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Ladipo Market To Be Shut Saturday for Voters Card
Cyriacus Izuekwe The leadership of Ladipo Auto Spare Parts market in Mushin Lagos state, Western Nigeria has ordered the closure…
Scottish nationalists name new leader to maintain independence fight
Scotland’s ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) on Friday crowned a new leader to build on a surge of support following…
Boko Haram turns robust trading town to ghost town
A deathly silence hangs over the once lively trading town of Amchide in the far north of Cameroun, abandoned to…
Nigeria’s Air force chopper carrying weapons, crashes
A Nigerian air force helicopter burst into flames midair and crashed near Modibo Adama University of Technology in Yola, Adamawa…
Drug makers arrested in India over sterilisation deaths
Indian police have arrested the head of a drug manufacturing company and his son on suspicion of destroying evidence related…
Media watchdog urges Saudi to free cyber activists
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Saudi authorities Friday to drop charges against dissidents jailed in recent months over…
World Bank warns of calamity if Ebola lessons are ignored
Millions of lives could be lost in a global pandemic if the international community repeats its tardy response to West…
I’m Not Going Into Politics, says City People Boss
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The chairman and editor-in-chief of City People magazine, Mr. Seye Kehinde has declared that he is not dabbling…
Israel removes age restriction on Jerusalem mosque
Men of all ages will be allowed to attend the main weekly Muslim prayers Friday at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque…
Slump In Oil Prices: A Progressive Way Out, By Bola Tinubu
Awash in the great tide of politics, we must not forget why politics can be a noble endeavor. It leads…
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…