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Ivorian opposition prays for Ouattara’s quick recovery
The Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, has called on Ivorians to pray for President Alassane…
Italy swears in youngest Prime Minister
Italy’s youngest-ever prime minister Matteo Renzi, 39, and his fresh-faced cabinet were sworn in Saturday, at a ceremony led by…
People power triumphs in Ukraine as leader flees
Ukraine’s emboldened opposition pushed Saturday for Viktor Yanukovych to resign immediately amid reports that the embattled president had fled Kiev…
Birthday boy, Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe after cataract surgery
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe returned home Saturday morning from Singapore where he had gone for routine medical check ups, state…
‘Militiamen overrunning my state,’ cries Gov. Suswam
Governor Gabriel Suswam of the central Nigerian state of Benue said militiamen are overrunning his state, causing destruction of lives…
Arowolo: The journey to the gallows
Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Nigerian high court in Ikeja on Friday, 21 February 2014, sentenced Akolade Arowolo to death…
Senator Kaka: We are resolving Ogun APC crisis
Senator Adegbenga Sefiu Kaka tells ABIODUN ONAFUYE that the crisis in the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress,…
NNPC: Nigeria’s sleaze machine
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation provides the teat on which the greediest pairs of lips suck One name…
Two men with monkey tails
Akin Obasa Two men are being worshipped in India as incarnations of Hanuman the monkey deity because they have tails…
PDP will Crush APC In Rivers, says Wike
Okafor ofiebor/Port Harcourt Ahead of the 2015 elections and even when President Goodluck Jonathan has not declared his intention to…
Zimbabwe to deport porno-charged ex-US congressman
Zimbabwe court strikes out ponographic possession charge A Zimbabwean court dismissed pornography charges against former congressman Mel Reynolds on Friday…
Kukah appointed pro-chancellor for Nasarawa varsity
Governor Tanko Al-Makura of the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, on Friday, approved the appointment of Bishop Hassan Kukah, the…
Obama loses beer bet to Canadian PM
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper aimed to collect Friday on a wager for beer with US President Barack Obama after…
Dubai Open: Cornet upsets Williams Sisters final
Alize Cornet of France scored a career-best victory and created a major upset in the process with victory over world…
Volkswagen set to buy 100 per cent of Scania
Europe’s biggest carmaker, Germany’s Volkswagen, said Friday it was making a 6.7-billion-euro ($9.19 billion) offer to grab the nearly 40…
Nigerian student murdered in Ghana
Simon Ateba/Yaounde Godwin Ayogu, a Nigerian citizen, and a 300-level student at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, has…
Tuesday declared public holiday in Plateau
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau state has declared Tuesday, February 25, a public holiday, to enable citizens vote for their…
Court bars Nigerian Police, SSS from arresting Sanusi
Akin Kuponiyi A Nigerian Federal High Court in Lagos has barred the agents of the Nigerian police and State Security…
Buhari says Sanusi’s sack an endorsement of corruption
Muhammadu Buhari (retd) former Head of State and chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC has described the suspension…
Somalia’s presidential palace hit by car bomb, gunmen
The presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, home to the country’s internationally-backed government, was hit by a massive car bomb…
NNPC acting in the best interest of Nigeria, says spokesman
Dr. Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Acting Group Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,…
PDP’s Plot To Capture Ekiti Will Spell Doom, says Fayemi
In this interview published in TheNEWS magazine this week, Governor of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti, Dr. Kayode Fayemi…
CBN governor designate, Emefiele’s footprints at Zenith Bank
Emefiele, the nominee for Central Bank of Nigeria governorship has been a Silent Achiever At Zenith Bank Godwin Emefiele is…
Sanusi: FG denies witch hunt in suspension
The Federal Government on Thursday said that the suspension of the Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was not…
Jonathan promises to restore History in schools
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to restore the teaching of history as a subject in primary and junior secondary schools.…
China protests Obama’s meeting with Dalai Lama
US President Barack Obama will host Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday, a…
‘Mafia’ gang led by Chinese business tycoon charged
China has charged with a string of murders and other crimes 36 members of a “mafia-style” gang led by a…
Fashola faults Jonathan over Sanusi’s suspension
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan’s suspension of the Governor, Central Bank of…
Indonesia, South Africa urge US clarify stimulus reduction
Indonesia and South Africa on Friday stepped up pressure on US monetary policy, urging more clarity and better communication so…
Centenerian eyes US Congress seat
A Florida great-great grandfather has launched a campaign to run for the US Congress in November, running on a record…