The police have confirmed five people dead and 15 others missing after two passenger boats sank at Langbasa in Lagos State on Friday. The accident occurred at about 2.00  p.m. after one of the boats carrying 24 passengers including the driver and conductor developed a technical fault mid-sea. It was on its way from Baiyeku […]

By Kingsley Omonobi & Gbenga Olarinoye The  Police today granted  Engr Rauf   Aregbesola bail, 24 hours after he was arrested and taken to Abuja for interrogation. He was released at 6 p.m. Aregbesola was arrested on Friday at his Lagos residence in connection with alleged forgery of a police report on the 2007 governorship […]

THE National League of  Veteran Journalists (NLVJ) says it viewed with alarm and disgust the invasion of some northern states of Nigeria by elements calling themselves Boko Haram. “These Islamic fundamentalist say they are fighting against the spread of Western education, values and civilization in northern part of Nigeria. This is unbelievable. To date over […]

GLO Mobile has introduced international multimedia messaging service (MMS), the first of its type in Nigeria. The service enables subscribers to exchange multimedia messages with their loved ones in over 10 countries worldwide at the cost of N100 only. With this new service, Glo subscribers have become the only privileged ones in the Nigerian market […]

At two of the Federal Government Colleges , Warri and Otu-Jeremi arms collection centres, yesterday, the security agents manning the centres sat doing nothing, as there was no militant willing to surrender his arms. The third arms collection centre in the state is at the Warri North Local Government Council secretariat.