A suspected member of a notorious armed robbery gang that had been terrorising residents of Igando, a Lagos suburb, was yesterday arrested while attempting to rape...
Two members of the Alliance for Democracy in Ondo State sustained serious injuries after they were attacked in Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area...
Founder of Covenant University Ota, Ogun State, Bishop David Oyedepo has said Nigeria government should be concerned with selling intellectual resources and not national assets. According...
A prophetess, Felicia Oyelade has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, over forgery land documents. The...
There are indications that the family and associates of the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, have intensified efforts at raising N100million so...
The crisis threatening the foundation of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has assumed a new twist. Fresh facts have emerged, that former Vice President Atiku...
President Muhammadu Buhari may have ordered one of his senior aides to answer to the allegation of taking N500 million bribe from a leading telecommunications firm...
Emotions ran wild on Saturday at Ebebelibiri Cemetery, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as family members and sympathisers gathered to bury the remains of Master Innocent Kokorifa, a...
INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has commenced moves to stop his investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
President Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerian universities that the era of wasteful spending is over. The President therefore advised university authorities in the country to utilise...
A 23- year-old lady, Omolara Oluwagbemi, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for stabbing her fiance, Sodiq Dauda, to death. The incident happened...
No fewer than 100 people have benefited from the free breast surgeries sponsored by the Ogun State government. The breakdown showed that more than 80 people...
Lagos State Government may soon join the growing number of states including Edo, Ogun and Anambra that have imposed death sentence on kidnappers.According to a private...
A mobile phone software marketer, who specialises in downloading applications on mobile sets, has been reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Ovwian, Udu Council...
The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, have once again told President Muhammadu Buhari that using the military to solve the Niger Delta crisis is not an option....
As the agitation for the independent state of Biafra continues, Edet Akpan, a retired major-general from Akwa Ibom State, has explained why it was impossible for...
The dust raised by the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Security Services [DSS] is yet to settle as the National Judicial Council...
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and his Osun State counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola have agreed to an irrevocable commitment on joint ownership of the institution in...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged media practitioners to avoid the spread of hate messages capable of destabilising the peace of the nation....
Sudden death of some Journalists in Kaduna was averted on Wednesday night as a strange bullet from nowhere narrowly missed hitting them as they sat in...
A trader, Mrs Funmilayo Okeeyi, has explained to an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, why she followed her husband’s brother to a hotel, which is now...
Some policemen attached to the Police Mobile Force 24, State House, are not happy over their alleged exclusion from the payment of the outstanding allowance to...
Few weeks to the governorship election in Ondo State, the Alliance for Democracy has accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party of using thugs to disrupt the...
Three men were on Thursday paraded by the Abia State Police Command for allegedly abusing a 12-year-old girl sexually. The Commissioner of Police in the state,...
THE Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the convoy of Ondo state governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, Idowu Oyewole was, yesterday, murdered by suspected armed robbers....
Violent Islamist sect, Boko Haram, Wednesday attacked Goptari, a village on the precint of Chibok, Borno State. Chibok is the Northeastern town where more than 200...
The Kaduna State Government on Wednesday officially released a Gazette on Ibrahim El-Zakzaky led Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN,that has been declared unlawful society. The government...
The10-year-old Adekoya Wariz, who was beaten to death by his father in Ijebu-Igbo area of Ogun State, once told a neighbour, Baba Olaolu, that he usually...
Nine days after an emergency meeting on the arrests of some of its judges nationwide, the National Judicial Council (NJC) has said although judges have no...
A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has sentenced 20-year-old Abeeb Wasiu to three month’s imprisonment. The culprit offence was stealing of a...
By Joe Igbokwe… The APC chairman has proven to be a most unique man. John Oyegun’s reply to what we have revealed about his malfeasant handling...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government may raise over $1billion in one year when it finally change...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday sent his condolences to members of Catholic church in Nigeria over the death of Rev. Fr. Willie Ojukwu. In his condelece...
The Joint Military and Police Security Task Force in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, yesterday, recovered 10 cartons of high calibre explosives, rocket launchers...
A total of 18 new armed groups have sprung in Nigeria in the last 17 months, according to a report by a crisis-monitoring group. The report...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the grazing bill before the National Assembly was uncalled for and said it is like “trying to kill a fly...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has been told how the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, tranferred N8.5billion to the Joint Task Force,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is intensifying a discreet investigation into the allegations made by the former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr....
A player with the Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC), a football club in Ibadan, Oyo State, Joseph Izu, who was killed by the operatives of the...
Mr Braide Chinedu, a civil servant in Rivers State, has landed himself before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, for allegedly cutting off his...
A mob has attacked Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s restive middle-belt with an eyewitness saying Monday that fourteen people were “hacked and burnt” to death over the...
The #BringBackOurGirls coalition, has disowned a fund-raising organised in its name by President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter, Hadiza and a group, the Peace Corps of Nigeria, on...
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Olasupo Ayokunle has called on the Federal Government to ensure the immediate release of the remaining...
As negotiations for the expected next phase of the release of 83 Chibok girls begins this week, there were indications, last night, that the leadership of...
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has dismissed the claim by Dr Junaid Mohammed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Germany was for medical reasons. Mohammed,...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (jamb) has scrapped the use of scratch cards for any of its transactions and services, describing it as “archaic,” its...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 24-year-old suspect, Tayo Adeyemi, who confessed to have been hired to kill a female hotel lodger in the...
The 21 freed Chibok Girls said on Sunday in Abuja that for “one month and 10 days’’ of their abduction by the Boko Haram insurgents, they...
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra , on Sunday, threatened an ‘internal native’ revolution against political, traditional, religious and opinion leaders...
Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, has said that the recent trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to Germany was for medical reasons. Mohammed, who accused the president’s...