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Man Jailed 9 Years For Rape
The Federal High Court sitting in Enugu on Monday sentenced an artisan, James Onuele, to five years imprisonment for raping…
Obasanjo Calls For Cultural Security In Africa
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Africans to guide their cultures jealously. Addressing participants at the regional summit on…
Sea Piracy: I Received N7m From Vessel Hijack
Detectives at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad at Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a member of a…
Birthday Present: Family Battles Obasanjo Over Land
In what appears to be a bad birthday present to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a family in Badagry whose land the…
A New Covenant
Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State seizes the opportunity of his second inauguration to appraise the past and renew his…
Dividing The Governors
The rumblings in the Peoples Democratic Party get messier as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF is sucked in The crack…
BIAFRA: The Facts, The Fiction
Placed side by side independent accounts of the Nigerian Civil War, Professor Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is a…
New Pope: Cardinals Begin Talk
Catholic cardinals began talks on Monday ahead of a conclave to elect a new Pope after Benedict XVI’s resignation, as…
Boom Time For Keke Riders
A number of Lagosians are now compelled to get to their various destinations by tricycle rides courtesy of the restriction…
LASTMA Is Our Biggest Challenge
Despite the increasing demand for tricycles popularly known as ‘Keke Napep’, the Ikeja chairman of tricycle operators, Olainukan Adeagbo explains…
Residents Want Oko-Oba Abattoir Relocated
Siting an abattoir in Oko-Oba, Agege Local Government, was meant to boost the business activities in the area but has…
Man Blames Mother-In-Law For Crashed Marriage
A 28-year-old factory worker has told an Agege Customary Court, Agege, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, that his seven-year-old marriage crashed because…
Residents Seek Reopening Of Banks In Auchi
Residents of Auchi in Edo State have called for the reopening of three commercial banks shut in November 2012, after…
2015: Lawmakers Sure Of APC Victory
Two opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives have expressed confidence that the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) will make a…
Ogba Residents Protest Over Blocked Streets
Residents of Olufemi Ogunsola Street under the aegis of New Life Community Development Association at Agege, Ifako Ijaiye Local Government…
Ladipo: 10 Bakassi Boys, 32 Others Sent To Jail
Ten suspected Bakassi Boys and 32 traders arrested at Ladipo Market in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria , last week have been…
Prophet In Jail Over Love Potion
A prophet, Samson Egbeola, is now in prison custody at Kirikiri after he was arraigned in court for allegedly engaging…
Kenya’s Election: 4 Cops Killed In Mombasa
Kenyans stood patiently in long lines on Monday to elect a new president but machete-wielding youths on the coast killed…
Shell Bemoans ‘Unprecedented’ Oil Theft In Nigeria
Oil giant Shell on Monday raised alarm over “unprecedented” oil theft in Nigeria, particularly in relation to the sabotage of…
Nigerian Breweries Loses N170m To Fraudster
A bank customer in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Aliu Olaribigbe Ayinde, 48, has been charged to court for allegedly withdrawing the…
NDLEA Decries Increase In Drug Abuse
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Akwa Ibom has decried the upsurge in incidences of drug abuse in…
No Going Back On APC — Govs
Nine governors from four opposition political parties on Thursday endorsed the emergence of the budding All Progressive Congress (APC). The…
Court Dissolves Doctor’s Marriage
An Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved a 23-year old marriage of a medical doctor over battery and…
Landlord’s Son Docked For Raping Tenant
The police in Lagos have docked 30-year old Ayo Adejare on a three-count charge of having carnal knowledge of a…
Hijab: Muslim Students Protest Discrimination
Muslim students in Lagos State public secondary schools today protested at the State House, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, over alleged…
Fraud: ‘Lagos Female Judge Must Defend Self’
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee has dismissed Justice Ibironke Harrison’s objection challenging her invitation to respond to an allegation of…
Ex-Minister Slams N90b Suit On NIMASA, DG
The former Interior Minister, Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho, has slammed a N90 billion suit on Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency,…
Bullet Lodged In Ex-Biafran Soldier’s Body For 44 Years
A bullet lodged for 44 years in the body of Israel Nwokoma, a security guard at a company in Ilupeju,…
Lagos Population Our Biggest Challenge —Lagos Speaker
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has disclosed that the continuous growth of the population of…
House Leader, Councillors Sentenced
A Port Harcourt High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Southsouth Nigeria, has convicted Emeka Godwin, the…