Corruption: Transparency International calls for reinstatement of graft...
Global anti-corruption agency, Transparency International on Tuesday condemned the recent decision ...
View ArticleSecurity operatives nab over 21 Boko Haram members in Enugu
Security operatives on Wednesday intercepted a luxury bus conveying over 21 suspected members of Boko Haram at Obollo Afor in Udenu council area of Enugu state. Unconfirmed reports had it that the...
View ArticleBoko Haram attacks military checkpoint, kills 16 soldiers
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect on Tuesday night attacked a military post ...
View ArticleNCC releases porting figures for March, April
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has released the porting figures for March and April 2014. According to the Port-Out Activities of Mobile Network Operators’ report made available by the...
View ArticleAbuja mall bomb blast kills 21, injures 17
Suspected members of the Islamist militant sect, Boko Haram, on Wednesday detonated another bomb ...
View ArticleFive die in double explosions in Lagos
Two explosions occurred in Apapa, Lagos on Wednesday night, with sources claiming that five persons ...
View ArticleSuarez hand four-month ban for bite
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has been suspended from all football-related activity for four months for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini. The Liverpool player, 27, has also been banned for nine...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2014: Boateng and Muntari expelled by Ghana
Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng have been expelled from Ghana’s World Cup squad for alleged indiscipline. A statement on the Ghana Football Association website said both players had “been...
View ArticleFG moves to check failures in mathematics
The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has called on stakeholders in the educational subsector and corporate organisations in the country to join hands with the Federal Government in...
View ArticleEkiti: APC heads to court to challenge guber polls as incumbent concedes defeat
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it would challenge in court the outcome of the June 21 governorship election won by the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Mr. Ayo Fayose. Governor...
View ArticleCourt restrains Adamawa Assembly from impeaching Nyako, Deputy
An Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola yesterday restrained the State House of Assembly ...
View ArticleCourt grants PDP’s application to serve defecting govs by substituted service
An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday granted an ex-parte application filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for substituted service against its five governors who defected to the All...
View ArticleJustice at last for ousted Enugu UBEB Chairman
For Mrs. Ethel Nebo-Ezeabasili, the ousted former Chairman of the Enugu State Universal Education Board, it was sweet victory as an Enugu State High Court Presided over by Justice C.I Nwobodo last week...
View ArticleN20m controversy: Charly Boy disgraces Okorocha at Oputa’s burial
A requiem mass organised for the late Socrates of the Supreme Court, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa at his country home in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State was disrupted yesterday, when the first son...
View ArticleGive me a job, Abuja blast victim pleads with President Jonathan
A bed-ridden victim of Wednesday’s bomb attack at the EMAB Plaza, Wuse II Abuja, Solomon Tesso, on Friday cried out for a job from President Goodluck Jonathan during the president’s visit to the...
View ArticleFuel Subsidy: Court stops marketers’ move to quash charges
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Friday dismissed an application filed by two oil marketers, Mahmud Tukur and Alex Ochonogor, praying the court to discharge them from a case of oil subsidy...
View ArticleAssets: S’Court dismisses 16 Northern states’ suit
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a suit by 16 northern states, through which they had sought an order compelling the Federal Government to pay them about N7.039bn as compensation for some assets...
View ArticlePolice uncover high-calibre explosives near Kano mosque
A car containing massive assemblage of improvised explosive devices (IED) parked at the Jumaat mosque ...
View ArticleBauchi attack: police arrest suspect
The Bauchi State Police Commissioner, Malam Lawal Shehu said on Saturday that one suspect had been arrested in connection with Friday’s attack on an hotel in Bauchi metropolis. Some gunmen, wearing...
View ArticleObasanjo visits Arisekola’s family
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday, visited the Oluwo kekere home of the late Are Musulumi of Yoruba land Alhaji AbdulAzeez Arisekola-Alao, to commiserate with the family. Obasanjo,...
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