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Jonathan Picks Okiro As Chairman, Police Service Commission

President Goodluck Jonathan has recommended former Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro, as Chairman of the Police Service Commission.…

Amaechi threatens to expose those fighting him

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt After keeping mum since the executives of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, were swept…

FRSC Moves Against Over-Speeding On Lagos-Ibadan Road

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Tuesday launched a seven-day campaign against over-speeding and reckless driving along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.…

FG Releases N1bn To Revive Adult Education

Mr Nyeson Wike, the Minister of State for Education, on Tuesday said the Federal Government has released N1 billion as…

Court Jails 8 Beggars

The Special Offences Court in Alausa area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced eight beggars to one month imprisonment for…

Govs. Urge Support For APC Merger

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and eight other progressive counterparts including the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha…

Army: 200 Boko Haram fighters attacked Bama

Nigerian soldiers blanketed the town of Bama on Wednesday, where residents stayed indoors after coordinated assaults by heavily armed Islamist…

Tributes pour for the man who built Man U

British Prime Minister David Cameron and world football chief Sepp Blatter led the tributes on Wednesday after Manchester United manager…

Alex Ferguson Bows Out at Man United

Manchester United announced on Wednesday that manager Alex Ferguson will leave the club at the end of the season after…

Jets worth $3.75b Owned By Nigerians

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Wealthy Nigerians own over 150 jets worth about $3.75 billion, the Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank,…

Profligacy Unlimited

A report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts reveals how the Federal Government has since 2002 doled out over…

Amaechi: Impeachment Plot Thickens

The recent trials of Governor Rotimi Amaechi, manifesting in different layers of drama, are targeted at impeaching him as Rivers…

Ruing Corruption

Nigeria which should have been the pride of the black race has now become a pariah nation due to endemic…

Cleaning Up Judicial Rot

Worried by mind-boggling corruption by Nigerian judges, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar embarks on a clean up exercise Since he left…

55 killed in Boko Haram attacks, prisoners freed

Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town…

2-Storey Church building collapses, one person dies

Kazeem Ugbodaga One person has been killed as a two-storey building under construction collapsed at Ojodu area of Lagos, Southwest…

Date fixed for forgery case against Senator Akume

A Nigerian Federal High Court on Tuesday in Abuja fixed June 17 to commence hearing of a suit brought against…

Three brothers arrested in stunning US kidnap

CLEVELAND, Ohio, (AFP) – US police searched an ordinary home in a working class neighborhood of Cleveland on Tuesday after…

Governor Okorocha formally joins APC at rally

Governor Rochas Okorocha of the eastern Nigerian state of Imo has formally expressed support for the All Progressives Congress (APC),…

Gunmen kill relation of Bayelsa special adviser

Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Tuesday shot dead two persons in the riverside community of Kuroamagbene in the…

11 police commissioners get new postings

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, on Tuesday ordered the redeployment of 11 Commissioners of Police to different…

Nigeria, South Africa vow to make Africa greater

CAPE TOWN (AFP) – Leaders from continental powerhouses South Africa and Nigeria pledged to create an alliance “to make Africa…

NUJ to picket salary-owing media houses

Oblivious to the global recession newspapers are facing, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) said on Tuesday it would start…

Ex-British finance minister calls for EU exit

Britain should leave the European Union, former finance minister Nigel Lawson argued Tuesday, fuelling the debate about a referendum on…

How Independent Are State Independent Electoral Commissions?

By Odunayo Joseph Going by the newspaper reports on the local council election held in Kogi State on Saturday, 4…

Creating Database For Economic Planning

The plan by the Lagos State government to register all residents of the state is to create a database for…

Fashola: Nigerians Are Too Difficult To Please

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described Nigerians as very difficult people to please just as he says insecurity…

Nigerian Gays Angry With Govt

Homosexuals in Nigeria are not happy with the government, they said in a statement on Tuesday, following a meeting they…

Lagos Assembly: Stop Witch-hunting Fashola

The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against making inciting statements that could best…

Nigerian Child Among Every 5 Kids Out-Of-School Globally

Nigeria could enrol 2.4 million of its children into school, findings from UNESCO show, as the country continues to lag…