About 3115 pilgrims from Lagos state are now in the holy land, Makkah Saudi Arabia performing the annual pilgrimage. They were airlifted from Lagos to Madina where they spent a few days before they were airlifted back to Makkah yesterday.

Nigeria’s national women’s basketball team who placed fourth in Group B of the Afrobasket champion-ship holding in Maputo, Mozambique, will today confront the host to decide who moves into the semi final tomorrow.

Ex-international Edema Fuludu has warned Super Eagles not to panic over the prospects of playing Ethiopia, insisting that the Nigerians have enough armoury to roll over the Walya Antelopes in the final playoffs round for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Organisers of the first ever Bike-A-Thon ride to be staged in Lagos on Saturday, October 19 have announced the route of the fun ride in Lagos.

Wife of the traditional ruler of Abba- Igogoro in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Igwe Omale Nwogbo, Adiza, who was kidnapped by unknown persons from her home on September 15, is yet to be released.

A non-partisan group, under the aegis of Christian Conscience, has called for a Christian to be elected governor of Lagos in 2015.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has revoked the licence of 20 Bureaux de Change, BDC, companies for foreign exchange malpractice. Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi disclosed this at Ikoyi Club 75th Anniversary Lecture held in Lagos on Thursday. Sanusi, who declined to mention names of the affected BDCs said that the promoters would be charged […]

RIVERS State Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu, said, yesterday, that he dispersed the gathering of newly recruited teachers that wanted to collect their appointment letters in Port Harcourt, Wednesday, to avoid breakdown of law and order.

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has disagree with the arguments that Nigeria is a failed country, saying that despite its present predicaments Nigeria still has “great promises” that could be converted to important gains. And that he would like t see Shell Shell establishing a refinery in Nigeria.

I read with a lot of disappointment, Mohammed Haruna’s recent column piece entitled “Between Senator Anyim and Hon. Bala”, which was published in the Daily Trust and The Nation newspapers of September 11, 2013.

As Nigeria celebrates her 53rd independence anniversary, kindly describe the power situation in your neighborhood, using a rating of 0-100%.

Lagos Chief Judge Justice Ayotunde Philips, Thursday freed 129 inmates of Ikoyi Prisons, Lagos, majority of whom were awaiting trials.

It was natural that Blessing Okagbare became emotional exactly two week ago. What Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan did overwhelmed her and she strongly fought back tears. When the emotions got the greater part of her the tears flowed.

TWO months after the controversial deportation of Igbo residents, Governor Babatunde Fashola, Thursday, rendered an unreserved apology to the Igbos over the July 24 dumping of some alleged destitute in Onitsha, Anambra State by his administration, saying, “the action of our government was misunderstood.”

World Scrabble players have vowed to give World Champion Nigel Richards the fight of his life, just as Governor Godswill Akpabio has declared that the Godswill international classics will outlive him.