Ambode criminalises land grabbing in Lagos
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (middle), signing the Property Protection and Neighbourhood Safety Agency Laws flanked by the Speaker, Lagos House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa and...
View ArticleWe have not pulled out of CAN - Northern CAN insists
Bible The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and FCT, on Monday refuted media reports that they had pulled out of the mother body. Rev. Sunday Ibrahim, the Financial...
View ArticlePolice arrest two for alleged child battering
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Fatai Owoseni The Lagos State police command yesterday arrested two persons for beating the living daylights out of a 16-year-old house help. The teenage...
View ArticleLagos okays law against land grabbing
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (middle), Chief Judge, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade (left) Speaker, House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem and...
View ArticlePrice of bread goes up by 20% in Lagos today
bread The Lagos State Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria will today, August 17, increase the price of bread by 20 per cent. Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, chairman of the...
View ArticleFamily in Ondo demands justice over alleged killing of son by naval officer
Bereaved family of Omosebine Efotan, 26, who was allegedly killed by some naval officers in Ondo State, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly, the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear...
View ArticleJang chides Lalong over financial misappropriation claims
Simon Bako Lalong The Senator representing Plateau North at the National Assembly and former governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang has reacted to a publication in the media concerning allegations...
View ArticleCrisis rocks Ondo APC as faction sacks chairman
Isaac Kekemeke • ‘It is an expression of democracy’ The All Progressives Congress in Ondo State is in crisis with some members impeaching the chairman, Isaac Kekemeke. They alleged that he was...
View ArticleOshiomhole blames PDP for citizens’ hardship
Governor Oshiomhole and other APC stalwarts. Governor Adams Oshiomhole has alleged that the present hardship facing Nigerians is the result of 16 years of misrule by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)....
View ArticleREC assures voters of free, fair polls, blames inconclusive elections on...
INEC Amid recent cases of inconclusive elections in the country, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Sam Olumekun, has assured voters that the Independent National Electoral Commission...
View ArticleRobbers attack CBN bullion vans, kill two policemen
Bullion van Armed robbers yesterday attacked a bullion van belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), at Hawan Kibo hills, near Riyom in Plateau State, killing two policemen attached to the van as...
View ArticleEthnic groups oppose relocation of Niger Delta ministry office to Asaba
Minister of Niger Delta of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani The Urhbo, Ijaw, Isoko and Itsekiri ethnic nationalities of Delta State yesterday protested the proposed relocation of the...
View ArticleEarly morning fire destroys 10 rooms, five shops
Scene of the fire incident yesterday. After an early morning fire incident, which started around 6:00a.m. in Bariga area of Lagos yesterday, some residents of Shogbamu Street were left in sorrow as...
View Article11 escape death in Lagos multiple accidents
The truck that crashed into a shop at Ojodu Berger yesterday. Commercial bus drivers’ recklessness blamed for road crashes No fewer than seven persons were injured following multiple accidents that...
View ArticleDoctor arrested for removing patient's kidney
Adamawa Police Command has arrested a medical doctor, Hassan Yakubu, for allegedly removing a patient’s kidney. Yakubu, who works in a private clinic in Yola, was alleged to have removed the only...
View ArticleThree Nigerian pilgrims arrested in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking
The Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested three pilgrims from Kwara State for alleged possession of substance suspected to be cocaine.Hajia Fatima Abolore-Jimoh, the Executive Secretary, Kwara Muslim...
View ArticlePolice bust alleged rapists using army uniform to rob
The suspectsThe Lagos State Police Command yesterday paraded two men it arrested who disguised as soldiers to rob and rape women in Oworonshoki and Bariga areas of the state.The command’s Public...
View Article‘I poisoned pot of soup because of insult’
The suspect with the pot of soupMan allegedly attempts to wipe out family with rat poison over electricity bill A family of three escaped death in Ajegunle area of Lagos State yesterday following a...
View ArticleWoman, 35, commits suicide in Ogun State
A hosewife on Tuesday committed suicide in her apartment at Ilisan-Remo, Ikenne Local Council of Ogun State.Mrs. Omolola Atejioye, 35, was found dangling from the ceiling at 5:30p.m. by her husband,...
View ArticleKano registers 1,042 for mass wedding
The Kano State Hisbah Board said on Thursday that it had registered 1, 042 prospective couples in 18 local government areas of the state for the state government’s mass wedding programme. The...
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