The Senate President, Senator David Mark, has tasked Benue indigenes to foster peaceful coexistence even as he said that “it is the foundation for the attainment of socio-economic development,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report...
A 25-year old pregnant housewife, Nike Simeon, in the early hours of Saturday, allegedly caused the death of her husband, Garba Ibrahim, 40, at Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the wo...
A 34-year-old Pastor, Mrs Agboola Oladuni, yesterday, appeared before an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court charged with criminal trespass and an attempt to commit crime. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the accused person was arraigned on a...
The immediate past Minister of Sport, Mr. Yusuf Suleiman and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Sokoto State has said he is not a stooge of President Goodluck Jonathan. He has also assured of new policies designed...
The Arewa Youths Forum (AYF) yesterday told President Goodluck Jonathan to stop playing politics with the issue of fuel subsidy removal. The forum in a media conference with selected journalists in Kaduna stated that “President Goodluck Jonathan ...
Lagos State Governor Babarunde Fashola (SAN) and his Ogun State counterpart, Ibikunle Amosun have agreed to set up a joint committee on tax collection in other to avoid boundary related issues. The joint committee between the two states includes Lagos ...
A 43-year-old evangelist, John Nwodu, has pleaded with a Grade B Customary Court in Alakuko, Lagos, to dissolve his marriage to his estranged wife, Sandra. The complainant, who owns and oversees a church (name not disclosed) explained to the court that...
There was anxiety yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on whether or not the trial of the former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others would begin today as directed by Justice L. Abass. The two other accused persons facing charges of c...
The Vice Chancellor of Babcock University, Ilisan, Ogun State,Professor Kayode Makinde, has said that the rejection of President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal by Nigerians should not be seen as lack of understanding on their part but a prote...
Things are currently falling apart between Rivers State, and its sister state, Bayelsa, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, over boundary problems. The backstage conflict appears to have taken a new twist with the Rivers State Government dra...
The Head of Operation an three officials of the Independent National Electoral (INEC) were yesterday arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Benin, for allegedly receiving N2m bribe to falsify ballot papers. The INEC officials, Chinedu N...
Four suspected kidnappers were at the weekend killed by men of the Rivers State police in Oyigbo local government area of the state. The State commissioner of police, Mr.Suleiman Abba, while displaying the bodies of the suspected kidnappers...
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has vowed to cleanse the anti-graft agency by setting up internal affairs department within the Commission. Lamorde twice made the promise to cleanse the ...
There was pandemonium in Osogbo on Sunday when a tipper truck crushed a motorcyclist and three passengers to death. The Head of Operations, Osun Sector Command of the FRSC, Mr Michael Olapade, confirmed that the accident occurred in front of Osun...
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out an application for stay of proceedings before a High Court of Kogi State filed by the ex-governor, Prince Abubakar Audu who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFC...