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Power outage hits Lagos Govt. Secretariat

    …no water, conveniences oozing fetid smell     Awful and nauseating smell has taken over the seat of power in Lagos...

Two weeks after, abducted female judge, Nwosu-Iheme, set free

  After spending more than two weeks in the bush with her abductors, Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Court of Appeal, Benin, today breathed...

Busola Dakolo’s rape case against COZA pastor dismissed

    …case is empty, frivolous, awards N1m cost against Dakolo   After months of media-hyped allegations of rape against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo...

Bayelsa Nov. 16 gov. poll: APC candidate, Lyon, disqualified

Three days to the Nov. 16 Bayelsa governorship elections, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), David Lyon, has been disqualified by...

PDP’s Olujimi, takes APC’s Adeyeye’s seat in 9th Senate after oath of office

…increases number of female senators to eight   Sen. Abiodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti South), whose mandate was restored by Court of Appeal, was on...

NCPC Flags Off 2019 Pilgrimage To Israel, Rome December 1st

By Amos Dunia, Persecond News   Abuja – The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), has concluded plans to formally flag off the 2019...

Lawyers, dons, NBA, activists, Atiku slam hate speech bill

… bill is hate speech itself, draconian   Eminent lawyers, well-meaning Nigerians, politicians and civil rights organizations have reacted to the death penalty...

Senate approves N10bn loan refund to Kogi State two days to Guber poll

  With just two days to the Kogi state gubernatorial election, the Senate has approved the loan refund of N10.069 billion to Kogi...

Soyinka to DSS: Release Sowore now, stop the violence

  … resist demolition engines of state security agencies, tells CSOs     Outraged by the “intransigence’’ of the Department of State Services...

How 23-year-old Nigerian woman was strangled and dumped inside trash bin in a room in America

New details were revealed in court documents in the murder case of a woman found dead in a recycling bin. Prosecutors in the...

Hate Speech: Nigerian Senate reintroduces death penalty bill

    Barely a week after the Nigerian Senate reintroduced a bill on social media regulation, the country’s Upper Chamber has resurrected another...

Ban on petrol sale at borders: House of Reps fumes, says it’s unacceptable

  Unimpressed by the ban on the sale of petrol about 20km to the country’s borders, the House of Representatives has asked the...

Free Sowore protesters: Lethal weapons, pepper spray used to disperse Abuja sit-in

    Scores of Free-Omoyele Sowore-protesters, who had massed near the precincts of the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters office in Abuja...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested In Texas For Killing His Nigerian Mother

  Police in Texas arrested a 20-year-old man Eyitoluwa Olayeye, on Wednesday for murdering his mother in a downtown Austin hotel. 48-year-old Kehinde Olayeye,...

Money-for-mark: Polytechnic lecturer bags 20 years

  A gratification-for-mark examiner at the Polytechnic, Ibadan, has reached the dead end and is to spend the next 20 years behind bars....

SERAP writes to Archbishop of Canterbury, seeks his intervention in Sowore’s release

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby urging...