Leadership NewspapersLagos Weekend Services BeginLeadership NewspapersLagos State Government has concluded plans to open offices on weekends with effect from tomorrow, even as it warned members of the public to desist from dealing with touts. The Commi...

CHANNELSKilling of the Nasarawa fourNigerian TribuneThe killing of the four students of Nasarawa State University Keffi shows how much value the authorities at different level in Nigeria place on education and the lives of students. In fact, what some ...

Families of dead officers get N9.8mThe Guardian NigeriaThe Inspector General of Police IGP Muhammad Abubakar has disbursed about N9.8milion to the families of policemen and who lost their lives and those injured while in active service in Borno and Yob...

WorldStageLagos says skeletal services would add value to environment for doing businessWorldStageThe Lagos State Government on Thursday shed more light on the announcement of the commencement of skeletal services by selected government agencies from n...

7Online WSVN-TVBlasts injure three in Nigerian restive city: armyAFPKANO, Nigeria — Three people, including a soldier, were injured Thursday in multiple blasts in three areas of Nigeria's restive city of Maiduguri, with one targeting a military p...

Gunmen kidnap travellersThe Guardian NigeriaTHE criminal act of kidnapping took an alarming dimension in Edo State as gunmen Thursday abducted five Lagos-bound travellers from the vehicle in which they were travelling and were said to have released the...

Gunmen kidnap travellersThe Guardian NigeriaTHE criminal act of kidnapping took an alarming dimension in Edo State as gunmen Thursday abducted five Lagos-bound travellers from the vehicle in which they were travelling and were said to have released the...

Gunmen kidnap travellersThe Guardian NigeriaTHE criminal act of kidnapping took an alarming dimension in Edo State as gunmen Thursday abducted five Lagos-bound travellers from the vehicle in which they were travelling and were said to have released the...

CHANNELSSenate SeeksTo Merge Finance Ministry And Planning CommissionCHANNELSIn the aftermath of the budget crises between the executive and the National Assembly over the 2013 Budget, the Senate has moved to reduce the role of the federal Ministry of ...

CHANNELSPDP Govs Forum Intervenes InLeadership NewspapersThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors forum has waded into the crisis rocking the Adamawa chapter of the party, as the forum's chairman, Chief Goodswill Akpabio declared Thursday that ...

Ondo Rewards Nigerian Defender, Oboabona, With House, N1MillionAllAfrica.comSuper Eagles defender, Godfrey Oboabona, has been rewarded with a bungalow and N1 million by the Ondo State Government. Oboabona, who plays for the state-owned Sunshine Stars F...

CHANNELSKwara Threatens Clampdown On Trouble MakersCHANNELSThe Kwara state government on Thursday said that it will discipline anyone or group that incites violence or takes the law into their hands under any guise. In a statement issued in Ilorin foll...

CHANNELSOyerinde: AGF writes House, says I was never confusedCHANNELSThe Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke on Thursday wrote a letter to the House of Representatives denying allegations that he was c...

Nigeria Among 10 Most Important Countries In The World – ClintonCHANNELSA former U.S President, Bill Clinton has said that Nigeria is among the 10 most important countries in the world. Clinton, who was speaking on Tuesday in Abeokuta as part of an a...

P.M. NewsEx-Minister Slams N90b Suit On NIMASA, DGP.M. NewsThe former Interior Minister, Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho, has slammed a N90 billion suit on Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and its Director-General, Mr. Patrick Akpo...

CHANNELSSenate Considers Bill To Decongest PrisonsCHANNELSThe senate is taking steps to review the administration of the justice system to ensure the decongestion of prisons across the country. A lawmaker, Senator Babajide Omoworare introduced a bill s...

Political Class Has Ruined This Country —el-RufaiOsun DefenderThe former minister of Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has blamed the political class for ruining this country. He said that the tragedy of Nigeria was that...

BusinessDay2015: Jonathan has constitutional right to contest, says TukurBusinessDayBamanga Tukur, national chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday said that President Goodluck Jonathan has the constitutional right to contest the 2015 pr...

Unemployment and insecurity in Nigeria: The NexusThe Guardian Nigeria“The more prosperous a state is and the more equitably and justly distributed its wealth is, the less liable it is to the danger of internal disorder and the more able it is to disc...

CHANNELSObi To Rebuild Collapsed Ojukwu Memorial LibraryCHANNELST he Anambra state governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has promised to assist in the reconstruction of the Ojukwu Memorial Library in Owerri, Imo state, which collapsed six days ago. The Governor mad...

