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Leadership Crisis At Orile-Agege LCDA Deepens

The leadership crisis rocking Orile-Agege Local Council Development Area has deepened, P.M.NEWS has learnt. It was learnt that the crisis…

LG Poll Judgment: PDP Supporters Protest In Badagry

Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday took to the street to protest the inability of the Election Petition Tribunal…

New Nigerian Newspapers Sacks 30 Workers

The New Nigerian Newspapers (NNN) has sacked 30 workers as part of measures to reduce the company’s running cost. The…

Ethiopian PM Zenawi on medical rest

Mr Bereket Simon, Ethiopia’s Minister for Information and Communications has denied stories making the rounds that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi…

Husband Burns Wife’s Shop

A frozen foods seller, Mrs. Gbemi Akinsanya, has filed a petition before the Agege Customary Court seeking the dissolution of…

Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu is Togo’s new PM

Togo’s president has named Commerce Minister Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu as the new prime minister to replace Gilbert Houngbo who resigned suddenly…

Ex-Liberian leader Taylor appeals sentence

Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor has appealed his conviction and 50-year jail sentence for war crimes in Sierra Leone, the international…

Gunmen kill 5 persons in Kano, Maiduguri

Gunmen on Thursday shot dead at least five people, including a policeman, in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, the…

AFP: Mali kidnappers paid $18.4m ransom

A ransom of 15 million euros ($18.4 million) was paid for three European hostages to the Movement for Oneness and…

Spain: Huge protests erupt over austerity measures

Huge protests against crisis pay cuts and tax hikes filled the streets of Spanish cities late Thursday, as angry workers…

Permsec Jonathan arrives Bayelsa for swearing-in

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Mrs Patience Jonathan,the Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan,and also Bayelsa state permanent secretary designate, today visited the…

Budget: Reps warn Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala against breaches

Desmond Utomwen/Abuja The House of Representatives today took a hard stance on the inability of the executive to implement the…

October 1 bomb meant to rattle government

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Trial of one of the alleged masterminds of the Independence Day twin bomb blasts in Abuja,…

Edo PDP EXCO gets quit order after poll rout

JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Following the crushing defeat suffered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in July 14 governorship election in…

Burial Plans for Senator Dantong, Fulani out

The Plateau State Government on Thursday released the burial programme for late Senator Gyang Dantong and the Majority leader in…

Islamic Council prays for ailing scribe, Adegbite

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Supreme Council for Islamic affairs has called for prayers for its ailing Secretary General, Dr.…

Smugglers dig 700m tunnel, instal rail line

Slovakian police have discovered a 700-metre-long smuggling tunnel between Slovakia and Ukraine, the Slovakian interior and finance ministers said on…

Soldiers Go Wild In Lagos After Fashola’s ‘Humiliation’ Of Colonel

Soldiers went wild yesterday and attacked officers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit at…

8 Jailed 44 Years For Kidnapping

The Delta Command of the State Security Service (SSS) on Wednesday in Asaba said it has secured the conviction of…

ACN Vs PDP Tussle In Badagry: Tribunal Defers Verdict

The Local Government Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, this morning deferred till 27…

Gawat Still Missing

Nine days after ex-NTA staff, Alhaji Rasaq Aremu Gawat was declared missing, the incident is still being trailed by  mixed…

Truck Kills 2 Inside Car

A truck ran over a car and killed two occupants on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway  yesterday. The victims, who were yet…

Housewife Arraigned Over Drug Importation

A Lagos businesswoman, Imonle Funke, has been arraigned before a federal high court in Lagos on a one-count criminal charge…

Smoking Drivers To Pay N20,000

Any driver in Lagos State caught smoking while driving will now be made to pay N20,000 as fine in the…

Lawmakers May Phase Out Kerosene

The Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Energy says it is considering supporting a gradual phasing out of the…

‘Incessant Killings, A Dangerous Trend In Nigeria’

The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Security and Strategy of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Segun Olulade, has condemned…

‘Funding Is Bane Of Africa’s Development’

A senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department, University of Lagos, Professor Olumuyiwa Adebanjo Falaiye, has described lack of proper funding…

Okesina Urges Govt To Ban Smoking

A Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of Ilorin, Adekunle Bashiru Okesina, has called on the government to enact…

Boko Haram: Jonathan Urged To Emulate OBJ

The founder of Ifeoluwa Mission, Rev. Tela Tella, has said that Boko Haram assumed the monster it had become because…

Youths Turn Closed 3rd Mainland Bridge To Football Pitches

Some youths around Oworonsoki area of the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos now under repairs, have turned the closed part of…