Tag: Nigeria
Lagos-Ibadan gridlock: use alternative routes – FRSC to road users.
Following a massive gridlock caused by a fuel-laden tanker that fell and spilt its content around the Ibafo area of Ogun State, Nigeria in the early [...]
Nigerian police rescue 58 kidnap victims
Police in Nigeria say they have rescued 58 people who had been abducted and held hostage by criminal gangs in central Kogi state.
It was not clear [...]
SOUTH AFRICA – First of three Johannesburg-based Nigerian ‘fraudsters’ extradited to US
Three Nigerians who lived it up on a luxury estate on Johannesburg's West Rand now face the possibility of 20-year jail sentences in a US prison afte [...]
Ike Ekweremadu: Organ-trafficking plot politician and wife jailed
A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and their "middleman" have been jailed for an organ-trafficking plot, after bringing a man to the UK from Lag [...]
Nigerian biochemists to begin test-treatment for HIV cure
The association said it was awaiting approval from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to launch the main treat [...]
Tinubu promises to fight corruption, protect Nigerian judges from vices
Nigerian President-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, pledged that his administration would put incentives and policies in place to make corruption unatt [...]
Ex Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Wife Found Guilty of Organ Trafficking to UK
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, his wife and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the fir [...]
Nigeria Train crash: Bus driver undergoes psychiatric, drug tests; begs for forgiveness
The driver of the Lagos State Government Staff bus who was blamed for the incident that led to a train colliding with a bus at the PWD/ Shogunle rail [...]
Search continues for missing after Nigeria boat disaster
The search continues for missing passengers of a boat that capsized on Tuesday in Nigeria's north-western Kebbi state.
Rescuers and divers have be [...]
Bolanle Raheem killing: Nigerian police officer suspended
Nigeria's police chief has ordered the suspension of an officer who allegedly shot dead a female lawyer in the main city Lagos on Christmas Day.
D [...]