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Lagos bridge tanker inferno: Traffic Agency announces alternative routes

      Following the early Saturday morning petrol tanker fire on Kara bridge at Lagos-Ogun State border, Ogun Traffic Compliance Enforcement Agency...

Lagos-Kara bridge petrol tanker fire claims two lives, 29 vehicles

  Two men were burnt beyond recognition while 29 vehicles parked by the road side were consumed in a petrol tanker fire on...

Botched Lagos NUJ polls: NUJ national body endorses Caretaker Committee to take charge

  The apex authority of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has ratified the Caretaker Committee constituted for the Lagos State Council of...

2023 Vice-Presidency: El-Rufai disowns campaign posters

  Kaduna State Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, has distanced himself from the campaign posters announcing his vice-presidential candidature for the 2023 poll with the...

Suit against NASS: SERAP wins round one

  A Federal High Court in the FCT has given an interim ruling, permitting SERAP to apply for a judicial review and seek an...

For crushing five school pupils, truck driver, conductor lynched 

  A water tanker driver and his assistant have been dispatched to the Great Beyond for crushing five school children in Ebonyi State. The children, who...

President-elect?: US secret service beefs up Joe Biden’s security

    The United States Secret Service has ramped up the protection provided for the nation’s former Vice-President and the strong contender for...

Governors fear of possible second wave of COVID-19 pandemic 

  Nigerian Governors Forum has expressed fear of possible second wave of COVID pandemic in the country, urging immediate action across the states through...

FG, Transcorp sign deal for 966 megawatts Afam Power Plant

The Federal  Government and the Transcorp Power Consortium have signed a share sale and purchase agreement of Afam Power Plc and Afam III Fast...

High Court Registrar jailed for N80m theft, issues cheques in wife’s name

      For issuing cheques to his wife to steal N80 million from government’s coffers, Joseph Etefia Udoh, now a retired  Registrar...

2021 Armed Forces Day: Honour fallen heroes, veterans, SGF urges Nigerians

  Nigerians have been urged to honour the nation’s fallen heroes and military veterans who paid the supreme sacrifice for the nation’s unity...

In River State,  vigilance group commander gunned down at motor park

  By Boye Ajayi Report from Rivers State says some yet-to-apprehended gunmen have killed one of the commanders of a local vigilance group,...

U.S. election: Owolewa elected first Nigerian-American congressman

    By Boye Ajayi   Nigerian national in U.S., Mr Oye Owolewa has emerged the first Nigerian-American to be elected to the...

Lekki shooting: South-west ministers submit report to FEC, want military’s role probed

Ministers from the Southwest who were directed to relocate to their home states for the purpose of dousing the tension created by the...

Oversight function: Oyo House of Assembly suspends 13 council bosses

    By Boye Ajayi For failing to submit their performance reports, the Oyo State House of Assembly, in exercise of their oversight...

Explosion hits OML 40 facility managed by NNPC partners

  The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has reported an explosion at a production...