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- False Alarm: NYSC Denies Suspension Of Orientation Programme
- TRAGIC: 1 Person Dead, 9 Others Injured As Boat Explodes In Lagos
- Two Armed Robbers, Kidnappers Killed In Police Shootout
- Lagos Residents Now Enjoy 18-Hours Of Uninterrupted Power Supply – BPE
- After Losing Both Legs In Auto Crash, My Two Marriages Failed –Toyobo, Labe Orun Producer
- Police Arrest Robbers who Raped Pastor’s Daughter
- BREAKING NEWS! Fuel Tanker Burning On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
- Two Arrested For Forging Oyo Commissioner’s Signature
- Police Narrate How Teacher Raped Pupil In Toilet
- JTF Bursts Kidnappers’ Camp In Bayelsa
- 4 Dead, 9 In Hospital After Ghastly Auto Crash in Bauchi
- Ebola: FG urged to make hand sanitisers affordable to Nigerians
- Man shoots three okada riders in Lagos
- Ebola: 21 persons isolated in Enugu
- Police Nab Notorious Armed Robbers
- Mortuary Attendants Violate Female Corpses To Get Rich
- Man Forced To Carry Wife’s Corpse On His Head In Akwa Ibom
- Autistic man disappears among crowd in Lagos
- Group condemns attack on Osoba’s house
- Confusion as passenger slumps, dies at MMA airport
- Ebola: Man’s sudden death causes commotion in Edo
- Exposed: Masked Soldiers in Osun are Niger-Delta Killer Squad
- Why I’m sleeping on the street ─ Nonagenarian woman
- Seven-year-old die, shops burn in twin Lagos fire
- Man Stabs Wife To Death Over HIV Infection Allegation
- BREAKING: APC Candidate, Rauf Aregbesola, Declared Winner Of Osun State Governorship Poll
- 3 University Students of Calabar shot
- Two Die, 20 Hospitalised Over Excessive Salt Consumption
- Five dead in Ijaw community as group seeks relocation of flared gas
- BUSTED: Two INEC officials caught moving sensitive materials in Osun
- Suspects sell N11.5m goods to Policeman for N3m
- Two die in fresh cult clashes in Lagos
- Houseboy kills boss’ 78-year-old mother in Lagos
- Ebola In Nigeria: Ogun state writes letter to Adeboye
- MTN Foundation donates 115 patrol vans to 18 states
- Kano Hisbah arrests 200 street beggars
- Ilorin Emirate bemoans worsening insecurity, holds summit
- Court imprisons female student for stealing Ipad
- Lagos suburb decries neglect over bad roads
- Angry Community Shuts Down Oil Wells in Bayelsa
- Okorocha accused of giving church N50m dud cheque
- Ritualists pluck 9-yr-old boy’s eyes in Bauchi
- Native doctor shot dead by vigilante operatives in Anambra
- Lagos female doctor contracts Ebola virus
- Nasarawa to recruit 2,000 teachers
- Five dead in Sokoto auto crash
- Ogun communities battle pollution, residents report seven deaths
- Bayelsa parents, guardians protest NYSC posting to north
- Three die in Rivers cult clash
- TB Joshua Bars Foreign Visitors Over Ebola Outbreak
- Ebola: LASG visits Synagogue Church
- Two soldiers, 12 others die in Taraba clashes
- APC Sponsors Boko Haram – Fani-Kayode
- Abuja residents embrace safety measures to avoid Ebola virus
- Village head commits suicide 4 days to daughter’s wedding
- Tension in Ibadan over planned removal of NURTW boss.
