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A 22 year-old female undergraduate of Babcock University, Busayo Ogunkoya during a birthday party in a hotel in Ikorodu, Lagos State has been shot dead by a security guard, Azeez Ibrahim. According to Punch Metro, 22-year-old Ogunkoya was celebrating with her friends on Saturday evening, July 5, 2014, at Mambillah ...

The Lagos state government worried by the increasing cases of deaths from the outbreak of Ebola virus in some neighbouring West African countries,has given some precautionary measures to prevent the outbreak of the deadly virus in the state. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, in a statement, said the measures ...

Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived after being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, pledged yesterday to help free the 219 schoolgirls being held by Boko Haram since April 15. Malala spoke in Abuja when she met with some parents of the schoolgirls. ...

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has suspended its 10-month old strike.�The strike which started in October 2013 was suspended today Saturday July 12th the National Executive Council of the association. Rising from a meeting this morning in Abuja, the ASUP NEC decided to suspend the strike which has ...

Contrary to claims that Tolani Ajayi was ‘unnecessarily abused’ by his father, the young man has come out to say his father was a good man Tolani Ajayi was cool and his mien was exceptionally calm. One could have mistaken him for a young man who had just rolled out ...

The Lagos state Police Command recently rescued a 9 year old girl, Blessing (pictured above) from being sold by a three female child trafficking syndicate in Lagos. Lagos state Police Commissioner Umaru Abubakar Manko while presenting the little girl to newsmen at the Ikeja Headquarters of the command said she ...

Nigeria made cars are ready, according to Executive Director/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr Olusegun Awolowo, he even posed beside his own, to announce its readiness to Nigerians. The SUV was manufactured by Innoson.�  

  Tolani Ajayi, the 21year old Redeemer University student who hacked his father to death on Tuesday July 3rd , has finally spoken to reporters about what led him to kill his own dad. Speaking to journalists today at the Eleweran Police Headquarters, Abeokuta, Tolani said he attacked his father ...

No fewer than 22 students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka would have died on Saturday when the vehicle conveying them to a burial was involved in an auto crash. It was learnt that the auto accident occurred around the Okigwe area of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. The students were ...

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested Tolani Ajayi, a 21-year old student of the Department of History and International Relations, Redeemer University, RCCG Camp Ogun State for killing his father on Tuesday 3 July. The shattered body of Barrister Charles Ajayi, 60, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was recovered in ...

The Catholic Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Rev. Hilary Paul Okeke has made it clear while speaking at the Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help/Parish Day Celebration of Saints Michael, Rapheal and Gabriel Catholic Church in Lagos that the church does not worship Mary and other saints, that what ...

Speaking with Channels TV this evening, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola described today’s action by the Nigerian Army as very disappointing, stating that they are public servants paid with tax payers money, so shouldn’t behave in such a manner. He however said he’s waiting for a formal report to know ...

It seems the matter is not yet resolved and the soldiers are still angry. A bus conductor was allegedly shot twice at close range by soldiers at the Oba Akran area of Ikeja Lagos this afternoon. The person who took the pic above and posted it online, wrote; “Soldiers just ...

An eye-witness said trouble started when a BRT bus hit a soldier on a bike. Nobody knows if the soldier died (though there are indications that he may have been crushed to death) but other soldiers immediately arrived the scene and started stopping all BRT buses on the express beating ...

Senator Khalifa Ahmed Zanna of Borno Central, in a�recent interview with SaharaReportes�has disclosed that the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls were being raped on camera.While in New York on a visit to the United Nations, Senator Ahmed Khalifa Zanna of Borno Central stopped by SaharaTV’s studios to talk with Rudolf Okonkwo. And ...

A few weeks ago, just before our convocation in the University of Lagos, we at the department of Psychology received a sad emotional blow that our friend and classmate Ayobami whom some of us fondly called Ijogbon (trouble), had passed on as a result of poor health. Similarly, a year ...

Tragedy struck at the Onikolobo area of Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday when a 33-year-old man, Oluwatosin Otaiku, stabbed himself to death after his fiancee, Olaogun Oluwatoyin, discontinued the relationship.According to Punch ,after the girlfriend made a U-turn, the deceased was said to have become worried, and this made neighbours, ...

According to a statement by the Defence headquaters, the major facilitator of the Chibok girls kidnap has been arrested ..The statement by Major General Chris Olukolade, Director Defence Information reads A terrorists’ intelligence cell headed by a businessman who participated actively in the abduction of School Girls in Chibok has ...

After the Bomb blast at Emab plaza,Abuja which claimed 22 lives and left 50 others injured, some of the survivors have narrated their close shave with death to Vanguard A taxi driver, who identified himself as Malachy Odo, said he was caught up in the midst of the ravaging fire ...

Bomb blast rocked the Emab Plaza shopping complex in the Wuse district of the Nigerian capital, Abuja on Wednesday.Scores of shoppers were killed in the attack.�I can see human parts and some bodies scattered on the ground but we are too scared to get closer for fear of another bomb,” ...