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Maku condemns media coverage of Abuja bombings

Nigeria’s minister of information, Labaran Maku has described as “unethical, unprofessional and insensitive’’, the manner some sections of the media…

Idris Wada dissolves cabinet

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state on Wednesday sacked all his commissioners. Mr Jacob Edi, Special Adviser to the Governor…

Woman accused of baby theft remanded in prison

A Nigerian Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo state has ordered a petty trader to be remanded in…

Abuja blasts: Families of victims claim bodies for burial

Family members of persons who died in Monday’s bomb blasts in Nyanya trooped to the National Hospital Abuja on Wednesday…

Two children, aged 4 and 6, drown in Ebonyi pond

Two children of the same parents drowned in a pond at Enwugba village in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi.…

Jonathan summons emergency security council meeting

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has summoned a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the growing terrorism and insecurity…
Vice President Kashim Shettima

Shettima offers N50m reward to save kidnapped school girls

Governor Kashim Shettima of the beleaguered Borno state, in northeast Nigeria has offered 50 million naira ($300,000, 215,000 euros) reward…

Troops pursue Boko Haram kidnappers of school girls

Nigerian soldiers are on the trail of Boko Haram gunmen who kidnapped about 100 girls from a secondary school in…

Patience Jonathan wants Borno abducted girls released

Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has called for the release of the 100 school girls abducted by insurgents…
Ebenezer Alabi, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, dump party over alleged extortion

Oyedepo elected Kwara PDP chairman

Iyiola Oyedepo, a legal practitioner, has emerged Kwara State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Senator Bernabas Gemade, the…

Police Beef Up Security In Lagos

Cyriacus Izuekwe Ahead of the forthcoming Easter festivities and Lagos State Black Heritage Carnival, the Lagos State Police Command has beefed…

Keyamo’s absence stalls Fani-Kayode’s trial

The absence of the prosecutor has stalled the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, before a Federal…

Fashola Vows To Tackle Goitre Epidemic

Lagos State Government has vowed to control the incidence of Goitre attack by taking on the disease frontally through surgical…

Woman Stabs Co-Tenant Over Bathroom Key

Paul Iyoghojie A 32 year-old woman, Rahman Raliat, has been arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria,…

6,000 Soldiers, Cops To Guard World Economic Forum Delegates

The World Economic Forum on Tuesday said its Africa summit will be held in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, next month despite…

Lagos Denies Attempting To Kill Adegboruwa

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has denied attempting to assassinate Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the human rights lawyer who sued…

15 Out Of 100 Kidnapped Girls Escape

Reports say 15 out the 100 schoolgirls kidnapped Monday evening by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists from a school in…

Seven dead in fresh herdsmen clash in Taraba

The Taraba Police Command has confirmed the death of seven persons in the violence that broke out overnight in Wukari,…

APC says Jonathan insensitive, hardhearted

.The opposition slams President for embarking on political campaign a day after a bomb disaster in Abuja The All Progressives…

Two dead, 295 missing as ferry sinks in South Korea

South Korea has said that two people were killed and more than 100 missing after a ferry capsized at sea…

Confab delegates condemn kidnap of 100 school girls

Delegates at the National Conference have condemned the kidnap of over 100 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno state. The…

Pope appoints Odetoyinbo bishop Abeokuta Diocese

Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Peter Kayode Odetoyinbo as the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Abeokuta Diocese. The position became…

Lady Apostle Ukpabio under fire in UK

Rights campaigners in the United Kingdom have urged the government to ban Nigerian pentecostal preacher, Lady Apostle Helen Ukpabio from…

Analysis: Pistorius contradicts himself in the dock

Oscar Pistorius did himself more harm than good when he took the witness stand, say South African lawyers. Throughout five…

Brazil’s scientists clone goat to treat rare disease

Scientists in Brazil have genetically modified a goat to produce milk with an enzyme to treat a rare genetic disorder,…

Abuja blasts: NEMA wants blood donors as one more person dies

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Twenty four hours after the fatal attack masterminded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents at a Bus…

In Algeria, Bouteflika rallies voters, opponents smell fraud

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika urged Algerians to defy boycott calls and vote in Thursday’s election, as his rival Ali Benflis said…

No mass burial for Nyanya blast victim – FG

Senator Bala Mohammed, FCT Minister has said there would be no mass burial for victims of Monday’s explosion in Nyanya,…

EFCC recovers N4.3bn from Oil Subsidy Suspects- Lamorde

Ibrahim Lamorde, Executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today disclosed that the Commission has recovered N4.3billion…

Kwankwaso never voted for me – President Jonathan

Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano President Goodluck Jonathan has taken a swipe at Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state, accusing him of…