• Airline may be fined, NDLEA begins probe TWO workers of Arik Air were on Tuesday arrested at London Heathrow Airport in connection with alleged drug trafficking. Both the National [...]
A MAJOR crisis may be rocking the Niger State chapter of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) as two factions of the party have emerged with each claiming to be [...]
JUSTICE James Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Lagos Tuesday dismissed an application seeking to quash an order, forfeiting a brothel to the National Agency for the Prohibition of [...]
SENATORS on Tuesday “unanimously” approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request for the declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. The Senate President, David Mark reported the [...]
THE Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Arisekola Alao, has pleaded with the Oyo State Muslim community to bear with Governor Abiola Ajimobi on some of his administration’s religious policies [...]
JUSTICE Lateefa Okunnu of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja Monday ordered the release of the international passports of two alleged oil subsidy fraud suspects, Walter Wagbatsoma and Adaoha [...]
• 14 more terrorists killed, 20 captured • Three soldiers die, one missing • Jonathan thanks Nigerians for support • U.S. urges restraint by military NIGERIAN troops in the North-East [...]
• Ties economic growth to local content • Laments stock market crash ALMOST six years after he left office, erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo Sunday reflected on his administration and deplored [...]
A Federal High Court, Lagos has convicted and sentence two men to 20 years imprisonment each for illicit drug deal. The convicts are Gabriel Obi and Godfrey Ugwu. They were [...]
Seeks holiday for health check-up DEARTH of funds is threatening the recommencement of the overseas clinical programme for doctors which the Federal Government reintroduced last December, the Nigerian Medical Association, [...]
•Raises peace panel CITING inconsistency, the Enugu State chapter of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of playing to the gallery and prolonging [...]
PRO-TOBACCO campaigners and labour groups have urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to exercise caution in its debate on a bill banning cigarette smoking in schools, hotels, bars, nightclubs [...]
THE aerial bombardment, involving jets and helicopter gunships, targeted at Boko Haram terrorist training camps in the southern and northern parts of Borno State, continued Friday with unconfirmed number of [...]
THE influx of people suspected to be foreigners into Makurdi and other parts of Benue State in the wake of the security challenges tormenting the country is generating a lot [...]
• Defends Government’s Action • Explains Jonathan’s Visit To South Africa THE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would suspend the state [...]
AN Insurance Firm, Leadway Assurance Company Limited (Leadway), has debunked an allegation of defaulting to meet its obligations on an Advance Payment Bond (APB) it issued on behalf of a [...]
THE Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has said that Nigeria lost N570 billion to last year’s flood that affected several states of the federation. The revelation, has however, made the Nigerian [...]
JUSTICE Okechukwu Okeke of the Federal High Court Friday convicted the producers of the killer teething syrup, my pikin and sentenced them to seven years imprisonment, ordering the company to [...]
THE resuscitated Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) has described the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a reactionary party, saying that it has descended into conservatism. The party, which undertook [...]
FOR shooting to death a certain Ndubuisi Onyibe Nwanga of Ezza-South Local Council of Ebonyi State during last weekend’s road traffic confusion around the Abakpa Market in Abakaliki, the state [...]