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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.…

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…

Profligacy Unlimited

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Woman Squanders Employer’s N1.9m On Lotto

A 44-year old woman, Mrs. Adenike Owolope, has been arrested and charged before the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest…

‘You’re A Disgrace To Your Country’

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed shock over the large number of Nigerian citizens in various prisons in South Africa, reports…

Nigeria: a lesson on corruption from Indonesia

.An Indonesian governor surrenders a guitar given to him as a gift by US rock band Metallica Indonesia and Nigeria…

2 Nigerian Air Force pilots die in fighter jet crash

A Nigerian warplane crashed in Niger on Monday, from where it was conducting military operations in neighbouring Mali, and the…

Ekiti ACN chairman, 4 others charged with murder

The Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the western Nigerian state of Ekiti, Mr Jide Awe, was on…

Monguno released after N50million ransom paid

Octogenarian and former Nigerian oil minister, Shettima Ali Monguno, who was kidnapped last Friday by gunmen in the northeastern city…

Rivers Crisis: Soyinka Warns Jonathan

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has warned President Goodluck Jonathan to prevent the political crisis in Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria,…

Pregnant Bride Dies In Soakaway Pit 2 Weeks To Wedding

A 21-year old woman has died inside a soakaway pit two weeks before her wedding. The deceased identified as Akinjolie…

Soyinka: Cool It, President Jonathan

Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka today issued a press statement, advising President Goodluck Jonathan on the handling of state…

ACN, CPC, Jonathan’s aide in public spat

Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, latest salvo against President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of sliding…

Obama tagged ‘grand chief of devils’

Venezuelan disputed President Nicolas Maduro took a swipe at Barack Obama on Saturday, calling him the “grand chief of devils”…

Death toll rises in Nigeria’s latest religious fracas

More deaths have been reported in the bloody clash between Christian and muslim mobs in Wukari, Taraba state, in the…

Onayekan, Kukah highlight Nigeria’s twin monsters

Two of Nigeria’s leading and respected bishops have told the European Parliament and other politicians that their country is being…

Woman In TheNEWS: Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar

Nigeria’s Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar is surely on a mission to cleanse Nigeria’s judiciary. She has already blown some…

Reports: No stable power supply in Nigeria until 2050

Simon Ateba Despite Nigeria’s government’s posturing that Nigerians will enjoy steady electricity by 2015, experts say darkness may persist until…

Baga Massacre: UN Human Rights Office expresses concern

The UN Human Rights Office on Friday expressed its concern about the large number of casualties, reportedly including many civilians,…

Abductors of Nigeria’s ex-oil minister demand ransom

Nigeria’s former oil minister was kidnapped Friday by gunmen who stormed his vehicle outside a mosque in the restive city…

Court Orders Ex-Governor Turaki’s Arrest

Justice S. Yahuza of the Federal High Court, in the northwest Nigerian city of Dutse has issued a warrant directing…

JAMB releases UTME results, withholds 12,110

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. The board, however,…

Jonathan to visit South Africa, Namibia

President Goodluck Jonathan will on May 7 pay a state visit to South Africa and two days after, move into…