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Unarmed co-pilot hijacks Ethiopian Airlines plane
The man who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight en route from Addis Ababa to Rome on Monday was the co-pilot,…
BAFTA awards: Producer of Slave epic, Ejiofor big winners
“12 Years a Slave”, the distressing tale of a man sold into slavery, was the big winner at the Baftas…
Joshua calls pastors attacking him ‘discontented people’
Simon Ateba/Lagos Controversial Nigerian cleric, TB Joshua has described pastors who constantly attack him as discontented people. The founder of…
106 killed by Boko Haram gunmen, says Senator Ndume
The actual death toll from the latest attacks by Boko Haram gunmen on Izaghe village in Borno state, north east…
Drug abuse declining in Kano, says Kwankwaso
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State, northwest Nigeria has said that his administration is winning the war…
Obama warns Uganda on anti-gay law
US President Barack Obama on Sunday warned Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni against enacting anti-gay legislation, calling it a “step backward”…
5 Nigerian chess players offered scholarship to Russian varsity
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Russian President, World Chess Federation (FIDE) has offered to sponsor five Nigerians every year to study chess…
Dame Jonathan steps out to squelch health rumours
Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has stepped out of Aso Rock Villa to douse recent rumours about her…
Keshi, 6 others depart for Brazil World Cup seminar
Five officials of the Super Eagles and two members of staff of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), departed Nigeria on…
World Cup: Super Eagles to tackle USA, Greece in June
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will play friendly internationals against Greece and the United States in June as part of their warm-up…
Weather forecast for Monday across Nigeria
Cloudy conditions and chances of localised thunderstorms around the nation’s western coastal areas projected on Monday. Rain showers around the…
Aggrieved APC members join Labour Party
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State are set to defect to the Labour Party,…
Arsenal knock out Liverpool for Everton clash
Arsenal set up an FA Cup quarter-final meeting with Everton after overcoming Liverpool 2-1 in a feisty and gripping fifth-round…
Arsenal’s Giroud apologises for extra-marital affair
Arsenal’s French striker Olivier Giroud issued an apology on Sunday after a British tabloid newspaper alleged that he had an…
Boko Haram gunmen massacre 60 villagers, in fresh raid
Dozens of people, mostly Christians, in Izaghe village in rural Borno state, northeast Nigeria, have been massacred by gunmen suspected…
Oshiomhole upbraids church for encroaching on state land
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has faulted the St Andrews Anglican Church, Ekpoma for encroaching on government land by…
Prayers foster peace in Nigeria, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has attributed the relative peace in the country to prayers offered by different religious faiths. He spoke…
Stray bullet kills Gov. Orji’s relation at reception party
The government of the eastern Nigerian state of Abia has announced the death of a relation of Governor Theodore Orji,…
APC accuses Nigerian police of double standards
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the police of engaging in a selective enforcement of its ban on political,…
Sierra Leone’s leading varsity honours Tinubu
Njala University, Sierra-Leone’s best rated University has honoured Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State with a…
Kelly Rowland thrills Lagosians at Darey’s ‘Love Like A Movie2’
FUNSHO AROGUNDADE American international singer and actress, Kelly Rowland was at her best on Saturday 15 February as she thrilled…
Patience Jonathan out for medical check up?
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, may have embarked on another medical trip to Germany. Sahara Reporters, quoting two presidential…
Kerry calls Indonesia’s largest mosque ‘an extra-ordinary’ place
US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Southeast Asia’s largest mosque during his visit to Indonesia Sunday, paying tribute to…
Snowstorm grounds Japan, flights cancelled
Hundreds of cars are stuck on a hillside trunk road in Japan after it was hit by a snowstorm which…
Reports: Mob attacks suspected gays in Abuja
A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to “cleanse” their neighborhood of gay…
LASU reopens to meet NYSC deadline
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Lagos State University Senate in a memo dated 14 February, has decided to reopen the university on…
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In Pictures: Jonathan in charm offensive to Kano, South West
In one day, President Goodluck Jonathan, hopped from one major Nigerian city to the other, certainly in search of political…
Aviation groups want aviator as Oduah’s successor
.In letters to President Goodluck Jonathan Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s aviation stakeholders met on Saturday to send a clear message…
Nishikori in Memphis final, Berdych, Cilic clash in Rotterdam
Defending champion and top seed Kei Nishikori of Japan advanced to the final of the $647,000 ATP US Indoor Championships…
Boko Haram run hundreds scared out of Nigerian town
Residents of a northeast Nigerian town said Saturday hundreds of them have fled their homes for fear of attacks by…