- Police arrest mother for allegedly killing her two children
- Joy that Kills: Drunken bricklayer falls to death on Sallah day
- Pastor, woman nabbed after ‘sanctified water’ kills 2
- Landlady’s children cut tenant’s private parts
- Gunmen abduct Senator’s mother in Bayelsa
- Gunmen kidnap man as bank manager escapes abduction in Aba
- Police parade female cult member, armed robbers in Delta
- Policeman Accidentally Shoots Self Dead In Aba
| False Alarm: NYSC Denies Suspension Of Orientation Programme Posted: 18 Aug 2014 05:48 AM PDT Contrary to reports, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that none of its scheduled programs has been suspended. It was reported earlier in the week that the second stream of theBatch B... Click Title to Read More |
| TRAGIC: 1 Person Dead, 9 Others Injured As Boat Explodes In Lagos Posted: 18 Aug 2014 05:46 AM PDT One person has died and nine others have been left injured after a boat exploded on Friday, August 15 around Walter Carrington Way, Victoria Island, Lagos. The boat, which belonged to Aquitien Oil... Click Title to Read More |
| Two Armed Robbers, Kidnappers Killed In Police Shootout Posted: 16 Aug 2014 07:55 AM PDT The Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police has said that no fewer than two suspected armed robbers and kidnappers lost their lives following an exchange of fire between a gang of hoodlums and... Click Title to Read More |
| Lagos Residents Now Enjoy 18-Hours Of Uninterrupted Power Supply – BPE Posted: 16 Aug 2014 07:29 AM PDT Lagos State residents now enjoy 18-hours of uninterrupted electricity supply, the Director-General of Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has said. Dikki, who stated this when members... Click Title to Read More |
| After Losing Both Legs In Auto Crash, My Two Marriages Failed –Toyobo, Labe Orun Producer Posted: 16 Aug 2014 05:57 AM PDT With tears in his eyes, Segun Toyobo, a 45- year-old journalist who produces the popular television show, Labe Orun, said his mother's favourite prayer is, 'you shall not move on the road when it... Click Title to Read More |
| Police Arrest Robbers who Raped Pastor’s Daughter Posted: 15 Aug 2014 06:06 AM PDT The Oyo State Police Command has arrested four robbers who dispossessed a clergy of two cars and raped his daughter. Commissioner of Police in the state, Sam Okaula, said the clergy reported the... Click Title to Read More |
| BREAKING NEWS! Fuel Tanker Burning On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Posted: 15 Aug 2014 05:22 AM PDT According to emerging reports, a fuel tanker is currently on fire on the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The incident occurred along the Ogere axis of the road and has led to a massive gridlock.... Click Title to Read More |
| Two Arrested For Forging Oyo Commissioner’s Signature Posted: 14 Aug 2014 09:57 AM PDT Two persons are now in police custody for allegedly forging the signature of the Oyo State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Lawrence Adewale, in an attempt to collect illegal fees for the emission... Click Title to Read More |
| Police Narrate How Teacher Raped Pupil In Toilet Posted: 14 Aug 2014 09:53 AM PDT A 10-year-old primary four pupil has told the police how her teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, allegedly took advantage of her and defiled her inside the school toilet. The victim said her health teacher... Click Title to Read More |
| JTF Bursts Kidnappers’ Camp In Bayelsa Posted: 14 Aug 2014 08:37 AM PDT The Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Pulo Shield, in a special raid tagged Operation Grand Slam (OGS) has invaded notorious criminals' hideouts in the creeks of Southern Ijaw local government area ... Click Title to Read More |
| 4 Dead, 9 In Hospital After Ghastly Auto Crash in Bauchi Posted: 14 Aug 2014 08:14 AM PDT A horrible auto crash that occurred along Dindima village in Alkeleri Local Government Area of Bauchi state claimed lives of four people on Wednesday, August 13. The accident occurred when one of the... Click Title to Read More |
| Ebola: FG urged to make hand sanitisers affordable to Nigerians Posted: 14 Aug 2014 06:54 AM PDT A passionate appeal has been made to the Federal Government to make hand sanitisers affordable to Nigerians as part of measures to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Some Lagos residents... Click Title to Read More |
| Man shoots three okada riders in Lagos Posted: 14 Aug 2014 05:39 AM PDT A resident of Ejigbo- Ajao Estate link road, Lagos, has shot three motorcyclists in the area during a clash involving both parties. Our correspondent learnt that the incident started at about 11.30am... Click Title to Read More |
| Ebola: 21 persons isolated in Enugu Posted: 14 Aug 2014 03:50 AM PDT This is official. Lagos is not the only state in Nigeria that has been hit by the deadly Ebola Virus Disease; Enugu has become the next in line. Twenty one persons out of the 198 so far quarantined... Click Title to Read More |
| Police Nab Notorious Armed Robbers Posted: 13 Aug 2014 06:44 AM PDT The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected Armed Robbers, Sikiru Oyebamiji and Afeez Salami said to be members of a Notorious gang terrorizing Lagos and its Environs. The suspects ... Click Title to Read More |
