Chidi Lloyd granted bail
A Rivers state High Court sitting in Ahoada, has granted bail to Mr Chidi Lloyd, detained leader of the Rivers state legislature.Lloyd, who represents Emohua constituency in the Assembly, handed...
View ArticleICC mulls criminal charge against Boko Haram
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says that after a preliminary investigation she believes that acts attributed to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are likely...
View ArticleKiller driver arrested as Plateau buries the dead
Nigeria’s Plateau State Police Command said it has arrested the driver who killed 14 children at Mazat village in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area on Saturday.The deceased were among 40 Boys’ Brigade...
View ArticleMandela threatened over $660 fake utilities bill
Former President Nelson Mandela, now recuperating in a Pretoria hospital was slammed with a $660 utilities bill for his Johannesburg home by the City Council. Officials even threatened to cut water and...
View ArticleDriver Who Killed Family Of Three, Okada Rider Still On The Run
The driver of the commuter bus who crushed a motorcyclist, also known as okada rider, and a family of three comprising husband, wife and their son, in Ita-Oluwo area of Ikorodu area of Lagos State,...
View ArticleFather Beheads 5-Year Old Son
The Adamawa Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a middle-aged man (name with-held) in Ganji village of Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa, for allegedly beheading his five-year-old...
View ArticleFashola, Akiolu Warn Obas Over Land Grabbing
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and Oba of Lagos, Alaiyeluwa Oba Rilwanu Babatunde Akiolu I, have again warned all traditional rulers in Lagos State to steer clear of land grabbing...
View ArticleDriver Has Sex With Poly Student, Posts Nude Photos On Internet
A 27-year old driver has been arrested and charged before Apapa Magistrate’s court in Lagos for allegedly having sex with his girlfriend, a 23-year old Lagos State Polytechnic student, Thelma...
View ArticleFashola’s Father Buried
The remains of Alhaji Ademola Fashola, the father of the Governor of Lagos State, were this afternoon laid to rest at the Vaults and Gardens Cemetery, Ikoyi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria amidst torrents of...
View ArticleJonathan Denies Breaking Fast Date With IBB
Nigeria’s presidency has denied a newspaper report alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan sought to visit former President Ibrahim Babangida in Minna to show him “the spirit of comradeship” during...
View ArticleAmosun Confirms Adesanya As OOU VC
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, in western Nigeria has confirmed the appointment of Professor Saburi Adejimi Adesanya as the substantive Vice-Chancellor of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago...
View ArticleAtiku Condoles Fashola, Wishes Tinubu Quick Recovery
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condoled with the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, over the death of his father.The former Vice President in a statement by his media office in...
View ArticleFashola: My Father Was My Best Friend
Kazeem UgbodagaGovernor Babatunde Fashola has said he and his siblings will miss their their father, Ademola Fashola because he was their best friend, while describing the death as very painful.Fashola...
View ArticleAfrican rock python kills 2 Canadian boys
The Canadian Mounties were confronted with a particularly gruesome case on Tuesday, two small boys killed in their sleep apparently by an African python.The boys — brothers aged five and seven — were...
View Article2 Americans charged with lobbying for Mugabe
Two Americans face criminal charges for illegally lobbying on behalf of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe with the aim of helping lift US government sanctions against the African country, prosecutors...
View ArticleChidi Lloyd: Court to rule on bail application today
Okafor Ofiebor/Port HarcourtJustice Latan Nyordee of the Port Harcourt high court will rule today whether bail should be granted Chidi Lloyd, the leader of the Rivers House of Assembly, now facing...
View ArticleHot Race For Anambra Govt House
Two coming elections, local government and governorship, make Anambra State a theatre of war of sortsThe history of elections in Anambra State which prides itself as the light of the nation, in the...
View ArticleBribe: Nigerian cop arrested after caught on video
A Nigerian Police Sergeant attached to the Lagos State Police Command Motor Traffic Division has been caught on video trying to extort money from a motorist in Lagos, western Nigeria. And the...
View ArticleAPC’s Registration, New Dawn In Nation’s Politics —Lawmaker
A member of the National Assembly, Yakubu Balogun has described the registration of All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the beginning of a new...
View ArticleSenate Orders Probe Of Threat To Oba’s Life
The Office of the Senate President has ordered a detailed investigation into the remote and immediate reasons that led to the alleged threat to the life of Oba Gbolahan Akanbi Timson, The Jagunmolu of...
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