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Acting Gov. Umar wields the big axe

The Taraba state acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, has sacked the state Head of Service, Mr Augustine Bazing. Umar also…

Hello Maiduguri…phone lines buzzing again

Nigeria’s military on Tuesday restored the mobile phone service in the embattled city of Maiduguri, a day after a major…

Analysis: Boko Haram raid casts doubt on Nigerian army claims

A daring Boko Haram raid in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri was an embarrassing setback for the security forces,…

Yasser Arafat not poisoned, say French scientists

French experts have ruled out a theory that Yasser Arafat was killed by poisoning and believe he may have died…

Jonathan leaves for Paris to attend peace summit

A day after hundreds of Boko Haram militants attacked military bases in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of…

PDP Launches Aid Package For Widows

The Edo state chapter of Nigeria’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday in Benin launched an empowerment package for widows…

UNIJOS Will Reopen For Studies If ASUU Gives Orders

Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), UNIJOS, chapter said on Tuesday that classes would only resume in the institution…

Maiduguri Attack: APC Seeks New Strategy To Curtail Boko Haram

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned Monday’s deadly attack on military and other facilities in Maiduguri, saying it  was…

Iyayi: Wole Soyinka Calls For A Coroner’s Inquest

This afternoon, enraged by the mortuary photos of Prof. Festus Iyayi published exclusively in TheNEWS magazine, the Nobel Laureate, Prof.…

Anything Could Have Happened

Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, an Associate Professor of Economics and Chairman, UNIBEN chapter of ASUU, who was in the vehicle with…

Bariga APC Secretary Drops Dead in Lagos

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bariga Lagos State was thrown into mourning on Monday when one of its own,…

FG Bows To ASUU, N200b Paid Into CBN

Barely twenty four hours to the expiration of the 4 December ultimatum Federal Government gave members of the Academic Staff…

ASUU: We Are Not Aware Of Any N200b

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Dr. Nasir Fagge Issa, this morning disclosed that his union…

Okotie Attacked Over Comment On Catholics

The controversial statement credited to Rev. Kris Okotie of the Household of God Church, that Catholics all over the world…

Landlord Plucks Out Tenant’s Eye

A landlord who damaged one of the eyes of his tenants will know his fate tomorrow at the Ejigbo Magistrates’…

2015: The Big Headache

The defection of five governors of Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressives Congress threatens the party’s 14 years dominance of…

Iyayi: Murder Or Accident?

The nature of two holes on the late Professor Festus Iyayi’s body gives life to suspicions by his colleagues that…

It Is Clear That Iyayi Was Murdered

Sylvester Odion Akhaine, senior lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lagos State University and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Centre for Constitutionalism…

Iyayi’s death: What A Military Expert Says

The retired military officer held the photographs up and exclaimed that the deep gashes could not have been a result…

At 144th in the world, Nigeria sinks deeper in corruption index

Nigeria remains one of the most corrupt nations in the world, according to the latest report by Transparency International. In…

Tukur: PDP will not miss its former 5 governors

The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said that the five PDP governors who defected to…

Oshiomhole Donates N2m To Insulted Widow

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Monday donated two million naira to a widow he allegedly insulted while on an…

Official: 24 Boko Haram militants killed, 2 soldiers wounded

The Nigerian army said 24 Boko Haram militants were killed in the early Monday attack by the group against military…

ASUU: No retreat, No surrender

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has vowed to continue its five-month old strike, despite threats by the Federal…

20 soldiers, 2 copters destroyed in worst Boko Haram strike

Reports filtering out of the beleaguered Nigerian city, Maiduguri, have it that over 20 security operatives may have been killed…

Boko Haram: Ambulances carrying victims at Air Force base

Ambulances were seen at the Air Force base and the adjoining Ngomari neighbourhood carrying victims of the latest Boko Haram…

ASUU Alleges Bribe Of Members

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the federal government of taking money round campuses to influence some…

Nigerian Pilgrims Abscond In Israel

Five Nigerian pilgrims who went to Israel for this year’s pilgrimage have absconded. Two were from Lagos State while the…

24-hour curfew imposed after Boko Haram attacks Maiduguri

Boko Haram militants have staged dare-devil attacks overnight in Maiduguri, the north eastern Nigerian city, prompting military authorities Monday to…

Mandela’s grandson faces assault charge

South Africa will charge one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons with assault and brandishing a gun at another man, a prosecutor’s…