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Berlusconi expelled from Italian parliament

Italy’s parliament on Wednesday expelled Silvio Berlusconi over a tax fraud conviction in a humiliating vote that will not be…

Kenya president rejects gag media law

Kenya’s president on Wednesday rejected a controversial media bill passed by parliament that critics have slammed as an attempt to…
Kano destroys 25 trucks of beer despite receiving billions as VAT

Nigeria’s Sharia police destroys 240k bottles of beer

The local police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer, equivalent of…

PDP rebels say merger with APC not a ‘done deal’ yet

The Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) splinter group said it had not formally merged with the All Progressives…

Niger-Delta groups give ultimatum for Dokubo-Asari’s release

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Niger Delta People Salvation Front, NDPSF, as well as the Niger-Delta People Volunteer Force, NDPVF, two groups…

Dead man given post in Delta state

JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba The list containing names of nominees as members of the Delta State Tourism Board sent by governor Emmanuel…

Oshiomhole model for good governance, says Gowon

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has described the administrative style of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as a model…

Tinubu: Balance of power shifts to opposition

Former Governor of Lagos and one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress told Al-Jazeera Wednesday night that…

Triple jump in Nigerian students in UK universities

The number of Nigerians studying for a degree in the UK trebled in just eight years, according to new statistics.…

PDP expels Oyinlola, Baraje, Jaja

Ayo Oluokun/Abuja Former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has been expelled from the Peoples Democratic Party, despite his…

Mali Ex-Coup Leader Detained

Amadou Sanogo, who led a March 2012 coup in Mali, was detained Wednesday for questioning by a judge investigating alleged…

How I Survived Breast Cancer —Abimbola Fashola

Wife of Lagos State Governor, Dame Abimbola Fashola, has narrated how she escaped the dreaded breast cancer. Speaking at a…

Nigerian Gangsters Jailed 36 Years In UK

Two Nigerian members of a deadly drug gang in the United Kingdom have been jailed by a court in west…
Hisbah

On Patrol With Hisbah, Kano’s Morality Police

Six men in green uniform stand in the back of a pick-up truck in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, on the…

Yakasai, Zorro Laud Defection Of PDP Governors To APC

Notable Nigerians have continued to laud the defection of aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors to the All Progressives Congress,…
Ethiopian Airlines not FAAN bans 'Ghana-Must-Go' Bags-Regulator(Photo)

50,000 Ethiopian workers in Saudi Arabia sent home

Ethiopia has flown home over 50,000 citizens in Saudi Arabia after a crackdown against illegal immigrants in the oil-rich state,…

Nasarawa APC Loses Members To PDP

You lose some, you gain some…Twenty-four hours after five PDP governors, 3 former governors, senators  and House of Representatives abandoned…

Silent Assembly

A church convention for the deaf holds in Benin City Two of the three auditoriums were packed with people numbering…

Residents’ Registration Is Not For Taxation Purpose

Ms Olayinka Fashola, Chief Executive Officer/General Manager of Lagos State Residents’ Registration Agency, LASRRA, recently spoke with journalists on the…

The Jonathan Police Force

With its unfettered crackdown on the opponents of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigeria Police is making a passable imitation of…

Anambra Poll: APC Set For Protest At INEC, Dares Police

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced it will stage a peaceful procession to INEC headquarters in Abuja on Thursday…

Amaechi: Why I Joined The APC

Rivers State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum,  Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that he joined the All Progressives…

Education ministry workers protest unpaid allowances

Placard carrying workers of the Federal Ministry of Education locked out both the minister and the permanent secretary as they…

Gulak: PDP not threatened by APC, PDP rebels merger

The Nigerian Presidency on Tuesday said that it was not threatened by the defection of the splinter group in the…

Syrian engineer abducted in Nigeria

The government of the southern Nigerian state of Delta has confirmed the kidnap of an expatriate engineer, Mr Haitham Jamarkami…

Sule Lamido has not left PDP, say aides

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state has dissociated himself from the merger of the PDP group, led by Abubakar Baraje…

Gunmen steal 20 camels

The Police Command in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara on Tuesday confirmed the stealing of 20 camels by suspected…
Bayero University Kano (BUK)

Pro chancellors order universities to reopen

The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities on Tuesday called for the immediate re-opening of all shut down universities across…

Goat delivers human-like kid

The sleepy town of Ogotu-Ekiti in Ekiti SouthWest Local Government Area, of western Nigeria was on Tuesday thrown into confusion…

PDP not perturbed by APC, says Metuh

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the peace process initiated by President Goodluck Jonathan to bring the Baraje-led…