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Charles Taylor bags 50 years in the slammer

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A UN-backed war crimes court sitting at Leidshendam, Netherlands sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison…

Australian,81, loses bid to stop wife rape trial

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An 81-year-old Australian man on Wednesday lost a bid to have charges that he raped his wife in the 1960s…

Lagos NBA to honour Tinubu

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Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (right) with a delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)…

Boko Haram militant arrested

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Nigerian troops have arrested a “high-profile” member of the Islamist group Boko Haram during a raid in the northern city…

Michele Obama makes literary debut with gardening book

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US First Lady Michelle Obama made her literary debut Tuesday with a book about the White House garden in her…

Renamed UNILAG stirs deep controversy

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Nigerians have been commenting on President Goodluck Jonathan’s renaming of University of Lagos as Moshood Abiola University. While some Nigerians…

Abiola’s son shocked by protest over UNILAG honor

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The family of the late Chief MKO Abiola, on Tuesday said that they were ecstatic over the renaming of the…

Corruption, Bane Of Nigerian Democracy, Says Abatemi-Usman

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Vice Chairman of Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has identified the seemingly endemic corruption, problem of…

NATIONAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON DEMOCRACY DAY, MAY 29, 2012

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Fellow Nigerians, One year ago, I was privileged to stand before you, to take the oath of office as President…

Boko Haram: Yakowa Assures Of Security

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Few hours after the police detonated a bomb in the state today, Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, has reiterated…

EX-Rector Sentenced To 3 Months Imprisonment

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A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, northcentral Nigeria, has sentenced the former Rector of College of Advanced…

UNILAG renamed Moshood Abiola University

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The University of Lagos, with the acronym UNILAG, will now be known as Moshood Abiola Univerity. President Goodluck Jonathan renamed…

Kaduna police detonates bomb

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Femi Adi/ kaduna Democracy Day in the Nigerian city of Kaduna would have been a bloody affair but for the…

Nigerian governor frees 235 prisoners

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Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State has ordered the release of 235 prisoners as part of activities marking his one…

Commission to monitor Nigerian prisons

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Mr. Ewa Udu, Head, Legal Unit of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) has said the commission will henceforth monitor the…

Pension scam: Accused persons trial stalled

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Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The resumed trial of former public servants before an Abuja High Court was on Monday stalled…

5 Nigerian lads win platinum at Science Olympiad

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Nigeria on Monday emerged best at the just-concluded third edition of the International Science Olympiad (ISO), winning five of the…

Rivers state plans tree planting

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The Rivers Government is embarking on a tree and shrub planting project to beautify and protect the environment, the state…

Doctors issue strike notice over Lagos colleagues

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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to prevail on the Lagos…

Governor slams rights groups over Bida polygamist

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The Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu, has criticised human rights groups for defending the Bida-based record polygamist, Alhaji Abubakar Masaba,…

Rivers ACN scores Governor Amaechi low

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The Rivers State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has said that Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s administration has not done…

Shot Nigerian Council boss flown to India

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Mr. Okpo Ekere, the Transition Committee Chairman of Mbo Local Government of Akwa Ibom who was mobbed by irate youths…

Varsity to honour Obasanjo, 2 others

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The Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH) Yola, has selected three distinguished Nigerians to be conferred with honourary degrees for…

40 die, 40 missing in Nigerian communal clash

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Forty people have died and forty declared missing in a communal clash between Ntan Obu-Ukpe in Odukpani Local Government Area…

PHOTONEWS: Ex-Attorney-General Turns Photographer

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Hugo Chavez records three million Twitter followers

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Controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez now has more than three million followers on Twitter, making him the most popular Latin…

Mandela moves back to ancestral Village

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Former South African president, Nelson Mandela will on Tuesday move back to his residence in his childhood village of Qunu,…

4 traders killed in Yola

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Less than 24 hours after gunmen attacked muslim worshippers in Potiskum, another set of gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead…

13 kids, 6 others die in Qatari mall fire

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A fire that erupted on Monday at a nursery in a main shopping centre in the Qatari capital killed 19…

CAR president becomes Celestial Church evangelist

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The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Francois Bozize, was elevated to the status of religious leader Monday, state…

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