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ACN To Police: Probe Into Rivers Crisis One-Sided

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the police to be more circumspect and avoid being partisan in their…

Rivers State’s Crazy ‘Demo’

With the recent drama at the Rivers State House of Assembly and others, subterranean moves to remove Governor Rotimi Amaechi…

Mandela: Global celebration on birthday

JOHANNESBURG, July 17, 2013 (AFP) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela will spend his 95th birthday in hospital Thursday,…

Police declare Amaechi’s loyalists wanted

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigerian Police in Rivers State on Wednesday declared the Majority Leader of the state House of…

Fashola Seeks To Discontinue Suit On NGF crisis

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The end of the ongoing legal tackles over the leadership crisis rocking the Nigerian Governors’ Forum,…

Sack, Prosecute Rivers Police Boss —Lagos ACN

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has said that the increasing insubordination of the Rivers…

Arewa Youths Mobilise To Impeach Jonathan

Angered by the current political crises facing Nigeria, northern leaders, youths as well as progressives from other parts of the…

Attack On Govs: Blame Jonathan For Looming Anarchy —ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has asked Nigerians to hold President Goodluck Jonathan responsible if the country slides into…

Outrage Over Attack On Govs In Rivers

Prominent Nigerians have condemned the attack on governors of four northern states in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Tuesday…

Ketu Tenants Unmask Fleeing Agents, Landlord

A fleeing landlord, his brother and an agent said to be the landlord’s son who swindled hundreds of house seekers…

Fashola Commissions Ultra Modern Trauma And Burns Centre

Lagos State on Tuesday recorded another major milestone in its qualitative healthcare delivery as Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) formally handed…

Cripple, 19 Beggars Sent To Jail

A 45-year old cripple, Sunday Erim Udoyo and 19 others have been convicted by the Special Offences Court in Alausa…

Soyinka Again Denounces Crisis In Rivers

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has again denounced the crisis in Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria, saying such political crises bordered…

Nigeria’s Northern Govs Demand True Federalism

Governors of four northern states on Tuesday, called for the practice of true federalism in the country. The Governors are…

Gay Rights Activist Murdered

Prominent Cameroonian gay rights activist and journalist Eric Lembembe has been killed in the capital, Yaounde, a rights group says.…

Lebanon Man’s Penis Cut Off By Irate In-Laws

The irate family of a Lebanese Druze woman who married a Sunni man attacked her new husband, cutting off his…

Britain Exports Arms To Rights Violators, Say Lawmakers

Britain has issued export licences worth £12 billion ($18 billion, 14 billion euros) for the sale of military equipment to…

PDP faction seeks fresh congresses

A faction of Lagos PDP under the aegis of the Union Group on Tuesday urged the National Working Committee (NWC)…

Jonathan’s PDP faction slams visits to Gov. Amaechi

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has described protesters hauling stones at…

Police find Biafra war bombs, rocket launcher

The Nigerian police in Imo on Tuesday announced the recovery of weapons abandoned during the Nigerian Civil War, 43 years…

Nigerian Senate rejects 6-year single tenure

The Senate on Tuesday voted against the proposed six-year single term for the President and Governors. It also voted against…

Okonjo-Iweala releases N50b for Assembly projects

. But warns of revenue shortfall Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, said…

Gunman arrested near White House

A Texas man carrying a pistol and two knives was arrested Tuesday in the park across from the White House…

Presidency: It’s North’s turn, says Ango Abdullahi

By Femi Adi/Kaduna Professor Ango Abdullahi, former adviser to former Nigerian leader, Olusegun Obasanjo on Food and Security and Secretary-General…

Southwest PDP Frustrates Oyinlola’s Return Bid

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s South West chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has applied to a Federal…

2 abducted Chinese freed in Nigeria

Two Chinese nationals who were abducted on Monday near the Military Cantonment in Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun state,…

Fugitive Sudanese leader scurries out of Nigeria

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has scurried out of Nigeria with the International Criminal Court demanding his arrest, but Sudanese officials…

3 suspected terrorists killed

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Three suspected terrorists were killed in a pre-dawn raid jointly carried out by soldiers and agents of Department…

Court Summons Jonathan Over Journalists’ Trial

Nnamdi Felix/Abuja An Abuja high court has summoned President Goodluck Jonathan to appear and give evidence in the on going…

ASUP suspends strike

Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) said on Tuesday that it has decided to suspend its indefinite strike, which…