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Heavy fire has been reported at Berlin( Eko )Market in Broad Street ,Marina on the Lagos Island..According to several witnesses, it started around 4am..And the location is around FCMB and CBN building ..As at now, the Firefighters are struggling to put it off…. They say many buildings have been affected ...

The fate of a lady, identified simply as Ifeoma, who is believed to be between 16 and 17 years old, has been giving residents of Ilaro, in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, a cause for concern. It was said that she had been beaten and impregnated ...

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Thursday announced that there has been unusual high mortality in two poultry farms and live bird markets in Kano and Lagos States, Punch reports. It said samples forwarded to the National Veterinary Research Institute tested positive for H5 strain of Avian ...

President Jonathan just arrived in Maidugri,Borno State this afternoon.He was accompanied by the Chief of Defense staff, Air Vice Marshall Alex Badeh and National Security adviser, Sambo Dasuki. He was received by the governor Kashim Shettima of Borno…

Pope Francis has reacted to the Charlie Hebdo massacre,condemning both parties..In an interview while on a plane to the Philippines, when asked, the Holy pontiff who did not mention the magazine or make any direct reference to it,said �There is a limit, �Every religion has its dignity. I cannot mock ...

Lagos�State governor, Mr Babatunde Fahsola, on Wednesday, tasked Lagos residents not to vote the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Mr Jimi Agbaje�because he is too old to rule the state. He said his party’s candidate, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, has age advantage to carry on with the task from where ...

  A service was held in Abuja today January 15 as part of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day . Presidential Spokesman, Reuben Abati shared photos from the event minutes ago      

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, has said his successor, Babatunde Fashola, performed better than he did as governor. Speaking in Ikeja at the flag-off of the party’s campaign on Wednesday,he said that Fashola had performed well in construction of roads ...

Glo subscriber Princewill Uzochukwu won the 2015 Mercedez Benz G-Wagon worth a whopping N35m in the Glo Predict and win promo. Lucky man!

The Police in Lagos State have recovered the mutilated remains of a man, identified only as Christmas, which were dumped at two different areas of the state. Punch Metro learnt that the victim’s head was found at Olokodana junction in the Ebute Meta area, while his body was recovered in ...

This sheet released by INEC shows the list of the 2015 presidential candidates and their qualifications

en. Buhari pictured as a student at the Katsina provincial school..

It was a bloody day at Ikare Akoko, headquarters of Akoko North East Local Government on Monday as armed robbers killed 15 persons in a daylight operation. The attacked bank was the First Bank, which was equally attacked in 2013 along with two others and which led to closure of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) published the list of the 14 presidential candidate and their running mates for the 2015 elections. The names were posted on their website on Tuesday, January 13, 2015. See their names below: 1. (AD)Rufus Salawu and Akuchie Clif as his vice president. 2. (ACPN)Alhaji ...

The police in Lagos are on the trail of a teenage girl, Taiwo Olakunle, who allegedly ran away from home and is believed to be with a suspected boyfriend. Olakunle’s case is the second of such in six weeks in Lagos. The 18-year-old girl, who was staying with her aunt’s ...

The whereabouts of a 38-year-old man, identified as Mr. Ojuigo of Upper Sakponba Road in Benin City, remain unknown to family members and friends following a revelation by their nine-year-old house maid, Ada, who accused him of forcing her to engage in MouthAction with him when the wife had gone ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday said that it registered 68, 833, 476 voters for this year’s general elections. Similarly, the commission has also cleared 14 presidential candidates for the presidential election, 739 candidates for the Senate while 1780 candidates are for the Federal House of Representatives election. It ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will be mobilizing prospective corps members twice this year, instead of three times,contrary to the previous years. There will only be a �Batch A” and �Batch B” but no �Batch C,”�Daily Times�reports. Director of Press and Public Relations in NYSC, Bose Aderibigbe, made the ...

Officials on China’s border with Hong Kong caught a smuggler with 96 iPhones strapped to his body like a hi-tech suit of armour. They took photos of him, released them on the internet and now the pics have gone viral. Chinese customs officers say they pulled the young man aside ...

APC Presidential candidate Gen Buhari and other party leaders visited former President Obasanjo at his home in Ota, Ogun state today a day after president Jonathan visited the former president. Obasanjo reportedly told the group; “I am a card carrying member of another party but what is paramount in Nigeria ...