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Adamawa Election: Seven contest APC guber slot
Reverend Phineas Padio, the Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa, said the Sunday’s primary elections of the party…
Boko Haram forces Adamawa University to shut down
The authorities of Adamawa State University, Mubi, in north east Nigeria has announced indefinite closure of the institution due to…
Daniel accuses Amosun of selling Ogun farmland
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Former governor of Ogun state and a chieftain of the Labour Party, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has again thrown…
Nigeria GDP appreciates, stands at 6.54% in 2nd quarter
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Sunday that the growth rate of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood…
Nigeria begins Davis Cup promotion race
Nigeria will start its quest for promotion to the World Group II of the Davis Cup as the quartet of…
Chukwumerije qualifies for taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester
By Taiwo Adelu After missing out of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Grand Prix in China and managed to make…
Table Tennis: Nigeria’s Quadri Moves To No 73 In World Ranking
By Taiwo Adelu From being ranked 257 in February this year, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri became the biggest mover in the…
Adamawa Elections: Atiku calls for meeting of stakeholders
Former Vice President and a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has called for an urgent meeting…
Hajj: Shehu appeals to FG to allow Borno airlift
The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai, has appealed to the Federal Government to allow the airlift of intending…
Shelve proposed strike, Oyo govt tells NASU
The Oyo State Government has appealed to members of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) in its secondary schools to shelve…
Amosun mourns Dimgba Igwe, commiserates with Sun Newspapers
By Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, southwest, Nigeria has joined other Nigerians to commiserate with the family…
No fight between police and civil defence – Police PRO
The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Emmanuel Ojukwu, on Sunday said there was no rift between the Police and the…
Boko Haram: Jonathan to hold talks with Chad president
President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Ndjamena Monday for talks with his Chadian counterpart, President Idriss Deby on how to…
Adamawa Election: Disappointed PDP aspirant resigns to fate
Dr Umar Ardo, one of the aspirants who participated in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for Adamawa governorship by-election…
Six die of food poisoning as Imam drowns in Sokoto
Six members of the same family have reportedly died as a result of suspected food poisoning in Awilkiti village of…
2015 Election: I didn’t endorse Lamido for presidency – Babangida
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger state has denied endorsing his Jigawa state counterpart, Governor Sule Lamido for…
EFCC declares banker wanted over N6.2billion fraud
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared a banker, Godswill Oyegwa Oyoyou, an Information Technology…
Oil theft: Ijaw Youths Council tasks Naval Chief to tackle menace
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), a socio-cultural organisation in the Niger Delta, has urged the Chief of Naval Staff to…
Terrorism: Borno sets up health task force for victims
The Borno state government said on Sunday that it had established a mobile task force on health to provide medical…
NSCDC gathers intelligence report on APC North-West meeting
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Sokoto state said it had already deployed some personnel to gather…
Obama sorry for golfing after Foley death
United States President Barack Obama now admits that his decision to play a vacation round of golf immediately after addressing…
Top Saudi cleric urges Muslims to fight IS jihadists
Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has urged Muslims to confront the “oppressive” Islamic State jihadist group if it fights Muslims after…
Hamilton bites into Rosberg’s lead after Italy drive
Two weeks after their collision at the Belgian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were on speaking terms again…
Christians fear persecution from Boko Haram rampage
Christians in northeast Nigeria are paying a heavy price at the hands of Boko Haram, even if they are not…
PDP wins Niger East senatorial bye-election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Dr Shem Zagbai of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of…
Ten feared dead in Colombia plane crash
Colombian authorities said there was little chance of finding survivors after a small plane with 10 people on board crashed…
Heavy fighting threatens Ukraine ceasefire
Gunfire and heavy shelling rocked a key frontline city in eastern Ukraine overnight, raising fears Sunday that a tenuous truce…
US launches first strikes in Iraq Sunni Arab heartland
The United States launched its first air strikes in Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland, bombing jihadists near a key dam on…
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Qatar confirms holding Britons probing World Cup labour
Qatar has confirmed it is holding two British researchers who had been probing the labour conditions of migrants building facilities…
Tennis legend Navratilova proposes to girlfriend on TV
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova got down on one knee and proposed to girlfriend Julia Lemigova at the US Open on…