| Mortuary Attendants Violate Female Corpses To Get Rich Posted: 13 Aug 2014 05:56 AM PDT Shocking development coming from a Mortuary in Delta state has revealed that attendants in one of the communities has taken their unnatural sexual lifestyle on to the dead female corpses. According... Click Title to Read More |
| Man Forced To Carry Wife’s Corpse On His Head In Akwa Ibom Posted: 13 Aug 2014 05:45 AM PDT A 32- year-old in Akwa Ibom was reportedly forced to carry the corpse of his late wife on his head to his village after he absconded for three years because he could not pay the mortuary charges for... Click Title to Read More |
| Autistic man disappears among crowd in Lagos Posted: 12 Aug 2014 06:03 AM PDT The family of an autistic patient, Mr. David Oreye, has expressed anxiety on the fate of their member who has been missing for five days. David went missing on Thursday afternoon after his brothers... Click Title to Read More |
| Group condemns attack on Osoba’s house Posted: 12 Aug 2014 05:29 AM PDT A socio-political body, Matagbamole Group based in Abeokuta, ogun state has petitioned the Directorate of the State Security Services in ogun state over an attack launched on the Ibara home of a... Click Title to Read More |
| Confusion as passenger slumps, dies at MMA airport Posted: 11 Aug 2014 09:52 AM PDT There was confusion at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Monday, as a passenger slumped and died. Sources at the airport told our correspondent that the... Click Title to Read More |
| Ebola: Man’s sudden death causes commotion in Edo Posted: 11 Aug 2014 09:12 AM PDT There was pandemonium on Sunday in Udo community, Ovia North-East local government council of Edo State, following speculations that the sudden death of a middle-aged man, was as a result of being... Click Title to Read More |
| Exposed: Masked Soldiers in Osun are Niger-Delta Killer Squad Posted: 11 Aug 2014 06:46 AM PDT This is the first time in the history of Nigeria that masked soldiers and SSS operatives are deployed to a state on Election duty. Consequently, a lot revelations have been coming out and this one is... Click Title to Read More |
| Why I’m sleeping on the street ─ Nonagenarian woman Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:20 AM PDT Residents of Oladejo Community Lane, Oko-Oba, Agege, Lagos have expressed anxiety over a nonagenarian woman, who was said to have been pushed out to the street. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman,... Click Title to Read More |
| Seven-year-old die, shops burn in twin Lagos fire Posted: 11 Aug 2014 04:16 AM PDT A seven-year-old boy, identified simply as Sulaiman, was burnt to death in a Sunday morning fire that ravaged a two-storey building at Housing Estate, Pen Cinema, Agege, Lagos. Our correspondent... Click Title to Read More |
| Man Stabs Wife To Death Over HIV Infection Allegation Posted: 11 Aug 2014 03:56 AM PDT The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Phillip Katongu, for allegedly stabbing his wife to death. Katongu, who hails from Wamba, Nasarawa State, was apprehended by operatives of the... Click Title to Read More |
| BREAKING: APC Candidate, Rauf Aregbesola, Declared Winner Of Osun State Governorship Poll Posted: 10 Aug 2014 01:44 AM PDT Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the incumbent governor of Osun state and candidate of the All Progressive Congress party has won the August 8th 2014 gubernatorial election. Professor Bamitale Omole,... Click Title to Read More |
| 3 University Students of Calabar shot Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:02 AM PDT Three Students of the University of Calabar were on shot by stray bullets from the riffle of a security officer of the university on Wednesday evening.According to reports the shooting happened... Click Title to Read More |
| Two Die, 20 Hospitalised Over Excessive Salt Consumption Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT At least two persons have been feared dead and 20 others hospitalised in various hospitals in Plateau State after consuming excessive quantity of salt and bitter kola to prevent Ebola Virus Disease... Click Title to Read More |
| Five dead in Ijaw community as group seeks relocation of flared gas Posted: 09 Aug 2014 07:19 AM PDT The inhabitants of Gelegele, in Ovia North East local Government Area of Edo State, a riverine oil and gas community have cried out to the federal government to urgently come to their aid by... Click Title to Read More |
| BUSTED: Two INEC officials caught moving sensitive materials in Osun Posted: 08 Aug 2014 09:48 AM PDT Two INEC officials in Obokun lga area were earlier this morning (around 3 a.m) arrested for diverting sensitive election materials. One of the suspects, the Electoral Officer for the LGA, confessed... Click Title to Read More |
| Suspects sell N11.5m goods to Policeman for N3m Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:15 AM PDT The ogun state Police Command has arrested two men for allegedly diverting goods worth N11.5m and attempting to sell it for N3m. The Police Public Relations Officer for Ogun State, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi... Click Title to Read More |
| Two die in fresh cult clashes in Lagos Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:11 AM PDT There was pandemonium in the Somolu and Bariga areas, Lagos, on Thursday morning after cult groups clashed on some streets leaving one person dead and several others injured. The clash, which began... Click Title to Read More |
