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IGP Orders Tight Security at Places of Worship

Ayorinde Oluokun/ Abuja As churches and other religious groups are getting ready for special programmes to usher in the new…

New Year Glitch: Russia’s Putin delivers two speeches

Russians on Tuesday heard two different versions of President Vladimir Putin’s New Year’s address after a “technical glitch” meant some…

Australia, Japan, Hongkong mark 2014 with dazzling fireworks

(AFP) – Sydney kicked off New Year celebrations with a dazzling fireworks display, the first in a wave of pyrotechnics…

CAR refugees block runway

(Reuters) – Thousands of people caught up in fighting in Central African Republic blocked the runway of its international airport…

Cocaine: Togo arrests Angolan

An Angolan citizen who ingested 58 capsules containing 700 grammes of cocaine was arrested in Lome on Tuesday, according to…

Ajimobi sacks boards, pledges interest free loan in New Year

.Traders to get free credit in New Year Deal GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the western Nigerian state of…

Aregbesola presents N216bn Budget For 2014

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Tuesday in Osogbo presented a budget of N216 billion for the 2014 fiscal year…

Jonathan welcomes Nigerians to new century of amalgamation

Text of a NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO THE NATION FROM PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN Dear Compatriots, I greet and felicitate…

Citizens to the leaders: ‘Our New Year messages to you’

Goodbye 2013. Welcome 2014. Nigeria’s political and religious leaders have been issuing forth a plethora of new year messages to…

Court Strikes Out Suit Against Nigeria’s Governors

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday struck out a suit seeking to stop the 36 state governors…

Brig. Olawunmi new boss of NYSC, Waziri chairs TCN

The Federal Government on Tuesday appointed Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawunmi as the new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).…

Mauritania to set up slavery tribunal

Mauritania is to set up a special tribunal to prosecute suspects accused of involvement in slavery, state media said on…

Tinubu raps Jonathan over missing $11billion, calls for change

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged Nigerians to embrace his party, as…

Tambuwal charges INEC to get acts together

The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal on Tuesday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission…

Welcome 2014

May all your wishes for 2014 come to pass. May all your endeavours in the new year come to a…

APC To Nigerians: Change Is Imminent!

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians that the party is ready, willing and determined to make all the…

Indian High Commission To Hold Exhibition

The High Commission of India will hold a 3-day Indian Products and Services Exhibition (IPASE-4) on January 16-18, 2014. The…

Oduah To Spend N800m On Vehicles

Nigeria’s embattled Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, will spend at least N800 million on vehicles in 2014, after splashing N643…
NAPTIP operatives rescue nine pregnant women from a baby factory located in one of the sprawling estates in Ushafa area of FCT

Doctors Force Girls To Deliver Babies For Sale

In their desperation to satisfy their customers, some medical doctors force girls to deliver prematurely. The Commissioner of Police, Imo…

South Sudan rebels take key town

South Sudanese rebels battled their way to the center of the strategically important town of Bor on Tuesday and were…

French priest kidnapped in Cameroon released

Georges Vandenbeusch, the French priest kidnapped in northern Cameroon last month by Boko Haram gunmen, has been released, the office…

Lagos Assembly delays passage of budget

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria could not hide their confusion and disappointment on…

Worm eating Chinese loses wife

Pan Yizhong reacting as he eats worms during an eating race in Liuyang in China’s central province of Hunan. Pan…

Nigerian troops kill 56 Boko Haram militants

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Monday said that 56 terrorists were killed in a major offensive at Alafa Forest in…

Reps member hints at more defections to APC

Member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara (APC- Tafawa Balewa/Bogoro Federal Constituency) in Bauchi State, said the…

70 killed in multiple attacks on Kinshasa, flights cancelled

KINSHASA(AFP) – Congolese security forces repelled a wave of coordinated attacks in the capital Kinshasa and other cities on Monday,…

Political turmoil costs Turkey $100b

ANKARA (AFP) – The political crisis engulfing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cost the economy $100 billion, a…

Abia government to build seaport, airport

Gov. Theodore Orji of the eastern Nigerian state of Abia, on Monday, said the proposed Umuahia Airport and a seaport…

Obodo, Nigerian killed in Gao, buried in hometown

Simeon Obodo, the 35-year old Nigerian who was killed in Gao, India, on 30 October, has been buried in his…

Al-Mustapha dismisses Obasanjo’s comments over acquittal

MADUABUCHI NMEIBEH/Kano Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer to Nigeria’s erstwhile maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha, on Monday faulted…