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Corruption: ASUU slams FG for ‘window dressing’

Dr Nasir Fagge, President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Thursday advised Nigeria’s Federal Government to prosecute and punish…

1000 Nigerians flee after Boko Haram killings

More than 1,000 Nigerians have fled to neighbouring Niger after six people were killed in an attack on their village…

Teenager changes plea in trial for theft

A Nigerian teenager, who earlier pleaded guilty to stealing four laptops, on Thursday changed his plea as a Surulere Magistrates’…

Housewife wins car at Nigerian sports festival raffle

A Lagos housewife in her mid-50s, Adeyinka Ademola, on Thursday won one of the five Hyundai Verna cars for the…

Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Land Scammer

Justice A. B Mohammed of the High Court of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on Thursday, December…

3 Kwara colleges stopped from running degree programmes

The three Kwara State-owned Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Oro and Lafiagi have been ordered to immediately discontinue all degree…

JTF Impounds 700 Illegal Oil Vessels

The Joint Task Force (JTF) operating in the Niger Delta said on Thursday it impounded 700 boats, barges, vessels and…

Census Tribunal nullifies 2006 census figures for 3 LGAs in Taraba

The Census Tribunal on Thursday declared as invalid the 2006 census figures of three local government areas in Taraba. A judgement delivered…

Cynthia Osokogu: Suspects To Be Arraigned At High Court Soon

The Lagos State Government has said that all suspects found culpable in the murder of Cynthia Osokogu Udoka will  be…

Boko Haram: Bombers Promised 72 Virgins In Heaven

Details emerged yesterday of the incentives promised suicide bombers of the Boko Haram sect to carry out their deadly missions.…

Mandela’s Doctors Die In Plane Crash

A military plane has crashed in South Africa’s mountainous east, killing 11 people, several media said Thursday, with one unconfirmed…

8 Gunmen Arrested In Kano

A team of policemen arrested eight gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect who attacked their vehicle…

No Going Back On Traffic Law —Lagos House

The Lagos State House of Assembly has declared that it will not repeal the Road Traffic Law it passed a…

4 Men Rape Dumb Girl

For allegedly having carnal knowledge of a 15-year old deaf and dumb teenage girl (name withheld), two men have been…

Lagos Assembly Holds Special Sitting For Late Speaker

The Lagos State House of Assembly this morning held a special session in honour of the former Speaker Oladimeji Longe,…

Oyo NURTW Chieftain, Tokyo Detained At SCID

The Oyo State Police Command has clarified that the factional Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),…

Fashola Raises Alarm Over Abandoned 17-Storey Building

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has raised an alarm over an abandoned 17-storey building at Okokomaiko area of Lagos…

Unlawful Detention: Undergraduate Slams N10m Suit On IGP

An undergraduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, Emeka Nnagbo alleged to have been unlawfully detained by…

Capital Oil Workers Cry For Help

When two elephants fight, the grass suffers. Such is the raging battle between AMCON and Capital Oil and Gas Industries…

Lagos Backs Discipline Corps

The Lagos State government has expressed support for  the activities of “Discipline Corps”, an organisation set up to check indiscipline…

Lekki Tollgate: Second Alternative Road Ready —LASG

As the Lekki Concession Company, LCC prepares to begin collection of tolls on the second tollgate on Eti-Osa Lekki-Epe Expressway,…

NURTW Begins Free Transport Scheme For Pregnant Women

The Jigawa State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), on Wednesday said it had introduced free…

Al-Mustapha Sues Ministry Over Landed Property

The former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza al-Mustapha has dragged the Ministry of Urban…

Bank Dragged To Court Over Trespass On Land

Ten children of deceased Lagos businessman, Anicetus Ibhagbe Eikore, have slammed N50 million suit on Diamond Bank Plc for trespass…

Ojudu Unmasks Fake Federal Roads Listed For Ekiti in 2013 Budget

Senator Babafemi Ojudu, representing Ekiti Central, today unmasked what could have been a serious fraud perpetrated in the name of…

Nigeria still ranked one of the most corrupt countries

The latest ranking of Nigeria on the corruption scale released by Transparency International returned another grim verdict: Nigeria is still…

Oshiomhole opens defence

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Three witnesses Wednesday testified on behalf of Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at…

Nigerian lawyers boycott court over killing of colleague

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Jalingo, Taraba state in Northeastern Nigeria, on Wednesday, boycotted court proceedings as a mark…

Analysis: More Nigerians killed by Boko Haram in 2012

The radical Islamist fighters gather around piles of weapons and ammunition they’ve stolen and shout praises to God as they…

Mom beats son to death for failing to memorise Quran

A mother who beat her seven-year-old son to death for failing to learn the Quran by heart was found guilty…