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INEC to engage Air Force, Navy personnel for 2015 elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission said it would engage the services of Nigerian Air Force, Navy and other security agencies…
50 dead in suicide blast at Afghan volleyball game
Around 50 people were killed and 60 others injured when a suicide blast ripped through crowds gathered to watch a…
Lewis Hamilton wins Abu Dhabi GP, claims world title
Lewis Hamilton was crowned the 2014 world drivers’ champion on Sunday after winning the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The…
Joy for Federer as Switzerland win Davis Cup
Roger Federer gave Switzerland its first Davis Cup title in Lille on Sunday by defeating Richard Gasquet of France in…
Ankle injury sidelines Dortmund’s Marco Reus until 2015
Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus will miss the rest of 2014, including Wednesday’s Champions League clash at Arsenal, after suffering his…
N97m Theft: Court adjourns case against Fidelity Bank Manager, Husband
By Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has adjourned till 28 November 2014, the trial…
Boko Haram kills 48 in fresh attack
Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria’s restive Borno State, near the border with Chad, the head of…
West Bank home torched in suspected settler attack
Suspected Jewish extremists firebombed a house in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, its mayor…
Religion and risk drive Islamic finance boom
When a Muslim cleric told Ahmad Salim that sharia law forbids paying interest, he returned his days-old loan to the…
Taraba Acting Governor appoints SSG
The acting Governor of Taraba, Alhaji Abubakar Danladi, has appointed Mr Timothy Kataps, as the Secretary to the State Government.…
IG denies giving orders for Tambuwal’s arrest
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has denied ordering the arrest of any person, including Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, involved…
JTF uncovers depot, trucks for stolen crude
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, said it had destroyed a depot for stolen…
Jonathan going down the drain of merciless history, says Sheikh Gumi
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, the Kaduna based muslim cleric said President Goodluck Jonathan has entered a cul-de-sac with the ruling Peoples…
In Israel, African illegals rap a bitter-sweet story
In the backstreets of a run-down Tel Aviv neighbourhood, three Sudanese immigrants blast hip hop from mobile phones and rap…
Facebook ‘newspaper’ spells trouble for media
Facebook’s move to fulfill its ambition to be the personal “newspaper” for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more…
Asiwaju Tinubu Nourishing Vipers In His Bosom
Back in the days, was when few men arrogated power to themselves via putsch and had our inalienable rights trampled…
Somali Islamists execute 28 non-Muslims on Kenya bus
Somalia’s Shebab Islamists on Saturday seized a bus in Kenya, executing 28 non-Muslim passengers in what they said was revenge…
Man United defeat impressive Arsenal
A Kieran Gibbs own goal and a Wayne Rooney strike saw Manchester United return to the Premier League’s top four…
Lionel Messi equals La Liga scoring record
Lionel Messi matched a 59-year-old record with his 251st La Liga goal to equal Telmo Zarra’s mark as the leading…
One Killed, Houses Razed In Edo Communal Clash
Jethro Ibileke/Benin An alleged leadership tussle at Aruogba community, in Oredo Local Government area of Edo State, on Saturday, resulted…
PDP chieftain arraigned for destroying Edo lawmakers residence
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr Odion Olaye has been arrainged before an Oredo Magistrate Court over…
Schalke’s Di Matteo weighs options for Chelsea
Schalke coach Roberto di Matteo is considering playing a five-man defence for Tuesday’s visit of his former club Chelsea to…
Security operatives invade Lagos APC secretariat, destroy materials
Armed security operatives on Saturday attacked the Lagos, western Nigeria office of the main opposition party in the country, the…
Germany to drop probe into US spying on Merkel
Germany is dropping a probe into the alleged tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone by US spies, due to…
APC warns police IG, Jonathan against arresting Tambuwal
Eromosele Ebhomele The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday warned that the reported plan hatched by the Presidency to arrest…
Tambuwal to police IG: I’m ready for your arrest
Eromosele Ebhomele Embattled Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has told the country’s police boss, Suleiman Abba, that…
90% of Nigerians with mental disorders don’t go to hospital
A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Femi Olugbile, on Friday said 90 per cent of Nigerians with mental disorders did not visit…
Obama urges ‘peaceful’ protests in Ferguson
US President Barack Obama urged calm Friday ahead of a grand jury decision expected to trigger protests in the restive…
Pacquiao relaxed as Algieri has weighty problem
Manny Pacquiao weighed in at 143.8lb Saturday for his welterweight world title defence, but his opponent Chris Algieri had trouble…
Liverpool not haunted by Palace memories, says Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers claims Liverpool won’t be affected by the painful memories of their disastrous meltdown against Crystal Palace when they…