Year: 2013
4 killed, 67 injured in New York train accident
NEW YORK, (AFP) – On a day that Americans ended Thanksgiving, a train hurtled off the tracks in a New…
Nigeria turns back UK plane carrying deported Nigerian
A Nigerian asylum seeker believed to be near death from a hunger strike is back in Britain despite losing his…
Pastor Bakare absent at church’s thanksgiving
Folarin Ademosu Fiery clergy and Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Ogba, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, today, 1 December,…
Sex worker arrested for stealing gold chain and hiding it in her vagina
Dedeigbo Ayodeji\Emmanuel Udom Police detectives attached to the anti-robbery squad of the Lagos State Police Command, western Nigeria, have arrested…
Catholics will go to hell, says Chris Okotie
Simon Ateba/Lagos All Catholics in the world will go to hell because they worship Satan and are led by an…
Moral issues raised over Lagos Chief Judge’s book launch.
Henry Ojelu In the last two months, two books have been launched on the achievement of the Lagos Chief Judge,…
I have not left APC, says Belgore
Stephen Oni,Ilorin The governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria,ACN,in the central Nigerian state of Kwara, Mohammed Dele…
Opeyemi Bamidele dumps APC for Labour Party
•It’s A Welcome Development, says Ekiti APC Jamiu Yisa A Member of the House of Representatives and governorship aspirant in…
Deji of Akure is dead
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday commiserated with Governor Olusegun Mimiko, and the people of Akure and Ondo State, western Nigeria,…
APC condemns military-style ultimatum to ASUU
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed Nigeria’s Federal Government for issuing a sack threat against striking university teachers, saying…
For Ghana’s Mahama, the charm in recession
Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama charmed voters last year with his common touch, but 12 months on some are questioning…
Editor remanded in custody over rape allegations
A news magazine editor in India, Tarun Tejpal was remanded in custody on Sunday after appearing in court on allegations…
PSquare, Banky W, Wizkid Win Big At 2013 Channel O Awards
FUNSHO AROGUNDADE/Johannesburg Nigeria’s top singers, PSquare, Banky W and Wizkid did their country proud as they shone brightly last night…
Enslaved at sea for years, fishermen abandoned without pay
Dozens of Indonesian fishermen who spent months stranded in Cape Town’s harbour, sleeping in cramped and suffocating quarters, have been…
India’s spacecraft begins journey to Mars
BANGALORE(AFP) – India’s first mission to Mars left Earth’s orbit Sunday, successfully entering the second phase of its journey that…