Tag: news
Sex-Starved Grandpa Divorces Wife
A 72-two-year-old technician on Thursday in Lagos divorced his wife for depriving him of sex for six years. An Igando…
427 Kids Raped In Lagos
The Lagos State Government has decried rising cases of rape in the state, saying 427 female children were defiled in…
Nollywood Actress Sent To Kirikiri
For allegedly being in possession of 100 pieces of master keys, a Nollywood actress,Yetunde Akilapa, was on Thursday sent to…
Okada Ban: A Challenge In Lagos —NIPOST
The Postmaster-General of the Federation, Mallam Ibrahim Mori-Baba, has said that the ban on use of motorcycles on some roads…
OPC Arrest ‘Mad Man’ With 3 Phones
Members of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Abule Egba zone have arrested a mad man with three cell phones, a…
Dodgy Peace Offer
There are doubts over the genuineness of ceasefire declared by a Boko Haram chieftain in Borno State In the past…
Tackling Insurgency In Nigeria’s North East
Plagued by a combination of violence and underdevelopment, leaders in the North-eastern zone meet to chart a new course for…
A Failed Plea Deal
The plea agreement between Mr. John Yahaya Yusufu, the convicted pension fund thief, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
Murder Of The Librarian
A former Librarian of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo awaiting justice through the Industrial Court is brutally murdered When Harry Taiyelolu…
Park And Pay Woes
Motorists in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, lament what they call the exploitative nature of the park-and-pay operation within the…
The Sack Of Maduka
Business magnate, Cosmas Maduka exits the Access Bank board in controversial circumstances Corporate big player and Coscharis Motors owner, Cosmas…
Nigerian Police Arraign Fake Pastor Over N.8m Fraud
The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned a 46-year old pastor, Obinna Obi, over an alleged fraud of N820,000. Obi,…
TVC Entertainment Increases Viewership Base
Television Continental Entertainment (TVC E), one of Nigeria’s top three most watched TV stations in Lagos, has increased its viewership…
Case Against “Facebook Lover” Dismissed
A Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday struck out a case of attempted rape against Arthur Obiora for “want…
Okada Rider Rapes Woman
A commercial motorcycle operator has been arrested by the police and charged to Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly raping a…
Nigerian Man Bites Another Man’s Penis
It is common to hear that a woman has bitten a man’s penis because of infidelity, but the reverse is…
Lagos White Cap Chief Murdered
A Lagos white cap chief and the Onimole of Lagos, Chief Kayode Adeshina, 73, has been shot dead, by unidentified…
Sellers Of Porno Materials Arrested
The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has begun clampdown on distributors and sellers of pornographic…
Lagos Sends 30 Beggars To Jail
By Kazeem Ugbodaga In a new dimension in the war against begging, the Special Offences Court in Alausa area of…
200cc Motorcycle Palaver: Fashola Disowns Opeifa
Governor Babatunde Fashola has disowned the Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode Opeifa for arrogating to himself the power to grant approval…
Artisans Threaten Showdown With Ogun Govt
By Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta Members of the Association of Terrazo, Marbles and Tiles in Ogun State have threatened a showdown…
On PDP’s Deadly Siege On Imo
By Peter Claver Oparah Staying in my state Imo throughout the Christmas and New Year holiday offered me the opportunity…
How To Attain Peace And Security In Nigeria (2)
By Uzoma Ahamefule No country has ever enjoyed security when its accurate census is in question. According to the recent…
Proposed N4b First Ladies’ Mission House
The Federal Capital Territory’s N253 billion Appropriation Bill for the 2013 fiscal year recently debated by the Nigerian Senate is…
Mali: France’s Hollande arrives Timbuktu
President Francois Hollande arrived Saturday in the fabled desert city of Timbuktu in northern Mali, where a French-led military campaign…
VC laments poor academic performance
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The Vice Chancellor of Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Isaac Adewole today lamented the high rate…
Nigeria bans Under 25 from driving trucks, taxis
Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, may have stirred human rights controversy when it said Wednesday that commercial driver’s licences…
Mali: French led troops control access to Timbuktu
French-led troops in Mali on Monday controlled access to the city of Timbuktu after securing the airport of the fabled…
Egypt: 16 killed after football death verdict
Twenty-one Egyptian football fans and club members were sentenced to death Saturday after a deadly post-match riot in Port Said…
Arepo Pipeline On Fire Again, 2 Indians, Others Arrested
By Emmanuel Osodi Barely two weeks after suspected vandals’ activities led to an explosion at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation,…