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Angry daughter punches mother in Mushin

A 25-year old unemployed woman, Bilikisu Abodunrin, charged with beating her mother was on Thursday arraigned before Magistrate M.K.O Fadeyi…

Elephant attacks Schwarzenegger in Africa

Action movie star and former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger had a real-life adventure in Africa, when he was on a…

#NDCleanUp: I’ve fulfilled my promise to Ogoni people – Buhari

Okafor Ofiebor/Bodo,Ogoniland President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he has fulfilled his promise to Ogoni people after flagging off the…
Sule Lamido

Court adjourns Lamido’s case to July 7

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned the case of the former governor of Jigawa, Mr Sule Lamido to…

Nigeria needs leaders like Ambode, says Fasheun

…says Ambode has kept his promises Founder of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC). Dr. Frederick Fasehun has described Lagos State Governor,…

Adamawa uncovers 12,609 ‘ghost workers’ in LG payroll

The Adamawa State Government says it has uncovered 12,609 ghost workers in the state’s local government payroll. Mr Maurice Vunobolki,…

VP Osinbajo to represent Buhari in Ogoniland

President Muhammadu Buhari will not be going to Ogoniland, Rivers State, for the much publicised Niger Delta Clean Up afterall.…

Ecobank sacks 1,000 bankers

Ecobank Nigeria Limited has sacked some of its staff just as the it announced the conversion of over 200 outsourced…

Niger Delta Avengers are criminals, we won’t negotiate with them – Presidency

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Presidential Adviser on Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta, Brig. General Paul Boroh (rtd) has slammed the…

Rivers bans Okada, tricycle riders for Buhari

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has banned commercial motorcycle riders popularly called Okada and tricycle riders (Keke Marwa) from…

Gov. Bello sends commissioner-nominees to Assembly

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has named fifteen commissioner nominees, about four months after he took over the affairs…

2 PDP reps defect to APC

Two members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives on Wednesday defected to the ruling…

Amosun dissolves Ogun local councils’ transition committees

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta: Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State Wednesday dissolved the transition committees in all the 20 local government areas…

Troops trail Boko Haram insurgents fleeing Sambisa Forest

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday, said the Army was on the trail of Boko…

Welder to die by hanging for armed robbery

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba: A 38-year old welder, Onyeka Ossai, has been sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempted…

Goodluck Jonathan returns home

Former President Goodluck Jonathan returned to Nigeria on Wednesday after spending weeks in London and other western capitals on a…

Ikoyi prisoner bags degree in Theology

An inmate of the Ikoyi Prisons, Albert Emmanuel Ajogbor, was on Wednesday presented with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree…

Archbishop Martins seeks stiffer penalties for corrupt people

Archbishop Alfred Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos on Wednesday called for stiffer penalties for those found guilty of…

INEC set to amend Electoral Act

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it was finalising a comprehensive proposal for constitutional and legal amendments to the…

9 ships laden with petrol, other items arrive Lagos ports

Nine ships laden with petrol, aviation fuel and other commodities have arrived at Lagos ports waiting to discharge, the Nigerian…
Kaduna records 2,428 cases of tuberculosis

World Bank releases $122m to fight TB

The World Bank has released 122 million dollars to boost southern Africa’s capacity to initiate an effective regional response to…

Ogoniland agog for Buhari’s visit

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) says the entire Ogoni people are ready to welcome President Muhammadu…

Foreign rice scarce in Katsina

Following Federal Government’s ban on importation of rice from foreign countries through land borders, the commodity has become scarce in…

French vessel detects signals likely from EgyptAir jet black box

The Egyptian investigation committee, revealed on Wednesday that a French naval search vessel has picked up signals believed to originate…

Court fixes trial of Synagogue engineers for June 3

An Ikeja High Court has fixed June 3 for the trial of the two engineers who constructed the collapsed seven-storey…

Delta State not part of Biafra- Delta SSG

The Delta State Government on Wednesday said the people of the State are not part of the proposed Biafra Republic,…

No retreat no surrender in Sambisa Forest-Military

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on Wednesday reaffirmed that the military would intensify its offensive in the…

Unpaid Salaries: Hairdressers tell civil servants to wake up

The Association of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists has advised civil servants across the country to take to vocational work as an…

Tonto Dikeh’s Husband, Olakunle Churchill honoured with Doctorate degree

Olakunle Churchill, Tonto Dikeh’s husband, was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from ISCG University in the Republic of Benin.…

32-year-old marriage to be dissolved over sex starvation

A 64-year-old man, Mustafa Ariori, on Wednesday urged a Lagos Island Customary Court, Lagos State, to dissolve his 32-year-old marriage…