One killed, 17 hospitalised in kerosene explosion
Barely a month after a 50-year-old housewife, Jenny Ibor Okpa, from Ofalosi village in Nko, Yakurr Local Council of Cross River State died from kerosene explosion, adulterated kerosene yesterday...
View ArticleLASU teachers accuse VC of inciting crisis, seek Ambode’s mediation
Prof. Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun Fagbohun’s administration is fair, says varsity’s spokesman Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), at the Lagos State University (LASU), have...
View ArticleMy husband rapes me in presence of our children, woman tells court
"My husband rapes me in the presence of our children," a 40-year-old trader, Bolanle AbdulKareem told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday. Bolanle said her husband, Olasunkanmi, with whom...
View ArticleGovernor locks out SSG, workers for lateness
Some staff of the Cross Rivers State Government House were locked out of the premises on Wednesday Cross River State Governor Senator Ben Ayade Wednesday locked out the staff of Government House...
View ArticlePetty trader commits suicide in Anambra State
• Cleric blames bad economy for increasing incidents A thirty-eight-year-old petty trader, Mrs. Lovina Odo, has committed suicide by hanging herself with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at Umusiome...
View ArticleVice Principal allegedly impregnates schoolgirl
Vice Principal of Government Day Secondary School, Tunga-Minna in Niger State, Malam Mohammed Kuyizhi, has appeared before the state’s Child Rights Protection Agency, over the pregnancy of a...
View Article‘We collected N200,000 ransom from DPO to release sergeant’
The suspects • Police arrest kidnapping gang led by dismissed DSS official in Abuja A four-man gang of kidnappers, which was arrested for its alleged involvement in the abduction of a female police...
View ArticleAmputee, three others arrested for allegedly impersonating Tinubu, Saraki,...
The suspectsDetectives attached to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested four persons for allegedly impersonating the Chief of Staff to the President,...
View ArticleMan hangs self over hardship, alleged wife’s infidelity
Residents of No. 6, Asignbi Lane, Amarata, a suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, were thrown into mourning when they woke up yesterday to see the dangling body of a 42-year-old man and...
View ArticleAdministrator of demolished Olupese Oil filling station seeks justice
The demolished filling stationThe ongoing reconstruction of the Lagos State metropolis has not come without its many discomforts. One of the casualties is the longstanding Olupese Oil filling station,...
View ArticleTruck owners kick against Lagos government commission agents
Trucks The Allied Trucks Transporters Association of Nigeria (ATTAN) has condemned the appointment of commission agents to collect revenues for the Lagos State Government. Speaking at a press briefing...
View ArticleFake doctor with forged ABU certificate arrested in Ogun
PHOTO: transequality.org The Ogun State Government has arrested a fake medical doctor, Mr. Sunday Adeyeye, in possession of a forged Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria certificate. The Director,...
View ArticleDelta Assembly minority leader defects To PDP
PDP The member representing Ika South Constituency and Minority Leader of Assembly, Hon. Festus Okoh, yesterday, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Accord Party of Nigeria, that...
View Article‘I will not share Kogi money with politicians’
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said that he is not prepared to share the little resources meant for the development of the state with elite and a few...
View ArticleDon’t make life difficult for residents, Ambode tells civil servants
PHOTO: Jumia travel Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday said that the state civil servants must not make life difficult for citizens, but ensure transactions and interactions with citizens...
View ArticleBody urges El-Rufai to reopen Kafanchan campus
KASU The umbrella body of Southern Kaduna indigenes, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) have condemned the continuous closure of Kafanchan Campus of the Kaduna State University (KASU) by the State...
View ArticleSuspect admits killing, burying police officer in shallow grave
Police Arrest Hospital Nurse For Child Trafficking A 28-year old killer suspect, Gift Ogoni arrested by the police for the murder of a 50 year old man, has admitted his involvement and confessed to...
View ArticleGombe to begin vaccination against meningitis
Meningitis vaccination In its efforts to prevented the Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) outbreak in Gombe State, the Ministry of Health is to commence the vaccination of children between the ages of...
View ArticleOgun urges residents to take precautionary measures
Ogun state As NiMet Warns Of Imminent Flood, Heavy Rainfall The Ogun State Government yesterday raised the alarm over imminent flooding and warned its residents to prepare for heavy rainfall this year....
View ArticleYobe pays N1.2 billion gratuities to retirees
Ibrahim Gaidam Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has approved the immediate payments of N1.2 billion gratuities of 651 retirees, who either died or retired from the state’s civil service. The payments...
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