As part of plans to make Lagos State a hub for innovation and technology, Lagos State Governor on Friday, presented a seed fund of Two Hundred and Fifty Million naira to Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC). LASRIC is a Lagos State institution in charge of research with the responsibility of boosting innovation and technology in the State. ...

Islamic State released a video purporting to show its militants beheading ten Christian men in Nigeria, saying it was part of a campaign to avenge the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and its spokesman. The militant group posted the footage on its online Telegram news channel on Thursday, the day after Christmas, with Arabic captions but no audio. ...

…gives reasons why El-Zakzaky was not released  The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Friday that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria,  Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, were not released because they were being prosecuted by a state government. The Punch reports that Malami said this in a statement ...

“It is not only that nothing has changed concerning the gross lopsidedness in the promotions and postings in the Nigeria Police Force statutorily carried out by the Police Service Commission and the Inspector General of Police, but it also saddens our heart that such public office gross misconduct or abuse  is deepening and getting messier,” the Int’l Society for Civil Liberties ...

Police in Ogun State have arrested a 37-year-old man, Mutiu Sonola, for allegedly beating his wife, Zainab Shotayo, to death on Christmas Day. The suspect was arrested on December 25 following a report by the father of the deceased, who reported the incident at the Ibara Division of the state Police Command. According to him, he had been called on ...

…you are an embarrassment, political misfit, Okah replies Obaseki Reconciliation appears foreclosed for warring members of the Edo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), with the state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki insisting that the National Chairman of the party and immediate past governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been suspended from the party. Besides, he announced that ...

The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday said that the Sagamu Interchange Bridge, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be temporarily closed from today. Mr Clement Oladele, the Ogun Sector Commander of the FRSC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the temporary closure was due to the damage caused by the two tankers that ...

The presidential candidate of the Mass Action Joint Alliance party, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has called on the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to give Nigerians a ‘New Year gift’ by ensuring the release of Miss Leah Sharibu from the captivity of Boko Haram. She stated that it was sad that the girl has still not been released since her abduction ...

Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibrin, has said the party will soon commence a high level consultation and search for credible candidate to fly its flag for the 2023 presidency. Walid, a Second Republic Senator who made this known while speaking with newsmen in Kaduna, also said every interested and eligible member of the ...

…Gov Commutes Three Death Sentences To Life Imprisonment, Sets Free Six Inmates In what can be described as rare gift for the Christmas season, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday signed two Executive Orders, with one commuting death sentences of three convicted inmates to life imprisonment and the other setting free six others. The two Orders; Executive Commutation of Death Sentence ...