe, Go To Jail —LASTMA Men Warned

The Lagos State Government has vowed to sack any officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, who will…

Police Smash 8-Man Mushin Gang

Eight Mushin robbery suspects who allegedly robbed and killed their victims have been arrested by operatives of the Federal Special…

Time For Action And Not Lamentations, ACN Tells Jonathan

The Action Congress of Nigeria has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately convoque a national conference on the worsening…

Burial Of Late Ghanaian President Begins

Ghana began three days of funeral rites for late president John Atta Mills on Wednesday, with his body to lie…

Don’t Spare Traffic Offenders, Ikuforiji Warns Colleagues

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has warn his colleagues against intervening for traffic offenders in…

We Will Sanction Erring LG Chairmen

Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs, Moshood Oshun, in this…

Lagos Appeals To Telecoms Operators On Mast Compliance

The Lagos State Government has appealed to telecoms operators, internet service providers, ISPs, banks and others to  adhere strictly to…

OPC Chief Held Over Murder

Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad at Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have arrested and arraigned an…

ACN urges Jonathan to call national confab

The Action Congress of Nigeria has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately convoke a national conference on the worsening…

Lagos Lawmaker Gets Royal Honour

A member of Lagos State House of Assembly, Abdulbaq Ladi-Balogun, has been honoured by the Emir of Ilorin for lifting…

Nigerian judge abducted in Delta

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Justice Marcel Okoh of the High Court of the oil-rich Delta State was reportedly abducted by suspected kidnappers…

Colombia extradites drug baroness to US

Colombian authorities Tuesday extradited a woman accused of links to Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa drug cartel, police announced. Dolly Cifuentes Villa,…

Braithwaite visits Jonathan at Aso Rock

Dr Tunji Braithwaite, national leader of the fringe political movement, the Nigerian Advanced Party (NAP), met with President Goodluck Jonathan…

Curfew in troubled Nigerian town, after 2 soldiers killed

Two soldiers have been confirmed killed in a fresh gun attack in Okene, Kogi, by unidentified identified men. Mr Simon…

Another Dana aircraft had hydraulic problem

A Coroners’ Court in Lagos sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday heard that another aircraft in Dana Airline’s fleet had hydraulic…

Court stops Governor Okorocha again

An Owerri High Court on Tuesday restrained Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state from dissolving the 27 local government councils…

Cult War leaves 2 Nigerian students dead

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Renewed violent clash between two cult groups, Vikings and Black Axe at the Edo State owned Ambrose Alli…

UNILAG, 11 others share N25billion federal aid

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria Government on Tuesday disbursed N25 billion to twelve Nigerian tertiary institutions, including the University of…

War On Terror: Abatemi-Usman Task Security Agents

Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman representing Kogi Central Senatorial District has called on security agents to intensify their fight against terrorism in…

Shooting Causes Panic In Okene

Economic activities in Kogi state, particularly in Lokoja and Okene, were paralysed Tuesday following reports that there were sporadic shootings…