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In Pictures: Okpekpe Race Photos

The second edition of the 10km Okpekpe race in Edo State graced by Governor Adams Oshiomhole and other dignitaries.

Jonathan holds presidential media chat Sunday

President Goodluck Jonathan will on Sunday 4 May 2014 at 7p.m. speak on current national issues and respond to questions…

ANC is in for a big shock – Opposition

South Africa’s leading opposition party, Democratic Alliance has said the ruling party African National Congress, (ANC) is in for a…

Association of telecoms operators seek govts assistance

The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) on Saturday appealed to Federal and States Governments to assist them…

Six dead, 19 missing as Bangladesh ferry sinks

Six people were dead and at least 19 others were missing after a ferry capsized Saturday when it was caught…

Insecurity: Jonathan is doing his best – Gowon

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), has urged Nigerians to support the Federal Government in its bid to…

Censors Board Action Absurd – Chimamanda Adichie

Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The author of,’ Half Of A Yellow Sun,’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has said the action of Nigerian Video…

Patience Jonathan to lead protest to Chibok

Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of the president, has promised to stage a protest match to Chibok, Borno, if the abducted…

South Korea ferry disaster death toll rises to 236

Eight more bodies were recovered Saturday from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month, reports said, amid concern…

US will do ‘everything possible’ to rescue Nigeria girls – Kerry

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do “everything possible” to help Nigeria deal with…

Ghana to supply free shoes to schoolchildren

The Ghanaian government has unfolded plans to supply free sandals and shoes to schoolchildren using the Defence Industrial Holding Company…

Egypt court jails 102 Morsi supporters for 10 years

An Egyptian court sentenced 102 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to 10 years in prison Saturday over protest…

National Confab receives memorandum for creation of Ogoja, Yemen states

. Ijebu, Ogoja old provinces not full states yet in Nigeria There were twenty four provinces in Nigeria, before independence.…

Nigerian woman gives birth on BA flight to London

A British Airways flight from Abuja to London has had to make an emergency landing on the Spanish island of…

OOU student shot dead by cultists

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A 200 level student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU,Ago Iwoye, Olawale Made,30, has been shot dead in a…

Tu Face Idibia in London for Afrobeat show

Tu Face Idibia on arrival at Heathrow Airport in London 2 May to to star in an Afrobeat live show…

Okorocha moves against street trading

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has charged the Imo Civil Guards to evacuate street traders on Douglas and other…

Ex-Delta Governor, Col. Dungs is dead

Retired Col. John David Dungs, former military governor of Delta, is dead, the deceased’s younger brother, Sunday Dungs, said on…

Ekiti, Osun polls: Accept defeat, INEC advises politicians

The INEC National Commissioner in-charge of South West, Prof. Lai Olurode, has advised politicians to have a mindset to accept…

Police jack up number of captured Nigerian schoolgirls

On a day President Goodluck Jonathan set up a panel to verify the number of captured Nigerian schoolgirls, in Chibok,…

Terrorists target a Sheraton hotel in Lagos, US warns

US diplomats in Nigeria on Friday claimed that “groups associated with terrorism” could be planning to attack a hotel in…

Governor Orji sacks council caretakers

Governor Theodore Orji of the eastern Nigerian state of Abia has sacked the transition committee chairmen for the 17 local…

Jonathan shuts Abuja for WEF

Nigeria’s Federal Government on Friday directed that all government offices and schools in Abuja should be closed down for the…

Kidnapped School Girls: Jonathan sets up fact-finding committee

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday set up a fact-finding committee to unravel the inconsistent and contradictory information on the abducted…

GDP rebasing was not done for optimism or pessimism – Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance on Friday said the of rebasing Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was neither for…

Erastus Akingbola fails to stop N47.1bn theft charge

An Ikeja High Court on Friday dismissed an application filed by Erastus Akingbola, former Managing Director of defunct Intercontinental Bank.…

Islamic Singer Ariyo Dies

Kayode Aponmade Popular Islamic music artiste, Alhaji Waheed Yusuf Ariyo otherwise called Waheed Ariyo is dead. He died early Friday…

Angry Youths Lynch Cop

Following alleged widespread illegal arrests by policemen serving in Anambra State Police Command, angry youths from Ogbunike community in Oyi…

4 Escape Death As Truck Crashes

Yusuf Muhammed Four people narrowly escaped death on Thursday at Abule-Egba, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, when a truck conveying cement…

Fire causes panic in UI

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN There was pandemonium on Friday at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo State, as…