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Kidnapped Rivers LGA Chairman whereabout still unknown
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt About a week after Chief Cassidy Ikegbudu, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ahoada East local Government council…
Guinness Nigeria Plc Announces Quarterly Result
Guinness Nigeria Plc, a subsidiary of Diageo Plc, has announced its quarterly results for the nine months period ended 31…
Oronto Douglas to be buried in Bayelsa May 2
Funeral rites for the late Oronto Natei Douglas, former Senior Special Adviser to the President on Research, Documentation, and Strategy,…
Reps kick back, says only N145bn provision was made for subsidy
Contrary to the speculation that fuel subsidy has been removed from the 2015 Appropriation Bill, the House of Representatives has…
South Sudan opposition leader under ‘house arrest’
A South Sudanese opposition leader who has spoken out against both sides in the civil war said Friday he appeared…
Guardiola’s Bayern to play Barca in Champions League semis
Pep Guardiola will return to face his former club Barcelona after the draw for the Champions League semi-finals on Friday…
Pacquiao-Mayweather weigh-in tickets cost $10
Promoters of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather mega fight have taken the unusual step of charging for the weigh-in after a…
Niger govt. assures of smooth hand over to APC
The Niger Government has assured the incoming All Progressives Congress (APC) governor-elect, Alhaji Abubakar Bello, of a smooth handover on…
FG to privatise BOA, BOI, NCX
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has announced its plans to commence the privatisation process of the Bank of Agriculture…
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Reps. pass N4.4trn 2015 budget, approves N953.62bn as debts service
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 2015 budget of N4.4 trillion with an appeal to the incoming administration…
APC will end poverty, not manage it – Tinubu
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress has assured Nigerians that the party will not manage the…
Don’t recycle old, overused politicians, Onovo tells APC
Chief Martin Onovo, Presidential Candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP) in the March 28 election, on Thursday urged the…
Crude Oil Crash: Nigeria may lose $10bn in 2015
Nigeria’s oil and gas revenue will drop by 10 billion dollars in 2015, if crude oil price average 53 dollars…
Reps want Presidential Scholarship Scheme suspended
Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Rep. Aminu Suleiman, has called for the Presidential Scholarship Scheme to…
Chechnya leader gives ‘shoot to kill’ orders on Russian forces
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Thursday ordered his troops to “shoot to kill” if they encountered any unauthorised Russian forces…
Xenophobia: AFBA to drag S.Africa to UN Security Council
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Members of the African Bar Association (AFBA), have threatened to file criminal complaints against the government of the…
Boko Haram chase Nigerian troops from Sambisa
Nigerian troops were forced to retreat from Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in the restive northeast after a landmine blast…
Murder: Lagos court frees APC chieftain, 2 others
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday in Lagos discharged and acquitted an APC chieftain, Dr Tola Kasali, 63,…
3.2 m Nigerians live with HIV
The Society for Family Health says more than 3.2 million Nigerians are still living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).…
Notorious OLX nanny releases another kidnap victim
The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday reunited Miss Henrietta Otobo, a 17-year-old kidnap victim with her family, Mr and…
Edo NLC run parallel congress, elect 2 chairmen
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The crisis rocking Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, deepened on Thursday, following the emergence of two factional chairmen at…
Mark visits Buhari, talk strategizes
Nigeria Senate President, David Mark has paid a courtesy visit to president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. The meeting which…
Pacquiao will beat Mayweather – George Foreman
Former world heavyweight champion George Foreman likes Manny Pacquiao over unbeaten Floyd Mayweather in their welterweight showdown next week in…
Fuel subsidy protest killing: Court adjourns to June 25
A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere on Thursday adjourned to June 25, the hearing in the case involving a…
Peace returns to Durban, South Africa – Consul-General
Mokgethi Monaisa, Consul-General, South African High Commission in Nigeria, says the violence in Durban has come to an end and…
Jonathan orders removal of his campaign posters
Ahead of the May 29 Presidential inauguration, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday ordered the removal of the campaign billboards, banners…
Traditional ruler in possession of police rifle detained in Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The police in Benin have arrested and detained the traditional ruler of Sasaro, a community in Akoko-Edo local…
Danish striker suspended for biting police officer
Danish striker Nicki Bille Nielsen, who plays his club football in France for Evian, was handed a 60-day suspended sentence…
Adams Johnson charged with sex offences
Sunderland midfielder Adam Johnson has been charged with three offences of sexual activity with a child under the age of…
France hunt accomplices in foiled church attack
French police were hunting Thursday for possible accomplices to an Algerian student whose plan to attack churches was foiled when…