All posts by: Ogunjobi Laide Aliu

  • Guard jailed four years for theft

    An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Thursday sentenced a security guard, Bulus Bulama, to four years’ imprisonment for stealing electronics equipment valued at N999, 000. M...

    Police foil plot to bomb Third Mainland Bridge

    The police have foiled an attempt  by a notorious  Niger Delta militant group operating from the creeks of Ikorodu and Arepo on the outskirts of Lagos and Ogun states to...

  • Nearly 20,000 migrants turned back from Germany in 2016

    German police are on track to turn away some 20,000 migrants this year at the country’s borders, airports and sea ports, local media reported on Wednesday. ...

    Three children die in Lagos fire

    Three children of the same parent have died after suffering severe burns from an inferno that razed their apartment in Ikotun Egbe area of Lagos on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria...

    Government under fire for N370b rise in recurrent spending

    • Stakeholders say vote negates cost reduction claimThe increase in recurrent expenditure by N370 billion in the 2017 budget is a contradiction of the Federal...

    Leicester to unveil Ndidi next week

    Super Eagles’ defender, Wilfred Ndidi, will travel to England on January 1 ahead of his unveiling by English Premier League champs, Leicester City. The former Nath Boys of Lagos ...

  • Police foil man’s attempt to kidnap two-year-old boy

    Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command at the weekend arrested Suleiman Seidu, 33, for allegedly attempting to kidnap a two-year...

    Wife stabs husband to death on Xmas Day

    This year’s Christmas will be remembered in a long time for some bizarre incidents that occurred on a day Nigerians should be celebrating the birth of Christ and end-of-year...

    NCAA fines Arik Air N6 million over baggage delays

    The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has issued a N 6million fine to Arik Air Limited for contravening the provisions of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations...

    City face series of ‘finals’, says Guardiola

    Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola believes that every game in the second half of the season will be like a cup final for his title hopefuls. An impressive and hard...

    Ibrahimovic won’t leave Man Utd a failure, vows Mourinho

    Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is looking forward to working with Zlatan Ibrahimovic again next season after declaring the striker’s contract extensi...

    OMG:Unidentified gunmen kill eight in Rivers, fear grips residents

    Unidentified gunmen suspected to be members of cult groups have killed no fewer than eight people in Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of...

    Kiss Daniel escapes death as robbers attack Christmas Village in Calabar

    It was chaos at the popular Christmas Village in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Christmas Day as armed robbers mobbed and robbed ven...

    Five-year old girl rescued from well

    The Lagos State Fire Service has rescued a five-year-old girl, Faith Onifade from an 80 feet deep well, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Director of Lagos State Fire ...

  • Senator Okpozo is dead

    A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, Senator Francis Okpozo is dead. Senator Okpozo died in Benin City on Monday night at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. Okpozo was the ...

    Why senators rejected Magu’s confirmation as EFCC boss, by Opadokun

    Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER) Convener Chief Ayo Opadokun has hinged Senate rejection of Ibrahim Magu’s confirmation as Econ...

    Olubadan to battle One million boys

    The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has vowed to fish out the famous “one million boys”, who recently unleashed terror on the city. The monarch said senior chiefs and mog...

    Alleged N25b scam: EFCC rejects ex-governor’s settlement terms

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) has rejected out-of-court settlement terms tabled by Senator Danjuma Goje and four others. The other...

    Obama cautions Trump: ‘There’s only 1 U.S. President at a time

    Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama has told incoming President Donald Trump to accept the fact that there is only one U.S. President at a time. Oba...

  • Policemen on guard at NBL’s burnt Lagos premises

    The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has redeployed about 100 policemen to the premises of the Nigerian Breweries Plc, Iganmu, Lagos where an earl...

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