POLICE authorities in Kwara State have begun investigations to unravel how a 25-year-old man died somewhat mysteriously after he engaged in a fight with a primary school teacher in Ilorin, the state capital.

The deceased, simply identified as...

A GROUP of human rights organisations under the aegis of Concerned Human Rights Nigeria, has appealed to the Lagos State government to lift the restriction it placed on the operation of commercial tricycle operators also called Keke Marwa in some...

A THREE-STOREY building, located at No. 353, Challenge Road, off Amu Street, Mushin, Lagos Tuesday collapsed at about 2.35p.m.

Several persons were trapped in the residential building, which caved in after a heavy downpour. However, the number of...

RESIDENTS of Rano community in Rano Local Council have appealed to the government to rescue them from untold hardship caused by heavy windstorm, which rendered them homeless.

About 300 families were subjected to homelessness about two weeks ago...

‘I REALLY have cause to thank God because since I was born, I have laughed more than I have cried. I have also triumphed more than I have been challenged”.

With these words, wife of Ekiti State Governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, who turned 50...

• Lagos Islamic scholar narrates ordeal in the hands of adversaries

BUT for the special grace of God and the fact that he was not at home when the gun marauders invaded his home on Biome Street, Ijaiye Ojokoro, Lagos, the founder of Morikaz...

A TWENTY-TWO YEAR-OLD man, Cyril Okosun, was Monday remanded in Benin Prison, along Sapele Road, for allegedly bathing his girlfriend, Blessing Ikhumuhi with acid.

The order was given at Ikpoba Okha Area Customary Court sitting at Idogbo.

The...

A YOUTH GROUP on Lagos Island, popularly known as Isale Eko, Ajia Ijesha Boys’ Club, recently staged its second edition of Jersey Carnival.

With the area devoid of the buzz of traders and shoppers due to the public holiday declared by the...

FOREMOST baby making factory, the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, Lagos, established in 1959, clocked 54, on May 13, this year.

Getting the management of the hospital to speak since last month was not an easy task as The Guardian was first...

NO fewer than 28 public primary schools in Agege Local Council, Constituency II, Lagos, would benefit from an education support programme aimed at giving free writing materials to public school pupils.

The programme, an initiative of Lagos State...

THE United Nation Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos branch on Friday urged market men and women to help narrow the hunger gap and improve the wellbeing of the most vulnerable.

The Information Officer of UNIC, Lagos branch, Olajumoke Araba...

HAD a Boeing MD-83, operated by Dana Air, not crashed at Iju-Ishaga, a Lagos suburb on June 3, 2012, the community could have remained largely unknown.

The tragedy claimed the lives of 153 passengers, including crewmembers and six...

One year after the Dana Airline’s Boeing McDonnel MD-83 flight No. 992 crashed into Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State, killing all the 153 passengers and the crew on board, DEBO OLADIMEJI who visited the Iju- Ishaga Memorial Arcade Cenotaph...

It was a year on Monday whn the Dana Air plane crashed. Mr. Emmaunel Abugu, a brother to Dr. Ike Abugu, one of the victims of the crash, spoke with VICTOR OLUSHOLA  on how the family has been bearing the irreparable loss.

WHEN you heard...

AFTER 50 years on the drawing board, the Zungeru Hydro-electricity Dam, expected to generate about 700MW of electricity to the national grid, has finally taken off with the ground breaking ceremony by the President Goodluck Jonathan in a colourful...

• Donates fertilizer, yam seedlings, cassava stems, others

The philanthropic and humanitarian gestures of Anambra businessman, Dr. Obinna Uzoh, resonated again recently, when he made donations to farmers in the state as well as promised to...