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Boko Haram invades two towns in Adamawa
Scores of Boko Haram fighters on Thursday invaded two towns in northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state after hunters and civilian vigilantes…
Enyeama, Okagbare Win Big At Nigeria Sports Award
Damilare Okunola Nigeria’s goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama and sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare were the shining stars at the Nigeria Sports Award…
Jonathan replies Amaechi, plans to fix Rivers roads
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt President Goodluck Jonathan seems to have found a reply to Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s accusation that he has…
Wike Imposition: We’ll beat PDP silly, says Rivers APC
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that it will beat the…
2015: Dimeji Bankole throws money at commuters, Okada riders
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta What could be described as a popularity test played itself out Thursday evening at Kuto roundabout, Abeokuta, the…
HIV-positive man rapes lover’s 2 daughters
A 32-year old mason, Terkula Iorpuur was on Thursday remanded in prison by a Makurdi Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping…
NURTW begins patching of potholes on highways
Members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Panyam Branch, on Thursday embarked on patching of potholes on…
APC’ll Sweep Away Thieves In PDP Govt, says Kwankwaso
Adi Femi/Kaduna Kano governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday in…
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Senate amends, passes bill to make NFF autonomous
Nigerian lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill amending the way the country’s football association is run, which could reduce the…
Brazil legend Pele stable after kidney stone operation
Brazilian soccer legend Pele was in a stable condition Thursday following surgery for kidney stones, the Sao Paulo hospital treating…
Man bags 11yrs jail term for producing fake wine
By Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a middle aged man, Sunday Okeke to…
‘Grand Theft Auto’ gang sows terror in Moscow
Russia has been hunting a mysterious gang that has terrorised Moscow motorists in recent months with a series of murders…
Boko Haram: Professing A Transcendent Deity In Fact And In Illusion
Let us reason together folks. In Iraq and Syria, you have the Islamic State militants unleashing terror on people in…
Police hunt for tiger on the loose
Police and firefighters are desperately hunting for a tiger on the loose near Paris Thursday after a local resident spotted…
Berlusconi deal clears way for electoral revolution in Italy
Italy’s chronic political instability could soon be consigned to history after a deal between Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Silvio…
Liberia ends Ebola state of emergency
Liberia said on Thursday it had lifted a state of emergency imposed for its “very survival” three months ago as…
Facebook addresses privacy fears, ramps up advert targets
Facebook on Thursday made it easier for people to understand and control how their information is used at the leading…
English FA rejects FIFA World Cup report criticism
England’s Football Association on Thursday rejected claims by world governing body FIFA’s ethics committee that it violated bidding rules in…
Arsenal star Ozil out for another seven weeks
Arsenal’s German midfielder Mesut Ozil will be sidelined for a further seven weeks with a knee ligament injury, he announced…
7 wounded in bomb attack on Cairo metro
At least seven people were wounded when a bomb went off in a Cairo metro carriage on Thursday, security officials…
First Ebola treatment trials to start in west Africa
Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday it would launch clinical trials of three possible treatments for Ebola…
FIFA rules out 2018, 2022 World Cup revotes
A revote into the controversial awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was ruled out on Wednesday despite widespread…
Synagogue Tragedy: Lagos grants S.Africa clearance to repatriate bodies
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos state government has released the body of 54 South Africans who died in the collapsed building…
Curbing Boko Haram will determine success of 2015 election, says Gov. Aliyu
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger said on Wednesday in Minna that the success of the 2015 general elections would depend…
LAGBUS inducts 40 female bus captains
No fewer than 40 females were on Wednesday inducted as bus captain trainees of the LAGBUS Female Captains Training Scheme.…
Lagos deputy Speaker eyes 5th term
Taiwo Kolawole, Deputy Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, on Wednesday declared his intention to seek re-election into the legislature…
Ebola workers appeal to G20 leaders for more help
Health workers on the frontline of west Africa’s Ebola crisis pleaded with G20 leaders on Thursday for more resources, describing…
Two-year doping ban for Tajik defender Beknazarov
Tajikistan defender Khurshed Beknazarov was slapped with a two-year suspension for doping violations on Thursday after he tested positive during…
Cassava production will hit 51million metric tonnes by 2017
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Federal Government has revealed that its target is to increase cassava production by 2017 to 51 million…
PDP and INEC are Siamese Twins, says Tinubu
National leader of APC and former governor of Lagos, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has insinuated that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party…