An apprentice tailor in Lagos, Adenike Fatai, has killed herselfbarely three months after her boyfriend, Bayo Atanda, reportedly diedof suicide. Fatai, who hailed from Kwara State, reportedly took a poisonoussubstance suspected to be sniper around 8.30 pm, last Thursday. The 25-year-old woman lived with her mother on Igbekele Street, …

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday said there were saboteurs and fifth columnists working against the plan of the Federal Government to develop the country. The Vice President made the claim at St Luke’s Anglican Church, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State during the burial of Mrs. Moroluke Fakoyede, mother of …

BBC   About 70 percent of prison inmates in Nigeria have not been proven guilty by the court as prescribed by law, Kano State’s Programme Officer, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), Katume Mohammed, has said. She spoke at a media capacity building seminar organized by the NGO in Kano …

  Kidnappings seem to have spread to Abuja in the past month after several people were reportedly abducted in different parts of the city. The most recent was on Kwame Nkrumah Crescent outside Blinkers Plaza in Asokoro on September 14, where Aisha Umar Ado, a 24-year-old daughter of a former …

Damilola Banjo Damilola Banjo   A young Nigerian investigative journalist, Damilola Banjo, has been shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation’s 2019 Young Journalist Award. Banjo’s investigation into the massive corruption in Lagos State schools and a four-part, in-depth feature on the banditry in Zamfara State were two of the stories the award’s …

Facebook’s 22.4millon Nigerian users will see some of the applications they are used to suspended or removed, as the firm continues to improve its privacy status.  In a blog post seen by the GuardianUK, the United States-based social platform, said it had suspended tens of thousands of apps from just 400 …

Pills, beverages, food seasonings and other items produced with components from cassava, are likely to witness spike in prices.  This is the submission of Managing Director of Crest Agro, an indigenous cassava processing firm, Tunde Solaja. He, however, held that the forex restriction on by-products of the abundantly produced tuber will …

Zungeru Hydro Electricity Zungeru Hydro Electricity PM NEWS The order of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission that electricity generated by the country’s hydro plants should be fully utilised, will lead to a reduction in the maximisation of power produced by gas-heated plants.  This is according to the Executive Secretary of …

Players in the finance sector say they are unsure of the thinking behind the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to effect N50 per N1,000 transaction online. In two circulars, which became effective on Tuesday and Wednesday, the apex bank placed levies on withdrawals and deposits into money deposit banks— a …

Kehinde Musa, a 25-year-old man, has killed himself after he was dumped by his girlfriend for another man. According to the spokesperson for the police in Lagos, Bala Elkana, Musa allegedly drank a popular insecticide after sending a suicide note to the said lady. He said, “At about 6:30p,m Surulere …