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Lagos Assembly confirms Gbeleyi For finance ministry

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday confirmed Mr. Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi as Commissioner for Finance in…

Falana to sue police over detention of Offor’s critic

Nigeria’s leading human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), plans to sue the police for N1b for the detention of a…

Court denies bail to Chidi Lloyd

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Justice Latan Nyordee of the Port-Harcourt high court has denied bail to the detained leader of the…

Husbands Will Be Scarce Soon —Group

A women’s group, National Council of Catholic Women Organisation, NCCWO has raised an alarm that husbands will be scarce by…

Girl Set Ablaze By Nurse Dies

The 11-year old girl that was allegedly set ablaze by a nurse in Surulere area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, is…

Prosecute Sergeant Rogers, Activists Tell Lagos Govt

With the acquittal and release of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan over the murder of Kudirat Abiola, the Lagos…

Ogun Moves To Relocate Kara Market

In its bid to relocate cattle dealers at the Kara market along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to a suitable place, a…

Just like Lagos, Hawaii sends its homeless people away

As controversy rages over the plausibility of the decision of the Lagos state government to send home some Igbo destitute…

Boko Haram: Dialogue Panel admits failure

The Minister of Special Duties, Mr Kabiru Turaki, on Thursday said that engaging in constructive dialogue with key members of…

Italy’s top court confirms Berlusconi prison sentence

Italy’s top court on Thursday handed former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi his first ever conviction for tax fraud, confirming his…

Housewife, lawyer charged with forgery Of Will

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The Police in Benin City, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state, have arraigned 46-year-old lawyer-wife of a millionaire, her…

Don’t Incite Igbos Against Lagos, Fashola Warns Obi

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has warned his counterpart in Anambra State, Peter Obi not to incite the…

UNIBEN sacks professor, others for misconduct

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Authorities of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, have sacked 16 senior academic and non academic staff members, including…

Man flees after wife delivers triplets

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta A farmer in the western Nigerian state of Ogun has abandoned his wife after she delivered triplets.…

ICPC docks alleged operator of fake university

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission, ICPC, on Thursday arraigned Mr. David Iornem…

Russia offers US secret leaker asylum

Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday after Russia granted him refugee status,…

Opposition threatens showdown over Mugabe’s ‘victory’

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s allies declared Thursday that the veteran leader had romped to an election victory, a claim rejected…

Presidential candidate arrested over N66m scam

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, HDP, at the 2011 Presidential election in Nigeria, Chief…

Alaba Bizman Hacked To Death

A businessman and an importer of musical equipment at Alaba International Market, Ojo area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has…

Excitement Over APC Registration

There has been excitement over the registration of the All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,…

Baba Oloja Crisis: Soldiers, Policemen Storm Ladipo Market

Armed soldiers and policemen have been drafted to the popular Ladipo Market, Mushin Lagos, southwest Nigeria following the tension generated…

Mandela Spends 56th Day In Hospital

Former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday evening.…

Stop Playing Politics With Relocation Of Destitute —Igbokwe

An Igbo leader in Lagos, Mr. Joe Igbokwe has warned critics not to play politics with the recent relocation of…

Duped Ketu House Seekers Set Up Blackberry Group

Duped Ketu house seekers have set up a blackberry group to stay in touch with one another while they try…

One North: A Professor’s Faulty Logic

Ango Abdullahi’s assertion that Northerners have enough votes to elect one of their own as Nigeria’s president is false  As…

Bombastic English Made In Edo State!

Edo State, in the middle of Southern Nigeria has refurbished the Queens English. It now has its own version solely…

Nigerian village cleared of deadly lead poisoning

Medical charity MSF said Wednesday a Nigerian village in Zamfara State that suffered an unprecedented and deadly lead poisoning outbreak…

Manko debunks alleged ‘deportation’ of Igbos

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos Security Council has debunked deportation of 67 Igbos to Anambra State, saying the affected people indicated…

Fashola nominates Gbeleyi as new finance commissioner

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has nominated the Director-General of the State’s Office of Public – Private Partnerships…