Year: 2016
Fear of demolition grips Port Harcourt residents
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Palpable fear has gripped residents of slums located in over 40 waterfronts in Port Harcourt, the Rivers…
Consumers groan as bread price goes up
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Consumers of bread in Rivers State are groaning following 20 percent increase in the price by the…
NFF choses Le Guen as new Super Eagles coach
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has chosen Paul Le Guen, as the new Super Eagles coach. According to multiple reports,…
Court vacates order sealing National Hospital, Abuja
A Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday vacated the order which sealed the National Hospital Abuja. The National…
Man remanded for raping 23-year-old girl
A 23-year-old man, Bright Gbarane, charged with rape of a 23-year-old girl, was on Wednesday remanded in prison custody by…
Indonesia set to execute convict from Nigeria
Indonesia plans to execute this year at least two foreign convicts, one from Nigeria and another from Zimbabwe, the attorney…
3 remanded for killing commercial motorcyclist
Three unemployed men, who allegedly shot and killed a 27-year-old commercial motorcyclist, were on Wednesday remanded in prison by a…
Former Burundi minister Hafsa Mossi killed
Former Burundi minister for East African Community (EAC) affairs Hafsa Mossi has been shot dead by unknown gunmen outside her…
New NPA boss advised to ensure passage of Ports & Harbour Bill
The Chairman, Port Consultative Council (PCC), Chief Kunle Folarin, on Wednesday advised the new Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority…
Lagos taskforce arrests fake army officer
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Task Force has arrested a man who claimed to be a Second Lieutenant in the…
Street hawking: Ohuabunwa tasks LASG on youth employment
Chief Sam Ohuabunwa, a former Managing Director, Neimeth Plc, has advised the Lagos Government to reconsider its impending clampdown on…
Army, Police, ready to combat militants in Cross River
The Nigerian Army has assured of its readiness in checking activities of militants in the creeks of Akpabuyo and Bakassi…
Microbiologist identifies 9 causes of infectious diseases
A virologist, Prof. Sunday Omilabu, has identified nine factors for the emergence and re-emergence of communicable and infectious diseases in…
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Theresa May takes over as British Prime Minister
Theresa May will take over the job of British prime minister from David Cameron on Wednesday and form a government…
Man dies while trying to take selfie with wild elephant
A man was killed in southern Nepal as he tried to take a selfie with a wild elephant, Parsa Wildlife…
Go back to work, PENGASSAN tells members
The Nigerian union representing oil workers has agreed to suspend a strike that some feared would lead to fuel shortages…
Hollande’s haircuts set French social media alight
French social media was abuzz with suggestions of novel haircuts for Francois Hollande on Wednesday after it emerged that the…
Stop killings by herdsmen – WAC-R2P
Kazeem Ugbodaga Worried by recent killings by herdsmen in Nigeria, the West Africa Responsibility to Protect Coalition (WAC-R2P) has called…
AFN names 25 females, 11 males for Rio Olympics
No fewer than 36 athletes have been selected by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) to represent the country at…
National Para-Soccer League: Team Lagos ready for gold
Some Lagos State Para-Soccer players on Tuesday said they had stepped up their preparations in order to excel at the…
2016 Hajj: Board to begin orientation for intending pilgrims
The FCT Muslims Pilgrims Welfare Board on Wednesday said it would soon commence the orientation for the 2016 intending pilgrims.…
Army confirms casualty figure in Kangarwa attack
The Nigerian Army said 25 bodies of Boko Haram terrorists had been recovered after Troops of 119 Task Force Battalion…
EKSU student loses leg to Ekiti crash
Yesterday, Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, declared a three-day statewide prayer for the repose of the souls of the six…
Gov. Bello decries NLC strike in Niger
The Niger Government has described as unfortunate the strike embarked by the civil servants, saying that the action is inimical…
FIRS shuts AMG Petroleum over N27m tax debt
In continuation of its tax enforcement exercise, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Tuesday, sealed off the office of…
Nigeria must sustain Polio-free status – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Health, and Information and Culture, to deepen their collaboration with state…
FG not aware of Siasia, Dream Team trip to USA- Dalung
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, on Tuesday, distanced himself from the Olympic Games pre-tournament tour of…
US Government has no fraud information on Aisha Buhari
The United States government says it has no information on the alleged crimes committed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha.…
Senator Dino Melaye lied over Saharareporters, Tinubu
Saharareporters report on the threat by Senator Dino Melaye to beat and ‘impregnate’ the wife of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
APC will lose Rivers re-run, even if Oyegun conducts election-Wike
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has boasted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will lose the…