Year: 2013
Taraba Speaker Dead
The Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Haruna Tsokwa, is dead. He died in the early hours of…
Kenya: 4 charged with Westgate Mall attack
Kenya charged four men Monday in connection with the Westgate mall massacre in September, an attack claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked…
Bayern boss Hoeness to face trial on tax charges
Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness will face trial next March on charges he hid millions of euros from tax authorities…
Hospitals rejecting accident victims to face sanctions
Nigeria's Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has threatened to sanction any hospital that refuses to attend to accident victims, especially…
Police stop Abuja Meeting of PDP Governors
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja A detachment of policemen from the Asokoro, Federal Capital Territory of the Nigeria Police on Sunday evening barged…
PDP sweeps Enugu council polls
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the 17 chairmanship and 260 councillorship seats in the local government elections…
Stampede tragedy: Obi declares 3 days of mourning
Gov. Peter Obi of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra, has declared three days of mourning in honour of the…
Mike Akhigbe’s body arrives in Lagos
The remains of late Nigerian Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe, arrived in Lagos on Sunday from the U.S. in a British…
Nigerian students observe solar eclipse in Abuja
No fewer than 500 students of public and private schools across Nigeria on Sunday observed the partial solar eclipse at…
Report: South African mob kills 5 suspected criminals
Five alleged criminals including a witch doctor were killed by an enraged South African mob in a township on Sunday,…
Witnesses recount gory attack on wedding convoy
Witnesses and survivors have recounted how gunmen, believed to be Boko Haram members, attacked a wedding convoy in Nigeria’s northeastern…
Jonathan to meet with ASUU leaders Monday
After a four-month stand-off, President Goodluck Jonathan himself will take charge of talks with the striking members of the Academic…
Shekau in new video, claims leading Damaturu attack
Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau said in a video released Sunday that he led an October 24 attack in…
Air France/KLM gives conditions for Alitalia investment
Air France-KLM has laid out strict conditions for further investment in Italy’s troubled Alitalia airline, including the culling of 5,000…
False Alarm Caused Anambra Stampede — Cleric
The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha Diocese, in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, has attributed the…