Tag: Abuja
Nigerian cab driver gets $200 reward for returning $120k
. Governor Fashola also honored A taxi driver, Mr Imeh Usuah on Thursday received an award from the National Orientation…
Edwin Clarke wants notable politicians arrested
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Elder statesman and former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clarke, on Wednesday in Abuja called…
Abuja road named after Dame Jonathan
A road linking Defence Police Officers Wives Association (DEPOWA) office with the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Barracks, in Abuja, has been…
Abuja: Veterinary Staff Protest Bid to Reclaim Quarters
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Staff of Veterinary Council of Nigeria occupying their staff quarters located at Byazin, Kubwa in the…
Wali elected NBA president
Mr Okey Wali, a former Attorney General of Rivers state, was on Tuesday elected president of the Nigeria Bar Association…
Bomb scare: Abuja minister cancels rock blast permits
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Alarmed by incessant bomb scares within the Abuja metropolis, the FCT Administration on Sunday withdrew all…
Ghana denies tough trading law to Nigerians
The Ghanaian Government has refuted allegations that Nigerian and ECOWAS citizens in Ghana are expected to pay 300,000 dollars and…
Court jails 2 for stealing auto bike
An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada in Nigeria’s Federal capital, Abuja on Wednesday sentenced two men to one year imprisonment…
Court Stops Trustfund from Appointing New CEO
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The crisis of confidence rocking Trustfund Pensions Plc continued unabated as the National Industrial Court sitting…
19 villages to be flattened in Nigeria’s capital
Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) plans to demolish 19 villages in the territory, an official of the authority said…
Zero casualty in Abuja blast
No casualties were reported in the explosion late Friday at a nightclub in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. However, the windows in…
EFCC: No cocaine in home of ex-Governor Sylva’s brother
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied allegations that it discovered a bag full of cocaine during a…
Nigerian senator loses bid to quash terror charge
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Friday threw out an application brought by embattled…
Trial of Nigeria’s ex-police chief stalled
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The scheduled arraignment of former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Gabriel Ehindero before an Abuja…
Ex-Bayelsa state governor detained over fraud charge
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state, Chief Timipre Sylva, was on Tuesday docked before…
Nigeria postpones event to mourn victims
The celebration of the World Environment Day slated for Tuesday, June 5, has been postponed until further notice by the…
Dana Crash: Dead Pastor, Wife Left Three Young Kids
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja Reverend Ayodeji Cole and his wife, Ngozi who died in the Dana plane crash on Sunday left three…
Air France begins Abuja-Paris flight
Air France will begin direct daily flights from Abuja to Paris from June 4, the French embassy said on Saturday.…
Special court for election violence
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja To tackle the problems of violence before, during and after elections in the country, the Federal Government on…
Ghanaian wins Nigerian Golf championship
Torgah Vincent of Tema Golf Club in Ghana on Friday emerged winner of the first Abuja International Golf Championship. He went…
Land the biggest scam in Nigeria’s capital
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde on Tuesday decried fraudulent dealings in land acquisition in…
86 survive as Abuja bound Dana plane lands in Lagos
A Dana Air flight carrying 86 passengers from Uyo on Thursday made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed International…
Abandoned car triggers bomb scare in Nigeria’s capital
Nnamdi Felx/Abuja The high brow Adetokumbo Ademola Crescent in the Wuse ll District of the Nigerian capital of Abuja, was…
Rivers state gets new road safety commander
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has appointed Dr Kayode Olagunju, a Corps Commander, as the new Sector Commander of the…
National Assembly Should Enlist Lagos 37 LCDAs Now —LG Supervisor
The two chambers of the National Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria have been called upon to enlist the 37 LCDAs in Lagos…
How Nigerian Media Houses Were Bombed – SSS
Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service has shed more light on the bombings of the Abuja and Kaduna Bureau…
8 Die in Bombing of Nigeria’s Thisday Offices
Nigeria’s emergency agencies and medics are still counting the dead in the suicide bombing of the Abuja office of Leaders…
Politicians Hijacked electrification contracts, says witness
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja One of the principal witnesses in the case instituted against Engr.Samuel Ibi Gekpe and six other senior officials…
Nigerian charged with stealing chicken, bone and cheese
A 45-year-old Nigerian, Oharuike Hycent, has appeared before an Abuja Magistrates’ Court charged with stealing chicken, cheese and chicken bones.…
Court orders Nigerian phone thieves caned
An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court has rewarded two handset thieves with 12 lashes of the cane for stealing. The two…