Gunmen on Thursday opened fire and killed four marine policemen on patrol on waterways in President Goodluck Jonathan’s Bayelsa home state, state police spokesman said.
“We lost four of our officers today in an attack launched by unknown gunmen. The…
The UN war crimes court trying Charles Taylor for atrocities in Sierra Leone said on Thursday it would deliver a verdict on April 26.
The announcement came nearly five years after the former Liberian president went on trial in the…
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has rejected the plan by the Federal Government to allocate additional 600 mass transit buses to labour under its Subsidy Reinvestment Programme, SURE-P, saying that the action was not a product of genuine dialogue with…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for alleged corruption.
Charged along with the speaker is his Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi.
They are facing an amended 20-…
A 20-year-old woman, Joy James, on Thursday appeared before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly parading herself as a policewoman.
The Police Prosecutor, Mr Isiaka Ajadi, alleged that the accused on Feb. 29, in Osogbo, “did parade herself as…
Soldiers fired a 21-gun salute at the funeral of Odumegwu Ojukwu on Thursday as Nigerian leaders paid final respects to the man whose 1967 declaration of Biafran independence sparked a civil war. Forty-five years after he tried to split Nigeria…
One person was feared dead when about eight heavily armed robbers stormed a first generation bank close to a campus of the University of Port Harcourt in Choba area of Rivers State at about 8pm on Wednesday.
Some students of…
Despite wide commendations that greeted the Cash Policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Lagos Chapter of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has raised fears of insecurity with the electronic payment system of the policy.
Chairman of NCS,…
The Lagos State Government says it has uncovered N82 million fraud from ghost workers in Local Governments, Local Council Development Areas and Local Government Education Authorities and arrested 100 of them.
The Office of the Auditor-General for Local Governments in…
As part of measures to improve teachers’ welfare in Lagos State, the state government has released 10 million to Teachers’ Establishments and Pensions, TEPO, for teachers’ car refurbishment loan in all the six education districts in the state.
Permanent Secretary…
