Year: 2015
Court convicts 95 sanitation offenders
Two Mobile Courts sitting in Benin on Saturday convicted 95 people for various sanitation offences in the state monthly environmental…
Plane carrying 224 passengers crashes in Sinai
A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Saturday in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said. A “Russian…
VIDEO: Nigeria too broke, cannot afford 36 ministers – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has dropped hints that his government would prune the number of ministries in the government bureaucracy because…
UNAIDS adopts new strategy to end AIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Programme Coordinating Board on Friday adopted a new strategy to end the…
Survivors’ Stories: Documenting the human cost of Boko Haram
Ibrahim fled his home in Gwoza, northeast Nigeria, in August last year, when invading Boko Haram fighters took over the…
Spanish coast guard abandons search for 35 missing migrants
Spain’s coast guard said Friday it has called off the search for 35 migrants missing at sea after their boat…
S.Africa launches insider trading probe over MTN’s Nigeria fine
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange launched Friday an investigation into mobile giant MTN for “possible insider trading” before the South African…
Kenya yields dip, Nigeria’s to rise as offshore investors sell
Yields on Kenyan Treasury bills are likely to dip again next week, while rates on Nigerians paper were expected to…
Third Term: Obama ejects Burundi from Africa trade pact
President Barack Obama announced Friday that Burundi will be ejected from a pact offering African nations much-desired US market access,…
Emir Sanusi after graveyard of past emirs, says Bayero’s lawyer
Counsel to Alhaji Salim Bayero, the Kano prince who took Emir Muhammadu Sanusi to court has explained that the Emir…
False Assets Declaration: Orubebe to be arraigned before CCT
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Peter Orubebe will be arraigned at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over allegations…
US to send special forces to Syria, powers divided on Assad
Vienna (AFP) – The United States announced Friday its first sustained deployment of ground troops to Syria to help the…
Bye election: Army restricts movement in Borno
The Nigerian Army on Friday imposed a restriction movement of persons during Saturday’s Borno Central Senatorial bye election in the…
Lagos will implement policies to resolve ICT challenges, says Ambode
Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos state on Friday said government was planning to implement policies in ICT sector to make…
Nine persons jailed 42 years for illegal oil bunkering
Justice O.E Abang of the Federal High Court Lagos today sentenced seven illegal oil dealers to 10 years each in…
Drama as 34 senior officers retire from Customs
There’s been mild drama at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) following the retirement of 34 senior officers on Thursday in…
21,105 cases pending in Edo Courts – Chief Judge
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Cromwell Idahosa Friday disclosed that no fewer than 21,105 civil and…
Kano govt shuts college over sexual child abuse
Kano State Government has ordered immediate closure of boys section of Hassan Ibrahim Gwarzo College, Kano, over recent media report…
High Court to Emir Sanusi: Don’t tamper or demolish palace structure
A High Court in Kano on Friday restrained the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, from demolishing or tempering…
Swear-in ministers immediately, DPC tells Buhari
The Democratic People’s Congress (DPC) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately swear in his ministers following successful screening and…
Eto’o raises funds for Boko Haram victims
Africa’s most decorated footballer Samuel Eto’o has appealed for funding to help people escaping violence in Nigeria and Cameroon and…
Umar tasks Lagos State civil servants
Workers in Lagos State employ have been charged to continue to discharge their responsibilities with high level of commitment for…
Stop whining, rebrand or go down – APC tells PDP
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the communique issued by the PDP National Caucus on the so-called political developments…
Traffic offence: 2 drivers sentenced to 60 hours of community service
An Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on Friday sentenced two drivers to 60 hours of community service for obstructing…
Africa the ‘new China’ when it comes to appetite for retail
The African continent is experiencing rapid retail expansion, and is being compared to China in 1987 when it was predicated…
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Nigeria gives MTN two weeks to pay $5.2bn fine
Nigeria’s telecoms regulator on Friday gave MTN Group two weeks to pay a $5.2 billion fine imposed on Africa’s biggest…
Trader wins over N6m on Winners Golden Bet
A seller of building materials, Chigozie Ubaka Prince, has won the sum of N6,480,900 on the coupon of Winners Golden…
Cross River: Six arrested for selling two-week old baby for N19,800
Six people have been arrested in south-eastern Nigeria for allegedly selling a two-week old baby. Police in Cross River state…
Adebutu ‘Baba Ijebu’ donates N50m e-library to Baptist Academy
Chief Kessington Adebutu on Friday described the donation of a N50 million e-library to the Baptist Academy, Obanikoro, Lagos State,…
Farmers told to access CBN intervention fund
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Lagos on Friday advised members to develop agri-business proposals to access the…