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A fight broke out in new Panteka market along the Nnamdi Azikiwe bypass in Kaduna when an Igbo man allegedly named his dog Muhammad. The market has been closed down by men of the Nigerian Police who stormed the area to restore law and order after the fight broke out. Panteka market is a major Spare […]

When we carried the story of the court’s judgment on the accused of the Apo six killing earlier today, we couldn’t separate the names of the convicted from those set free. The two officers convicted are Ezekiel Acheneje and Baba Emmanuel. They are the one being led from the court by the Prison officers. Pic.1. Nigerian Prisons […]

Permit me to begin the second part of this essay with a word from Dr. Shuaib Musa Zaria, who is a leading member of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and who is a close confidante and associate of Sheik El Zak Zaky, the wounded and detained leader of the Shiite Muslim community in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to return to Nigeria tomorrow, Friday March 10, 2017. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina announced this on Thursday evening in Abuja. Part of it reads: “The President left the country on January 19, 2017 for a vacation, during which he had routine medical check-ups. The […]

Mustapha Mohammed, a witness in the a trial of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Haliru Bello, pictured above and his son, Mustapha Mohammed, yesterday, told Justice A. R Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja, how over N160million was paid to Umar Tafida Kebbi, a former governorship aspirant in Kebbi […]

Kamari Belmont, 23, from Chicago was accused of murder and robbery but he had his charges dropped and walked free when prosecutors could not give him a speedy trial. Soon after Kamari left the Cook County Jail on Monday night, he was killed. Kamari was accused of shooting one man during a robbery who died eventually and […]

President Buhari’s daughter, Zahra and her husband, Ahmed Indimi pictured with acting president, Yemi Osinbajo at his 60th birthday celebration in Abuja yesterday. See more photos of Osinbajo’s wife Dolapo and daughter Kiki with the Acting President below: LIB

The Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), has slammed a N2bn suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), over the arrest and detention of its National Commandant, Amb (Dr.) Dickson Akoh and 49 others. The security agencies had on Tuesday, […]

17 Federal Ministries in Nigeria misapplied funds running into several billions of naira, the Auditor-General’s 2015 annual report has revealed. The report revealed that the infractions were perpetrated by top government officials between January and December 31, 2015. The report seen showed that Ministry of Information and Culture failed to account for N561.6 million. The […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State has stopped the State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, from implementing the new regime of fees to be paid for filing documents in the courts of the State. Lawyers in Osun State trooped out today to celebrate this order of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo. […]

Twelve years after, Justice Ishaq Bello of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has delivered judgment in the alleged extra judicial killing of six spare parts traders at Apo area of Abuja by six police officers in 2005. Delivering his judgement, Justice Bello sentenced two of the defendants to death and discharged the other […]

Isn’t she engaged? R&B singer K. Michelle celebrated her birthday in the club some days ago and she went to the party topless. See the outfit below: Photo: K. Michelle, LIB

On Monday March 6, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Diaspora matters, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, released a statement advising Nigerians who do not have any compelling thing to do in the US not to travel there at this time and until things become clearer as she has received reports of some Nigerians being denied entry […]

In 44 BC the respected Roman seer and soothsayer Spurinna warned the great Consul and ruler of the Roman Empire Julius Caesar about the “ides of March”. He counselled him not to go out on that day because he had perceived that something terrible would happen. According to the Roman calender the ides of March […]

A consortium of Nigerian banks, including Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank are set to take over the management of Etisalat Nigeria following the inability of the network provider to pay back a loan facility totaling N541.8 billion obtained in 2015. The loan, which involved a foreign-backed guaranty bond, was for Etisalat to […]

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on his 60th birthday. Buhari, who is currently in the UK on medical vacation, hailed Osinbajo as his “partner in service to Nigeria” and “friend”. He also wished Osinbajo “60 hearty cheers” in a birthday message posted on his Twitter account. It read: “60 hearty […]

200 level student of Lead City University, Ibadan, Moshood Owolabi, has been sentenced to death by hanging for stabbing his fellow student to death. In his judgment on Wednesday, Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of an Ibadan High Court sentenced Owolabi to death by hanging for causing the death of one Seun Kolawole, two years ago. A Physical […]

Erin wo! The former military governor of defunct Western Region, Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo is dead. The elder statesman died in Lagos on Wednesday on the eve of his 89th birthday. Family sources said he suddenly took ill at his GRA Ikeja, Lagos home and he was taken to the hospital where he died shortly after. […]

The Osun State Government has declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Ile-Ife after clashes in the city claimed lives and led to the destruction of properties, a media to the state governor said on Wednesday. The curfew “has been compelled by the breach of the peace in the area which has led to an avoidable destruction […]

Five people are said to have been killed in a clash at the Sabo area of Ile-Ife, Osun State. Eyewitness account says the crisis started on Tuesday night when a rift broke out between a Hausa man and a Yoruba woman, leaving five people dead and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed. People living and […]