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Boko Haram Introduces Sharia Law In Captured Borno Towns

The leader of Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza “by Islamic law”…

Ebola Kills 100 Health Workers

Nearly 100 health workers have been killed by the Ebola Virus Disease, according to the World Health Organization. This follows…

Aftermath OF Street Protests: LASU Withholds Students’ NYSC Call Up Letters

Kazeem Ugbodaga The authorities of the Lagos State University, LASU, have withheld the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, call-up letters…

2015 Lagos Gov Race: I’m Ready To Battle Agbaje —Dosunmu

Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Ade Dosunmu says he is ready to battle…

Enugu Deputy Gov Impeached Over Poultry Farm

The Enugu State Deputy Governor, Chief Sunday Onyebuchi, has been impeached. He was sacked from office on Tuesday by the…

IMF chief grilled in French corruption case

The head of the International Monetary Fund faced a fourth round of questioning Tuesday over a multi-million-euro corruption case relating…

Maku urges politicians to work towards free, fair elections 2015

The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, on Monday urged politicians to work towards free and fair elections in 2015 by…

House of Reps want NMA to apologise to Nigerians over strike

The House of Representatives Committee on Health on Monday called on the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to apologise to Nigerians…

Adamawa Election: Ribadu pledges not to disappoint PDP

Former EFCC boss Nuhu Ribadu has promised not to disappoint the leadership of the PDP if he emerged as the…

Friends, associates, eulogise late Prof Akunyili

Friends, colleagues and associates of former Information Minister Dora Akunyili paid their last respects at a special tributes and service…

NLC commends NMA suspension of strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday commended the decision of the Nigerian Medial Association (NMA) to suspend its 55-day…

Oyo directs students to check SSCE results online

The Oyo State Government has directed all students in public secondary school who sat for the 2014 WAEC Senior Secondary…

FRSC begins 5-day special patrol, deploys 240 personnel

The Federal Road Safety Commission on Monday began a special five days of patrol on three critical highways across the…

Katsina disburses N100m to victims of gunmen attack

The Katsina State Government on Monday began the disbursement of N100 million to victims of gunmen attack in Sabuwa and…

Shettima calls for calm over Boko Haram’s Caliphate

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno on Monday advised residents of the state to remain calm following alleged proclamation of Islamic…

Russia says soldiers crossed Ukraine border ‘by accident’

Russian military sources quoted by state agencies on Tuesday said that Russian troops captured by Kiev and shown on Ukrainian…

US to track jihadists in Syria with spy planes

The United States is poised to send spy planes into Syria to track Islamic State jihadists whose advances have sparked…

Ask tough questions, US diplomat charges Nigerian journalists

By Simon Ateba Nigerian journalists should begin to ask tough questions that will build and strengthen democracy, Jeffrey Hawkins, the…

Ebola: USAID announces medical aid to Liberia

Eromosele Ebhomele The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has announced that it airlifted more than 16 tons of…

Attack on Gwoza: Seven policemen rescued

Nigeria Police Force said on Monday that it has rescued seven of its 35 men declared missing after an attack…

170 bodies of African migrants found from Libya shipwreck

Libyan rescuers have recovered the bodies of around 170 people after a boat carrying illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank…

Jonathan returns to Abuja after visit to Germany

President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived Nigeria after a four-day private visit to Germany, The President arrived at the Nnamdi Azikwe…

Auto crashes claim 31 in Osun

Muhammad Husaini, Osun Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, said on Monday that 31 deaths were recorded from…

Ebola: Nigeria reverses the number of cases to 13

Nigeria’s minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday announced the reversal of the number of confirmed cases of Ebola…

Nigerian soldiers who fled to Cameroun on way back – DHQ

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Nigerian Defence headquarters has described as ‘tactical maneuver’ the fleeing of some 480 Nigeria soldiers who were…

Boko Haram: Cameroun Holding 480 Nigeria soldiers

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s neighbour, Cameroun has confirmed that it is holding about 480 Nigerian soldiers who fled to its territory…

APC says Jega assurances offer hope of free, fair elections

The All Progressives Congress (APC) believes that Nigeria can organise truly free, fair, credible and transparent elections in the nearest…

Rwanda arrests army officers in crackdown

Authorities in Rwanda have arrested several senior and former top military figures, an official said Monday, in an apparent crackdown…

Thousands flee to Cameroun after Boko Haram attack

A Boko Haram attack on a border town in northeast Nigeria forced thousands of people to flee on Monday, in…

Falana Decries Illegal Killing Of Prisoners

Eromosele Ebhomele Nigerian human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has accused the Federal Government of toying with the lives of…