BusinessDayFitch Raises Lagos Outlook to PositiveTHISDAY LiveFitch Ratings has raised its outlook on Lagos state to positive from stable, citing “improving debt management” and moves towards a balanced budget by 2015. Bloomberg quoted Fitch to have...

CHANNELSKidnapped Foreigners: ChannelLeadership NewspapersTo Install this app, enter the address below on your phone. http://m.leadership.ng. If you have a QR Code Reader you can access the app by scanning this code. This app will work on all phones in...

spyghana.comNBA Seeks Probe Of FloatingLeadership NewspapersThe Nigerain Bar Association (NBA) has called on the federal government to set up a judicial commission of inquiry to look into the case of floating corpses in Ezu River, Amansea/Awka in Anamb...

Nigerian TribuneReps say no to incentives to unemployed graduatesNigerian TribuneTHE House of Representatives, on Wednesday, rejected a bill that sought to provide monetary incentives for unemployed graduates in the country, pending the time they would...

CHANNELSEmir Returns To Kano After Treatment AbroadCHANNELSThe Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero on Wednesday returned to the ancient city of Kano from London aboard a Presidential jet. The Air Force Jet touched down at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airpo...

CHANNELSI'm Back On My Feet, Wada Declares As He Resumes WorkCHANNELSThe Governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, has returned to Lokoja, the state capital after spending about 60 days in a hospital in Abuja, following a motor accident, which led to him...

CHANNELSFEC okays panel on road safetyThe Guardian NigeriaTHE Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday began moves for the implementation of a four-year national strategy on road safety policy by approving the constitution of an inter-ministerial impl...

CHANNELSThe late Olaitan OyerindeCHANNELSThe office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) says it is yet to identify suspects in the murder of Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, the late principal private secretary to Governor Adams Oshimhole of Edo State...

Governor signs Kaduna's N179bn appropriation bill into lawThe Guardian NigeriaTHE Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, has signed into law the N179 billion 2013 recently passed by the state legislators. A breakdown of the budget s...

spyghana.comICPC Uncovers Sexual Harassment, 49 Other Corrupt Practices In Universitiesspyghana.comHe also said operators of more than 20 illegal universities in the country will soon be arrested and prosecuted. Nta spoke at a briefing in Abuja at the ...

CHANNELSSubsidy Scam: Court Dismisses Oil Marketers' Application To Quash ChargesCHANNELSA Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has dismissed an application by two oil marketers seeking to quash the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's (EFCC...

CHANNELSBritain warns against travel to northern Nigeria after Islamist raidsCHANNELSBritain has advised its citizens in Nigeria against travelling to parts of the north, after an increase in attacks blamed on Islamist militants and the abduction of se...

P.M. NewsPolitical Class Has Ruined This Country —el-RufaiP.M. NewsThe former minister of Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has blamed the political class for ruining this country. He said that the tragedy of Nigeria was...

CHANNELSAnother SAN Stripped Of RankCHANNELSThe Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Tuesday stripped Ajibola A. Aribisala of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Ajibola A. Aribisala stripped of the rank of Senior Advocate of Ni...

Nigerian TribuneNigerian President Jonathan Signs 2013 Spending Plan Into LawBusinessweekNigerian President Goodluck Jonathan approved a 4.98 trillion naira ($31.6 billion) budget for 2013, higher than he originally proposed to lawmakers in October, pr...

Leadership Newspapers2015 Presidential Contest Between PDP, APC, Says OnuAllAfrica.comThe National Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, Ogbonnaya Onu, on Tuesday, said the 2015 presidential contest would be between the ruling Peoples Democ...

CHANNELSYero Vows to End Attacks on Southern Kaduna CommunitiesTHISDAY LiveThe Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Yero, Tuesday declared that his administration would leave no stone unturned to ensure that the perpetrators of the frequent attacks in...

Leadership NewspapersFG Frustrates Maina's Bid ToLeadership NewspapersThe federal government and its agencies yesterday frustrated efforts by the embattled chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina to stop his ar...

The PunchI'll defeat Aregbesola in 2014 –Ex-ministerThe PunchA former Minister of Youth Development, Senator Olasunkanmi Akinlabi, has said he will defeat Governor Rauf Aregbesola in next year's gubernatorial election in Osun State. Akinlabi,...

Nigerian TribunePDP BoT: intrigues that threw up anenih, Jonathan, Nnamani in last minute dramaNigerian TribuneCHIEF Tony Anenih re-emerged as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the early hours of Tuesd...

