Update : Two confirmed dead in Agege train crash
A crash involving a tricycle, commercial bus and train at the Agege Pen Cinema area of Lagos has left two people dead and many injured.
Just in: Court sentences former president to another 8 years in prison
A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election.
Breaking: Twitter appoints Okonjo-Iweala to board of Directors
Social media giant,Twitter Inc., has announced the appointment of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to its board.
$1b gas pipeline probe: Senate gives NNPC, IOCs, five days ultimatum to appear before it
ABUJA- THE Senate has threatened the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) as well as oil and gas companies involved in the execution of the Obite-Ubeta-Rumuji (OUR) and North Option Pipeline (NOPL) Gas Pipelines Projects to appear before it and explain the astronomical cost of completing the two major gas pipeline projects by Ethese companies.
FIFA can’t ban Nigeria from world sports – Nnaji
FORMER Commissioner for sports in Enugu State, Barr. Ray Nnaji, yesterday said that if the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, bans Nigeria they would challenge the oraganisation in the court of arbitration to know whether its has right to meddle in a country’s internal affairs.
Ag president of National youth Council of Nigeria in a new photo in Gombe
Ag President of National Youth Council of Nigeria Comrade Chinedu Mayor Enujeko was Live at AMANA RADIO STATION in GOMBE STATE. 98.1 fm to welcome Nigerian Youth Delegates for the Historic Elective Congress of Nigerian Young People.
Police roll out standard operating procedures for SARS operatives
The Commissioner of Police, Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Mr Haliru Gwandu, yesterday, said the Nigeria Police has designed a Standard Operational Procedure, SOP, for operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, to help reform its activities.
ALGON threatens to mobilise against Adeosun over allocation from FAAC
ASSOCIATION of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, yesterday, said it would mobilise against the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, if local government areas do not get their allocations from the Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee, FAAC, in one week.
There is too much blood shedding in Nigeria …, says Sultan
THE Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammed Sa’ ad Abubakar, yesterday, warned that the quest for peace in the country may continue to elude it until leaders embrace justice in their actions.
COOUTH, Anambra receives medical equipment from MTN
It was all joy and excitement for students, staff of Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital and residents of Anambra state as they received brand new sets of hospital supplies from MTN Foundation under it’s Emergency Ward Intervention project.
Buratai renames 21 Brigade as Special Forces Brigade
THE Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, has renamed the 21 Brigade, located in Bama, Borno State, as Special Forces Brigade.
