Dr Oluyombo Onafowokan, an Associate Professor, said on Saturday that the directive by the Senate that JAMB should extend the validity of its results to three...
The Federal Government, through its National Biosafety Management Agency, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to retail store giants, Shoprite and Next Cash ‘N’ Carry to withdraw...
As perpetrators of kidnappings in Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous commercial city become more daring in their acts, the jollity and fun that characterise night life in...
Tears streamed down the face of 31-year-old Blessing (not real name) as she narrated how her whirlwind romance with a 67-year-old Irish construction worker in Lagos,...
The Federal Government in conjunction with the German Energy Partnership Project yesterday in Ibadan, Oyo State, formally flagged off its independent power supply initiative to all...
Doctors are to test the just released 21 Chibok girls for any sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS, a security source told our correspondent in Abuja...
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State Council, is to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of renowned journalist, Mr. Dele Giwa, with a...
At least four persons were feared killed and three others injured yesterday after Nigerian Customs Service (NIS) officers shot sporadically while chasing rice smugglers. The incidents...
THE House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education yesterday queried the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, over pre-budgetary spending which violated the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The...
Director General of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Is’haq Modibbo-Kawu, said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been directed to return the N10 billion seized...
The kidnapped Romanian Engineer, Mr. Nedeclu Christian and two Nigerians in his official team have regained their freedom after about 72 hours in the custody of...
The All Progressives Congress on Thursday inaugurated a 49 member campaign council for its candidate in the forth coming Ondo State governorship election, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN)....
A poultry farmer was on Thursday morning kidnapped at Imota in Ikorodu, a Lagos district. The yet-to-be identified farmer was said to have fallen prey to...
Cafter meeting for two days in Abuja. They extended the meeting to a third day — today. The council is one of the federal executive bodies...
There was palpable tension in Enugu on Wednesday as the state began the recruitment of neighbourhood watch members in all its communities. Our correspondent learnt that...
The two lawmakers favoured by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress in last year’s National Assembly elections, Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, are to join...
Resident doctors at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan started a five-day warning strike, yesterday over alleged short-payment in their salaries and allowances. Chairman of UCH...
A Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out a N1.86bn suit filed against the founder of the Living Faith Church, a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David...
Two Turkish schools in Nigeria have changed their names, following the coup attempt in that country three months ago. The schools have now expunged the name...
In Industrial Court in Lagos has ordered the Police to pay a retired policeman, Inspector Samson Amadasun, his N5.74 million pension and gratuities. The court also...
Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of being responsible for Lagos not being granted special status. Akiolu spoke yesterday at the...
Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service have stormed some markets in Lagos in search of smuggled rice. Their efforts led to the seizure of about six...
A 60-year-old man at Uwheru community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, has committed suicide over his inability to feed and provide for...
The Federal aHigh Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, yesterday, remanded a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Chief Benjamin Apugo in...
Some security guards of Greenland Estate in the Mende, Maryland area of Lagos State killed three 30-foot pythons in the early hours of Tuesday. PUNCH Metro...
A 17-year old royal rivalry between the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso I, and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi ended, yesterday,...
The President, Masters Energy Group, Dr. Uche Ogah has denied reports making the rounds that he has been arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial...
The Federal Government on Monday declared that the price of rice would start to fall from November this year. It stated that more Nigerians had returned...
A Police Inspector attached to a Chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo, Chief Marcellinus Nlemigbo, was shot dead on Sunday by gunmen suspected to...
Troops of the joint military force deployed to the Niger Delta on Tuesday dispersed hundreds of ex-militants blocking the East-West road at Mbiama Community in Rivers....
The Ogun State Government has urged residents living in areas severely affected by flood to relocate in order to guide against loss of lives and property....
Residents of Ikotun, Igando, Ijegun and Isheri Osun in Lagos have been in blackout for about a month due to breakdown of the Ejigbo Transmission Station....
A 21-year old man identified as Lucky Igbineyi has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing his in-law, Blessing Obazee over a stick of cigarette....
A former judge of the Osun State High Court, who was recently retired by the National Judicial Council, Justice Olamide Oloyede, has said she has no...
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a 30-year-old woman, Bose Okhlua, at Ikoyi Prisons for allegedly killing a co-tenant. Okhlua appeared...
The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB has said that contrary to the misleading reports allegedly sponsored by the Department of State Services, DSS, on the charges...
The ruling All Progressives Congress in Ogun State won all the 57 chairmanship seats in the 2016 local government and local council development areas election held...
Police have arrested five suspects, including the gang leader and an informant, in connection with the kidnap of three landlords and their trainer in Isheri North...
A human rights group, Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People (CDRP) has condemned the invasion of homes of some judges by the Department of...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is advocating a total ban on rice imports with effect from 2017 to encourage local producers, says the Service Public Relations...
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, yesterday, described the protest by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the result of the governorship election in the...
Following the simmering crisis in the All Progressives Congress, the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has started reaching out to his former political...
Barring any last-minute change in plan, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday hand over some aircraft in the Presidential Air Fleet to the Nigerian Air Force,...
The Presidency appears to have passed a vote of confidence on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, following the moves...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has directed that teachers who absented themselves from work for five times in a term should be sacked. Umahi, who gave...
Quelea birds and grasshoppers have destroyed farm produce worth millions of naira in twelve villages of Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State, the Chairman of...
It appears the All Progressives Congress may have initiated moves to investigate allegations of anti-party activities against the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu...
