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Nigerian actors meet Jonathan with requests

Members of Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN on Tuesday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to sack of chief executives of the…

Ex-Nigerian minister, Isaiah Balat dies

Senator Isaiah Balat, a key aide and political associate of Nigeria’s Vice President Namadi Sambo, is dead. A prominent politician…

Arogbofa, retired brigadier, is Jonathan’s new Chief of staff

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Brig.-Gen Jones Oladehinde Arogbofa as his new Chief Of Staff. Arogbofa, a retired Officer of…

Edo Workers Face Mass Sack

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Fear has gripped thousands of workers in Edo State civil service, southern Nigeria, over rumoured sack of about…

LASU Students, Activists Storm Lagos Assembly

Eromosele Ebhomele & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Hundreds of aggrieved students of the Lagos State University, LASU, as well as a coalition…

I Didn’t Impregnate Any Banker, Says 2face

Funsho Arogundade Nigerian music superstar, 2Face Idibia, has debunked the news spreading on the social media that he has impregnated…

Beggar Caught Stealing School Girl

Cyriacus Izuekwe A beggar caught stealing a 5-year old girl, Aishat Hassan, in a school compound in Lagos State, southwest…

Petrol Price Increases As Scarcity Looms

Eromosele Ebhomele Against the government regulated price of N97 per litre, most filling stations in parts of Ogun and Lagos…

APC hires AKPD for 2015 polls

Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the engagement of international political consultants AKPD Message and Media to boost its…

Nigeria: Rising rape cases worry Katsina govt

Worried by high incidence of rape cases awaiting trial in courts, the Katsina State Government has urged the people and…

Lagos to jail false emergency callers

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, has signed a bill into law stipulating three years imprisonment…

5 Nigerians inside Ethiopian airline hijacked plane

The Ethiopian Government on Monday said five Nigerians were among the 193 passengers on board the Rome-bound Ethiopian Airplane, Boeing…

Facebook account of Nigerian army chief fake

Nigerian Army has disowned a Facebook account purportedly opened by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah. While…

Dame Jonathan to lay foundation of UNILAG female hostel

Wife of Nigeria’s President, Dame Patience Jonathan, will on Friday, 21 February lay the foundation of a N3 billion 15-storey…

Confab: Yoruba groups agree on agenda, delegates

The Yoruba Assembly on National Conference on Monday approved the final agenda to be presented by the ethnic bloc at…

Nigeria to arrest seat belt violators from January

The Federal Road Safety Commission will from 1 January 2015 start arresting motorists and occupants of moving vehicles who fail…
Vice President Kashim Shettima

Boko Haram better armed than Nigerian soldiers

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State said members of the insurgent group, Boko Haram seem to be more…

Midnight fire kills Nigerian couple

A midnight fire has killed Mallam Aliyu Zubairu, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Yola, and his wife,…

Homosexuality: Court Remands Man, 64, 2 Others

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Chief Magistrate Anthony Araba of the Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court I, Isabo, Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria, on Monday remanded a…

Thugs Invade Redeemed Church

Afolabi Oladele Thugs have invaded the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Amazing Grace Parish, 85/87, 91, Ipaja Road, Lagos State,…

Fashola Signs Anti-Smoking Bill Into Law

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola has signed a bill banning smoking in public places in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, into…

Vehicle Registration: Lagos Seizes 100 Buses

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has impounded another 100 commuter buses over the failure of their owners to register…

I did Not Sue Awujale, says Otunba Owoyemi

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The suspended High Chief of Ijebuland in the western Nigerian state of Ogun, Otunba Abdul Lateef Adebayo…

Joshua calls pastors attacking him ‘discontented people’

Simon Ateba/Lagos Controversial Nigerian cleric, TB Joshua has described pastors who constantly attack him as discontented people. The founder of…

5 Nigerian chess players offered scholarship to Russian varsity

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Russian President, World Chess Federation (FIDE) has offered to sponsor five Nigerians every year to study chess…

Dame Jonathan steps out to squelch health rumours

Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has stepped out of Aso Rock Villa to douse recent rumours about her…

Weather forecast for Monday across Nigeria

Cloudy conditions and chances of localised thunderstorms around the nation’s western coastal areas projected on Monday. Rain showers around the…

Prayers foster peace in Nigeria, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has attributed the relative peace in the country to prayers offered by different religious faiths. He spoke…

Stray bullet kills Gov. Orji’s relation at reception party

The government of the eastern Nigerian state of Abia has announced the death of a relation of Governor Theodore Orji,…

Sierra Leone’s leading varsity honours Tinubu

Njala University, Sierra-Leone’s best rated University has honoured Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State with a…