Tag: news
Namibia Finds Oil For First Time
The Namibian government and a Brazilian energy firm on Tuesday announced the first discovery of oil off the coast of…
Police Raid Lagos Island, Arrest 164
At least 164 suspects have been arrested at various black spots on Lagos Island during a massive raid carried out…
Driver Bolts With Employer’s Car
A driver, Edem Bassey Effiong, a native of Calabar, Cross River State, south-south Nigeria, has disappeared with his employer’s Toyota…
Football, Headlines, News, Sports, World News
Tributes pour for the man who built Man U
British Prime Minister David Cameron and world football chief Sepp Blatter led the tributes on Wednesday after Manchester United manager…
Lagos Assembly: Stop Witch-hunting Fashola
The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against making inciting statements that could best…
Redeem Our Glory, Police IG Tells Newly Decorated Officers
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP, MD Abubakar, has counselled the nine officers recently promoted by the force to help redeem…
Bank Manager Detains Woman Over N17k Loan
A housewife, Mrs Rose Abbey from Edo State, south south Nigeria, was locked up in a micro finance bank called…
Okada Rider To Die By Hanging
A 25-year old commercial motorcyclist, known in local parlance as okada rider, Etenuwoma Oghenero, has been sentenced to death by…
Fake Currency Exchange Syndicate Smashed
The police at Area ‘A’ Command, Lion Building, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have arrested seven bureau de change…
Taskforce Arrests 183 Suspects
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have arrested 183 suspected hoodlums in Oshodi…
Forgery: Journalists Plead Not Guilty, Get Bail
The trial of two journalists with Leadership Newspapers kicked off before a federal high court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday.…
Suspended Rivers Lawmakers Seek Court’s Shield
The 26 members of the Rivers House of Assembly, including the Speaker Otelemaba Amachree, who were yesterday suspended by the…
20 Years After, World’s First Web Page To Be Reborn
The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today’s Internet browsers as part of…
Food Poisoning Again Hits Egypt’s Top University
At least 161 students have been hit by food poisoning at Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar University, in the second such incident…
2 Jailed Over N33m Fraud
Justice M. L. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, Kaduna has sentenced two persons, Ifeanyi Echebiri and Sylvester Okoli to…
Jonathan’s Govt Still In Dreamland —Esele
Nigeria’s plan to be among the first 20 economies in the world by the year 2020 may just be a…
Fake Army Lieutenant Faces Trial
A fake Army Lieutenant is facing trial for allegedly snatching seven cars. The suspect, Lawrence Oguezi, who was allegedly caught…
Banker Withdraws Employer’s N4m
The police at Lion Building Division, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have re-arraigned the former account officer of a…
Fashola Advocates True Federalism For Nigeria
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), at the weekend in the United States of America advocated a truer federal…
Growing Insecurity In Lagos
The spate of criminalities, including armed robbery, in Lagos State, seems to be on geometric rise The recent abduction of…
Fury Of Fire
After an inferno ravaged an area in Ibadan, most of the affected victims are now homeless Monday, 22 April 2013,…
Siege Of Child Rapists
Whether in urban and rural communities, the Nigerian child is a prey for sex predators and the streets are crawling…
Entertainment, Headlines, News
N3bn Nollywood Largesse Not Loans —Okonjo-Iweala
The N3 billion intervention fund which President Goodluck Jonathan promised the Nigerian film industry last month will not be shared…
Mob attacks PHCN Office Over Crazy Bill
An angry mob in Abaranje, Ikotun area Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, went on the rampage and attacked the staff of…
Bill Against Terrorism, Kidnapping In Lagos Coming
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, southwest Nigeria, are currently considering a bill to criminalise acts of terrorism,…
4 Friends Gang-Rape Woman
A 24-year old woman (name withheld) has allegedly been raped by four friends in Olodi Apapa, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.…
Lagos Shuts 30 Illegal Medicine Outlets
The Lagos State Government has shut down 30 illegal patent medicine outlets in Lekki area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Officials…
‘I Planned Fuel Station Robbery’
A petrol station manager, Adewale Ilesanmi, 33, has allegedly confessed to the police in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, how he arranged…
Boko Haram Bombs Ex-IG’s Home
Unidentified gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram on Sunday bombed many places in Ringim town in the Ringim Local Government…
Survivors Of Baga Massacre Still In Hiding
Many survivors of brutal clashes last week in a remote Nigerian town are still in hiding and rescue workers are…