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Nollywood legend, Justus Esiri Begins Final Journey
Veteran actor, Justus Esiri, 70, began his final journey home yesterday with a Tribute Night organised in his honour by…
A Courageous Political Amazon
P.M.NEWS editorial on the transition of Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka Funmi Olayinka, deputy governor, Ekiti State continues to receive accolades even…
Lawyer’s withdrawal stalls Lagos Speaker’s trial
Akin Kuponiyi Nigeria’s Federal High Court Justice Okechukwu Okeke’s plan to accord accelerated hearing in the money laundering case against…
Protesting TASCE Students attack DPO
Abiodun Onafuye/Ijebu-Ode Protesting students of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State southwest Nigeria, clashed with policemen…
Tenant Sends Landlord To Prison Over Missing Chicken
A Nigerian landlord, Olubukunaji Obajimi, 56, has been remanded in prison after he was arraigned in court for locking his…
Paedophile, 48, remanded after assaulting baby 15 mths old
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year old Nigerian paedophile, Slyvester Ehiyele, who allegedly raped his own daughter, 7, and 15 month-old grand-daughter…
Islamic Group Rejects Amnesty For Boko Haram
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Ahead of the inauguration of the committee on amnesty for Boko Haram members by President Goodluck Jonathan, an…
60 Lagos Civil Servants Escape Death
BAYO ADETU At least, sixty workers of the Lagos State Government escaped death early this morning after the brake of…
Mikel eager for Chelsea return to Champions League
Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi says he finds it hard to motivate himself for his side’s Europa League matches and…
7 killed, houses burnt in clashes with herdsmen
There appears no end in sight in the bloodletting between Fulani herdsmen and settler-farmers in Nigeria’s Plateau state. With close…
Nigerian Bizman charged with piracy
The National Copyright Commission has charged a Nigerian businessman identified as Emmanuel Udeze, to the Federal High Court sitting in…
Chanchangi airline gets Ethiopian court ultimatum over debt
An Ethiopian Federal High Court sitting in Addis Ababa has given Nigeria’s struggling Chanchangi Airlines (CAL) a one-month ultimatum to…
Police: Kidnapped woman a Nigerian not American
Alhaji Usman Abubakar, the Commissioner of Police in the eastern Nigerian state of Abia, has refuted reports that an American…
Kenya’s new leader wanted in the Hague for war crimes
Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding president, has taken up his father’s mantle to become head of state despite…
Uhuru Kenyatta takes oath, promises diligence
Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn as Kenya’s fourth president on Tuesday to cheers from tens of thousands of supporters, despite facing…
Nigeria: Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20
A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20…
4 Nigerian journalists detained by police
Nigerian police have detained four journalists after they refused to disclose the source of an alleged presidential document that calls…
City clinch Manchester derby
Sergio Aguero came off the bench to grab Manchester City a 2-1 win against rivals United at Old Trafford and…
Jonathan to attend Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja later tonight for Nairobi where he is scheduled to join other African leaders…
Access Bank releases first quarter of negatives
Nigeria’s Access Bank plc has published its unaudited first quarter result for this year, with nothing salutary, compared with last…
Nigeria: Mass burial for victims of weekend tragic accident
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Arrangements have been concluded to bury en masse victims of last Friday’s fatal auto accident that occurred at…
ECOBANK targets higher profit in 2013
The Group Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Mr Thierry Tanoh, said on Monday that the bank was…
Brixton Londoners party over Thatcher’s death
Hundreds of people on Monday took to the main square in Brixton, an area of south London which suffered serious…
WikiLeaks throws US historical archives online
WikiLeaks on Monday launched a searchable archive containing 1.7 million US State Department documents from 1973-6 that had long been…
Nigeria’s police boss orders manhunt for cop-killers
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja In a reaction to the killing of 12 policemen at Azuzama, in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa state,…
Katangowa Traders Frown Over Relocation
Traders in Katangowa market have expressed dissatisfaction over the proposed move to relocate the market. Speaking with P.M.NEWS BusinessWeek, Chairman,…
Oil Theft: No To Death Penalty
Recently, the President of the Senate, David Mark, while inaugurating the Senate Joint Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)…
Assemblyman to pay N300K to colleagues for reciting Yoruba alphabets
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Southwest Nigeria is to give out the sum of…
Akingbola seeks court’s nod to travel for medical treatment
Henry Ojelu The embattled former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, has filed a motion before an Ikeja…
Banks Delay CVFF Disbursement
As the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) prepares to disburse the long-awaited Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) this…