Scores of recent candidates of Joint Admission Matriculatiion Board(JAMB) and members of Association of Tutorial School Owners of Nigeria protested in Ilorin Tuesday over allegations of shoddy conduct of the examination body which consequently failed the affected candidates for no fault of theirs.

A 25-year-old, Christopher Ogbeide, who allegedly raped a teenage girl, was on Tuesday remanded in Kirikiri Prisons on the order of an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

A team of soldiers believed to be attached to the 144 Battalion, Asa Ukwa West local council, Abia state, Tuesday invaded a newspaper office along St. Michael’s road, Aba and seizes copies from vendors.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to pay more attention to security and economic issues affecting Nigeria, instead of focusing on those of other countries and persecuting perceived political enemies, describing the President’s condemnation of Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire as hypocritical and demonstration of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians.

Two paediatricians on Tuesday advised parents against scolding children who bed-wet, saying they should see it as a health challenge.

Blessing Effiom, Nollywood actress cum producer, said on Tuesday in Lagos that most Nollywood movie producers lack ideas of their own.

Gunmen yesterday, abducted two teachers from Ubima Community Secondary School in Ikwerre Local government Area of Rivers State.

A Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced two brothers, Emeka Okenwa, 35, and Anayo Okenwa, 40, to 18 months imprisonment for stealing six buses.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday, said the inflation rate in February rose by 11.4 per cent compared to the 9.6 per cent in January.

Nigeria’s anti-drug agency has arrested four Mexicans for allegedly running a crystal meth production laboratory on an “industrial” scale.

Three civilian vigilantes on their way to fight Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria were killed and seven others injured when their vehicle hit a landmine, residents told AFP on Tuesday.

Pope Francis on Tuesday approved sainthood for Mother Teresa, the missionary nun who became a global if controversial symbol of compassion for her care of the sick and destitute.

Irrepressible former Secretary-General of the National Union of Petroleum Energy and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Chief Frank Ovie Kokori, Tuesday reiterated his call on erstwhile Niger Delta militants leader, Government Ekpemukpolo, aka, Tompolo, to come out of hiding and face the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, eye ball to eye ball, saying, “I stand by what I said.”

A 36-year-old fashion designer, Shakirat Abdulsalam, on Tuesday pleaded with an Agege Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her 12-year-old marriage over her in-laws’ bad attitude towards her.

A former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, at the University of Ilorin, Prof. Kayode Ayorinde,
on Tuesday expressed concerns over plans by the Federal Government to import grass seedlings from Brazil.