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Parents give up on abducted school girls, Nigerian soldiers not in sight
Parents of the remaining school girls abducted by Boko Haram gunmen on Monday in Chibok, Borno State, northeast Nigeria said…
85 school girls still missing, 24 escape
Eighty-five of the abducted 129 school girls in Chibok, Borno State are still missing, an education official said, on the…
Nyesom Wike can’t be governor of Rivers state, says Amaechi
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi said Nyesom Wike,the Supervising Minister…
Fayemi to start teaching at state varsity in October
Governor Kayode Fayemi of western Nigerian state of Ekiti has said he will start teaching at the state-owned university in…
Tunisian leader takes massive paycut
Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki announced on Friday his decision to voluntarily take a two-thirds pay cut as the government grapples…
Tennis: Ferrer knocks out Nadal in Monte Carlo
David Ferrer defeated world number one Rafael Nadal 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 in a hotly disputed quarter-final match at the Monte…
Oando pays ConocoPhillips another $25mn
Oando Energy Resources has paid another $25million dollars to US oil company, ConocoPhillips, as part of the moves to acquire…
Okon Uya, ex-NECON chairman dies
A former chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, during the Babangida era, Professor Okon Uya, is dead. He…
Protesting Malaysians brand Obama enemy of Islam
About 100 Malaysian Muslim activists protested Friday outside the US embassy against the coming visit by President Barack Obama, denouncing…
Crack smoking mayor launches bid for re-election
Toronto’s scandal-plagued mayor Rob Ford, who has admitted to binge drinking and smoking crack, has launched his bid for re-election.…
12 killed in worst-ever Everest accident
KATHMANDU (AFP) – At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers were killed Friday by…
News Analysis: Big blow on Nigeria’s military
By Bayo Onanuga Skeptics of Nigeria’s military campaign against the murderous Boko Haram gunmen in Nigeria’s northeast now have a…
Confab dissolves into 20 Committees
The plenary session of the National Conference in Abuja drew to a temporary close on Thursday as delegates get set…
First Earth-sized planet in star’s “habitable zone” found
Astronomers said they have found an Earth-sized planet, outside our own solar system, orbiting a star at a distance suitable…
South Sudan: Gunmen storm UN refugee base, kill 20
At least 20 people were killed and another 70 injured by gunmen posing as peaceful protestors who stormed a UN…
Student arrested for swindling WASC exam candidates
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has arrested a 20-year-old student for swindling candidates participating in the ongoing 2014 May/June…
Total discovers oil in Cote d’Ivoire offshore
French oil giant Total on Thursday announced the discovery of oil in Saphir-1XB exploration well in the deep offshore west…
Abducted school girls: Nigeria’s military say they goofed
Nigeria’s military authorities have acknowledged that they goofed over their statement that all but eight of the 129 abducted school…
DSS arraigns kidnappers of Archbishop Kattey
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three men suspected to be the kidnappers of Bishop Ignatius Cosby Ogborun Kattey, the Anglican ArchBishop of…
APC governors not invited to security summit, says Akpabio
Governors of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC were not invited to the expanded security meeting called by President Goodluck…
Security Summit: APC governors told meeting called off
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked criticisms that its governors shunned an enlarged meeting on security with President Goodluck…
WAFU Cup: Nwakali To Captain Eaglets In Togo
Taiwo Adelu Golden Eaglets’ coach Emmanuel Amuneke has picked Kelechi Nwakali to captain his fledging team at the WAFU B…
NEMA names 136 injured bomb blast victims
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday in Abuja, released the names of 136 casualties of Monday’s bomb blast…
US city ditches water reservoir after man urinates in it
The US city of Portland, Oregon, is ditching 38 million gallons of drinking water from a reservoir after a teenager…
Obama urges Democrats to be proud of Obamacare
US President Barack Obama told fellow Democrats to stop saying sorry for his health care law Thursday, revealing that eight…
LAUTECH to graduate 21,647
No fewer than 21,647 students will be conferred with degrees and prizes of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH),…
Nadal, Djokovic, Federer win easy in Monte Carlo
Rafael Nadal racked up his 300th career claycourt win to reach the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals on Thursday where he…
Brazil sends troops to troubled World Cup city
Troops patrolled Salvador de Bahia on Thursday after a wave of looting and murder erupted amid a police strike in…
Ukraine slams entry ban on Russian males
Ukraine has banned entry to its territory for all Russian males aged between 16 and 60, the Russian flagship carrier…
Man beheads 2 year-old boy, rapes mother
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Ogun State Police Command has arrested a middle aged man, for raping a woman and beheading her two…