Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday in Lagos commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his ``early endorsement of democracy that is sweeping’’ through the African continent. The Liberian gave the commendation in...
Civic leaders in Libya's eastern Cyrenaica province, home to most of the country's oil, have declared the creation of a council to administer the province's affairs. Tuesday's declaration does not carry official force but it puts the pr...
The Kebbi Department of Fire Service recorded 34 incidents of fire outbreaks in Kebbi State within the last three months. Alhaji Bello Zagga, the state Director of Fire Service, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Tues...
An Akure Senior Magistrates' Court on Tuesday ordered that a 33-year-old businessman, Samson Awonire, be remanded in prison for allegedly killing his stepmother. The accused person was said to have killed his 65-year-old stepmother, Mrs Esther Awon...
The police on Tuesday arraigned a 25-year-old furniture maker, Shola Adeboyo, of Lugbe Village, Abuja at an Abuja Senior Magistrates' Court charged with abduction. The police prosecutor, Cpl. Pascal Njoku, told the court that the offence was commit...
The police in Bayelsa have recovered the bodies of five policemen killed by unknown gunmen on the Nembe Waterway on March 1. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Eguavon Emokpai, said in Yenagoa on Tuesday that the remains of the five cops had been ...
Rihanna has reportedly paid £15,000 for an emergency haircut after hers was ruined in a sauna. The 'We Found Love' singer - who recently changed her red locks to blonde - apparently flew her stylist first class to London from Los A...
A policeman went berserk and shot two of his colleagues before shooting himself at Lala Village of Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa. In a related development, another police corporal at the Trans-Amadi area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capi...
Six suspected secret cult members were on Tuesday arraigned before an Ebute Metta Magistrates’ Court, charged with alleged acquisition and possession of human parts. The suspected cultists were Hope Ajuzie (30), Ifeanyi Edward (60), Chigozie Bob ...
The second edition of the Abaji Fishing festival in the FCT will hold between April 13 and April 15. Mr Abuo Ojie, the Head, Public Relations Department, FCT Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with ...
Nigeria is God’s special creation for the service of its citizens and those of other nations, especially in Africa, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said in Lagos on Monday. “What we are is not for ourselves alone,’’ Obasanjo ...
A civil servant, Aishat Pedro, on Tuesday urged an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her 22-year-old loveless marriage. Aishat, 46, had approached the court seeking the dissolution of her union with her husband, Amusa Pedro, a sales represen...
One Mr. Faseyi Adebayo, whose address was given as 31 Idowu close, in Alimosho LGA of Lagos state, has been arrested for impregnating his 17 year old daughter Bisola Adebayo. Bisola, while narrating her ordeal to the police at Afonka police station on ...
A PDP chieftain in Adamawa, Dr Umar Ardo, has led a protest to the INEC office in Yola over the conduct of Saturday’s ward congresses in the state. Ardo led a group of supporters under the banner of “Adamawa key Stakeholders” to the I...
Norway-based midfielder Fengor Ogude and Elderson Echiejile from Portuguese club Sporting Braga are top of the new list of overseas-based pros to be invited for Nigeria’s next game. Officials informed MTNFootball.com that Coach Stephen Keshi is s...