Tag Archives: local news from Nigeria

Today, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, a lawyer and human rights activist, filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, challenging the ban of the sales of petrol in jerry cans. He is is seeking a declaration that the directive ...

Husband amputates wife, for unfaithful. But this punishment is much.

The ABC has been told there are 14 prisoners on the list to be executed, including foreign nationals from Pakistan and Nigeria, and one Indonesian woman. Some of them may, however, seek last-minute clemency from President Joko Widodo, meaning their ...

Engr. Anthony Isiodu, the Acting Rector of the the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, reportedly died due to a heart related disease on Monday at the National Medical Center, Abuja, two weeks after returning from a medical trip to England. This ...

Girl dies in a fatal accident on her way to pick up the gown for her induction as a medical doctor According to reports, Dr. Nneoma Uhuegbu lost her life in a fatal accident around Umuikaa on her way to ...

Tanker explodes at Cele bus stop, Lagos, burning anything on its path, people allegedly trapped, fire service men are needed urgently. See more photos after the page break.

Four of them are from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) and one is from Adekunle Ajashin University, Akungba, (AAUA). They were picked up at an Off- Campus Residence located at Anuoluwapo Close, Stateline Hotel Road, off FUTA South ...

The Department of State Services (DSS), at the weekend, said it had arrested Jones Abiri aka General Akotebe Darikoro, leader of the Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF) and the mastermind of the coup plot ...

9-year-old boy rescued after spending weeks in an Ogun State church’s captivity, while being chained and malnourished. UPDATE: NSCDC RESCUES NINE YEAR BOY IN OTA 1.The pictures bellow shows & labeled as follows :no. 5:when the boy was first rescued ...

On Tuesday, John Onose allegedly lured the kid ( picture ) to a nearby bush around Fovie Street, before forcefully sleeping with her, Punchng reports. The mother of the girl got wind of what was happening when she discovered that ...