The forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State appears to have claimed its first casualty as a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Mr Afolabi Olaposi, was killed by unknown gunmen on Thursday night in Owo.
The Nigerian Customs has donated 11,517 bags of rice from seized contraband goods to Borno State as part of government’s plan to cushion the effect of the insurgency on displaced persons in the state.
Members of the National Assembly have clapped back at former President Obasanjo, calling him the “grandfather of corruption” after he called them “unarmed robbers.”
A trader, Akeem Omole is standing trial for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl after he tricked her into his room under the pretence he wanted to send her on an errand.
Former Oyo State Governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja will be re-arraigned on December 14, 2016, eight years after he was first arraigned for his alleged involvement in a N4.7bn fraud.
Two suspects in connection with the robbery attack on Nigerian comedian, Bright Okpocha popularly known as Basketmouth in September have been arrested by the Lagos State Police command.
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has said displaced persons in the state, numbering about 2million, will be made to return to their towns and villages after the state government’s reconstruction of communities destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents.
A middle-aged man embarked on a destruction spree, smashing car windshields and glass doors in the premises of a first generation bank in Sango-Ota on Thursday, with claims that God instructed him to carry out the act.
Lagos State is set to host an art exhibition in honour of late industrialist and a former Minister of National Planning, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, who until his death on November 16, was an art enthusiast.
An unfortunate accident claimed the legs, and subsequently the life, of an unidentified woman on Saturday, November 19 when a trailer carrying a 40ft container lost balance and fell on her legs, smashing them to pieces at Durban Junction, Amuwo-Odofin, Mile 2, Lagos.
One life has been claimed in an accident that occurred along the Ezeagu community axis of Onitsha-Enugu Expressway on Wednesday, while 11 others have been reported unconscious.
The arrival of electoral materials in Ondo State has announced the INEC’s intent on going ahead with the gubernatorial election in the state, despite calls for postponement from some factions.
After a court barred Jimoh Ibrahim from contesting in the Ondo State election, Fani-Kayode went on social media to share his joy at the news and it didn’t take long before the rants descended into naming calling between both men.
A helicopter Augusta AW101, one of the aircraft from the Presidential fleet which was recently handed over to the Nigerian Air
Force, has reportedly crashed within the Air Force base in Makurdi.
A 52-year-old bus conductor, Segun Awogbemi was on Thursday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court in Lagos for allegedly raping his landlady after they both shared a drink in her room.
Former President of the Federal Republic, Olusegun Obasanjo has once again, taken the National Assembly to the cleaners, blatantly calling the lawmakers “unarmed robbers” who are worse than the judiciary.
The Pro Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, FUNAAB, Senator Adeseye Ogunewe will on Friday, November 25, be arraigned alongside two others on charges of abuse of office and misappropriation of funds reported against some of the institution’s management.
