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Army chief urges soldiers to maintain high security standards

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.- Gen. Kenneth Minimah, on Friday urged officers and men of the Nigerian Army to…

Liberian with Ebola-like symptoms dies in Nigeria

A Liberian man hospitalised in Lagos with Ebola-like symptoms has died, an official said Friday, without confirming the virus was…

Lagos urges residents to embrace state’s initiative to own houses

Lateef Ibirogba, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, on Friday called on Lagos residents to take advantage of…

Enforcement of new drivers licence by FRSC illegal

Some lawyers in Abuja on Friday said that the plan by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to begin enforcement…

FRSC deploys 15,000 personnel, 800 patrol vehicles for Sallah

The Federal Road Safety Commission on Friday deployed 15,000 operatives and 800 patrol vehicles across the highways to ensure a…

Army trains 67 NSCDC personnel on weapon handling

The Nigerian Army on Friday completed a one-month training for 67 personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps…

Terrorism: France commends commission on framework

France on Friday commended the framework developed at the just concluded conference of Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) to fight…

Suspect of Kaduna explosion targeted at Buhari arrested

The Defence Headquarters on Friday said that troops in Kaduna have arrested a man suspected to be connected with the…

Wikipedia blocks ‘disruptive’ edits from US Congress

Wikipedia has blocked editing rights from some computers at the US House of Representatives for “disruptive” revisions on the online…

Meet MTN Project Fame 7.0 Contestants

As MTN Project Fame Season 7 rolls out, we present to you the contestants that will dazzle the world with…

NIPR Moves Against Quacks

Nduka Uzuakpundu The authorities of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) are set to weed quacks out of the…

Total Transformation Of Osun Is My Priority, Says Aregbesola

Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, has reaffirmed that total transformation of the State of Osun…

N5m Frozen Food Seized At Seme Border

Simon Ateba The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Wednesday seized prohibited frozen poultry products worth N5 million in the bush…

Guard Hangs Self At Mr. Bigg’s

Nkem Taiye-Ulebor & Okanlawon Taiwo  Circumstances surrounding the suicide committed by a security guard at the popular eatery, Mr. Biggs,…

Aturu Buried

Human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, who died last week, will be buried today at Ogbagi, his birth place in Akoko,…

Police Boss Abubakar Set To Retire

Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, is set to retire as there are no indications that President Goodluck Jonathan would…

Kaduna Bombing: IGP sets up high-powered investigation team

In a move that is clearly unusual since the country began to experience bomb attacks, authorities of Nigeria Police on…

Little girl in Air Algerie crash was ‘scared of flying’

A French girl who died in the Air Algerie plane crash had confided to her teacher she was scared of…

2015 Election will be free and fair, Jonathan tells Intl community

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday night reassured the international community of his administration’s commitment to credible and peaceful elections in…

Lagos’ Quest To Raise Young Entrepreneurs

Kazeem Ugbodaga  Master Adeola Shobowale, 18, a student of Government Technical College, Agidingbi, came to the NECA House, Alausa, Ikeja…

Pregnant woman among dead as Gaza toll hits 815

Israeli fire on Gaza killed a pregnant woman and a senior Islamic Jihad figure Friday, taking the Palestinian death toll…

Ukraine president says no need to ditch government after PM quits

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked parliament to pass a vote of confidence in the government on Friday after the shock…

10 dead as cooking gas blast flattens Egypt houses

Ten people were killed, five of them children, when two neighbouring buildings collapsed after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in…

African Union troops kill Shebab commanders

African Union troops in Somalia said Friday they had killed two “senior” commanders of the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, in the…

Asylum-seekers held on high seas to be taken to Australia

A group of 157 asylum-seekers in custody on the high seas for weeks will be taken to Australia and held…

Biggest US–Africa Leaders Summit Opens on Monday

By Simon Ateba United States President, Barack Obama, will host 51 African heads of state and government at the US-Africa…

South Africa to host 2016 AIDS conference

South Africa’s port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum’s return to…

Gunmen kill 15 people travelling in central Afghanistan

Suspected Taliban gunmen stopped two vehicles in central Afghanistan and shot dead 15 passengers at the side of the road,…

Strike: UCH still offering emergency services

Prof. Temitope Alonge, Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital, Ibadan, says the institution is still offering emergency services to patients…

Plateau govt. sacks 1400 teachers over fake certificates

The Plateau Government on Wednesday said it had dismissed 1,400 teachers found with fake certificates in the ongoing biometric data…