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Uduaghan showers Okagbare with gifts, training fund

JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba Nigeria’s silver medalist at the recently concluded International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) Moscow Championships, Blessing Okagbare has been…

Bayelsa mulls stopping sponsorship of pilgrims

Governor of the oil-rich Nigerian state of Bayelsa on Friday said that his government would gradually begin to withdraw its…

SURE-P’s graduate internship fails

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Reports have shown that the Graduate Internship of Nigeria’s Federal Government’s Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme appears to…

Tukur fails to stop Baraje-PDP

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja For the second time since the factionalisation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a Federal…

Boko Haram Bombs Police Station: 2 Cops Killed

Gunmen with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two officers and injuring another…

Kwara CAN Decries Marginalisation Of Christians

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Kwara State chapter, has decried the perceived marginalisation of Christians in the central Nigerian…

6 Fake LASTMA Officials Arrested

Six fake officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, have been arrested by the Lagos State Taskforce on…

Ozekhome: My Ordeal in the hands of kidnappers

Nigeria’s human rights lawyer and senior advocate, Mike Ozekhome, who was released Wednesday by kidnappers in Benin, has recounted his…

FG delays funds to states, says Governor Amosun

An indication that Nigeria’s Federal Government may be having financial stress, despite denials, has been given by Governor Ibikunle Amosun…

Kano shuts 2 medical centres, arrests operators

The Kano State Government, in northern Nigeria on Thursday ordered the closure of two health centres for alleged unethical practise,…

APC to register members October

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will begin the registration of its members…

Police block Gov. Amaechi from residence

Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State was denied access by the Nigerian police to his private residence in the…

Fayemi threatens to jail parents denying kids of education

Governor of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti has threatened to jail parents who refuse to send their children or…

Two killed after Boko Haram militants bomb police station

Gunmen with explosives and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing two officers and injuring another…

Osun students get extended vacation

Government of Nigeria’s state of Osun has postponed the resumption of public schools by two weeks. Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, the…

Ashiru exits foreign ministry hopeful about successors

Nigeria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, says he is leaving the ministry in “very good hands’’, successors…

Police seal New PDP office in Rivers, pull down party flag

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt. Barely two hours after Governor Chibuike Amaechi went to the Port Harcourt International airport to receive President…

Court orders PDP to recognise Andy Uba as candidate

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Justice H. A. Nganjiwa of the Nigerian Federal High Court in Port Harcourt today ordered the Peoples…

Amaechi Receives Jonathan In P/H

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi today received President Goodluck Jonathan at the Port Harcourt Airport in Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria.…

Edo Monarch Kidnapped

The traditional ruler of Udo Community and an in-law to the Benin Monarch, HRH Patrick Igbinidu, has been reportedly abducted…

Outrage Over Presidency’s N682m Gold Plated iPhones

Criticisms have continued to trail the alleged order for 53 gold-plated iPhones 5S mobile handsets by the Federal Government of…

10 Killed In Air Strike On Boko Haram Camps

Nigerian troops launched an air strike and later killed 10 suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in a…

Breaking news: Benin High Chief abducted

Hours after armed abductors freed prominent Nigerian lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, another prominent Benin high chief has been kidnapped. He is…

Tenant Blinds Caretaker

An angry tenant, Jessy John, has allegedly rendered a 60-year old caretaker, Levi Ogbuo, partially blind over the demand for…

8 Men Gang-Rape Woman

A jilted man has been arrested by the police for allegedly conspiring with seven other men to gang-rape his estranged…

Nigerians Divided Over Ministers’ Sack

Opinions were this morning divided over the sack of some ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday. The ministers, nine of…

Skateboarding goat creates new Guinness records

A 12-year-old Indian rollerskating fanatic and a skateboarding goat, called Harpie were among the record-breakers who made it into the…

Ozekhome Freed After 20 Days In Captivity

Exactly 20 days after he was forcefully abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate,…

Court delivers ruling on Uba’s motion today

A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt will today deliver ruling on Senator Andy Uba’s motion for interlocutory…

10 Boko Haram fighters killed in air, land raids

Nigerian troops launched an air strike and later killed 10 suspected members of Boko Haram in a clash in the…