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Lagos ACN Asks PDP To Get Serious

The Lagos Action Congress Nigeria has warned that unless serious-minded persons take over Lagos PDP, the party is going into…

Lawmakers Fault Bill

There was disagreement in the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday over the bill sent by the Governor Babatunde…

Jonathan, A Trainee President —ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described President Goodluck Jonathan as a trainee President. In a statement issued in…

Balkanized Mali seeks UN nod for military intervention

UNITED NATIONS(AFP) – Mali has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting authorization for a West African-led military…

Niger River Floods Nigerian communities

JETHRO IBIlEKE/Benin Chairman of Daar Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi and Edo State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Donald Boih,…

Nigerian Mint worker arrested for selling fake currency

An employee of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, for…

Fashola endows research council

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday inaugurated the state Research and Development Council with an initial working grant…

Commissioner campaigns for women’s rights in Igboland

A Nigerian woman, Ugochi Nnanna-Okoro has listed abuses and discriminatory practices against women in Nigeria’s ethnic Igboland and called for…

Jonathan calls for world order based on rule of law

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Monday in New York assured the global community of his administration’s “unwavering commitment” to upholding the…

UN agencies honor Obasanjo, others

Two United Nations agencies on Sunday in New York conferred on former President Olusegun Obasanjo the South-South Awards for Global…

Chevron’s Agba quits Oshiomhole’s cabinet

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Monday accepted the resignation of Prince Clement Agba, the state Commissioner for Environment and…

Benue River also floods the highway

The recent overflow of the River Benue has blocked parts of the Makurdi-Gboko Highway, especially from Tyo-mu end, about 13…

Flood: 5 bodies found at River Niger banks

The Nigeria Red Cross Society said on Monday it had recovered three corpses washed ashore River Niger in Lokoja. It…

Sacked NIMC Workers Calls For DG’s Sack

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The recently disengaged former employees of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, who allegedly lost their…

35 Boko Haram militants killed, says JTF

Nigeria’s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group in…

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…