ABC NewsYou haven't done well with oil money, Clinton tells NigeriaThe Guardian NigeriaIT was a stark reminder of the wastefulness of the nation's leaders as former United States (U.S.) President Bill Clinton declared that Nigeria had failed to...

CHANNELSAlleged N47Bn Theft: Akingbola Insists On Fresh TrialCHANNELSThe former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, on Tuesday, insisted on a fresh trial in the case of stealing N47 billion belonging to the ba...

The Voice of RussiaTwo Indian sailors freed in NigeriaNDTVYenagoa, Nigeria: Six foreign sailors were freed unharmed overnight by pirates who seized them off the coast of Nigeria's oil-producing region nine days ago, police said on Tuesday. A rise i...

BusinessDayCorruption: Jonathan approves judge's retirementBusinessDayPresident Goodluck Jonathan on Monday approved the immediate retirement of Justice Charles Archibong over alleged corruption. Mohammed Bello Adoke, minister of justice and attorn...

Ventures AfricaNigeria–British Bilateral Trade To Hit $12.2 Billion By 2014Ventures AfricaVENTURES AFRICA – British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Peter Carter revealed on Monday, that trade relations between Nigeria and UK will hit N1.920 tr...

CHANNELSMerger Of Opposition Parties Is The Only Way To Defeat PDP – BuhariCHANNELSFormer presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), retired General Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the merger of opposition parties is the on...

BusinessDayN'Assembly, Ministry to Jointly Resolve Contentious Issues on PIBTHISDAY LiveThe National Assembly and Ministry of Petroleum Resources are expected to resolve contentious issues on fiscal regimes before the passage of the much-awaited Pe...

Leadership NewspapersAkpabio Has Restored Confidence In Governance — UmanahLeadership NewspapersCommissioner for Information and Communication in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, in this interview with Bernard Tolani Dada, talks about the rapid d...

Leadership NewspapersMaina: Protesters Storm NASS, Accuse Senate Of Witch-huntLeadership NewspapersTraffic at the entrance of the National Assembly in Abuja, was yesterday disrupted as protesting youths moved against what they described as the witch-hu...

CHANNELSCourt Rejects Babalakin's Request to Sit Outside the DockTHISDAY LiveJustice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of an Ikeja High Court Monday rejected the request by the embattled Chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), to leave the dock ...

Rainstorm: Oyo frustrating distribution ...BusinessDayAccording to the minister, the relief materials were donated by the Federal Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to assuage the suffering of the victims of the rainstor...

CHANNELSAPC will defeat PDP in 2015, says BuhariThe NationFormer Head of State Gen. Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said the All Progressive Peoples Congress (APC) will sack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government in 2015. Gen. Buhari said Nigerians a...

CHANNELSAjimobi tasks MAN on infrastructureNigerian TribuneOYO State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has urged Nigerian manufacturers to take interest in the development of infrastructure in the country, especially in areas where government has faile...

Nigerian TribuneEko Atlantic City: From adversity to prosperityNigerian TribuneSulaimon Olanrewaju writes that the story of Eko Atlantic City is a classical example of seeing prospects in a problem. All eyes were on Lagos last week as dignitaries gathe...

Leadership NewspapersGunmen kill senior policeman in restive north NigeriaAFPKANO, Nigeria — Gunmen shot dead a senior police officer in northern Nigeria on Monday as he stood outside his home, the latest targeted killing in a region hit by waves of ...

CHANNELS'Help us ... we are sleeping outside'The Guardian NigeriaHUNDREDS of residents, including women, men, youths and children from Badia East community, Ijora, Lagos, wailed to the government house Ikeja, Alausa, Lagos State Monday to prote...

Independent OnlineSeveral Dead in Sectarian Clashes in Eastern NigeriaVoice of AmericaAt least five people have been killed in eastern Nigeria after a disagreement over a football field led to clashes between Christians and Muslims. Officials in Wukari...

FERMA begins rehabilitation of Lagos-Abeokuta ExpresswayDaily Times NigeriaThe Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), says it started the rehabilitation of Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway since February 11. FERMA Zonal Coordinator (South West 2), Oladipo ...

CHANNELSOyo Council Supports Self Help Projects With N50mCHANNELSFollowing a mandate by the Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi to the chairmen of all the 33 local government areas in the state to start encouraging self-help projects, the transition chai...

Leadership NewspapersBoko Haram's S' West agenda will fail – AIGOsun DefenderThe police have described the attempt by Boko Haram and its splinter faction, Jama'atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan, to make an incursion into the South We...

CHANNELSFG to Pay Hundreds On 'Governance Tour' Estacodes-MakuAllAfrica.comMore than 100 officials visiting states of the federation on the "good governance tour" are entitled to a government-paid Estacode, the group, led by the Infor...

