Plateau confirms another case of Lassa fever
The Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Kuden Deyin on Tuesday confirmed another case of Lassa fever in the state. Deyin who made the confirmation to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Jos,...
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Italy-based Nigerian arrested for human trafficking
PHOTO:AFPThe National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Tuesday said it has arrested an Italy-based Nigerian for human trafficking. The suspect, identified as Mrs Lasiru...
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Ambode swears in new council bosses
A cross-section of the new local council bosses being sworn in today in Lagos on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday charged the newly elected local government chairmen in the...
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Councilor, four others arrested over kidnap of Governor Bello’s mother
Governor Yahaya Bello The police high command yesterday paraded former councilor in Okene Local Council of Kogi State, Iliyasu Suleiman, and four others over the kidnap of Governor Yahaya Bello’s...
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Dredging forcing fishes out of lagoon, Makoko fishermen lament
Fishing on Lagos Lagoon Fishermen in Makoko, a popular Lagos slum on the lagoon, have lamented that the dredging and oil exploration activities of government agencies and their partners have pushed...
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Lagos gives 48 hours quit notice to owners of illegal structures
A flooded area in Makoko The Lagos State government yesterday served another 48 hours ‘Abatement Notice’ to all owners of illegal structures and shanties including containerised shops around Obalende...
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I will expose occultic officers, says Ondo police commissioner
The Commissioner for Police, Mrs. HIlda Ibifuro-Harrison, disclosed this at a security summit organised by Akoko youths in Ikare-Akoko, Akoko South East local council of the state. The Nigeria Police...
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Dozens feared dead in Lagos building collapse
Scene of the building collapse yesterday For the umpteenth time, tragedy struck the city of Lagos as a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos Island, injuring at scores of residents with dozens others...
View ArticleThree Nigerian university students arrested for armed robbery
The Police in Nasarawa State have arrested three students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) in connection with an alleged arm robbery. Briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Lafia, the state...
View ArticleEFCC seals multi-billion naira Enugu Mall
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday sealed the multi-billion naira Enugu Mall occupied by SPAR, a multinational retail outlet. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...
View ArticleEFCC says it recovers N328.9bn from Conoil, Oando, others
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has recovered a total of N328.9 billion from nine major oil marketers in one year. Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed...
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Calm returns after youths burn hotel over woman’s murder in Edo
The police also confirmed yesterday that it was on the trail of the suspect, while it called for peace in the community.Angry youths reportedly razed down a hotel and a building belonging to the...
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People of Influence Ministry begins four-day programme today
Pastor Isi Igenegba People of Influence, a ministry that is passionate about establishing the will of God on earth and raising a generation of people, will today begin its four-day programme. It would...
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Death toll rises to eight in collapsed building, 15 rescued
The building collpase site. • Raise alarm on suspicious construction, Lagos urges residents The death toll in Tuesday’s collapsed building on Lagos Island, rose to eight with 15 others rescued though...
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Man arrested by EFCC freed, demands N160 million compensation
EFCC A retired employee of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and businessman, Obi Nwasike, an engineer, who was arrested last week at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos by the Economic and...
View ArticleItalian police arrest seven persons for forcing Nigerian women into prostitution
Italian police said on Thursday that seven people who lured Nigerian women to Italy “with voodoo rituals” and then forced them into prostitution have been arrested in Nuoro, Sardinia. In a statement,...
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Community threatens to sue Nnamdi Kanu over alleged taboo
Political activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu (L), wearing a Jewish prayer shawl, speaks to veterans of the Nigerian civil war in his garden at his house...
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Court remands serving councilor, ex-supervisor for alleged killing
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State capital, presided over by Mrs. A.I. Igyama, yesterday remanded in prison a serving councilor in Kwande Local Council, Mr. Simon Aondover Semali,...
View Article33-year-old graduate needs N3million to survive strange neck ailment
For thirty-three-year-old Ubong Joseph Ikpon, a graduate of Food Science and Technology, at the University of Uyo, life has not been the same again since 2009 when he had a swelling on his neck. The...
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Mob kills two policemen over death of mother, two children in accident
• Two dead as suspected cult groups clash in Ondo Tragedy struck in the commercial city of Onitsha yesterday when an angry mob lynched two policemen, who were alleged to have caused the accident that...
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