A High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay popular comedian Babatunde Omidina aka Baba Suwe the sum of N25 million for unlawful arrest and detention. The ruling was given on Thursday by Justice Yet...
The police have arraigned a 24-year-old man, Tunde Alade, before the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for having sex with a six-year-old girl. The News Agency of Nigeria( NAN) also reports that the prosecutor, Foluke Adedosu, told t...
Worried by the state of the Sokoto-Yauri-Kontagora-Ilorin road, the House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Works to rehabilitate and dualise it within the shortest possible time in line with the already completed engineering d...
UN Secretary-General, Ban ki-moon, has congratulated Nigeria and Cameroon for implementing the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the dispute over the Bakassi peninsula. Ban said this at a joint meeting with Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Co...
Nine persons have been confirmed dead in different road accidents that occurred in Jattu in Estako West local council and Aduwawa in Ikpoba Okha local council of Edo State. Six persons reportedly died in the Aduwawa accident while three die...
A workshop on effective Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for media professionals has commenced in Lagos. The three-day workshop is organised by Thistle Praxis Consulting, a management firm which among other things, assists organisations and ...
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has closed down the Ispat Steel Company Nigeria Ltd., in Agbara, Ogun State, over alleged production and sales of substandard imported steel products. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Correspondent, who accom...
The House of Representatives, yesterday, rejected a motion that sought to condemn the recent kidnap of three expatriates from a vessel serving at the Chevron oil field at Agbami, Bayelsa State. The motion which was sponsored by Hon Daniel R...
The federal government and state governments have been called upon to utilise all the available resources at their disposal for the provision of security of life and property rather than expend them on unnecessary projects. The minority leader, Bauchi ...
Not less than 35 persons, mainly women and children, including a pastor of the Christ Life Gospel church in Oron Akwa Ibom State, lost their lives sunday evening in a boat mishap which occurred on the Atlantic ocean as they approaching Oron from ...
Mobile telecommunications service providers are lobbying the Senate on several issues bordering on the survival of their business with multiple regulations, multiple taxations and the need to declare information and communications technology (ICT) infr...
The Chairman of the Oyo State Task Force on Flood Prevention and Management, Dr. Bolanle Wahab, has disclosed that a total of 2,105 buildings were washed away by flood disasters which ravaged the city of Ibadan on August 26. He also said that a t...
The Federal Government yesterday approved N1.5billion for the expansion and maintenance work on the second phase of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this while briefing State House corresponde...
Amid fears and warnings that increased sand mining in the State could cause landslide and tsunami, Lagos State government has banned surface sand excavation activities in the State with immediate effect. The order came on the heels of...
Fourteen persons were confirmed dead and 43 others injured in an auto accident at Yanbita village in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The accident, which occurred yesterday at about 7:3pm, involved a Toyota bus registered XE 968 KTN a...