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Edo’s Politics Of Blood-letting

With its deadly run-in, the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, slated for July, promises unfettered violence On 14 May,…

2 killed as gunmen attack cleric, muslim worshippers

An anti-Boko Haram muslim cleric in Potiskum, Yobe state in Nigeria’s north east has escaped death after gunmen opened fire…

Wikileaks founder awaits final verdict on extradition

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the…

Edo Gov Race: Candidate Threatens To Sue INEC

The Action Alliance (AA) governorship candidate in the 14 July, 2012 governorship election in Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, Ishaka Paul…

Salafists, Muslim hardliners on the rampage in Tunisia

Hardline Islamists, who have been running rampage in Tunisian towns, torching police stations and attacking bars, have sparked an outcry…

Mali in Chaos as North forms Islamic state

Mali’s embattled transitional government on Sunday rejected a rebel alliance’s declaration of an Islamic state in the vast desert north,…

4 poker players shot dead in Kano

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Unidentified gun men at the week end invaded a fun spot at Gada, Kwanra Cashew in Panshekara, Kano,…

Tinubu: Jonathan’s refusal to reinstate Salami judicial coup

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Nigeria’s leading opposition party, reviews the recent…

On Children’s Day, Nigerian group urges right to education

As Nigerians and the world celebrate the Children Day, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a letter to…

Zanzibar urges calm after protests for independence

Police on Tanzania’s archipelago of Zanzibar appealed for calm Sunday after violent clashes with protestors calling for the independence of…

AL–Makura Identifies The Major Causes of Tiv/Fulani Crises

The Governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al-Makura has revealed that the major problems causing the persistent conflict between…

Lagos Govt Condemns NUPENG’s Subterfuge Solidarity Strike

Lagos State Government on Saturday condemned the recourse to blackmail and arm twisting by the Nigeria Medical Association and National…

Cocaine ingestion kills Nigerian trafficker

Simon Ateba A 34-year old suspected drug trafficker has died after a wrap of cocaine he ingested burst in his…

Boko Haram kills Muslim cleric, prison guard

Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and a retired prison guard on Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, residents and a medic said,…

NUJ president pledges to boost newsmen’s welfare

Malam Mohammed Garba, the newly re-elected President of the NUJ, said that the new executive committee of the union will…

Scots begin move to break away from UK

With rousing speeches, patriotic music and support from actor Sean Connery, supporters of independence for Scotland launched a campaign on…

Gunmen strike in Borno, kill party leader

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead in Maiduguri Amodu Gombe, the Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Nafada Local…

Obasanjo, Mbeki call for South Africa, Nigeria cordiality

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerian and South African governments to ensure that relationship between the two countries…

Barca end season with trophy for Guardiola

Departing Barcelona coach, Pep Guardiola has hailed this season as his best despite missing out on both the La Liga…

UN team arrives Syria’s brutalized town of Houla

A team of UN observers deployed in Syria to monitor a shaky truce arrived on Saturday in the town of…

Garba re-elected NUJ president

The journalists union in Nigeria has re-elected Mallam Mohammed Garba as its President for another term. Garba of the Triumph…

5 suspected bandits killed in shootout with soldiers

Five suspected armed robbers were on Friday shot dead by the 243 battalion troops of the Nigerian Army, Manguno, in…

Nigerian student jailed for knife attack

An Upper Area Court in the Nigerian central state of Plateau Friday sentenced an 18-year-old student, Yahaya Mohammed to three…

Lagos Lifts restriction on movement Saturday

The Lagos State Government will not restrict movement of people and vehicles during Saturday’s environmental sanitation, the Commissioner for the…

Theodore Orji floors opponent at Supreme Court

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Abia state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji on Friday floored a fellow party chieftain who had…

US slammed over access denial to Wikileaks suspect

US rights activists Friday condemned a lack of disclosure in the case against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, saying there was…

Fulani, Tiv Farmers’ Feud To End Soon —Sultan of Sokoto

The Sultan of Sokoto and leader of Nigeiran Moslems, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad has promised to assist the government of Benue…

3 Policemen, 4 Others Killed In Bank Robbery

Three policemen and four other persons were killed on Thursday as robbers invaded a commercial bank in Ilasa-Ekiti, Ekiti East…

ACN Decries Activities Of Thugs On Rivers Roads

The Rivers State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, says the increasing number of thugs on roads and…