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President Zuma heads for a landslide
With more than 20 percent of votes counted in South Africa’s landmark general election, the ruling ANC appeared set to…
US sending only a handful of soldiers to Nigeria
Despite the pledge by President Barack Obama to help Nigeria rescue the over 200 abducted schoolchildren, the United States has…
4 killed by gunmen in Kaduna state
The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Mr Umar Shehu, on Wednesday, confirmed that gunmen killed two policemen and two…
Abducted Schoolgirls: Police N50m reward too little?
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Nigerian Police Wednesday offered a N50 million reward to anybody who could provide genuine information that can…
Child, 7 others die in road accident
The Sector commander of the Federal Roads Safety Commission in Nigerian central state of Kogi, Mr. Godwin Omiko has confirmed…
Lagos demolished 1,051 houses blocking drains, says Bello
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has demolished 1,051 buildings erected on the right of ways of drainage alignment across…
Countries ready to help Nigeria rout Boko Haram
More countries have offered to help Nigeria tackle the Boro Haram insurgency as global outrage mounts against the abduction of…
Abducted schoolgirls: Saraki,women’s group urge FG to brace up
Stephen Oni, Ilorin The Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology,Dr Bukola Saraki, has applauded the decision of the the…
Abuja shut down for WEFA
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Abuja, was virtually shut down of Wednesday morning as the much anticipated World Economic Forum for Africa (WEFA),…
Social Media Mock Patience Jonathan
Eromosele Ebhomele Bloggers and other social media activists have designed viral images including T-shirts and caricature of wife of the…
Britain pledges to aid Nigeria’s rescue bid for abducted schoolgirls
Britain has promised to deploy intelligence gathering resources to support Nigeria’s bid to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls captured by…
Obama speaks on Boko Haram, Nigerian schoolgirls abduction
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday described the kidnapping of more than 220 schoolgirls by Islamists in Nigeria as “heartbreaking”…
Patience Jonathan: The video every one is talking about
The video clip of Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s President, during her meeting with principal of Chibok Girls Secondary School…
3 Boko Haram fighters nabbed in Niger
At least three members of the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram were arrested in Niger Republic on Tuesday after they…
Abduction scare: Police recover school bus
The Nigerian Police Force says it has recovered a school bus belonging to the Divine International Academy School in Phase…
Confab can’t agree on revenue sharing based on derivation
The National Conference Committee on Devolution of Power after an extensive debate on Tuesday could not reach an agreement on…
US sends team to locate abducted Nigerian schoolgirls
The United States offered Tuesday to send a team of experts to Nigeria to help find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls amid…
Nigeria 8th worst place to be a mother on Earth, says report
Nigeria, considered a fragile state, has been ranked the eighth worst place on Earth to be a mother, according to…
Plane smashes into private home
A small plane smashed into a Colorado, United States home Monday, but the pilot was able to walk away and…
Jonathan, Kenyatta vow not to surrender to terrorists
President Goodluck Jonathan and his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyata on Monday vowed that their country would not succumb to terrorism…
Diezani Alison-Madueke fails to stop expenses probe
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian court in Abuja has turned down Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke’s request for an interim order…
National Confab Loses Another Delegate
The National Conference sitting in Abuja was on Monday hit by another sad news of the death of a delegate,…
Abducted girls: Detained activist freed
The Nigerian Police on Monday afternoon released a Chibok women’s leader, Naomi Mutah who was arrested in the early hours…
Nigeria’s foreign debt now $9.16bn
Nigeria’s rising debt profile was the major concern of the National Conference Committee on Public Finance as members sought to…
Ekpu wants House of Reps scrapped, backs state police
Veteran journalist and member of the Committee on Politics and Governance, Mr. Ray Ekpu, has advocated scrapping of the House…
Confab proposes new revenue sharing formula
A new revenue sharing formula was on Monday proposed by the Committee on Devolution of Power at the on-going National…
Bipartisan pressure on Obama to save Nigerian schoolgirls
Calls mounted Monday for US government action to help find and free more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped last month…
Boko Haram seizes Nigeria’s border town
Scores of Boko Haram gunmen riding in armoured vehicles razed the Nigerian border town of Gamboru Ngala on Monday and…
Niger Delta terrorists kidnap 3 Dutch citizens
Three Dutch citizens have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing Niger Delta region, police said Monday. The three Dutchmen were…
WHO declares polio ‘public health emergency’
The World Health Organization warned Monday that polio has reemerged as a public health emergency, after new cases of the…