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Healthcare services collapse in northern Borno state

Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria’s Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their…

David Mark says zone will back Jonathan in poll

The Senate President, David Mark, has pledged the support of the North Central zone of PDP to President Goodluck Jonathan…

Sultan urges Jonathan end killings in Northern Nigeria

Nigeria’s respected monarch, the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to use presidential powers to…

Chime rules out imposition of candidates for polls

Governor Sullivan Chime of the eastern Nigerian state of Enugu has said he has no plans to impose candidates as…

Sokoto buries indigene-non indigene policy

The northern Nigerian state of Sokoto said it has abolished the indigene and non-indigene policy in the state, a means…

Austrian, Italian on Malaysia plane list safe and sound

An Italian and an Austrian feared to have died on a Malaysia Airlines passenger aircraft that went missing in Asia…

2 South African cops caught on video brutalising Nigerian

. The latest is that the two cops will be charged to court Monday Two South African police officers who…

Thailand arrests Nigerian with drug hidden in anus

A Nigerian staying illegally in Thailand for 14 months has been arrested on both immigration and drug charges after officers…

Vietnam joins search for missing Malaysian plane

Vietnam launched a search effort Saturday after it said a Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 239 people lost contact with traffic…

Malaysian plane missing with 239 passengers

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing over the South…

Obama yet to redeem beer bet with Canada’s Harper

The United States defused a brewing, and cordial, crisis with Canada on Friday, after Prime Minister Stephen Harper joked that…

Police unveil 3 men wanted over Ejigbo tortured women

The Nigeria Police Force has unveiled the faces of the three suspects declared wanted in connection with the torture of…

Jigawa’s first female high court judge dies

The first female High Court Judge in Jigawa, Justice Nana Abdullahi, died on Friday. She was aged 54. Her husband,…

FRSC adamant on deadline for new car plate numbers

Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps Marshal, Mr Osita Chidoka, on Friday said the agency’s June 30 deadline for all motorists…

South Africa, Rwanda in diplomatic tit-for-tat

South Africa and Rwanda engaged in a diplomatic tit-for-tat today over accusations that Rwanda knew about the armed attack against…

Baraje says probe rumour smear campaign

Stephen Oni/ Ilorin A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has denied the rumour making…

Lagos denies owing ex-deputy governor Bucknor-Akerele

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has debunked an allegation credited to a former Deputy Governor of the State, Mrs.…

Funke Akindele, Others For Africa Magic Award

Funsho Arogundade As Africa’s film and television industry heavyweights arrive Lagos, Nigeria for the 2014 AfricaMagic Viewers’ Choice Awards, holding…

4 Fake Ogun Taskforce Officials Arrested

Yusuf Muhammed & Pius Fagbohun Four men who claimed to be working for the Ado Odo-Ota Local Government Council of…

ICC convicts Congolese warlord

The Congolese warlord Germain Katanga was on Friday convicted of being an accessory to crimes including murder and pillage committed…

Schumacher still in ‘wake-up phase’

Michael Schumacher remains in a “wake-up phase” from the coma he was placed in following a life-threatening skiing accident nearly…

Man survives on flies for two weeks

Stranded by floods and lost, a German backpacker survived for about two weeks in Australia’s inhospitable Outback on a diet…

Group to prevent poll rigging using mobile phone

A Nigerian group has developed a platform, NigeriaDecide, to monitor the coming elections and ensure the integrity of the results,…

Malaysian couple to hang for starving maid to death

A Malaysian couple have been sentenced to hang for murdering their Indonesian maid by starving her to death, according to…

Dalai Lama backs gay marriage

The celibate Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, has thrown his considerable moral weight behind gay marriage, condemning…

4 men flogged for homosexuality in Bauchi

An Islamic court in Bauchi, northern Nigeria on Thursday ordered four men to be flogged with horsewhips and fined after…

PDP flays APC manifesto as roadmap to anarchy

The PDP has described the manifestos of the APC as a roadmap to anarchy typical of all anti-democratic coalitions. Mr…

N17bn needed for 2016 Census

Nigeria’s National Population Commission (NPC) will require N17 billion to successfully conduct the 2016 national census, its chairman Mr Eze…

Nigeria shifts take-off of national conference

Nigeria has shifted by a week the inauguration of the National Conference, a talk-shop on the future of Nigeria that…

Osoba leads ex-governors to confab

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Former governor of Ogun State, in western Nigeria and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC,…