Year: 2012
Boko Haram: JTF seizes 11 rifles
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe, north eastern Nigeria on Sunday recovered 11 rifles in Kandahar Area of Damaturu,…
Osun state women protest ritual killings
Women in their hundreds on Sunday protested in Osogbo, capital of Nigeria’s state of Osun against increase in the activities…
Achebe, Kanu, Chukwumerije honored
The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) in Enugu on Sunday conferred an award titled “The Great Igbo Icon’’ on Prof. Chinua…
Akin George, Aero MD bows out
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s second biggest airline, announced on Sunday night that its Managing Director, Captain Akin George,…
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s mother kidnapped
Emerging reports said Professor Kamene Okonjo, the mother of Nigeria’s finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been kidnapped by armed men.…
Ghana’s election: Opposition alleges fraud, protests
Ghana’s main opposition party on Sunday alleged a “pattern of fraud” in the country’s tight presidential election, saying it had…
Nigeria nabs 28 terror suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria have renewed raid on hideouts of terrorists recording 28 arrests within the…
Nigeria: Type one wild polio reported in Abuja
The Primary Health Care Development Board (PHCDB) of Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja said that a case of type-one wild…
Man taunts Polish ‘miracle’ Virgin Mary icon
Polish police detained a 58-year-old man on Sunday after he threw an object at the country’s Black Madonna of Czestochowa,…
Lagos Traffic Law: 3 sentenced to community service
Lagos government has bared its fangs on its much flouted Traffic Law by commercial motorcyclists in the state. In these…
Nigerian Mullahs force VP Sambo out of daughters’ wedding
It was a double wedding that attracted the movers and shakers of Nigeria and at least 10 state governors. And…
Ghana election: Mahama set to edge out Akufo-Addo
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama held a slim lead over presidential election rival Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday with nearly all…
Oyo opens Technical University 2013
The first set of students will be admitted into Nigeria’s new Technical University next September, increasing Nigeria’s universities to over…
Ex-Oyo state governor Olunloyo joins ACN
A former governor of Oyo state, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo and former chairman of Ibadan South west Local, Alhaji Tajudeen Ajibade,…
After army threat, Egyptian leader Morsi backs down
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi backed down Saturday night in a political crisis marked by weeks of street protests, after the…