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Tanker drivers in Lagos State have been requested to abandon the Alaka and Eko bridges. The legislature said their exercises were creating burdens for different drivers in the state. The General Manager of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, Babatunde ...

Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Tuesday denied media reports that her plan to host the 8th summit of the African First Ladies Peace Mission on Friday is designed to deny the wife of the President-elect, Hajia Aisha ...

Kaduna State Governor-elect and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir el-Rufai, said on Tuesday that the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari would ask corrupt politicians   to return every kobo stolen by them. He also said that the Buhari ...

A 27-year-old man, Fatai Afobaje, who allegedly killed his friend and dismembered his body, was on Tuesday in Lagos hauled up before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court. Afobaje, who resides at 332, Oko Agbonla Irese Village in Magbon, a ...

The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to place on the “undefended list” a suit it filed to recover an alleged debt of N34m from the Senior Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. ...

One of the survivors of Boko Haram insurgency, Zahra Umoru says the terrorists were receiving the information of the movements of the military. The girl was abducted in November and rescued recently with other women and children from Sambisa forest. ...

PmNews reports that the 35-year old gospel preacher, simply identified as Lucky David, got arrested and charged before Ejigbo Magistrate’s court over stealing a Lexus SUV while he was preaching about repentance to the residents of Idimu in the early ...

Gross indiscipline amongst the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force amid the tenure of Suleiman Abba, was the motivation behind why President Goodluck Jonathan dumped him as Inspector General. This was unveiled to columnists via director of the Police Service ...

Anambra State Government spent N374million in sponsoring 805 pilgrims for the 2014 and 2015 pilgrimage to the Holy land, just as 14 pilgrims went on personal sponsorship. Dr. Levi Monanu, Chairman of Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board (CPWB), made the disclosure shortly ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Mutairu Laisi before Justice Kudirat Jose of Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja on a twelve- count charge bordering on fraudulent accounting and stealing. Laisi was alleged to have ...