Tag Archives: local news from Nigeria

Four years after the Occupy Nigeria protest against fuel subsidy remova cleared the nation over and slanted on the online social media, #OccupyNigeria is back once again. Just like the case in January 2012 when the Goodluck Jonathan organization reported fuel ...

A lot of people were injured after a male suicide bomber exploded himself at a mosque in Sulimanti ward of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital toward the beginning of today.  As per reports, two male suicide bomber arrived the mosque ...

Official chief of Police administrations at the International Criminal Police Organization, Tim Morris, payed a courtesy visit to Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Solomon E. Arase at his office in the Police Force Headquarters, Abuja, today eleventh May, 2016. More ...

The Odua Defenders Union, ODU, has portrayed the danger by a new militant group , the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to assault Lagos within a matter of days as an insult on the Yoruba race.  In an announcement signed by ...

A man distinguished as Keji Osunjirin, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has been captured after he set his significant other ablaze by pouring petrol he brought home in a jerry can on her since she goes to a family party he ...

The Lagos state police has safeguarded previous Minister of State for Education, Iyabo Anisulowo, who was captured a week ago Wednesday April 27th alongside her security assistant by some outfitted men on Sawonjo/Imasayi Road, in Yewa North Local Government Area ...

President Paul Biya of Cameroon and his wife Chantal, begins a two-day state trip to Nigeria today May 3rd. ‎Biya and his delegation will undoubtedly be revived by President Buhari at their state house Abuja.  Throughout their meeting, both presidents ...

The Federal government has declared Monday May second a public holiday to honor workers day festivity which falls on Sunday May first. The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau reported this in an announcement released and signed by the Permanent Secretary, ...

Some officers who battled in the AU Peace-keeping operation in Guinea Bissau in 2015 have protested the non-payment of their allowance in the last 6 months. As indicated by ThisDay, the troopers numbering around 200, met with press men in ...

The Lagos State Government on Monday said it had introduced the Rent-to-Own Policy to support the Lagos Mortgage Scheme for home ownership in the state. The Commissioner for Housing, Mr Gbolahan Lawal, said at a ministerial news conference in Ikeja ...