| Houseboy kills boss’ 78-year-old mother in Lagos Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:08 AM PDT The police have arrested an 18-year-old man, Hounvenou Yavine, a national of Republic of Benin, for slitting the throat of his boss' mother, Mrs. Mariam Abiola. The incident happened at Ijaiye Low... Click Title to Read More |
| Ebola In Nigeria: Ogun state writes letter to Adeboye Posted: 08 Aug 2014 06:37 AM PDT The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, on Thursday said the state government had written a letter to the authorities of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to take... Click Title to Read More |
| MTN Foundation donates 115 patrol vans to 18 states Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:45 AM PDT As parts of efforts to check insecurity in the country, the MTN Foundation has said that it has provided 115 fully-equipped security patrol vehicles with communication gadgets to 18 state governments... Click Title to Read More |
| Kano Hisbah arrests 200 street beggars Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:10 AM PDT Kano – The Kano State Hisbah authorities said on Wednesday in Kano that they arrested 200 persons for street begging in Kano municipal area. Hisbah is the law enforcement arm of the sharia law. The... Click Title to Read More |
| Ilorin Emirate bemoans worsening insecurity, holds summit Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:39 AM PDT Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State is to hold a security summit to find solution to the astronomical growth of insecurity in the area. The summit which has as its theme, "Challenges of Insecurity in... Click Title to Read More |
| Court imprisons female student for stealing Ipad Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:47 AM PDT A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates' Court on Wednesday sentenced a student, Mariam Nuhu, 26, to two months imprisonment for stealing IPAD at a night club in Garki, Abuja. The presiding officer, Mrs... Click Title to Read More |
| Lagos suburb decries neglect over bad roads Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:03 AM PDT Some residents of Ejigbo have started wondering if the community in which they live in is really on the map of Lagos State.Chief of their numerous problems they said is bad road network.Some who... Click Title to Read More |
| Angry Community Shuts Down Oil Wells in Bayelsa Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:23 AM PDT The nation’s economy was dealt a devastating blow Tuesday when the aggrieved people of Biseni clan in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State shut down five oil wells in Idu Oil Field... Click Title to Read More |
| Okorocha accused of giving church N50m dud cheque Posted: 05 Aug 2014 05:49 AM PDT Governor Rochas Okorocha has again come under fire as a fiery Catholic cleric, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has accused him of giving a N50 million dud cheque to the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri... Click Title to Read More |
| Ritualists pluck 9-yr-old boy’s eyes in Bauchi Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:39 AM PDT BAUCHI — The Bauchi State Police Command has disclosed that some unknown ritualists attacked and removed the eyes of a nine-year-old boy in Toro Local Government Area of the state. The command's... Click Title to Read More |
| Native doctor shot dead by vigilante operatives in Anambra Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:57 AM PDT ONITSHA—A traditional medical practitioner, whose identities are yet to be ascertained, was last weekend shot dead by some vigilante operatives for allegedly possessing some substances suspected to... Click Title to Read More |
| Lagos female doctor contracts Ebola virus Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:54 AM PDT The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Monday said one of the doctors that treated the Liberian-born American, Patrick Sawyer, who died of the Ebola disease, had contracted the virus.... Click Title to Read More |
| Nasarawa to recruit 2,000 teachers Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT The Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board said it had concluded plans to recruit no fewer than 2,000 teachers to fill vacant positions in schools in the state. Executive Secretary of the... Click Title to Read More |
| Five dead in Sokoto auto crash Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:35 AM PDT Five persons from the same family have been reportedly killed in a road accident that occurred on Saturday on Shagari-Tureta road in Sokoto state.The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the... Click Title to Read More |
| Ogun communities battle pollution, residents report seven deaths Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:13 AM PDT Residents said no fewer than seven people died in Ilashe, Ilupeju and Odan Agbara communities of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State, in the first week of July from suspected water... Click Title to Read More |
| Bayelsa parents, guardians protest NYSC posting to north Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:55 AM PDT Some parents and guardians took to the streets of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Saturday to protest against the posting of their children and wards to the northern part of the country by the National... Click Title to Read More |
