Year: 2017
Chibok Girls: Ezekwesili lists conditions to follow troops to Sambisa
The Bringbackourgirls advocacy group has replied the Federal government’s letter inviting the group to follow troops to the Sambisa forest…
Alonso hits brace as Chelsea thrash Leicester 3-0
Marcos Alonso scored twice as Chelsea beat Leicester to move seven points clear at the top of the Premier League,…
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The Gambia: ECOWAS to take all necessary actions
United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) says ECOWAS has decided to take all necessary actions to…
FIFA Rankings: Nigeria among top 50 teams
Nigeria’s Super Eagles are starting the year as the 50th placed team in the FIFA World Rankings. According to the…
Chibok Girls: FG invites Ezekwesili for search in Sambisa forest
The Federal Government has invited members of the Bring Our Girls Back (BBOG) to a short trip in a military…
AFCON 2017: Guinea-Bissau shock host Gabon with a draw
Debutants and shock qualifiers, Guinea-Bissau stunned hosts Gabon by pulling off a 1-1 draw in the opening match of the…
Adebanwi’s an African gem, role model-Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigerian author and scholar, Wale Adebanwi, on his appointment as Rhodes Professor in Race Relations…
Hull claims 3-1 victory over Bournemouth
New boss Marco Silva guided Hull City to victory in his first Premier League match as the Tigers moved off…
Carroll scores a stunning volley as West Ham beat Palace 3-0
Andy Carroll scored with a stunning volley as West Ham beat Crystal Palace at London Stadium. The England international met…
Arsenal move third after demolishing Swansea 4-0
Arsenal moved to third place after demolishing Swansea City 4-0 away from home. Having initially been frustrated by their opponents,…
Kane bags hat-trick as Tottenham demolish West Brom 4-0
Harry Kane struck a hat-trick as Tottenham moved second in the Premier League table with a display of total dominance…
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Pictures: Defiant Gambia’s president meets Buhari, others
Defiant Gambian president Yahya Jammeh on Friday met ECOWAS mediation team for peaceful transfer of power in the country. The…
Wasiu Ayinde’s son proposes to girlfriend
Femi Marshall, One of the sons of Nigeria’s popular Fuji musician Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, also known as KWAM 1,…
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Kidnappers abduct students, teachers in Isheri school
About five staff and two students of the Tulip International School, located in the Isheri area of Ogun State, have…
2 robbery suspects in police net
Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos Island, have arrested two suspected robbers terrorising residents…
Police release suspects who murdered Abuja pastor
Suspects reportedly arrested over the killing last year of an Abuja-based pastor, Eunice Elisha, have been released. The suspects, whose…
Fleeing banker arrested over N30m fraud
A former staff of a new generation bank in Lagos, Kayode Ayodele, 34, who has been on the run since…
220 women gets cash in Jigawa
Rep. Ibrahim Abdullahi,(APC Dutse/Kiyawa Federal Constituency) in Jigawa has empowered 220 women in Dutse Local Government Area of the state…
AFCON 2017: Football enthusiasts select countries to support
Football enthusiasts in Ebonyi say they have selected countries to support during the 2017 AFCON in Gabon to reduce the…
FCT residents express concern over Instagram fraud
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Saturday expressed concern over the rise in the use of Instagram,…
Illegal tax collection: 50 arrested in Edo
No fewer than 50 persons have been arrested by operatives of the Edo State Police Command for alleged involvement in…
Man rapes 6 year old girl 7 times
A six-year-old girl named Mariam has narrated in chilling details, how the son of her school’s proprietress, Sirotullahi Abdufatahi, 21,…
Kogi youths celebrate return of the MMM
Youths all around the Kogi state capital city of Lokoja on Saturday were at several beer parlours to celebrate the…
Nigerian man die mysteriously after face-off with Indian landlord
A 36-year-old Nigerian man, Igwe Francis, living in India has died under mysterious circumstances, moments after he got into a…
FRSC convicts 417 offenders in Benue
The Benue Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has convicted 417 motorists for various offences…
MMM: Nigerian participants celebrate return
Popular money-doubling scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), which resumed activities Jan. 14, 2017, after placing a one-month ban on all…
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Barrow flees Gambia after Jammeh refuses to step down
The Gambia’s President-elect, Adama Barrow, has left the country after talks failed to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step down.…
Military repels terrorists, kills 10, loses 3
The Nigerian Military says it has successfully repelled an attack by the Boko Haram terrorists at Kangarwa in Kukawa Local…
Obama advises Trump on being president
As U.S. President Obama prepares to turn the White House over to President-elect Donald Trump next Friday, he is offering…
NNPC resumes loading of petroleum products, nationwide
Mr Ndu Ughamadu,the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says the corporation has…