Super Eagles’ Manager, Gernot Rohr has started monitoring home-based players with a view to giving outstanding performers the opportunity to fight for shirts in the national team. Rohr has been criticised by many stakeholders for neglecting home-based players in the composition…
Bamidele Akingbade, State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Abia, said that four men were arrested for illegally and secretly manufacturing Diazepam, a sleep-inducing anti-depressant drug. Akingbade disclosed this while taking newsmen round the drug production laboratory at Omenihu…
To liven the activities of the weekend, Legend extra Stout and 33 Export sponsored the New Afrika Shrine Carnival. The carnival, which held at the New Afrika Shrine Ikeja Lagos, played host to a wide array of music artistes who…
Man apprehended for stealing pants, bras in Lagos (Punch) Some residents of Ikeja area of Lagos State, on Thursday, apprehended a man for allegedly stealing bras and pants from where they were spread. It was learnt that some residents, who…
‘Biko, I cannot come and go and kill mysef’ – Oby Ezekwesili It came as a surprise today when former presidential candidate of the Allied Congress for Progressive Nigeria, Obiageli Ezekwesili withdrew from the presidential race. Her decision, it was…
Fire guts UAC building in Lagos (Punch) There was a fire outbreak at the UAC building at Marina, Lagos Island on Thursday. According to the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, the fire started at around 12:55pm. LASTMA added that emergency…
The House of Representatives has set in motion machinery for the approval of at least N27,000 as the new minion Thursday. Majority of the members are however advocating for N30,000. The House would receive representations from the 36 State Governors…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has faulted the withdrawal of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria’s presidential candidate, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, from the race based on constitutional provisions. The Commission said it is impossible for any presidential candidate to…
A Lagos High Court yesterday heard how a lawyer, Udeme Otike-Odibi, cut off the manhood of her husband, Symphorosa, after hitting him on the head with a frying-pan on May 3, last year. Testifying in the trial of Udeme for…
Dillian Whyte has been offered over £4million to fight Anthony Joshua at Wembley, according to Eddie Hearn. The Matchroom promoter has been scrambling to find an opponent for Joshua for his April fight night, with Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury…