| Three die in Rivers cult clash Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:48 AM PDT AT least, three persons were killed during a cult clash in Bane and Kpaa, two Ogoni communities in the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. While two persons lost their lives in Bane, another... Click Title to Read More |
| TB Joshua Bars Foreign Visitors Over Ebola Outbreak Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:28 AM PDT Lagos — THE General Overseer of one of Nigeria largest Congregations, the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, has barred foreign members from countries where the ebola virus... Click Title to Read More |
| Ebola: LASG visits Synagogue Church Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:40 AM PDT The Lagos State Government and some federal delegates on Sunday paid a visit to the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua. The visit was said to be aimed at... Click Title to Read More |
| Two soldiers, 12 others die in Taraba clashes Posted: 02 Aug 2014 07:55 AM PDT The Police in Jalingo, Taraba State, have confirmed the death of 14 persons, including two soldiers, in a renewed violence at Ibi, headquarters of Ibi Local Government Area, on Thursday morning. The... Click Title to Read More |
| APC Sponsors Boko Haram – Fani-Kayode Posted: 01 Aug 2014 09:08 AM PDT A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has again challenged the All Progressives Congress to explain its relationship with the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, saying the party was... Click Title to Read More |
| Abuja residents embrace safety measures to avoid Ebola virus Posted: 01 Aug 2014 05:45 AM PDT Abuja residents have begun to adjust their lifestyles to avoid contracting the Ebola virus, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) survey has shown. The virus has claimed over 700 lives in West African,... Click Title to Read More |
| Village head commits suicide 4 days to daughter’s wedding Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:21 AM PDT ABA—The immediate family and relations of Chief Samuel Omeonu Ezengwa, a village head in Umunkita, Nenu Autonomous Community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, have been thrown into... Click Title to Read More |
| Tension in Ibadan over planned removal of NURTW boss. Posted: 01 Aug 2014 02:49 AM PDT There was tension in Ibadan on Thursday, as a cross-section of motor park touts were spreading falsehood of the removal of the state chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),... Click Title to Read More |
| Police arrest mother for allegedly killing her two children Posted: 01 Aug 2014 01:44 AM PDT The woman allegedly said she gave her children a substance gotten from a cleric to drink. The Delta Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old woman in Abraka for allegedly killing two of her... Click Title to Read More |
| Joy that Kills: Drunken bricklayer falls to death on Sallah day Posted: 31 Jul 2014 05:45 AM PDT A middle-aged bricklayer, Mr. Timothy Olubunmi, died on Monday afternoon, when he fell from the upper floor of an uncompleted storey building after getting drunk. Nigeriana learnt that Olubunmi was... Click Title to Read More |
| Pastor, woman nabbed after ‘sanctified water’ kills 2 Posted: 31 Jul 2014 04:10 AM PDT WARRI — A man, said to be a pastor, and a woman are in Police net in Asaba, the Delta State capital for allegedly killing two children with a deadly substance sold by the pastor for N1,850. The Delta... Click Title to Read More |
| Landlady’s children cut tenant’s private parts Posted: 31 Jul 2014 02:58 AM PDT A 35-year-old man, Yinka Offehin, is battling for his life at a private hospital in Lagos State after his scrotum was cut by the children of his landlady. The Edo State indigene, who resides on... Click Title to Read More |
| Gunmen abduct Senator’s mother in Bayelsa Posted: 31 Jul 2014 02:43 AM PDT Gunmen, in the wee hours of Wednesday, kidnapped 90-year-old Florentina Emmanuel, mother to Senator Paulker Emmanuel, at their Opolo residence in the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa. Paulker, a close... Click Title to Read More |
| Gunmen kidnap man as bank manager escapes abduction in Aba Posted: 31 Jul 2014 02:09 AM PDT A middle aged businessman, Emmanuel Onu, has been abducted in Aba, Abia State, by gunmen believed to be kidnappers. This is even as a manager of a new generation commercial bank in the city escaped... Click Title to Read More |
| Police parade female cult member, armed robbers in Delta Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:33 AM PDT A 21-year-old lady was among 11 members of a youth cult group arrested by the police in Asaba while performing their initiation rites. The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Celestina... Click Title to Read More |
| Policeman Accidentally Shoots Self Dead In Aba Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:21 AM PDT Inspector Sunday Mefo, a police officer attached to the Patrol and Guard (P&G) Unit at the Aba Central Police Station (CPS) in Abia State, allegedly shot himself dead accidentally on Sunday, July... Click Title to Read More |
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