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Jonathan delegates Okonjo-Iweala to present Budget 2014

President Goodluck Jonathan has delegated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy to present…

PDP fumes over defection of members to APC

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is fuming over the defection of 37 members of House of Representatives elected on…

Rivers lawmakers sign peace pact with police

Twenty-two lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly have voluntarily signed a peace deal issued by the Rivers State…

EFCC debunks reports on its financial status

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday described as untrue recent newspaper reports that one of its officials said…

My encounter with Iyabo Obasanjo, by Osoba

Chief Olusegun Osoba, former governor of the western Nigerian state of Ogun has confirmed that he met Iyabo Obasanjo, the…

South Africa’s powerful union wants Zuma to quit

The influential National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), on Wednesday in Boksburg near Johannesburg called for the resignation…

PDP massive losses, APC massive gains

Executive Council members in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa today formally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, to team up…

Doctors Begin Warning Strike

Doctors in public hospitals this morning withdrew their services in compliance with a directive of their association to embark on…

APC Chieftain Lambasts Iyabo Over Comments On Obasanjo

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Lagos State interim Assistant Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief…

37 PDP Reps Join APC

Thirty-seven members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the House of Representatives, this morning, defected to the All Progressives…

4 Jolly Friends Die In Auto Crash

Barely one week to Christmas, four friends returning home after enjoying themselves at a night club in Ikeja died in…

Confab Holds Early Next Year —Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday that all necessary preparations are being made to ensure that the proposed national conference…

Children Celebrate An Icon

Students, friends and family honour Professor J.P. Clark on his 80th birthday That Professor J.P. Clark is unarguably one of…

Hundreds die in South Sudan shootout

Hundreds of people have died and up to 20,000 others have fled to UN bases in days of fierce fighting…

Teen robbery accused says he joined gang for Xmas money

Jamiu Yisa An Eighteen year old, identified as Lanre Otunola has been arrested for joining two other suspected robbers who…

Stemming Judicial Rot

Professor Wahab Egbewole expresses grave concern about corruption in the judiciary and offers a recipe on how the tide can…

APC Has No Integration Problem

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lai Mohammed speaks to FOLARIN ADEMOSU on the merger between…

Obasanjo liar, megalomaniac, hypocrite, says daughter

The first daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo, has ruled out further communication with her father till death, describing…

400-500 injured in South Sudan clashes, says UN official

Between 400 and 500 bodies have reportedly been taken to hospitals in South Sudan’s capital after clashes between rival army…

Oil Worker’s Wife, Pastor-Lover Paraded For Murder

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The police in Benin have paraded a Pastor and the wife of Mr. Isonguyo Victor, a Deputy Manager…

APC vows to resist disenfranchisement of supporters

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC Tuesday warned that it will resist attempts to disenfranchise voters in…

India-based Nigerian bizman charged by NDLEA

.28 year old wealth sparks suspicion of drug business The Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in the eastern city of…

African migrants protest in Israel

Nearly 200 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally demonstrated Tuesday in Jerusalem against being housed at a new open…

Kidnapper of 6-year old boy jailed 5 years

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in the Nigerian Federal Capital territory, Abuja on Tuesday sentenced one Umar Goni to five years’…

1000 African migrants blocked from crossing into Spain

Security forces averted an attempt by about 1,000 migrants to rush a towering, triple-layer border fence separating Morocco from the…

FGN-ASUU Agreement 2013

The FGN-ASUU agreement brokered by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress. Please download the three-page document here.…

Nigeria unveils locally made drone

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria unveiled its own drone on Tuesday, appropriately named “GULMA,” (Hausa word for gossip). The unveiling was done…

Explosion Rocks Rivers Deputy Governor’s Office

The political situation in Rivers State is getting messy by the day as an improvised explosive device was thrown at…

Turkey detains ministers’ sons over bribery

Turkish police detained the sons of three cabinet ministers and several high-profile businessmen on Tuesday in a sweeping probe into…

Thousands flee as rival troops battle in South Sudan

JUBA, December 17, 2013 (AFP) – Rival troops were locked in fresh battles in South Sudan’s capital on Tuesday in…