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Jos bombing catastrophic, says NEMA official
. The dead and injured still being evacuated The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday declared that the casualty…
Confab disowns delegate over 2015 polls shift
The Chairman of the 2014 National Conference, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, and other Principal Officers have dissociated themselves from comments…
Lagos AG, Lawmakers raise fears Over ‘FERMA Task Force’
Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State Attorney-General, Ade Ipaye, and members of the State House of Assembly, western Nigeria on Tuesday…
APC convention holds in June
The National Convention of the All Progressives Congress will now hold in Abuja on the 13th and 14th of June…
Abducted schoolgirls: APC chides Jonathan for snub
The All Progressives Congress issued a statement today on the war against insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast and the rescue efforts…
Federal officials sack LASTMA men from Federal roads
Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Federal Taskforce operating in Lagos on Tuesday sacked officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management…
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Sanusi vs Jonathan : Court declines jurisdiction
Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja A Federal High Court in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, has declined jurisdiction to determine whether President Goodluck…
Nigeria police order security audit of boarding schools
Nigeria’s chief of police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered his state Commissioners to immediately carry out a nationwide security audit…
CIA vows not to stage fake vaccine campaign again
The White House has promised the United States will not use vaccination programs as cover for spy operations — after…
Tax evasion: US slams Credit Suisse with criminal charge
The United States hit Credit Suisse with criminal charge Monday for helping rich Americans evade taxes, ahead of an expected…
US court jails man who sent lethal letter to Obama
A Mississippi man who concocted and then sent potentially lethal ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other senior US…
Aisha Falode petitions Tambuwal over son’s death in Dubai
Ms Aisha Falode, an ace sports commentator has petitioned the Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, over the death…
APC loses 4 lawmakers to PDP in Edo State
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Four members of the 26-man Edo State House of Assembly elected on the platform of the All Progressives…
Police: 4 killed in Kano car bomb
Four people were killed, including a young girl, in a suicide car bomb attack in the north Nigerian city of…
Breaking News: Over 70 people killed in bomb explosion in Kano
Maduabuchi Nmeribe/Kano A car bomb explosion in Nigeria’s second largest city of Kano, northern Nigeria, has killed over 50 people,…
Bank of England warns of housing market risk
The British housing market has “deep, deep problems” and is the biggest risk to the country’s financial stability, the governor…
Largest dinosaur found in Argentina
Paleontologists in Argentina’s remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of what may be the largest dinosaur ever, amid a vast…
Ballot snatching, violence mar Kano council poll
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Local Government election in Kano, northwest Nigeria, held on Saturday was characterized by violence and electoral malpractices,…
India’s Congress Party concedes defeat
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India’s triumphant Hindu nationalists declared “the start of a new era” in the world’s biggest democracy…
Nigeria’s slow kidnap response worries US officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US officials slammed Nigeria’s “slow” response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Islamic militants…
Boko Haram: Experts doubt gains of state of emergency
by Ben Simon/AFP Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid to extend an ineffective year-long state of emergency in the northeast has…
US confirms drones deployed to Nigeria
The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help the search for more…
Nigerian troops angry after Boko Haram killed 4 in ambush
Nigerian Soldiers fired shots in the air at Maiduguri barracks on Wednesday because they were angry with their commanders about…
Access Bank moves to block probe of IB acquisition
In a bid to forestall the the probe of how Access bank Plc acquired Intercontinental bank Plc by Financial Reporting…
Jonathan withdraws assent from 2014 budget bill
Nigeria’s Government said on Wednesday that the 2014 appropriation bill passed by the National Assembly about two months ago has…
Jonathan rules out prisoner swap with Boko Haram
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of…
Ogwuche, fleeing Nyanya bomber arrested in Sudan
Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, one of the two suspects declared wanted on Monday by the State Security Service in connection with…
UN expert asks Nigeria to talk with Boko Haram
The United Nations’ top expert on worldwide human trafficking called Tuesday for the negotiated release of Nigerian schoolgirls held by…
Argentina shut out Tevez
Carlos Tevez excellent form for Italian champions Juventus this season failed to earn him a recall when Alex Sabella named…
Video of Nigeria’s abducted schoolgirls
Shekau Abubakar, Boko Haram leader supplies a video on more than half of the girls captured from Chibok Girls Seconday…