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Boko Haram gunmen kill teacher
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead a teacher in a northeast Nigerian village on the border with Chad, police and…
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Tennis: Azarenka, defending champ ousted
Two-time defending champion Victoria Azarenka was bundled out of the Australian Open in the quarter-finals on Wednesday by fifth seed…
Obama to invite 47 African leaders for summit
President Barack Obama will invite 47 leaders to a landmark US-Africa summit in August, seeking to widen US trade, development…
Mugabe attributes long life to ‘God’s Will’
Africa’s oldest leader and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, whose state of health has sparked speculation in recent years, on Tuesday…
Rowdy session in House of Reps over leadership change
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The expected change of some presiding officers of the House of Representatives did not happen on Tuesday, but…
APC warns of anarchy in Rivers State
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned of the impending anarchy in Rivers State that may have far-reaching consequences beyond…
Jonathan’s new ministerial list
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday forwarded the names of nominees to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation. The names were read…
Deinde Fernandez’s Daughter Hopes To Be New Rihanna
Abimbola ‘Bim’ Fernandez, daughter of Nigerian billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, has got her sight on being the next Rihanna. The Nigerian…
N1.5m Bride Price Drove Me Into Robbery —Suspect
A robbery suspect, Mr Godwin Olukporibe, has confessed that he was forced to form a robbery gang when his father-in-law…
Otudeko Fights Dangote Over Land
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, western Nigeria has adjourned till 6 February for hearing in the suit instituted…
How Suspect Exposed Buruji Kashamu
The drug trafficking case involving the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the southwest, Buruji Kashamu, first blew…
South African goes on a space mission
No one in Mandla Maseko’s family has ever stepped outside South Africa, but the young township DJ is set to…
Tennis: Li Na cruises into semi finals, Ivanovic dumped out
World number four Li Na swept aside Italian Flavia Pennetta in a one-sided, straight-sets demolition to move into the Australian…
Nigeria to become car exporter soon, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said with the new National Automotive Industry Policy introduced by his administration, Nigeria would soon…
Gunmen kill Jonathan, ex-council chairman
Gunmen on Monday killed Mr Morris Jonathan, 34, former Chairman of Peremabiri Community Development Committee (CDC) in his residence in…
CHAN 2014: Morocco, Zimbabwe qualify for quarter finals
Morocco and Zimbabwe progressed to the quarter-finals of the African Nations Championship with a 3-1 win over Uganda and a…
Boko Haram Insurgency Must End By April 2014, says new CDS
Ayorinde Oluoku/Abuja To avoid creating constitutional problems in the polity, the Boko Haram insurgency that has been ravaging the North…
Lagos Assembly Bans Public Smoking
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria on Monday evening passed a bill that now places fine…
Minister slams Bafana Bafana as ‘useless losers’ after CHAN exit
A livid South African Sports Minister chastised the national squad Monday as “useless bunch of losers” after it crashed to…
Jonathan for Davos Summit
President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja Tuesday for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where he will lead efforts…
Lagos To Deploy Additional 1,000 Security Cameras
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government is to deploy additional 1,000 Close Circuit Television security cameras, CCTV, to beef up…
Amosun Calls Ogun NASS members Agents Provocateur in a letter
Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta The Crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Ogun State is far from over as…
Muazu takes oath as PDP chairman
Nigeria ruling Peoples Democratic Party has sworn in former Governor of Bauchi State, Adamu Mu’azu as its acting national chairman.…
INEC plans retreat for 2015 polls, seeks US assistance
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) plans to hold a retreat soon, to discuss how to ensure a free and…
Absence Of Prosecutor Stalls Atuche’s Re-Arraignment
The re-arraignment of the former BankPHB Managing Director, Francis Atuche, and the former managing Director of Spring Bank, Charles Ojo,…
CHAN 2014: Nigerians Hail Super Eagles
Football loving Nigerians have described the Super Eagles’ defeat of South Africa’s Bafana Bafana at the ongoing Africa Nations Championship,…
Nigeria, Not Yet A Democracy
By Power Ziakede Aginighan In spite of the posturing of Nigeria’s political parties as democratic or progressive, none of them…
South Africa appoints judge for Pistorius trial
South Africa’s Department of Justice on Monday in Cape Town confirmed that 66-year-old judge, Thokozile Masipa, would preside at the…
On Fashola’s Top Global Thinkers Listing
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The recent listing of Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola among 100 Top Global Thinkers for 2013…
Tukur’s Forced Resignation And PDP’s Decline
Last Wednesday’s forced resignation of Bamanga Tukur, the seventh Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 15 years, is…