One of Nigeria’s foremost traditional rulers, Maigari of Lokoja, Alhaji (Dr) Muhammad Kabir Maikarfi lll is dead. Aged 80 years, Maigari died Wednesday evening after a brief illness in a private hospital in Abuja. He was one of the longest…
A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has shown that towns in the Niger Delta live in deplorable conditions. The findings do not corroborate the enormous wealth derived from locations in the region where the Nigerian…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed 1.8 tons of cocaine recovered by its personnel from a warehouse in the Ikorodu area of Lagos. Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement said tougher time awaits drug…
The Lagos State Government has taken delivery of new trains from Milwaukee, United States, for its Redline rail project, a 37-kilometre intracity railway system. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this on Tuesday, September 27.…
Kogi State Government has sealed a church, New Jerusalem Deliverance Ministry, located in Ageva, Okene Local Government Area of the state for alleged unwholesome practices. LIB had reported that the pastor of the church, Adeiza Peter was arrested over allegations…
The fight took place in the postgame media area after the team was defeated 81-68 by Serbia. A video has captured the moment two members of Mali’s basketball team exchanged blows on Monday, September 26, following their latest loss in…
The Federal Government (FG) on Monday withdrew its earlier directive asking the management of Vice-Chancellors in universities “to ensure that the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resume and commence lectures immediately.” This was contained in…
Military veterans under the aegis of the Retired Members of Nigerian Armed Forces and the Coalition of Concerned Military Veterans protested the non-payment of their Security Debarment Allowance in Abuja on Monday. The protest took place at the Ministry of…
The Bayelsa State Police Command on Monday paraded the suspected kidnap kingpin, John Ikechuwkwu Ewa, alias ‘John Lion’. He was paraded alongside three other members of his kidnapping gang at the Police Officers’ Mess in Yenagoa. Ewa was apprehended by…
Over 500 houses have been submerged, while properties worth millions of naira have been lost due to floods in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. It was gathered that vehicles and pedestrians currently face difficulties moving across Ganaja under Ajaokuta Local…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has re-echoed its stand that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should be rejected at the polls in 2023. Ohanaeze hinged the decision on the PDP’s jettisoning of…
The forthcoming general elections in Nigeria will be held in the first quarter of 2023. Presidential and National Assembly elections will be conducted on Saturday, 25th February; Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections are scheduled for Saturday, 11th March.…
A suspected kidnapper, John Iyon, has pleaded for forgiveness, claiming that his wife was just delivered of a baby boy. He was said to have been arrested in Abuja after being traced from Bayelsa State following a kidnap incident. In…
Five persons have been arrested while stealing Automotive Gas Oil, otherwise known as diesel, in Ogun State. It was learnt that the suspects were caught in the act by some Ogun State So-Safe Corps operatives at a road construction company…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned the brutal assault on Inspector Teju Moses by Professor Zainab Duke Abiola. The scholar and her maid have been arrested and charged to court. The police said the third suspect is on…
Operatives of the Ikorodu Division of the Lagos State Police Command have intercepted two commercial buses loaded with large quantities of live cartridges, three dismantled motorcycles and some personal effects at Poromope Estate, Ijede Road, Ikorodu, Lagos State. Preliminary investigations…
Rev. Fr. Godfrey Gopep, the Parish Priest of St. Finberrs’ Catholic Church, Rayfield, Jos, has advised Christians to desist from organizing expensive burials. Gpoep, who is also the Chaplain, Plateau Government House Chapel, gave the advice in his sermon on…
The Late Idi Amin Dada was funny and courageous man. He feared no body, except God/ Allah. On 22 January 1975, He wrote to Queen Elizabeth II informing her of His plans to spend his economic war honeymoon in England.…
The state Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abeokuta. Stephen Jack, an 84-year-old man has been arrested by the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command. He was arrested for allegedly…
The General Overseer of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor W. F Kumuyi, has urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to shift grounds in resolving the conflict between them in the interest of Nigerian…