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Ex-deputy governor among Obiano’s commissioners
Governor Willie Obiano of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Tuesday nominated 19 commissioners and 10 special advisers for…
Demba Ba late strike helps Chelsea through, Madrid survive
It was a night of contrasting turn of fate for Paris Saint Germain and Real Madrid, first leg winners in…
Delegates harp on true federalism, restructuring of Nigeria
Issues bordering on corruption, unemployment, restructuring of the country into federating units, economic development and national security topped deliberation on…
Boko Haram terrorists kill five Nigerian soldiers – Defence Headquarters
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s military authorities said on Tuesday that five of their men fighting the Boko Haram insurgent group in…
Nigerian food vendor conceals cocaine in vagina
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent A food vendor who concealed wraps of cocaine in her vagina has been arrested at the Lagos…
Lagos court to rule on PDP legal fee debt
Henry Ojelu A Lagos High Court today fixed May 7 for ruling in a suit filed by one Mr. Debo…
Mimiko canvasses for right to own weapons
Professor Olufemi Mimiko, the Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University and a delegate at the ongoing national conference has recommended…
Pistorius: Reeva Steenkamp was scared of me
Oscar Pistorius, South Africa’s Star Paralympian, returned to the witness box at his murder trial on Tuesday, insisting he and…
Judge to rule on legality of Governors defection in May
A Nigerian Federal High Court has fixed 23 May for ruling in a suit instituted by the People’s Democratic Party…
Dencia slams Lupita Nyong’o again
Dencia, the whitenicious cream producer and Nigerian and Cameroonian pop star has hit out at Lupita Nyong’o for her new…
Chimamanda’s ‘Americanah’ shortlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, Americanah has been shortlisted for the $50,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, a…
In Pictures: Amosun condoles Okuneye family
Governor Ibikunle Amosun has paid a prompt condolence visit to the family of Otunba Adetola Okuneye, who was assassinated Sunday…
FG merges aviation agencies, scraps NAPEP, FRC
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Government on Monday released the White Paper on the report of the Presidential Committee on the…
‘God not an ethnic, religious bigot’, says Nurudeen Lemu
Nurudeen Lemu, the son of prominent Islamic cleric, Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, a former Grand Khadi of Niger State and…
Holcim, Lafarge announce merger, now world’s biggest
Swiss cement group Holcim and French rival Lafarge are to merge creating a dominant supplier of cement for concrete to…
Murder trial: Pistorius opens defence
Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius called a forensic pathologist to the stand Monday to open his defence in the trial over…
Petkovic thrashes Cepelova to win Charleston title
Andrea Petkovic, who is coming back from a string of injuries in recent years, earned her first title in nearly…
Tory MP urged to resign over expense claims fraud
Pressure mounted on the British minister in charge of a new press regulation system on Sunday after a Conservative Party…
Indians troop to vote from Monday
The first Indian voters head to the polls Monday for the world’s biggest election, set to sweep the opposition Hindu…
Zamfara death toll jumps to 79
The death toll in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a village in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara State rose to 79…
Jonathan postpones campaign launch for Fayose
President Goodluck Jonathan’s one-day campaign visit to Ekiti State, western Nigeria, scheduled for 8 April has been postponed. The President…
Economists shrug at Nigeria’s growth jump
. The view abroad is that rebasing is an exercise in vainglory South Africa remains the most important economy in…
Nigerian military commanders linked With Boko Haram
A Nigerian soldier says he has witnessed incidents that suggest some Nigerian military commanders are working with Boko Haram, an…
How my ex-magistrate wife was killed–Wole Timehin
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The husband of Olufunmilayo Timehin, the slain retired magistrate in Ogun State has revealed that the alleged killer…
Okuneye, bizman shot dead inside a church
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Pandemonium struck this morning in the western Nigerian city of Ijebu-Igbo in Ijebu North local government area of…
Nigerian soldiers storm Lagos community over missing gun
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Soldiers from Ibereko Barracks on the Badagry Expressway, in Lagos State have laid a siege on the Mowo…
Ban Ki Moon: UN Peacekeepers overwhelmed in CAR
(Reuters) – French and African soldiers serving in Central African Republic are “overwhelmed” by the “state of anarchy” in the…
Abducted Ebikeme Clark freed
The abducted son of Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark who was kidnapped last Wednesday has been released by his captors. Delta…
SERAP urges Fashola cancel new fees in LASU
A civil society, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State to “urgently reverse…
Crisis of appointment of Chief Justice in Rivers State
By Bamidele Aturu A pall of darkness has suddenly descended on the judiciary in Nigeria. Its genesis is the brouhaha…