A woman has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill her husband by hiring gangsters who turned out to be police officers from the Flying Squad Unit. Faith Wairimu Maina admitted before senior principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that she wanted to get rid of John Muthee Guama, her husband of 16 years and father of their two children, as a [...]

Prospective corps members of the 2013 Batch ‘B’ cadre have been asked to check their posting and collect their call up letters from today (20/10/2013) at their respective universities. Foreign trained Nigerian graduates are to collect their call up letter from the NYSC secretariats they indicated on their mobilization forms. Those deployed to Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are to report [...]

A former commissioner in Ondo State, Ogunbadejo Kolawole, has raised alarm following alleged discovery of fetish objects in the apartment of the state House of Assembly member, Hon. Fola Olasehinde. Ogunbadejo said the scary items in the twin-duplex at No. 6, Olasehinde Lane, Ijapo Estate, Akure, was occupied by Olasehinde since 2009.Fetish objects allegedly found included amulets, snail shells, live [...]

  Four suspected members of a cult group and a security man at a private polytechnic in Ekiti State have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a student of the institution. The rape victim (name withheld), who is an ND 1 student of the polytechnic, told us at the Ekiti State Police Command headquarters in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday that the [...]

A woman, Mrs. Nike Adekunle, who bit her neighbour in the eye during fighting at their Idi-Araba, Mushin residence, has been arraigned before the Ijeshatedo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos southwest Nigeria, for assault. The incident happened at 5, Shittu Street, NEPA Bus Stop, Idi-Araba, Mushin where they reside as tenants. The accused was alleged to have engaged her co-tenant, Mrs. Fatimo [...]

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on Wednesday shunned the inauguration of the South-South Zonal Secretariat of the Women for Change and Development Initiative by the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Apart from the governor and his wife, other top officials of the Rivers State government also boycotted the occasion which was held in Port Harcourt, [...]

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned the presidency’s hysterical reaction to the recent speech at the British African Diaspora Conference in London by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing as unnecessary and diversionary the name calling and personal attacks against the ACN leader. And that the presidency should tell Nigerian Nigerians whether indeed the poverty level in the country [...]

Doctors treating Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State in the United States have told his family and the state government footing his medical bills the governor cannot return to normal state of mental health that would enable him to function as a governor. Mr. Suntai first received treatment at the famous John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, before moving [...]

Residents from various parts of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have been coming to catch a glimpse of a baby allegedly born with a miniature Quran at 9, Oguntade Street, Shasha area of the state. Incidents like these are scientifically impossible, but residents of the area say it is true even though some of them confessed that they did not see [...]

The Nigerian military said Wednesday that it has arrested eight of the suspected insurgents who launched deadly attacks since the weekend in the northeast in which more than a dozen students were killed. “Eight of the terrorists who perpetrated the mayhem during the weekend have been apprehended at the outskirt of Maiduguri,” the spokesman of the defence headquarters, Brigadier General [...]

A 400 level Electrical Enginering student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, this morning  gave birth to  a baby boy inside  a toilet  at Moremi Hall. The lady named Oyin (surname withheld) successful self delivered the baby and then attempted to flush the baby down the water close,t but she was caught in the act by hall cleaners of the [...]

A power generating firm, Geometric Power System, owned by former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji will begin generation and distribution of power in Aba next month. Prof. Barth Nnaji, Chairman of the firm said, necessary arrangements have been concluded for the power company to take off. Nnaji explained that distribution of electricity from the power plant will be carried [...]