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37 PDP Reps Join APC
Thirty-seven members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the House of Representatives, this morning, defected to the All Progressives…
4 Jolly Friends Die In Auto Crash
Barely one week to Christmas, four friends returning home after enjoying themselves at a night club in Ikeja died in…
Confab Holds Early Next Year —Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday that all necessary preparations are being made to ensure that the proposed national conference…
Children Celebrate An Icon
Students, friends and family honour Professor J.P. Clark on his 80th birthday That Professor J.P. Clark is unarguably one of…
Hundreds die in South Sudan shootout
Hundreds of people have died and up to 20,000 others have fled to UN bases in days of fierce fighting…
Aviation, Safety And The Travails Of An Amazon
Title: THE BIG CONSPIRACY: The Travails Of A Progressive Safety Regulator In A Not-So-Progressive Aviation Industry Author: FOLASHADE ODUTOLA Reviewer:…
A Return To A Season Of Anomie
There are some events which, over the last 50 years or so, remain indelible in the memory of those who…
A Cleansing Mission
Kano State Hisbah Board steps up arrest of prostitutes, drug abusers and indecent dressers in its renewed war on moral…
For Nigerian Youths
Peter Akinola, former primate, Anglican Church of Nigeria, establishes a vocational centre to help Nigerian youths Though he would consider…
Teen robbery accused says he joined gang for Xmas money
Jamiu Yisa An Eighteen year old, identified as Lanre Otunola has been arrested for joining two other suspected robbers who…
Stemming Judicial Rot
Professor Wahab Egbewole expresses grave concern about corruption in the judiciary and offers a recipe on how the tide can…
Family Planning To The Rescue
Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative spearheads family planning in Nigeria to reduce maternal and infant mortality When Angela, a middle-level…
AfricaMagic Has Created Opportunities For Filmmakers
As AfricaMagic celebrates its 10th anniversary, Abiola Alabi, Managing Director, M-Net Africa, tells FUNSHO AROGUNDADE how the range of channels…
APC Has No Integration Problem
Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lai Mohammed speaks to FOLARIN ADEMOSU on the merger between…
A Formidable Brand?
By Ademola Adegbamigbe I read it thrice. If it were to be an original and if it should come under…
Mandela: A Long Walk To The Emancipation Of Man
By Osuolale Alalade The transition of the Madiba on 5 December, 2013 into an icon of the ages ushered in…
Obasanjo liar, megalomaniac, hypocrite, says daughter
The first daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo, has ruled out further communication with her father till death, describing…
US lottery jackpot swells to near-record $636 million
Frantic Americans snapped up $1 lottery tickets on Tuesday as the Mega Millions jackpot swelled to $636 million, making it…
400-500 injured in South Sudan clashes, says UN official
Between 400 and 500 bodies have reportedly been taken to hospitals in South Sudan’s capital after clashes between rival army…
Oil Worker’s Wife, Pastor-Lover Paraded For Murder
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The police in Benin have paraded a Pastor and the wife of Mr. Isonguyo Victor, a Deputy Manager…
APC vows to resist disenfranchisement of supporters
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC Tuesday warned that it will resist attempts to disenfranchise voters in…
Cholera kills 5 in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Kano state government, northwest Nigeria, has spent N20 million to control the outbreak of cholera which affected 336…
India-based Nigerian bizman charged by NDLEA
.28 year old wealth sparks suspicion of drug business The Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in the eastern city of…
African migrants protest in Israel
Nearly 200 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally demonstrated Tuesday in Jerusalem against being housed at a new open…
Kidnapper of 6-year old boy jailed 5 years
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in the Nigerian Federal Capital territory, Abuja on Tuesday sentenced one Umar Goni to five years’…
Pirates kidnap 2 foreigners in fresh strike off Nigeria
Pirates have attacked an oil products tanker off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped its Ukrainian captain and a Greek…
1000 African migrants blocked from crossing into Spain
Security forces averted an attempt by about 1,000 migrants to rush a towering, triple-layer border fence separating Morocco from the…
FGN-ASUU Agreement 2013
The FGN-ASUU agreement brokered by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress. Please download the three-page document here.…
Nigeria unveils locally made drone
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria unveiled its own drone on Tuesday, appropriately named “GULMA,” (Hausa word for gossip). The unveiling was done…
Explosion Rocks Rivers Deputy Governor’s Office
The political situation in Rivers State is getting messy by the day as an improvised explosive device was thrown at…