Tankers evacuated from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway after causing much gridlock on Wednesday Hundreds of motorists and commuters on Wednesday wasted hours in gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway following an accident involving two tankers, at Ibafo in Ogun. The tankers loaded…
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125 LOOTERS ARRESTED IN LAGOS, IGP ORDERS SECURITY BEEF-UP AT EMBASSIES
No fewer than 125 looters have been arrested by the police in Lagos in connection with destruction of properties owned by South Africans in the wake of Xenophobic attack on Nigerians in South Africa. The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu,…
Read MoreONDO GOVERNMENT TO SEND RELIEF MATERIALS TO COMMUNITIES HIT BY FLOOD
The Ondo State Government has said that it would send relief materials to communities affected by a recent flood in the state. Deputy Governor of the state, Agboola Ajayi, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Idanre during an inspection of…
Read MoreUS JUDGE SAVES NIGERIA FROM PAYING ANOTHER HEFTY FINE
A District Judge in New York, United States, has decided against enforcing a $1.8bn 2011 arbitration against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Nigeria is faced with a $9bn arbitration award, which accumulates $1m in interests daily, on a breached…
Read MoreAIR PEACE TO EVACUATE NIGERIANS FROM SOUTH AFRICA FOR FREE
he Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Air Peace Airlines has volunteered to send an aircraft to South Africa from Friday, September 6, to evacuate Nigerians who wish to return to the country, free of charge. According to a…
Read MoreVIDEO: NIGERIANS LOOT LAGOS NOVARE MALL PRETENDING TO AVENGE XENOPHOBIA
A Nigerian has provided a shocking video of the looting of one of the biggest malls in Lagos, the Novare at Sangotedo, Lekki Lagos. Some Nigerians who went there on Tuesday, claiming they were protesting against the attacks against Nigerians…
Read MoreGUNMEN SCATTER KOGI PDP GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARY
The governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kogi state ended abruptly in the early hours of Wednesday when gunmen invaded the Lokoja Confluence Stadium, the venue of the election. Voting had ended and sorting of votes was going…
Read More£50,000 BOOKER PRIZE: NIGERIAN NOVELIST, CHIGOZIE OBIOMA, SHORTLISTED AGAIN
Chigozie Obioma Chigozie Obioma, whose 2015 first novel, The Fishermen, was shortlisted for The Booker Prize, is again on this year’s shortlist of six novels with his second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities. The other novels on the shortlist announced…
Read MoreBUHARI GOVT. FINDS SILVER BULLET TO SHOOT DOWN $9.6B P&ID CLAIM
Muhammadu Buhari: His government may have found a silver bullet against P&ID’s $9.6b claim The Buhari administration may have found a silver bullet to shoot down the $9.6billion world record claim against Nigeria’s assets by Irish company Process and Industrial…
Read MoreXENOPHOBIA: NIGERIANS TO PROTEST AT SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSION THURSDAY
Irked by the killings of their compatriots in South Africa, a group largely made up of young people, has perfected plans to stage a massive protest at the South African High Commission in Abuja on Thursday, September 5. The protest…
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