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The Bayelsa State Government says, it will institute policies andprogrammes that will encourage the growth of indigenous businesses as well…

A female student of Ebonyi State University has been arrested by the police after a middle-aged man (name withheld) slumped…

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, on Monday, described as inappropriate the United States warning of an impending terror attack on…

Thousands of women, accompanied by Lagos-based human rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, stormed the Lagos State governor’s office in protest…

Following the video released by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, where he claimed responsibility for the abduction of the students…

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has helped the federal government locate the abducted schoolgirls, hours after President Jonathan said the…

A 54-year-old grandmother left jaws dropping at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos as she confessed that she sold…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has mourned the death of eminent jurist and former Chairman of the Human Rights…

L-R: Sen. Olu Adetunbi (Ekiti North); Former Governor of Ekiti State, Engr. Segun Oni; incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi; deputy Governor,…

Calls for the United States to help find and free hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria are mounting after Boko Haram claimed the abduction and threatened to sell the girls as “slaves”. “I abducted your girls,” the Islamist group’s leader Abubakar…

Boko Haram on Monday claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria that has triggered international outrage, threatening to sell them as “slaves”. “I abducted your girls,” the Islamist group’s leader Abubakar…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday May 5, 2014, arraigned one Lebechi Chinedu, before Justice B.O Quadri…

R-L: President, Ekiti State Food Vendors Association; Chief Victoria Oladimeji; Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; and others when…

Some youths under the auspices of Youth Traders’ Association have launched a campaign to rally support for the re-election of…

Ekiti State Deputy Governor Prof Modupe Adelabu holding a sample of the Vuvuzela. With her are: House of Representative members…

The Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo has ordered that all Lagos Markets be shut in protest of the adopted…

President Goodluck Jonathan said in Abuja on Sunday that the Federal Government had no plans to increase pump price of…

The Media Assistant to the First Lady, Mr Ayo Adewuyi, on Monday‎ said that Dame Patience Jonathan did not order…

The Boko Haram sect said on Monday it carried out the abduction of over 100 female students of Government Girls…

Former Governor of Lagos State in the short-lived Third Republic, Sir Michael Odetola is dead. He reportedly died early hours…