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15 Out Of 100 Kidnapped Girls Escape

Reports say 15 out the 100 schoolgirls kidnapped Monday evening by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists from a school in…

Seven dead in fresh herdsmen clash in Taraba

The Taraba Police Command has confirmed the death of seven persons in the violence that broke out overnight in Wukari,…

Confab delegates condemn kidnap of 100 school girls

Delegates at the National Conference have condemned the kidnap of over 100 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno state. The…

Pope appoints Odetoyinbo bishop Abeokuta Diocese

Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Peter Kayode Odetoyinbo as the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Abeokuta Diocese. The position became…

Lady Apostle Ukpabio under fire in UK

Rights campaigners in the United Kingdom have urged the government to ban Nigerian pentecostal preacher, Lady Apostle Helen Ukpabio from…

Abuja blasts: NEMA wants blood donors as one more person dies

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Twenty four hours after the fatal attack masterminded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents at a Bus…

No mass burial for Nyanya blast victim – FG

Senator Bala Mohammed, FCT Minister has said there would be no mass burial for victims of Monday’s explosion in Nyanya,…

EFCC recovers N4.3bn from Oil Subsidy Suspects- Lamorde

Ibrahim Lamorde, Executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today disclosed that the Commission has recovered N4.3billion…

Kwankwaso never voted for me – President Jonathan

Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano President Goodluck Jonathan has taken a swipe at Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state, accusing him of…

Bomb scare at National Assembly

Legislators and civil servants on Tuesday afternoon vacated the National Assembly Complex in Abuja following a bomb scare around the…

Police, SSS, Army In Joint Patrol In Rivers State

A special patrol team, comprising the Police, Army, Navy, Air force and the Department of State Security, has been set-up…
Senator George Akume, Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs: says it is almost certain that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will take over the Benue Government House in 2023.

Court to hear certificate forgery charge against Senator Akume

A Nigerian Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday fixed 4 June for the hearing of the case of alleged…

Market Goes Bullish In Lagos

Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday closed upbeat as major blue chip equities recorded price appreciations. The…

Kogi Speaker’s Children Kidnapped

Suspected kidnappers abducted two of the children of the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Alhaji Momoh-Jimoh Lawal. The…

Boko Haram Abducts School Girls In Borno

Heavily armed Islamist gunmen kidnapped a group of girls from a secondary school in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state and torched…

Abuja Miracles: Baby Survives Blasts, Mom Dies

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja What could be described as one of the miracles of the Abuja bomb blasts that claimed over 72…

How Ticketing Staff Cheated Death

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja A ticketing agent with the Abuja Urban Mass Transit Company, the operator of the high capacity buses affected…

Obanikoro Denies Invading Lagos Housing Scheme

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Yisa Jamiu The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has denied invading the Ilubirin Housing…

Robbers Raid Estate, Kill Resident

Yusuf Muhammed Armed robbers raided Ifedayo Estate in Ajuwon, a suburb of Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, killing a resident identified…

Tinubu urges Jonathan to be more decisive on Boko Haram menace

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria’s leading opposition group, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged President Goodluck…

In Nsukka, power outage makes phone battery chargers smile to bank

Service providers in Nsukka, Enugu State in eastern Nigeria, who charge telephone batteries for people in exchange for money now…
Ebenezer Alabi, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, dump party over alleged extortion

Fire guts press centre at PDP’s house

There was a minor fire incident which affected some parts of the Press Centre situated within the premises of the…

OOU, Medical students at loggerhead over fees

The management of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, has refused to honour the invitation of the Ogun House of Assembly…

Toll on Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge: Court gives date for ruling

A Nigerian Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed 25 April for ruling on the Lagos State Government’s application…

US denounces ‘senseless’ Nigeria bombing

The United States on Monday condemned a bomb attack on a packed bus station in Nigeria which killed 71 people,…

Govt discovers 7,000 ghost students on scholarship

Niger state government said it uncovered 7,000 ghost students on the payroll of its scholarship board. The Commissioner for Tertiary…

UK condemns Abuja bus station bomb attack

The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague has condemned today’s bus station bomb attack at Nyanya in Abuja, which killed…

14 year-old bride charged with murder

A 14 year-old bride, Wasila Tasi’u, was on Monday charged before a Rijiyar Zaki Magistrates’ Court in Kano for alleged…

Abuja bomb blasts: Survivors recount lucky escape

Some of the survivors of the twin bomb blasts at Nyanya Bus Station, Abuja have spoken about their lucky escape.…

Police confirm Bauchi village attack

The Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that unknown gunmen shot and injured one person in an attack in Wasasa…