The Police said in Lokoja on Wednesday that they are on the trail of members of a robbery gang that robbed the branches of G.T. Bank, UBA and Intercontinental Bank in Okene on Tuesday. The Kogi police command spokesman, Mr Ajayi Okasanmi, who confirmed...
The Senate yesterday said that it, among other legislative functions, introduced a total of 106 bills and passed one since the inception of the seventh session on June 6, 2011. The passed bill was the controversial same sex marriage prohibition bill. C...
The family of the late Deputy Inspector General of Police(DIG), Mr. Ganiyu Dawodu has come down hard on a section of the media over several speculations that have been reported concerning the circumstances of his death. In a statement made ...
Northern Youth under aegis of Arewa Youth Forum, (AYF), yesterday, cautioned that the planned protest by Nigerian Workers under the umbrella of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and other Civil Society groups over government’s plan to remo...
Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has told armed robbers to stay away from the state, as he was ready to make the state unbearable for them. He also assured that his administration would do everything possible to ensure that the people of t...
Paracetamol is one of the most commonly used analgesics for the relief of headaches , minor aches and pains in the world. It is also a major remedy for cold and flu. However, the drug has often been abused, as many take it without a doctor’s pres...
A sub-committee of the Presidential Ports Reforms Monitoring Committee has ordered the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) to remove all abandoned containers at the Ikorodu Lighter Terminal (IKLT) with immediate effect to create room for the transfer of over...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher has said that the country’s judicial system has been reformed in order to ensure the administration of justice to the pride and delight of all Nigerians. Musdapher disclosed this in Por...
A 10-man armed robbery gang yesterday stormed Ikole Ekiti in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti and raided a first generation bank. Two policemen were reported to have been shot at a check-point by the armed robbers who invaded the town via Itapaji-I...
A total of 39,066 candidates, representing 9.65 per cent of students who sat for November/December 2011 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) had their result withheld by the examination body for their alleged involvement...
The federal government has stated that it has not fixed any date for the removal of fuel subsidy and full deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry. Minister of information Mr. Labran Maku stated this yesterday in Abuja while briefing S...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. O.A. Ihejirika has described the dreaded Boko Haram sect as a religious movement that has no value for human life and thus vowed that the military is ready to contain them. The COAS made this assertion yesterday...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service yesterday arrested the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Federal Capital Development Authority, Engr Adamu Ismaila over N28.2billion unremitted taxes. Adamu was picked up in his office at about 12:03pm by an enforcement...
Fuel scarcity has returned to some of parts of Nasarawa State in the run-up to the Christmas celebrations, this Sunday. Our correspondent observed that by yesterday, only the NNPC mega station in Lafia, the state capital, was selling fuel at the offici...
A Lokoja High Court has held that the indefinite manning of affairs of council areas by directors of local government in Kogi State was unlawful. Delivering judgement on the suit filed by some chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the s...