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Oil Spill: Shell offers to pay Nigerian community $50m
The Shell Petroleum Development Company has offered to pay N7.5 billion, about $50m to the indigenes of Bodo community, Gokana…
Police block Gov. Amaechi from residence
Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State was denied access by the Nigerian police to his private residence in the…
World Cup: Cape Verde Out, Tunisia in the race
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee on Thursday sanctioned the Cape Verdean Football Association (FCF) for fielding an ineligible player in a…
Fayemi threatens to jail parents denying kids of education
Governor of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti has threatened to jail parents who refuse to send their children or…
Two killed after Boko Haram militants bomb police station
Gunmen with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two officers and injuring another…
Osun students get extended vacation
Government of Nigeria’s state of Osun has postponed the resumption of public schools by two weeks. Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, the…
Ashiru exits foreign ministry hopeful about successors
Nigeria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, says he is leaving the ministry in “very good hands’’, successors…
Police seal New PDP office in Rivers, pull down party flag
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt. Barely two hours after Governor Chibuike Amaechi went to the Port Harcourt International airport to receive President…
Court orders PDP to recognise Andy Uba as candidate
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Justice H. A. Nganjiwa of the Nigerian Federal High Court in Port Harcourt today ordered the Peoples…
Oil Subsidy Scam: Police Absence Stalls Trial
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, western Nigeria Thursday morning adjourned till 18 September for the proper arraignment of…
Federation Cup: Fashola Fo Honour Folorunsho, Okonkwo
Executive Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN has concluded plans to honour two of Nigeria’s most adorable…
Eaglets Maul Espanyol 11-0, Coach Hails Team
Golden Eaglets Head Coach, Manu Garba, MFR was full of excitement after his wards turned on the style in an…
Amaechi Receives Jonathan In P/H
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi today received President Goodluck Jonathan at the Port Harcourt Airport in Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria.…
Edo Monarch Kidnapped
The traditional ruler of Udo Community and an in-law to the Benin Monarch, HRH Patrick Igbinidu, has been reportedly abducted…
Outrage Over Presidency’s N682m Gold Plated iPhones
Criticisms have continued to trail the alleged order for 53 gold-plated iPhones 5S mobile handsets by the Federal Government of…
10 Killed In Air Strike On Boko Haram Camps
Nigerian troops launched an air strike and later killed 10 suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in a…
Breaking news: Benin High Chief abducted
Hours after armed abductors freed prominent Nigerian lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, another prominent Benin high chief has been kidnapped. He is…
Tenant Blinds Caretaker
An angry tenant, Jessy John, has allegedly rendered a 60-year old caretaker, Levi Ogbuo, partially blind over the demand for…
8 Men Gang-Rape Woman
A jilted man has been arrested by the police for allegedly conspiring with seven other men to gang-rape his estranged…
Nigerians Divided Over Ministers’ Sack
Opinions were this morning divided over the sack of some ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday. The ministers, nine of…
Jonathan’s Vindictive Cabinet Shakeup
It was no surprise that President Goodluck Jonathan reshuffled his cabinet yesterday, but the timing was wrong and the shakeup…
Mountain From A Heap Of Sand
By Princess Adenrele Adeniran-Ogunsanya For a few weeks now, I have diligently followed the saga that has trailed the issue…
Like Senegal, Let’s Abolish The Senate
By John Tosin Ajiboye Since Nigeria returned to democracy rule in 1999, a lot of things have been going wrong,…
Glo Premier League: Angry 3Sc Fans Attack Coaches
Angry fans of Shooting Stars Sports Club, 3SC of Ibadan could not stomach the poor result of their darling team…
Skateboarding goat creates new Guinness records
A 12-year-old Indian rollerskating fanatic and a skateboarding goat, called Harpie were among the record-breakers who made it into the…
Victory Over B/Faso, Boost For Eagles —Globacom
Globacom, major sponsor of Nigeria’s national teams has said that the Super Eagles’ 4-1 victory over Burkina Faso in an…
Senegal to buy electricity from Mauritania
Mauritania is to begin providing energy-starved Senegal with electricity within two years, both sides announced Thursday after a summit between…
Ozekhome Freed After 20 Days In Captivity
Exactly 20 days after he was forcefully abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate,…
Court delivers ruling on Uba’s motion today
A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt will today deliver ruling on Senator Andy Uba’s motion for interlocutory…
10 Boko Haram fighters killed in air, land raids
Nigerian troops launched an air strike and later killed 10 suspected members of Boko Haram in a clash in the…