Father in dilemma over three missing children
Barakat and her twin brothers A father of three missing children, Musiliu Adetoro, has appealed to Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State and the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to help...
View ArticleAnisulowo recounts ordeal with abductors
Senator Anisulowo was kidnapped last week, Wednesday while she was returning from her farm at Sawonjo, Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State. A former minister, Sen. Iyabo Anisulowo, who was...
View ArticleFire guts Alausa complex, Kuramo shanty settlement
File Photo Three was pandemonium yesterday as fire gutted the account department of the Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. Thick smoke was noticed on the ground floor of the...
View ArticleSeven Kano students, two others die in auto crash on Lagos -Ibadan Expressway
PHOTO: informationng.com Nine people were killed in an auto-crash on Tuesday in an 18-seater bus along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while retuning to Kano after featuring in national competition held in...
View ArticleOnitsha market explosion injures 12 persons
PHOTO: nigerianeye.com MASSOB denies reprisal attack against Hausa An explosion, which occurred at Kara market within a Hausa settlement along Atani road, Ogbaru near Onitsha, in Anambra State on...
View ArticleLAUTECH sacks striking teaching hospital doctors
LAUTECH. photo credit: lautechportal Those asked to go have overstayed residency programme, by management The Association of Resident Doctors {ARD} at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology...
View ArticleKogi to refund N24m to 2015 Hajj pilgrims
PHOTO: content.time.com Kogi State has disclosed plans to refund N27,000 to each of the pilgrims from the state who participated in the 2015 Hajj in Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman of the State...
View ArticleFuneral rites in Benin to be suspended for the late monarch
Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa The Benin Traditional Council has called on residents of Benin Kingdom to bury their dead ones as all funeral rites would be prohibited from the date of the...
View ArticleBenue police parade 14 suspected cult members
Suspected cultists paraded by the police in Benue…yesteday Not less than 14 suspected cultists connected with the recent clash between rival cult groups in Otukpo have been arrested by the Benue State...
View ArticleTribunal begins hearing in Sylva’s dispute of Dickson’s guber victory
Timipre Sylva Hearing in the substantive petition filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Timipreye Sylva, began yesterday with the petitioner calling its first...
View ArticlePolice bust nine suspected traffic hoodlums
The suspected hoodlums … Deny kidnap of two policemen in Lagos Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command yesterday busted a traffic robbery syndicate with the...
View ArticleBenin palace urges compliance with oba’s transition rites
The late, Oba of Benin As transition ceremonies for the late Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa begin, the Benin Traditional Council (BTC) yesterday, called on all Benin people home and abroad, including...
View ArticleDSS arrest two suspects over fuel diversion
The Department of State Security Service (DSS), Ogun State Command, on Tuesday, paraded two suspects for allegedly using a vehicle of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) to divert 45,000...
View ArticleLagos to hold local government elections
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode The Lagos State Government on Thursday assured that local government elections would be held in the state before the end of the year. The State’s Commissioner for...
View ArticleHonour for Patel as Rotary Club of Lagos Palmgrove estate births new club
President Pahalwani (right), Past President Biswal, Patel and Onabadejo and his wife at the event. PHOTO: ISAAC TAIWO It was a commendation bouquet for Mr. G.N. Patel, Assistant Governor of the Rotary...
View Article‘We lost the best and brightest,’ says principal
The seven students and a driver that died in an auto crash on the Ibadan-Oyo expressway on Tuesday were yesterday buried in Kano. The victims were lowered to eternal rest in separate graves next to...
View ArticleLagos demolishes 84 street gates to ease traffic
Lagos State government yesterday said it has demolished 84 street gates in the metropolis to solve the problem of road lockdown in the state. Lagos State government yesterday said it has demolished 84...
View ArticleLagos ex- commissioner, Adeniji-Adele dies in Indian hospital
Late Prince Ademola Adeniji-Adele Former Lagos State Sports Commissioner and Lagos Island local council Chairman, Prince Ademola Adeniji-Adele, yesterday passed on at about 6a.m. Nigerian time in an...
View ArticleUNILAG students pass nights at car parks, faculty buildings...
Some of the students They are squatters putting up with friends Some returning students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) are facing very tough times at the institution, as they were shut out of the...
View ArticlePolice arrest man, 50, with 1,055kg of Indian hemp
The Police in Jigawa said they had arrested a 50-year-old man, Haladu Ishaqu, with 1, 055 kilograms of substance suspected to be Sativa Canabis otherwise known as Indian hemp. Mr Thliza Yaro, Assistant...
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