Fraudsters set up Jonathan/Sambo foundation, dupe over 100
The Lagos State Police Command is investigating a case of fraud perpetrated by six men, who defrauded hundreds of people in Ketu area of the state. According to police authorities, the suspects, Dr....
View ArticleTask force raids Oshodi, arrests pregnant women, others
Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has arrested 183 suspected hoodlums in Oshodi and Mafoluku areas of the state. The arrest came four weeks after PUNCH...
View ArticleNSCDC impounds trucks laden with adulterated fuel
Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Thursday impounded three trucks bearing adulterated fuel along Benin-Ore Road in Odigbo Local Government of the state. The Command...
View Article76-year-old man accuses MFM employee of assault
There was confusion at 12, Baoku Street, Ifako Agege, Lagos State, when a single parent, Grace Adenike-Alade, inflicted head injuries on her landlord, Mr. Lawrence Adeleke, after a minor disagreement....
View ArticleYouths kick as LG boss emerges Oba-elect
Youths in Ijede, a suburb of Ikorodu in Ijede Local Council Development Area, Lagos State, have protested against moves by the town kingmakers to make the Chairman of the LCDA, Mr. Adefarasin Hassan,...
View ArticleCourt remands two for defrauding Korean
A Port Harcourt High Court has remanded two men – Aso Adasa Morrison and Frank Biobarakuma – in prison for allegedly defrauding a Korean, Jung Yongmin of N57m. The accused persons are facing 17 counts...
View ArticleLawmakers seek improved living condition for lepers
Ogun State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling for improvement in the living conditions and social status of inmates of lepers’ colonies in the state. Members of the House including...
View ArticleNorth, opposition parties reject single term
The northern soco-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change, have rejected the proposal by the Senate Committee on...
View ArticleEkiti varsity students protest new fee regime
Students of Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti on Thursday protested against the new policy of no-fee-no-lecture introduced by the university’s management. Enraged by the policy, some of the students...
View ArticleUbah’s wedding: Obi denies directive to query monarchs
Chairman of Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council and the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, on Thursday denied ever being directed by Governor Peter Obi to query traditional rulers that...
View ArticleTwo-year Somalia famine killed 260,000 people — Report
Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012, a study shows. Half of them were children under the age of five, says the report by the UN food agency and the US-funded...
View ArticleMurray questions handling of doping enquiry
Andy Murray has continued his broadside against drug cheats, questioning the handling of a Spanish doping enquiry and asking if a decision to destroy evidence is the “biggest cover-up in sports...
View Article‘Nigerian coaches need help’
Former Nigeria Olympic Committee Secretary-General Elias Gora has called for re-training of coaches in the country. Gora, who lamented the standard of coaching in Nigeria, pleaded with sports...
View ArticleNotore, ContourGlobal partner on 500MW power plant
Notore Power Limited (Notore Power), an indigenous independent power producer, has signed a Joint Development Agreement with ContourGlobal to develop, construct, finance and operate a gas-fired power...
View ArticleLarge babies at greater risk of autism
Babies who are above average in size when they are born are at a greater risk of autism, as well as those who are born below average in size, according to the biggest study of fetal growth and autism...
View ArticleAgain, lessons from Europe
I can hardly stop praising football as it is played in Europe whenever their organisers and teams display absolute sportsmanship. They are always focused on what will make the game interesting to all....
View ArticleUN rates Nigerian press one of world’s freest
The United Nations Resident Coordinator, Mr. Daouda Toure, on Friday said that in spite of some hitches witnessed by Nigerian journalists, it was still one of the freest in the world. Toure said this...
View ArticleMan arraigned for stealing girlfriend’s ATM card, money
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a 33-year-old man, Victor Agyel, for allegedly stealing his girlfriend’s ATM card and using it to withdraw her money, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Agyel,...
View ArticleLagos demolition
General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mrs. Abimbola Animashaun-Odunayo, on Friday said that all distressed buildings in Lagos had been identified and earmarked for demolition....
View ArticleACN, PDP kick as tribunal upholds Mimiko’s victory
The three-member Ondo Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Friday upheld the declaration of Governor Olusegun Mimiko as the winner of the October 2012 governorship election in the state. The...
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