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Court Remands 2 Motorcyclists For Murder

An Akure Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded two commercial motorcycle riders (Okada men), Folorunso Aliu, 37, and Akinwale Ogunro, 30,…

Civil Defence Shuts Illegal Security Companies

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, says it has shut down over 65 private security companies for operating…

ASUP To Join ASUU Strike Friday

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, saysit  will  embark on an indefinite strike from Friday, 4 October, 2013 to…

Students’ Massacre: Our School Not Guarded —Provost

The Provost of Yobe State College of Agriculture where Boko Haram massacred at least 42 students of the college in…

Media Chat: The 5 Lies Of Jonathan

Efforts made by President Goodluck Jonathan to shield some obvious truths during the fifth Media Chat held last night on…

Okonjo-Iweala’s Dad Fight Over Throne

The  battle between Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo, father of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, and a royal family over the…

Fashola Opens West Africa’s Tallest Hotel

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos, built at a cost…

APC Appeals To Boko Haram To Ceasefire

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Boko Haram to immediately cease all attacks and embrace dialogue in the…

2 Principals In Soup Over Illegal Levies

Two Principals of junior secondary schools in Ilorin, Kwara State, central Nigeria, are in soup for allegedly imposing and collecting…

Sudan marchers want Al Bashir overthrown

About 1,000 people marched in the Sudanese capital calling for the overthrow of the government of President Omar Al Bashir,…

PDP denies APC allegation on poll rigging

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has no plans to rig the 2015 presidential and general elections as alleged by the…

Jonathan: ‘I won’t declare my re-election plan now’

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday evening declared that he was not going to make any categorical statement…

Kogi deputy governor unhurt in road accident

Mr. Yomi Awoniyi, the Deputy Governor of the central Nigerian state of Kogi on Sunday escaped unhurt in an accident…

Nigeria not a mistake, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday declared that the amalgamation of Nigeria by Lord Lugard was not a mistake and called…

Jonathan wants labour laws reviewed to tame ASUU

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday advocated a review of labour laws to curtail the excesses of the…

Atiku: Students massacre casts horrible image on National Day

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described as “senseless and tragic,” the murders of dozens of agriculture students gunned down…

Governor cries after another Boko Haram massacre

It was an emotional scene as the Governor of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Yobe visited the capital’s specialist hospital…

APC accuses PDP of Satanic plots to rig 2015 polls

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has uncovered a grand and serpentine plot by the PDP and the Presidency to rig…

In Pictures: Atiku visits Jacob Zuma

Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar visited South Africa recently as guest of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma.

Boko Haram gunmen massacre 40 sleeping students

Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday opened fire in the hostel of the School of Agriculture, Gujba, Yobe State, killing at…

APC, New PDP in secret pact, says THISDAY

The Group of Seven Governors who broke away from the Peoples Democratic Party to form a splinter group called New…

APC governorship aspirant decamps to PPA

Mr Godwin Ezeemo, a former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra,…

Shoe thrown at Iran leader’s motorcade after Obama talk

TEHRAN(AFP) – A shoe was thrown at Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s motorcade Saturday as he arrived home to a mixed…

Soldiers kill prince of rival house to Okonjo Iweala’s dad

JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba A yet to be identified prince of Ogwashi-Uku and member of the Izedunor royal family has been shot…

Police, in new crackdown, stop pro-Amaechi group launch

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Hracourt The Nigerian police in Rivers State has moved to stop the inauguration of a Pro-Governor Chibuike Rotimi…

Thatcher’s ashes laid to rest in London

The ashes of late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher were laid to rest alongside the remains of her late husband…

Jonathan on hot seat Sunday

President Goodluck Jonathan will face a panel of interviewers on Sunday, beginning from 7p.m. The Presidential Media Chat will be…

42 die,100 missing in boat mishap on River Niger

No fewer than 42 people were drowned in a boat mishap on River Niger close to Malilli village in Borgu…

Gunmen sack Kaduna village, killing 11

No fewer than 11 people were on Saturday killed in a renewed attack in Zangang village in Attakar Chiefdom, Kaura…

Indonesian muslim hardliners protest Miss World hosting

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) – Hundreds of Islamic hardliners in Indonesia held a mass prayer session Saturday to express their…