Category: Nigeria News

SEVENTY-TWO hours after Jos, the Plateau State capital, experienced twin blasts which left about 100 dead and several injured persons still lying critically ill in hospitals, another explosion occurred at...

THE people of Itsekiri have written delegates calling for the creation of Warri State out of Delta State and the division of the country into eight geo-political zones.   According...

The Super Eagles are taking nothing to chance as preparations effectively commenced yesterday night in London with the team’s first training session ahead of the World Cup in Brazil next...

ABEOKUTA — Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, at the Arepo pipeline on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State after suspected vandals reportedly shot dead two  policemen and abducted two others  during...

LAGOS—More controversies have continued to trail the recent endorsement of Mr. Akinwumi Ambode by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu 1, to succeed Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos. The Senate...

LAGOS — Goods worth several millions of naira were yesterday destroyed by fire which gutted a market at the Low Cost Housing Estate, Oke-Afa, in Ejigbo Local Council Developmental Area...

LAGOS—Lagos State Government has appealed to striking Lagos State University, LASU lecturers to embrace dialogue instead of continuing with their industrial action which it described as “an unnecessary drawback for...

LAGOS—MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, weekend demanded immediate relocation of Tank farms  from Lagos and other ports formations across the country, warning that their continued operations close to the...

IBADAN — A teacher, identified as Olayinka Folarin, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly defiling three under-aged primary school girls, including two orphans, who live...

KATSINA — No fewer than five persons  were killed while 52 others sustained injuries in an accident  which  occured, yesterday, at Gora village in Malumfashi Local Government of Katsina State....