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FG Releases N1bn To Revive Adult Education
Mr Nyeson Wike, the Minister of State for Education, on Tuesday said the Federal Government has released N1 billion as…
Court Jails 8 Beggars
The Special Offences Court in Alausa area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced eight beggars to one month imprisonment for…
Govs. Urge Support For APC Merger
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and eight other progressive counterparts including the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha…
Army: 200 Boko Haram fighters attacked Bama
Nigerian soldiers blanketed the town of Bama on Wednesday, where residents stayed indoors after coordinated assaults by heavily armed Islamist…
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Tributes pour for the man who built Man U
British Prime Minister David Cameron and world football chief Sepp Blatter led the tributes on Wednesday after Manchester United manager…
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Alex Ferguson Bows Out at Man United
Manchester United announced on Wednesday that manager Alex Ferguson will leave the club at the end of the season after…
Jets worth $3.75b Owned By Nigerians
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Wealthy Nigerians own over 150 jets worth about $3.75 billion, the Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank,…
Tackling Corruption In The Judiciary
By Akunna Ejim That corruption is one of the banes of Nigeria is no news to anyone with even the…
Profligacy Unlimited
A report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts reveals how the Federal Government has since 2002 doled out over…
Amaechi: Impeachment Plot Thickens
The recent trials of Governor Rotimi Amaechi, manifesting in different layers of drama, are targeted at impeaching him as Rivers…
Ruing Corruption
Nigeria which should have been the pride of the black race has now become a pariah nation due to endemic…
Cleaning Up Judicial Rot
Worried by mind-boggling corruption by Nigerian judges, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar embarks on a clean up exercise Since he left…
55 killed in Boko Haram attacks, prisoners freed
Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town…
2-Storey Church building collapses, one person dies
Kazeem Ugbodaga One person has been killed as a two-storey building under construction collapsed at Ojodu area of Lagos, Southwest…
Date fixed for forgery case against Senator Akume
A Nigerian Federal High Court on Tuesday in Abuja fixed June 17 to commence hearing of a suit brought against…
Liverpool manager’s son faces retrial
A jury was sworn in Tuesday in the retrial of four footballers, including the son of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers,…
Three brothers arrested in stunning US kidnap
CLEVELAND, Ohio, (AFP) – US police searched an ordinary home in a working class neighborhood of Cleveland on Tuesday after…
Governor Okorocha formally joins APC at rally
Governor Rochas Okorocha of the eastern Nigerian state of Imo has formally expressed support for the All Progressives Congress (APC),…
Gunmen kill relation of Bayelsa special adviser
Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Tuesday shot dead two persons in the riverside community of Kuroamagbene in the…
11 police commissioners get new postings
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, on Tuesday ordered the redeployment of 11 Commissioners of Police to different…
Nigeria, South Africa vow to make Africa greater
CAPE TOWN (AFP) – Leaders from continental powerhouses South Africa and Nigeria pledged to create an alliance “to make Africa…
NUJ to picket salary-owing media houses
Oblivious to the global recession newspapers are facing, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) said on Tuesday it would start…
Ex-British finance minister calls for EU exit
Britain should leave the European Union, former finance minister Nigel Lawson argued Tuesday, fuelling the debate about a referendum on…
BMW recalls 3-Series models for airbag flaw
German luxury carmaker BMW has issued a recall of 220,000 vehicles because of a defect in Japanese-made airbags installed over…
President Jonathan As “Big Brother”
By Chido Onumah Typical of the Jonathan regime, it took the effort of investigative journalists – this time, the reporters…
The Challenges Of Governance And Dev In Lagos (2)
By Babatunde Fashola Lagos, of course, has chosen a different path. It lives largely on the revenue it raises by…
How Independent Are State Independent Electoral Commissions?
By Odunayo Joseph Going by the newspaper reports on the local council election held in Kogi State on Saturday, 4…
Jonathan, 2015 Race And The People’s Welfare
It is sad that more than two years to the presidential election in 2015, governance has been largely abandoned by…
Bimbo Akintola: Why I’m Not Married
Actress Bimbo Akintola has says she is not yet married because she is yet to find a man that has…
Laide Bakare’s Marriage Fails
Yoruba actress, Laide Bakare, has joined the league of female entertainers with failed marriages. Her union with husband, Mr. Okunfulire,…