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Oshodi/Isolo to get 16 transformers

Eromosele Ebhomele After many months of living in darkness, parts of Oshodi and Isolo, in Lagos, Nigeria are to get…

Policemen abduct children to effect father’s arrest

Henry Ojelu Policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Lagos, Wednesday abducted two teenage children in Satellite town in…

Ambode approves land for installation of surveillance camera in Lekki

…Perfects Donation Of Gun Boats, Other Equipment To Nigerian Navy Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday granted immediate approval…

Senate probes NNPC unbundling

The Senate will tomorrow examine the issues surrounding Federal Government’s decision to unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This…

Kachikwu to meet striking NNPC workers

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) managing director, Ibe Kachikwu says he will meet with trade union leaders to end a…

Pastor remanded for defiling his 7-year-old daughter

Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 41-year-old Resident Pastor in Benin, Benjamin Bernard, was Wednesday ordered to be remanded in prison custody by…

Lekki collapsed building: Death toll hits 30

Kazeem Ugbodaga At least 12 more dead bodies have been removed from the rubble of the 5-storey building which collapsed…

Building Collapse: Lagos issues 24-hour ultimatum to estate directors

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has issued 24-hour ultimatum to all directors of the Lekki Worldwide Estate Limited, developer…

Why Metuh’s no case submission cannot stand, Justice Abang

Justice Okon Abang of Federal High Courtn Abuja division on Wednesday dismissed the no case submission made by Olisa Metuh,…

Road Crashes: FRSC commander cautions politicians

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Tuesday said that road crashes could end the political ambitions of politicians if…

Man arrested for selling late father’s house for N500k

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 62-year-old man, Adewale Mabun, has been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ court for allegedly selling his…

Olisa Metuh has a case to answer, court rules

By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Olisa Metuh, publicity secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party has his no-case submission thrown out by…

Non academic staff vow to shut down UI, disrupt matriculation

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Barely a month that the non-academic unions of the University of Ibadan, UI, protested and paralyzed all activities…

NNPC Unbundling: Workers go on strike

Offices of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have been shut nationwide, according to reports as workers of the state…
University of Ibadan

Crisis looms in UI

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Barely a month after the non-academic unions of the University of Ibadan, UI, protested and paralyzed all activities…

Lagos deputy governor drawn into tumbledown school building

Eromosele Ebhomele Worried by the dilapidated state of the Ogba Primary School 1 located in the busy Ogba area of…

Bakery worker jailed for assault in Benin

Jethro Ibileke/Benin An Egor Chief Magistrate’s court in Benin, Edo state, on Tuesday, March 8, sentenced a 25-year-old bakery worker,…

4 sent to prison for withdrawing N114.8m from bank account

Paul Iyoghojie Operatives of the X Squad of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, FCID, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria,…

MTN dealing with NCC not FG, says Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has stated that the federal government is not dealing directly with leading telecommunication outfit, MTN,…

Ese Oruru’s Mirror by Okey Ndibe

I received a plaintive note last week from a young man who seemed rather shocked that I had not written…

There are no political killings in Rivers, only cult clashes – Wike

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has dismissed the allegations that recent killings in the oil-rich state…

Rivers Killings: Police arrest two, vows to track down others

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers Police Command has arrested one Anthony Ugoh, in connection with the murder of Frank Obi, his…
Orji Uzor Kalu

Abia Rerun: PPA kicks as Orji Uzor Kalu loses to PDP candidate

The Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) on Tuesday added a new dimension to election re-run held in Abia North Senatorial distrust…

EFCC re-arrests ex HOS, Oronsaye

For Steve Oronsaye, former Nigeria’s Head of Service, the prospect of a peaceful retirement further dimmed on Tuesday following his…

APC berates security agencies over Rivers’ killings

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says security agencies in Rivers should take responsibility for the recent killing of its chieftain…
Sule Lamido

Lamido: EFCC presents another witness

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 8, 2016 presented another witness, Alhaji Suraju Ahmadu, in the ongoing…
Ali-Modu Sheriff

No more imposition of candidates in PDP – Ali Modu Sheriff

Ali Modu Sheriff, the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised that candidates would not be imposed in…

EFCC rearraigns ex-pensions director for N81.4m fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 re-arraigned Mohammed Ahmed Katun, a former Assistant Director,…