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Baraje’s PDP mulls contempt charges against Tukur

Ayo Oluokun/Abuja The Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led faction of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday said it has mandated its…

Egypt’s Interior Minister Survives Assassination Attempt

A bomb targeted the convoy of Egypt’s interior minister today in Cairo in the first attack on a senior government…

ASUU Strike Continues –Fagge

President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has categorically stated that the ongoing strike will not be…

Female Graduate Leads 7-Man Robbery Gang

A seven-man robbery gang led by a woman, Chioma Ezekwesiri, has been smashed by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in…

Lord’s Chosen Fake Miracle CDs Flood Market

The police in Lagos have launched investigation into the massive production of audio and video CDs of purported miracles performed…

Attack On Young Shall Grow Boss: Igbo Festac Residents Plan Protest

Following the failed assassination attempt on the Managing Director of Young Shall Grow Motors Limited, Chief Vincent Obianodo, and the rising…

‘Molue’ Banned From Lagos Island

The Lagos State Government has banned commuter buses, popularly known as Molue, from plying routes on Lagos Island, Lagos, southwest…

APC Condemns PDP’s Daylight Vote Robbery In Offa

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the daylight vote robbery by the PDP in last Saturday’s rerun at the…

Lagos Assembly Slams LG Bosses Over Bloated Budgets

The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, has frowned at what it calls a funny trend where council chairmen…

FRSC To Install Speed Limit Devices In Buses

The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, is to make sure that “speed limit devices” are installed in all commercial buses,…

Man charged with sodomy

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigerian police in southern Nigerian state of Rivers has arraigned a 30 year old suspect, Godface…

Nigeria: Car parts thieves invade dep. governor’s home

JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba Stern-faced security operatives at the official residence of Delta state deputy governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, in Asaba the…

Tukur: ‘I head the real PDP’

The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday in Abuja, said he was still heading…

Nigeria’s stowaway boy reveals family crisis

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Contrary to the account by Osaigbovo Oikhena, father of 13-year-old stowaway boy, Ricky Daniel, that he did not…

I didn’t win the Offa election, says PDP councillor

Stephen Oni/Ilorin In a rare move, a councillorship candidate of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, in the 31 August council poll…

Jonathan begins 3-day visit to Kenya

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will begin a three day visit to Kenya tomorrow. The official visit was on the invitation…

Prison warder kills driver, injures pastor

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A taxi driver was shot dead by a trigger-happy prison warder in the suburb of Port Harcourt…

Obama rallies global support for Syria strikes

DAMASCUS(AFP) – US President Barack Obama Wednesday urged world support for punitive strikes against Syria for its alleged use of…

Indian doctors separate Nigeria’s conjoined twins

Indian doctors declared Wednesday that a pair of formerly conjoined twins, born in Nigeria, were healthy and happy after they…

Ajudua Seeks Bail Again

Fraud kingpin, Mr.Fred Ajudua has asked a Lagos High Court in Ikeja for a fresh bail. Ajudua’s counsel, Mr. Olalekan…

New PDP Gains Ground

The crisis rocking Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, worsened on Tuesday with the newly formed faction gaining traction and…

Drug Addict Goes Wild

A suspected drug addict on Tuesday went berserk, stabbing six people. One of the victims, a 40-year old man, died…

Prisoner Hangs Self After 1,000 Years Sentence

Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper who held three women against their will for a decade, is dead after hanging himself…

Kidnappers Of Lawmaker’s Wife Killed

Two suspected members of a kidnap gang, Freeborn Okwundu and Monday Ekpeki, have been killed by operatives of the Delta…

Housewife Remanded For Murder

An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a 21-year-old housewife, Rebecca Bassey, in prison custody over alleged…

Floods Displace 7m Nigerians —NEMA

At least seven million Nigerians were displaced in various floods recorded nationwide by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in…

6 Jailed For Public Disturbance

An Abuja Grade 2 Area Court in Kado on Tuesday in the FCT sentenced six men to four months imprisonment…

Hunger Drove Me Into Stealing —Suspect

A 27-year old theft suspect, Marvellous Moris, has allegedly confessed in court that hunger drove him into stealing a handset…

Woman Knocks Off Neighbour’s Teeth

A 35-year old woman has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly assaulting her neighbour by knocking…

Niger Delta group threatens Amaechi, new violence

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A new Niger Delta group, styled as Coalition of Militant Action for the Niger Delta, COMA, has…