Year: 2015
Niger calls for national protest against Boko Haram
Niger’s ruling coalition on Thursday called for a national day of protest against Boko Haram following repeated attacks from the…
Saudi beheads 29th offender in six weeks
Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a convicted Pakistani drug smuggler, bringing to 29 the number of executions in the first…
Female suicide bomber attacks Borno market, kills 7
At least seven people were killed on Thursday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded market…
Boko Haram bombs police station, fails suicide bombing attack
Boko Haram insurgents bombed a police station in northeast Nigeria, as the Islamists pressed on with attacks despite a multinational…
Hazard signs new Chelsea deal
Belgian international midfielder Eden Hazard has signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract with Chelsea, the Premier League leaders confirmed on Thursday.…
Da Peez’ releases new video
Fast-rising hip-hop artistes, the Jolar brothers; Taiye Peter Jolar and Kenny Paul Jolar, popularly known as ‘DA PREEZ’ have released…
NLC Election Ends In Chaos
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) elections which started on Wednesday night ended in chaos Thursday morning with suspected thugs breaking…
Nigeria Ranked 112 In World Press Freedom Index
Nigeria has moved up four points in its ranking in the global press freedom index and is now ranked 112th.…
Eagles Slight Move On FIFA Ranking
Nigeria moved up one place in the latest FIFA rankings of Men’s national football teams though the Super Eagles failed…
N10.5m Judgment Debt: Court To Rule On PDP’s Appeal
Henry Ojelu A Lagos High Court Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye will on February 16, 2015, rule on the application by…
Boko Haram: HRW Warns Forces Against Right Abuse
Henry Ojelu Human Rights Watch, HRW has cautioned the African forces responding to the growing threat from Boko Haram with…
Inquest Has Exceeded Its Jurisdiction —Synagogue
Henry Ojelu The Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, today claimed that Mr Oyetade Komolafe, the coroner investigating the collapse…
Tension As FERMA Taskforce Takes Over Traffic Control
Kazeem Ugbodaga There was tension at the old tollgate on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Thursday morning as a large number of FERMA/SURE-P…
Yoruba’ll Secede If Democracy Fails —Afenifere
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has said Yoruba nation would opt out of Nigeria if the current democratic…
Parties Woo Voters With Customised Phones
Jamiu Yisa As the clock ticks towards next month’s general elections, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and opposition All…
If We Don’t Kill Corruption, It Will Kill Us —Buhari
Eromosele Ebhomele Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday night noted that the high rate of…
Table Tennis: Quadri, Toriola For Lagos ITTF World Tour
Top Nigerian stars are lined up to participate in this year’s International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour tagged Lagos…
Dealing With The Cancer Scourge
By Bilikis Bakare Cancer, also known as malignant neoplasm and the most feared word and disease in the world, is…
Endorsement By Afenifere In Bad Taste
By Odunayo Joseph Considering the reckoning of the sophistication of Yoruba in the political evolution of Nigeria both at national…
CAF And The Shame Of AFCON 2015
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Unknown to many enthusiastic football fans across the African continent, the much anticipated African Cup of Nation…
No To UN Peacekeeping In Nigeria
Reports of the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General to West Africa to Abuja indicate that the…
Polls Shift: NANS Protest, Vows To Hold Mock Election 14 Feb
Damilare Okunola The Lagos State Chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has declared its displeasure over the…
UNILORIN Students Angry Over Two-Day Break
Damilare Okunola Students of the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, Ilorin, Kwara state, north central Nigeria, have expressed their displeasure over…
Chinese families protest MH370 deaths statement in Malaysia
Chinese relatives of those on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 protested outside the carrier’s office on Thursday, demanding Malaysia…
Sage One Accounting storms African cloud market in partnership with MTN Business
The Sage One Accounting cloud software is now available in a number of major markets throughout sub Saharan Africa, following…
Egypt to retry Jazeera journalists despite outcry
Two Al-Jazeera journalists will face a retrial Thursday for allegedly supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood despite the global outcry over…
Qaeda seizes south Yemen army camp, 7 dead
Al-Qaeda militants overran an army camp in southern Yemen Thursday following clashes that killed at least seven people, a local…
Hong Kong woman acquitted of attacking maid with a knife
A Hong Kong woman was acquitted Thursday of slicing into her maid’s finger with a knife, in the latest case…
I will inaugurate next President if I lose, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday assured that he would inaugurate the next President if he lost the 2015 Presidential Election.…
UN Security Council seeks to choke off Islamic State funds
The UN Security Council is set on Thursday to adopt a resolution aimed at choking off millions of dollars in…