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Governor’s wife offers scholarship to 30 kids

Omolewa Ahmed, wife of Nigeria’s Kwara State Governor, on Monday said that she would take full responsibility for the education…

Tax: German Catholic Church goes tough

Germany’s Roman Catholics who refuse to pay a church tax will be barred from receiving the sacraments or becoming a…

Bankole’s Contract Scam Trial Stalled

The contract inflation scam trial of former Speaker of the House of Representatives,  Dimeji Bankole scheduled for Monday was stalled following…

Lagos Public Schools Shut, As Teachers Begin Strike

Activities were paralysed in all public schools in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, today as teachers began indefinite strike to press…

Crackdown On ACN Stalwarts In Kwara Imminent -ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has warned  of an imminent crackdown on its members in Kwara state in the aftermath…

Our Ordeal On Lokoja-Abuja Highway —Travellers

Thousands of commuters remained stranded on Abuja-Lokoja road this morning as a result of flood that has taken over the…

Lagos Assembly Orders Fashola To Shut Illegal Abattoirs

The Lagos State House of Assembly, Southwest Nigeria, has ordered the State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to quickly rise up…

Emission Test For Vehicles Underway

The Lagos State Government is to begin compulsory emission test on all vehicles in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria to ascertain their…

Road Construction: Lagos Generates 37,000 Jobs

The Lagos State Government has created 37,000 jobs through the 161 contracts awarded this year, says Commissioner for Works and…

Lagos To Deal With Erring Hajj Pilgrims

The Lagos State Government has vowed to deal with any pilgrim who misbehaved in Saudi Arabia during next month’s hajj…

Traffic Law: LASG Mobilises Councils For Enforcement

The Lagos State Government has begun mobilisation of its 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas, LCDAs, for…

LASEPA Takes Anti-Pollution Campaign To Grassroots

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, has taken its campaign against all forms of pollution, especially noise, to the…

200 LASPOTECH Students Donate Blood

Over 200 students of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu and Isolo campuses donated blood to the Lagos State Blood Transfusion…

Thousands Protest Anti-Islam Film In Kaduna

Shiite Muslims in their thousands trooped out in Kaduna, Kaduna State in Northcentral Nigeria today to protest the widely-condemned anti-Islam…

Gunmen Kill Driver, Abduct 2 kids

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Dare-devil gunmen suspected to be kidnappers this morning in Benin struck at the home of a Nigerian businessman…

We Need To Fight

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, once again, came to media attention last week when he spoke at this year’s Leadership Newspapers…

Archbishop urges Amaechi, Omehia end feud

Archbishop, Province of Niger Delta and Bishop of the Diocese of Niger Delta North, Most Reverend Ignatius C. O. Kattey…

Lokoja-Abuja Highway closed

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Those travelling from Abuja and other Northern states to the Southern parts of the country and vice versa…

Reporter’s Diary: Nigeria’s aviation industry in limbo

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent For those who have predicted that Nigeria’s aviation industry is heading for a crash and its airlines,…

PDP commends Jonathan over N5000 decision

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for hearkening to the views of Nigerians by stopping…

Deadly bomb explosion in Bauchi Catholic Church

A bomb has reportedly gone off at St. John’s Catholic Church at Bayan Gari in Bauchi, north western Nigeria, killing…

Akeredolu pledges to integrate Ondo with Western Nigeria

The governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Saturday said there was…

Anti-Islam movie: Egypt Coptic Christians fear reprisals

CAIRO(AFP) – Egyptian Christians, who have long complained of discrimination, say they fear that an anti-Islam film produced by Copts…

4 Boko Haram suspects killed, 3 Arrested in raids

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order said on Saturday that it had killed four and arrested three…

Jonathan goes to UN General Assembly

President Goodluck Jonathan will on Sunday lead Nigeria’s delegation to attend the 67th General Assembly of the United Nations in…

Curfew slammed on Damaturu, Potiskum

Soldiers of the task force in Nigeria’s Yobe state have conducted door-to-door searches in Damaturu, capital of Yobe and Potiskum,…

Single mum arrested with wraps of hard drugs

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said in Lagos on Saturday that it has arrested four suspects, including a…

Gunmen kill 4 Nigerian villagers

The Lamurde Local Government Authority in Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, has confirmed the death of four persons following an attack…

$100,000 reward for killer of anti-Islam movie

A Pakistani government minister Saturday offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film produced…

Petrol tanker fire: Burns victims in intensive care disappear

Eleven surviving victims of the 12 July Okogbe Petroleum Tanker fire disaster in Ahoada West local Government area of Rivers…