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ACN Wins Ajeromi By-Election
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has won Tuesday’s by-election in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State, Southwest…
Nigeria’s Female Banker Steals Customer’s N26m
A staff of a mortgage bank in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Folayemi Oluwayemisi Adedayo, 41, has been charged to court for…
Political Class Has Ruined This Country —el-Rufai
The former minister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has blamed the political class for ruining this country.…
‘My Wife Knows I’m A Fraudster’
A 39-year old suspected fraudster, Tony Obi, who was arrested by the police in Lagos, has confessed that he has…
Tributes For Ogo Oluwa Kitan Boss
Nigerian musicians and stakeholders have continued to pay tribute to late music mogul, Chief Joseph Olayiwola Afolabi, the boss of…
Accountants Can Practice Taxation —ICAN
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has declared that its members have the right to practice taxation unhindered.…
Erastus Akingbola Charged Again
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Tuesday re-arraigned the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, over…
Soyinka Gets Awolowo Prize For Leadership
Nobel Leaureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, is the winner of the maiden edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership which…
Combating Rooftop Riders
Train terminals at peak periods are like apparitions or paintings realised on canvas. In Lagos, the faces are usually of…
Dubious Hopes, Lies Are No Strategy —ACN Tells PDP
Lagos ACN has told Lagos PDP that dubious hopes and pathological lies are no strategy if they want to make…
Ladipo Market: Arrested Bakassi Boys To Face Trial
Twelve suspected members of the Bakassi Boys arrested on Monday at Ladipo Market, Mushin in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria will soon…
Fashola Lights Up Ikorodu Road
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has lit up Ikorodu Road for safe driving at night. This is coming as…
Rev. King’s Devotees Lavish Praises On His Birthday
Today is the birthday of Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a. Rev. King, the General Overseer of Christian Prayer Assembly (CPA), and his…
Daring Northern Governors
Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu stirs the hornet’s nest as intrigues over the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party ticket thicken As he…
Nigeria’s New Face Of Terror
Ansaru, Nigeria’s new terrorist group in Nigeria specialises in hostage taking With its hands full and security resources overstretched battling…
Axing Obasanjo’s Men
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party reaches a frenetic level with the axing of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s loyalists Despite…
At Last, Naron Gets What He Deserves
National Judicial Council, NJC wields the big axe on some crooked judges and recommends disciplinary action for a lawyer For…
Abiara: Why I Won’t Mind A Private Jet Gift
Pastor Samuel Kayode Abiara spoke to FUNSHO AROGUNDADE on the crisis within the Christian Association of Nigeria, corruption and why…
Secession Was Anger Taken Too Far
Colonel Paul Ogbebor (retd.), a battalion commander during the Nigerian Civil War, gives JETHRO IBILEKE his recollection of the war…
Obasanjo On Benjamin Adekunle
Olusegun Obasanjo, the man to whom Biafra surrendered, was of the view that Benjamin Adekunle was mentally and physically jaded…
Post-Midwest Liberation
A narrative of the events after Biafra was evicted from the Midwest A month after the Midwest was liberated, Lt…
America’s Secret Files On Ojukwu (2)
Confidential US dispatches on the Nigerian Civil War yield a wounding portrait of Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who was painted by…
Man, 34, Charged With Raping 3-Yr Old
A 34-year old man, Kehinde Paul Layode, has been arraigned before a family court in Ikeja for allegedly defiling a…
Craze For Medical Trips Abroad Wasteful — Doctor
The Chief Medical Director of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Dr. Ishaya Pam, has described Nigerians’ tendency to rush…
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Nigeria shuts used auto spare parts market
The Lagos State Government today shut the popular auto spare parts market, Ladipo Market in Mushin area of Lagos, southwest…
Computer Village: Traders Worry Over Relocation
Computer Village, located in Ikeja, Lagos is arguably the biggest computer and allied products market in the West African sub…
Nigerian Breweries To Reward Distributors
After a fulfilling and rewarding business relationship in 2012, frontline brewing giant, Nigerian Breweries Plc is set to reward its…
Mikano Veers Into Steel Fabrication
As Nigeria makes gains with electricity supply reforms, Mikano, which daily turns out truckloads of high-capacity power generating sets, has…
Woman Stabs Friend For Sleeping With Lover
Two women, Blessing Nwosa and Aminat Kehinde threw decency to the wind and fought publicly in Ijora Badia area Lagos…
Oshiomhole Bans Revenue Collection By Road Transport Workers
Edo state government Thursday announced it would henceforth collect all forms of levies and rates in all motor parks across…