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The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Honorable Kayode Opeifa has lost his dad. His Father, Pa Opeifa kicked the bucket early hours of at the beginning of today at 102. Sun re o!

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 re-arraigned Mamman Ali, before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on an amended 49 counts of fuel subsidy fraud to the tune ...

… As Interpreter Stalls Re-Arraignment of Waheed Omotayo, 2 others The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 13, 2015 tendered the result of polygraph test conducted on Mrs. Rosulu Idowu Oluronke, a former Lagos Court Registrar standing trial ...

The Burundian general who has launched a military coup has ordered the closure of an airport and land borders to stop the president returning to the country, Sky News reports. Major General Godefroid Niyombare made his bid for control just ...

The Lagos State Police Command has released the photos of the masterminds of the deadly Lekki Phase 1 armed robbery attack of March 12, 2015, where more than five police police officers and a fish seller were killed. The robbers ...

This is the shocking moment a Burundian policewoman was dragged on the ground by a rampaging mob who accused her of shooting at people taking part in a riot over the country’s president’s controversial bid for third term in office. ...

UOP LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Incorporated, on Wednesday said its process technology, catalysts and proprietary equipment would form the basis for Dangote’s refinery, the largest refinery in Africa that is targeted at reducing Nigeria’s dependence on imported ...

The Federal Government has confirmed the death of 28 children in a fresh outbreak of lead poisoning from illegal mining in Niger State. The Minister of State for Health, Fidelis Nwankwo, who stated this during a press briefing on Wednesday in ...

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday explained why he went to court to challenge results of the presidential elections he lost in 2003, 2007 and 2011.  Buhari, who  stated this when Delta State All Progressives Congress members visited him in Abuja, ...

Dread sect, Boko Haram, have propelled a fresh offensive on Maiduguri, Borno State capital. Occupants said the aggressors raged the town, sending the troubled inhabitants, who were clearly gotten unawares, into frenzy with a lot of them fleeing their different locations to their ...