The PunchJonathan, PDP Governors in Private MeetingAllAfrica.comPresident Goodluck Jonathan Sunday met with the governors of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) at the State House, Abuja. As soon as some of the governors started arriving and...

National MirrorProject execution'll determine NDDC's 2013 budget –SenateNational MirrorThe Senate Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has threatened not to work on the 2013 budget proposal of the commission unless the c...

Nigerian TribuneMimiko's second inauguration: When patriotism takes centre stageThe Guardian NigeriaALTHOUGH not physically present at the venue, “the extra-ordinary nationalism” of football hero and member of the victorious Super Eagles of Nig...

Leadership NewspapersRMAFC Seeks Abolition Of State/LG Joint AccountLeadership NewspapersFor the first time, the chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Engr Elias Mbam, has supported the abolition of the state /local gov...

Nigerian Tribune2nd term: Abdulsalami, govs, Ooni, Dangote, Otudeko, others usher in MimikoNigerian TribuneONDO State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko and his deputy, Alhaji Ali Olanusi were, on Sunday, sworn in for another term in office, with a pledge fr...

The PunchStalemate over Budget 2013: Matters arisingThe PunchThere are media concerns on the potential adverse impact of delay of budget implementation and the possibility of the Legislature overriding presidential opposition to the 2013 budget enactme...

Bella NaijaPresident Goodluck Jonathan hosts President Dilma Rousseff of BrazilBella NaijaThe President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff yesterday paid a state visit to Nigeria at the invitation of President Goodluck Jonathan. Channels TV reports that the two ...

CHANNELSFG defences good governance tour, says it is not by forceWorldStageAbuja (WorldStage Newsonline)-- The Federal Government has defended the good governance tour recently condemned by Gov Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, saying that it is not about...

CHANNELSPaul C. McIlhenny, CEO of McIlhenny Company that makes Tabasco hot pepper ...Montreal GazetteAVERY ISLAND, La. - Paul C. McIlhenny, chief executive and chairman of the board of the McIlhenny Company that makes the trademarked line of Tabasco ho...

Kalu, Saraki, Bode George, Ribadu, others form new groupOsun Defenderatiku A new political group with membership drawn from the nation's crop of prominent politicians, has been formed. Chaired by the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kal...

Leadership NewspapersLagos Evicts 5000 Ijora Slum ResidentsLeadership NewspapersNo fewer than 5,000 residents of Iganmu Alawo community in Apapa Iganmu local council development area were yesterday rendered homeless as the Lagos State Taskforce on Envi...

The Elephant's CryLeadership NewspapersMarginalisation, in the Nigerian context, used to be associated with the Igbo alone. Now, every ethnic group that gets a chance to be heard doesn't forget to claim it. The entire north has not stopped cryi...

Leadership NewspapersNigeria, Brazil Sign MoU On CooperationThe Guardian NigeriaPRESIDENT Jonathan and his visiting Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, Saturday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) setting up the Nigeria-Brazil Bi-national Co...

Nigerian TribuneBloodbath in Taraba: Many killed, several injured •JTF kills 2 gunmen in KanoNigerian TribuneIT was an orgy of violence and death in Wukari, Taraba State, on Saturday, as a purported argument over a mosque degenerated into a bloodbath...

spyghana.com10 Killed And Two Injured By Gunmen In Plateau Statespyghana.comUnknown gunmen stormed Kogwom village in Vom district of Jos south local government area, Plateau State, killing 10 individuals and leaving two others fatally injured. The gunm...

WorldStageDistribute Federal Government's flood–relief materials now: Akinjide tells Oyo govtWorldStageThe Honourable Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, on Saturday, made a passionate call to the Government...

spyghana.comCourt Gives Efcc 72-Hour Ultimatum To Declare Asset Recovered From Cecilia ...spyghana.comEFCC has been ordered to furnish an applicant with details of the properties recovered from Cecilia Ibru. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Frida...

Keep Police barracks, offices clean, says DIGDaily Times NigeriaSuleiman Fakai, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (A) Operations, has tasked the Kebbi Police Command to ensure proper environmental sanitation within the office premises and barracks. Th...

CHANNELSNigeria pulls radio's license after polio attacksAFPKANO, Nigeria — Nigeria has suspended the broadcasting license of a radio station that repeated conspiracy theories about polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics, a st...

HaaretzIran Denies Links With Spy Cell in NigeriaAllAfrica.comThe Islamic Republic of Iran has denied that it trained militants in Nigeria to carry out assassination and attacks on Israeli, American and Nigerian officials. Iran's Deputy Foreign Min...

