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Lagos alerts residents over impending flood
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has alerted residents living in the coastal and low line areas of the impending…
Violence against refugees disgusting – Merkel
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and her government spoke out on Monday against weekend’s violent protests against asylum seekers in the…
Journalist arrested over body armour
Thai authorities have arrested a Hong Kong-based photojournalist for carrying body armour and helmet. Anthony Kwan travelled to Bangkok to…
Allstars boss decries too much passion for foreign clubs
The President of the Allstars International, Lagos, Chief Ugochukwu Ugorji, has come out strongly to rally support for the growth…
APC lauds Service Chiefs for personally leading war against insurgency
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the Service Chiefs for showing leadership by example by personally taking charge of…
Australian woman gets $1.6m after she was wrongfully jailed for 10 years
A woman, who was found by a court to have been wrongly jailed for 10 years for attempting to kill…
Explosion rocks US military base
Pentagon Spokesman, Navy Comdr. William Urban, confirmed that an explosion occurred at the United States Army Sagami General Depot in…
Australia, Japan, China stocks tumble amid economic worries
Australian stocks plunged almost 4 per cent Monday wiping 60 billion Australian dollars (43.4 billion U.S. dollars) or two years…
FIRS: Fowler Fits Perfectly
By Adolphus Tiewei Perfect. That single word summed up my reaction to last Thursday’s announcement of Mr. Babatunde Fowler as…
A Pardon Well Deserved
The decision of the Nigerian Army to re-instate 2,500 soldiers and 102 officers who were dismissed and put on trial…
Nasarawa United end Kano Pillars’ 12-year unbeaten home record
Nasarawa United Football Club of Lafia on Sunday ended Kano Pillars’ 12-year unbeaten home record at the Sani Abacha Stadium…
Death toll in British air crash could rise to 11 – London police
London police said on Sunday that the number of dead in the crash of a military jet taking part in…
France honours Americans, Briton in train attack courage
President Francois Hollande bestowed France’s highest honour on a group of Americans and a Briton on Monday saying the whole…
Sunshine Stars overwhelm El-Kanemi Warriors 5-0
Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure on Sunday whipped El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri 5-0 in a week 25 match of…
5 Scientific reasons men should sleep naked
Only 12 percent of Americans sleep naked, according to a recent poll from the National Sleep Foundation. But that’s a…
Fashola sank borehole at N69.5m each; repaired rural road at N619m
Former Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, spent N139m on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja. The…
Diezani cheated Nigeria over $15b oil sale to India
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ajjampur R. Ghanashyam, has revealed the dubious practice by former Minister of Petroleum Resources,…
Ambode charges women to embrace vocational skills
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Sunday urged women to embrace vocational and skill acquisition to empower themselves and…
Buhari, Corruption and Party Loyalty
By Remi Oyeyemi “Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably…
UN Sec Gen meets governors amid tight security
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, on Sunday in Abuja, began his visit to Nigeria with a meeting with state…
Real Madrid fires blank on Benitez debut
Rafael Benitez’s reign as Real Madrid boss got off to a disappointing start as they were held to a goalless…
Let vulnerable Nigerians benefit from its riches, Ban Ki-moon tells governors
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon, on Sunday urged states and local governments in Nigeria to ensure that available resources…
Corruption Allegation: Amaechi has no bank account in Minnesota – APC
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the corruption allegations against immediate…
DHQ alerts the public on fake CDS Facebook accounts
Nigeria Defence Headquarters has alerted the general public of the existence of fake Facebook accounts claiming to belong to the…
Nigerian Air Force destroys two Boko Haram trucks
Two trailers suspected to be carrying logistics support to members of the Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) sect have been intercepted…
Kenyan trainers among 45 wounded in Somalia suicide bombing
Forty five people, including three Kenyan trainers from the AU peacekeeping mission to Somalia, have been wounded in a suicide…
AAG: Sports Commission sends athletes’ blood samples to South Africa
Al-Hassan Yakmut, Director-General, National Sports Commission (NSC), says it sent blood samples of athletes competing in the 11th All Africa…
2 die in auto crash
Two persons died while three others sustained injuries in an auto crash on Bauchi – Jos Road in Bauchi State…
Taskforce clears Oshodi, arrests 223 miscreants
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Taskforce) on Sunday, raided some black spots at the…
Buhari inaugurates hajj 2015 flight to Saudi Arabia
President Mohammadu Buhari on Sunday inaugurated Muslim pilgrims flight to Saudi Arabia for 2015. Buhari, represented by Gov. Nasir El-Rufai…