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UNN honours Emeka Ojukwu, Folorunso Alakija

Former Nigerian warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will on Saturday receive a posthumous honorary doctorate degree in law from the University…

Boko Haram releases video of army barracks attack

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the 14 March attack on Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast.…

Oil theft: Lab tests exposed Police ASP

A Laboratory Chemist, Idris Tahir who is a witness in the on-going trial of a police officer, Dodo Chilla Bulus,…
Amosun

Fire Guts Ogun Gov’s Office

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A section of the office of Governor Ibikunle Amosun at Okemosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, southwest Nigeria,…

N47bn Theft: Akingbola Challenges Court Jurisdiction

Henry Ojelu Former Managing Director of  Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola, today challenged the jurisdiction of a Lagos High…

National Confab: Delegates Queue For Hours To Enter Venue

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja with NAN Delegates to the ongoing National Conference on Monday in Abuja queued for about two hours before…

Ezekwesili, Kumuyi Charge Youths On Character Development

Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, and the General Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, have…

Police probe Nigerian house of horror

Nigerian police said they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned…

Nigerians topple Russians as third biggest spenders in UK

Nigerians accounted for four percent of shopping in the United Kingdom in February, spending an average of 628 pounds per…

Experts warn over Nigeria’s ‘viagra drinks’

Nike Ajibade and three of her colleagues sit on a Lagos pavement with small plastic bottles of liquids tucked inside…

Suspect Knocks Down EFCC Operative

An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde,has been knocked down by a Honda Accord…

Tinubu says Amosun’s projects people-oriented

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…

Senator Oduoye dies

A former military administrator of Ebonyi state who later became a Nigerian Senator, Simeon Oduoye, is dead. He was aged…

Fayose to slug it out with Fayemi in Ekiti

A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, was on Satuday declared winner of the PDP governorship primaries in…

Free train riders attack traders, bus drivers

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE There was pandemonium early Saturday at the Agege area of Lagos state, western Nigeria as some free train…

NIS Recruitment Tragedy: 5 more bodies released

The Management of National Hospital, Abuja, has released five more bodies of those who died during Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment…

Arsenal legend Parlour for launch of Airtel Premier

Arsenal legend and former England international, Ray Parlour, is set to visit Nigeria as part of the Arsenal team to…

Teachers boycott Gov. Oshiomhole’s competency test

JEHTRO IBILEKE/Benin Fewer than two hundred school teachers in Edo state, in southern Nigeria, participated in Saturday’s controversial competency test…
NAPTIP rescues 9 pregnant women from baby factory in Abuja

Baby making ‘factory’ uncovered in Ogun state

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Ogun State Police Command, in western Nigeria, today discovered a “Baby Factory” where young girls have been…

Fraudsters now use my name, Obiano says

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The new governor of Anambra state in the eastern part of Nigeria, Mr. Willie Obiano, has warned the…

Femi Segun, ex-diplomat, ace compere dies

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE Ex-Diplomat and ace compere, Olufemi Segun is dead. He was aged 55. P.M.NEWS learnt that Segun, son of…

Man Jailed For Life For Drug Trafficking

An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday sentenced a 36-year-old man, Callistus Chukwukelu, to life imprisonment for unlawful importation of…

Court Remands Man For Killing His Own Son

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered Gbenga Omotosho, 29, to be remanded in prison for killing his own…

APC To PDP: Prove Our Complicity In Boko Haram Insurgency

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dared the Peoples Democratic Party to urgently make available to the Nigerian public any…

TB Kills 192 In Adamawa

Dr. Stephen John, Project Manager of the TB Control Programme in Adamawa State has revealed that 3,382 cases of Tuberculosis…

Urinate In Public, Face Arrest, Fashola Warns Lagosians

Kazeem Ugbodaga  A displeased Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has ordered officers of the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, to…

Nollywood Actress Faces Backlash Over Nude Movie Role

Funsho Arogundade As controversy trailing the semi-nude picture of Nollywood actress, Biola Ige and Muna Ibekwe, is yet to abate,…

Immigration Job Stampede: 13 Survivors Leave Hospital

Thirteen survivors of the Nigerian Immigration Service’ recruitment stampede have been discharged from the hospital. The Minister of State for…

Diezani’s N10bn on chartered jet ignites probe

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to investigate the alleged wastage of funds by the…
Amosun

Amosun orders payment of striking lecturers salaries

Governor Ibikunle Amosun has ordered the management of the state-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, to pay the one-month salary…