Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court on Friday dismissed an application by former Inspector General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, which urged the court to stop ICPC from arraigning him. Oniyangi also dismissed similar applicatio...
An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Friday dissolved the 13- year-old marriage of a trader who claimed that her husband’s girlfriends regularly harass and beat her. ?The Court President, Mrs Risikat Ekerin, dissolved the union bet...
A suspected fraudster, Henry Adelaye, on Friday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates' Court in Lagos over alleged impersonation and theft of N700,000. Unemployed 43-year-old Adelaye is standing trial on a four-count charge of impersonati...
Some passengers of Arik Air on Friday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, converged at the desk of Arik Air for the refund of their unused tickets. Some of the aggrieved passengers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they ca...
The long queues of vehicles reported at filling stations in Ife and Modakeke towns in Osun due to scarcity of petroleum products have reduced drastically on Friday A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited some of sta...
The UN human rights chief called on Georgia on Friday to prosecute prison officers caughton videos torturing and raping inmates, a scandal that has broken out a week before a national election. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said a...
The Nigerian Navy has described Cdr. Datoru Abi-Kalio, who died in the DANA air crash of June 3 in Lagos, as a dedicated naval officer and a shining star. Cdr. Henry Babalola, Command Operations Officer, Western Naval Command, Apapa, said this on ...
The National Chairman, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr Obgbonnaya Onu, on Friday received the Certificate of Incorporation for the United States of America Chapter of the party in New Jersey, U.S. The document was presented to him by t...
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned two drivers, who allegedly conspired and stole a Kia Sportage jeep worth N5.5 million from where it was parked. Patrick Onyeze and James Imeh, aged 35 and 31 years respectively, were charged along with one Sunday...
The Zambian government is to give former first lady, Betty Kaunda, a state funeral just as the country declared a three-day national mourning in her honour from Friday. ``Mama” Betty Kaunda who passed away on Wednesday, while visit...
A South African Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced one Andries Sibiya, to life imprisonment on anine-count charge for raping his daughter. The court heard that Sibiya started sleeping with his daughter from the age of thirteen and that she ga...
Some prominent senators have warned that President Jonathan will be at the risk of impeachment if he continues to ignore resolutions passed by the National Assembly. Senator Uche Chukwumerije (PDP, Abia), apparently worried over the executive’s i...
Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Atlantic, reportedly swore never to do business in Nigeria again because Nigerian politicians are “very insane” and “dream killers”. The British billionaire has not looked back since he mo...
International conglomerate, Stallion Group, has won a major award from Hyundai Motor Company, Korea, in recognition of its excellent performance in Nigeria. Hyundai Motor Company honoured its Exclusive Nigerian distributor Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limite...
The 36 state governors have resolved to return to the Supreme Court over their dispute with the federal government on deductions from the excess crude account. They also threw their weight behind the Good Governance tours with the aim of showcasing the...