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Senator drums support for state police

Sen. Ajibola Basiru (APC-Osun Central) has said that the inability of the Nigerian police to tackle the challenges of insecurity…

Court nullifies PDP candidacy in Kogi governorship election

The hope of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to contest the result of the 16 November 2019 Kogi State governorship…

Boko Haram attacking Christians to trigger religious war – FG

The Federal Government says Boko Haram insurgents and their ISWAP allies have changed their strategy, targeting Christians and Christian villages…

Another man jumps into Lagos lagoon

Another young man attempted to commit suicide on Wednesday night after he alighted from a cab and jumped off the…

Don advocates passage of Disability Education Bill

Prof. Florence Banku-Obi, Prof. of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Education, University of Calabar, has called on the National Assembly…

Immigration ban: Nigerian-American Rita Omokha tells Trump some truths

Nigerian-American Rita Omokha argues that Trump's immigrant ban on Nigeria reinforces Trump’s xenophobia, bigotry and Islamophobia. Whiteness, and whiteness alone,…

Lagos Bus Services Ltd plans double fleet

The Lagos Bus Services Limited (LBSL) says it has moved about 9 million commuters since its inception in May 2019.

Bayelsa: APC urges supporters to accept Supreme Court decision

The Bayelsa Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday, urged the party members and supporters in the state to…

Port Harcourt cell: EFCC nabs mischievous blogger

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), South-South Zone, Port Harcourt have tracked down and arrested one Dikeocha Chukwuebuka, the…

Domkat Bali’s two regrets as he marks 80

There is an aura of venerability around individuals who do not talk frivolously. And when such people do, their utterances…
Petrol

Man bathes pregnant lady, children in petrol

A 52-year-old trader, Moruf Olushola, was arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court for bathing a pregnant woman and her two…

Miyetti Allah into Amotekun like hyenas and lions – FFK

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has kicked against suggestions that members of the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria…
NUJ President Chris Isiguzo defends extension of his tenure and that of the other members of the CWC of the union by six weeks. .

President sues for peace in Ogun NUJ crisis

President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Prince Chris Isiguzo, has called on warring members of the union in…
Court discharges ex- Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and 5 others of N544 million grass- cutting fraud.

Where is Babachir Lawal? Still on trial ?

By Fredrick Nwabufo On December 14, 2016, the senate asked Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF),…

Ambode loses bid to stop lawmakers’ probe

An Ikeja High Court on Thursday struck out a suit filed by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, seeking to…

Wike’s marching order to RIWAMA boss

The Rivers government has directed the Rivers State Waste Management Agency (RIWAMA) to develop a comprehensive plan to rejig the…

Tattoo, dreadlocks don’t make you criminal, Dolapo Badmus says

Nigerian police officer, Dolapo Opeyemi Badmus, has urged Nigerians to resist the intimidation of any law enforcement officer trying to…

Nigerian Mogaji arrested in US for theft of $850,000 three years after

Nigerian Sherifdeen Mogaji has been arrested by Colorado's Boulder County Sheriff’s Office more than three years after he stole about…
65 victims of human traffickers

My ordeals in the hands of a trafficker – Libyan returnee

On Wednesday night, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) received another batch of 116 Nigerians who volunteered to be repatriated…

Another batch of 116 Nigerians repatriated from Libya

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it has received another batch of 116 Nigerians, who volunteered to be repatriated…

Suspected coronavirus case in Lagos turns negative

The Lagos State commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi said that the Chinese citizen who presented at the Reddington Hospital,…
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State

Kwara Gov reacts to attack on APC chairman

Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has condemned the alleged attack on the state Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji…

Lawan cries to UN as Nigeria records highest tuberculosis rate

President of the Senate Ahmed Lawan has appealed to the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to…

CRUTECH student drowns after matriculation

A tragedy occurred at Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH after a new student identified as Barnabas Otu, drowned in…

NMA’s recommendations to CBN to curb medical tourism

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to set up a dedicated Health Bank…
Police receive 43 rape cases in Gombe in 7 months

3 teachers arrested over alleged rape of students

Police have arrested three secondary school teachers for allegedly having carnal knowledge of three female students who are minors in…

Ikpeazu emerges Deputy Chairman PDP Governors’ Forum

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has endorsed Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia as the deputy chairman of the…

2 dead, 5 in injured in Niger road accident

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger says two people died in an accident on Wednesday along Lapai –…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Tuesday has released the full list of members who were elected across into the House of Representatives in the National Assembly election conducted on Saturday, February 25.

TUC supports immunity bill for National Assembly

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, on Wednesday, disclosed that it supports the bill seeking to provide immunity to…

Coronavirus: Red Cross mobilises 80,000 volunteers

The Nigerian Red Cross Society, Lagos Branch, says it has mobilised over 80,000 volunteers in the state for social mobilisation…