National MirrorSSS, soldiers arrest seven suspected kidnappers in churchOsun Defenderkinap gang A cleric in Awkuzu, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State is now on the run after a combined team of operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) an...

Rape Trial: Ex-corps MemberLeadership NewspapersOba Adebukola Alli at an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo yesterday gave a vivid account of how he made love with a 23-year-old former member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) (names withh...

Nigerian TribuneWe can't prevent deaths in Nollywood —Ibinabo Fiberesima, AGN PresidentNigerian TribuneIbinabo Fiberesima is one of the popular actresses that rocked the Nigerian movie industry in the 90s. She was also a beauty queen. The soft-sp...

BusinessDayN55m budget bribe: Supreme Court orders Wabara, Osuji, others' re-trial within 7 ...BusinessDayThe Supreme Court on Friday ordered former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, to return to Abuja High Court within seven days to face trial on...

P.M. NewsOshiomhole stops oppressive rent payment by farmersP.M. NewsGovernor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, has moved to end what looked like modern day serfdom in Nigeria, after listening to the complaints by some farmers that they pay rent to a powe...

Hotel Receptionist Confesses Checking Cynthia's Killers In With Used ReceiptThe Guardian NigeriaAN Ikeja High Court in Lagos was Friday told by Miss Vivian Anueke, a receptionist at Cosmilla Hotel, Lagos where Facebook girl, Cynthia Osokogu was mur...

Leadership NewspapersEducation Minister cautions new VCs on corruptionDaily Times NigeriaThe Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'I has pleaded with the three new vice chancellors and registrar to see their post as opportunity to serve ...

Nigerian Entertainment Today'How I recovered my stolen car' – Joseph BenjaminNigerian Entertainment TodayNollywood actor, Joseph Benjamin, has applauded Mansard Insurance Plc, for helping to recover his stolen car. Last Sunday evening, armed ...

Operatives rescue 3 kidnap victimsNews24Awka - A joint team of operatives of the State Security Service (SSS), and the Nigerian Army have rescued three kidnap victims from a shrine in Anambra. Mr Alexander Okeiyi, the Director of SSS in Anambra, said t...

BusinessDayNigeria set to host Ecowas Sports Ministers in AbujaBusinessDayNigeria is to play host to Ministers of Sports of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) region at Abuja next Tuesday to discuss issues bordering on sports develo...

Leadership NewspapersPDP says Jonathan will return in 2015News24Abuja - The Peoples Democratic Party has said that President Goodluck Jonathan would return to office in 2015, Punch reports. The party said the return of President Jonathan in 2015 would ...

BusinessDayGood governance tour not FG's programme, but governors – MakuBusinessDayInformation Minister, Labaran Maku, has said that the Good Governance Media Tour is not a Federal Government's programme, but that of the 36 states' govern...

BusinessDayFG pledges more cities as Eko Atlantic City achieves 5m/sqm landBusinessDayThe Federal Government has said that more cities will be built across the country in the next few years in recognition of their potential for economic growth. Some of...

Leadership NewspapersGovs' coup: Plot to sack Amaechi as NGF's chair failsOsun DefenderRotimi-Amaechi-2308 The cold war in the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) over leadership assumed a new twist on Wednesday in Abuja as a plot to remove Riv...

CHANNELSAPC raises manifesto, constitution committeesOsun Defenderapc governors The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday inaugurated its manifesto and constitution committees in Abuja. It also raised INEC-Legal and Constitutional Compliance Commit...

P.M. NewsNJC Recommends Justices Archibong, Naron for RetirementTHISDAY LiveThe National Judicial Council (NJC) Thursday suspended Justices Charles Archibong of the Federal High Court and T. D. Naron of High Court of Justice, Plateau State and recommen...

AllAfrica.comFG warns varsities on honorary degreesNigerian TribuneTHE Federal Government, on Thursday, warned universities in the country not to turn the award of honorary degrees or fellows to chieftaincy affairs. The government also blamed the rot a...

Leadership NewspapersArmy displays 14586 surrendered arms, bombs in WarriNigerian TribuneNO fewer than 14, 586 weapons of mass distruction surrendered by ex-militants in Delta State were displayed by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Thursday at 3 Battali...

Leadership NewspapersArmy displays 14586 surrendered arms, bombs in WarriNigerian TribuneNO fewer than 14, 586 weapons of mass distruction surrendered by ex-militants in Delta State were displayed by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Thursday at 3 Battali...