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LASG seizes, tranquilizes lion in Victoria Island home of an Indian national
Following a tip-off, the Lagos State Government says a cub has been seized at the Victoria Island residence of an Indian. ...
Kogi elections: We are alarmed by the fatalities, violence, say EU, U.S., UK others
With the violence that trailed the Kogi elections, the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries under...
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...
Kyari Tasks NNPC Retail Board on Sustenance of Unadulterated Petroleum Products
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has urged the Board of Directors and Management...
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...
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...
Bayelsa Poll: APC won’t tolerate ballot snatching, rigging, Badaru warns
Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru, on Friday warned that the All Progressives Congress (APC), would not tolerate any form of rigging and...
Vanguard photojournalist beaten up, dragged on floor, camera damaged by Osinbajo’s security aides
A photojournalist with the Vanguard Newspapers, attached to the Aso Rock Villa, Mr. Abayomi Adeshida, was beaten up by security details attached to...
Corruption cases: FG strips EFCC, others of seizure of assets power, transfers authority to AGF
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other allied bodies have been stripped of the powers to seize assets of people...
Finally, Appeal Court sacks Adeyeye, Senate spokesman
The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has upheld the nullification of election of spokesman of the Senate, Dayo Adeyeye and ordered the...
Senate investigates Customs’ extra-judicial killings in Ogun
…customs officers are unruly — senator A month after some officials of the Nigeria Customs Service allegedly killed some people in Ogun...
Pregnant woman sent to jail for assaulting food vendors, spilling food
For physically assaulting some food sellers and spilling their cooked food, a pregnant woman has been sentenced to 60 days imprisonment in...
FG to NCC: Pare down data prices of service providers
In response to demands by Nigerians, the Federal government has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to work out modalities towards reducing the...
