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Okonjo-Iweala’s Dad Fight Over Throne
The battle between Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo, father of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, and a royal family over the…
Fashola Opens West Africa’s Tallest Hotel
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos, built at a cost…
Nigerians Light Up Europe With Goals
Goals rained aplenty for Nigerian stars abroad at the weekend with John Utaka, Izunna Uzochukwu, Lukman Haruna, Ezekiel Imoh, Daniel…
Commonwealth Games: ‘Nigeria On Course For Glasgow 2014’
Ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Director General of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Gbenga Elegbeleye has…
NFF Plans Scouting Unit For Foreign Stars
Plans are afoot to set-up a unit within the NFF to scout and recruit foreign-born Nigerian football talent for the…
Foreign Stars Storm Lagos For Chess Classics
Grand and International Masters from Belarus, Romania, Egypt and Uganda have confirmed their participating in the Lagos International Chess Classics…
U-20 World Cup Qualifier: Uganda Beat Sudan 13-0
The Uganda Under -20, She Kobs, walloped Southern Sudan 13-0 in the return leg, at the KCCA, Lugogo ground, Kampala,…
Don’t They Have A Hand In Nigeria’s Retardation?
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi How convenient it is for people to denounce an unattractive pass. It is so convenient that even…
Nigeria At 53
After 53 years of independence, Africa’s most populous country and the second biggest economy has remained a failed state. With…
Nigerian Authorities Clarify New Aviation Charges For Private Jets
The newly introduced general aviation charges in Nigeria are only for non-scheduled commercial operators and replace all previous charges, aviation…
APC Appeals To Boko Haram To Ceasefire
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Boko Haram to immediately cease all attacks and embrace dialogue in the…
2 Principals In Soup Over Illegal Levies
Two Principals of junior secondary schools in Ilorin, Kwara State, central Nigeria, are in soup for allegedly imposing and collecting…
Women’s Afrobasket: Foreign-Based Stars Failed D’Tigress —Nnaji
The overreliance on foreign-based Nigerian basketball players was the reason Nigeria’s female team, D’Tigress fumbled at the just concluded Mozambique…
Sudan marchers want Al Bashir overthrown
About 1,000 people marched in the Sudanese capital calling for the overthrow of the government of President Omar Al Bashir,…
Wenger on red alert as Napoli aim to prove point
LONDON 2013 (AFP) – Arsene Wenger has warned his Arsenal stars that Napoli will be motivated to prove a point…
PDP denies APC allegation on poll rigging
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has no plans to rig the 2015 presidential and general elections as alleged by the…
Amnesty office trains 20 pilots in Germany
Twenty commercial licensed pilots departed Lagos on Sunday for jet/type-rating training at the Lufthansa Pilot Institute, Germany. The pilots are…
Jonathan: ‘I won’t declare my re-election plan now’
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday evening declared that he was not going to make any categorical statement…
Kogi deputy governor unhurt in road accident
Mr. Yomi Awoniyi, the Deputy Governor of the central Nigerian state of Kogi on Sunday escaped unhurt in an accident…
Nigeria not a mistake, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday declared that the amalgamation of Nigeria by Lord Lugard was not a mistake and called…
Jonathan wants labour laws reviewed to tame ASUU
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday advocated a review of labour laws to curtail the excesses of the…
Fashola unveils West Africa’s tallest hotel in Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos today unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos, built at a…
Lagos To Host 2014 African Table Tennis Top 16 Cup
Taiwo Adelu For staging a befitting and world-class Lagos International Classics, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has granted Nigeria…
Atiku: Students massacre casts horrible image on National Day
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described as “senseless and tragic,” the murders of dozens of agriculture students gunned down…
Governor cries after another Boko Haram massacre
It was an emotional scene as the Governor of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Yobe visited the capital’s specialist hospital…
Nigerian Senate to resume public hearing on PIB
The Nigerian Senate says it will resume another round of public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) on 9…
New Book: Nigerian-German learns granddad was Nazi killer
BERLIN (AFP) – A steel-eyed Nazi killer picks off Jewish prisoners with a rifle from a balcony in a concentration…
APC accuses PDP of Satanic plots to rig 2015 polls
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has uncovered a grand and serpentine plot by the PDP and the Presidency to rig…
In Pictures: Atiku visits Jacob Zuma
Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar visited South Africa recently as guest of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma.
Boko Haram gunmen massacre 40 sleeping students
Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday opened fire in the hostel of the School of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, killing at…