BREAKING: Tinubu rages over mass killings in Plateau, Kaduna, orders security forces to strike

Follow Us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
LATEST SCORES:
Loading live scores...

Headlines

Jonathan Arrives Beijing On A Four-Day Visit

President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Beijing at about 17.30hours (local time) today to begin a four-day state visit to China…

Appeal Court Sacks Olofa Of Offa

The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin, in the central Nigerian state of Kwara on Tuesday 9 July nullified the appointment…

Man Jumps Into Canal To Avoid Trial

A suspected fraudster who resides in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, Olayinka Salau, tried to avoid trial by fleeing from an…

Another Nigerian Wins 2013 Caine Prize

A Nigerian, Tope Folarin, has won this year”s Caine Prize for African Writing. He won it with his short story,…

Nigeria: Fracas in Rivers House of Assembly

The sitting of Nigeria’s Rivers State House of Assembly was disrupted this morning when hoodlums and some members attacked the…

Circumcision: 30 People Die In South Africa

Death related to the traditional circumcision in South Africa keeps increasing with another thirty people losing their lives at the…

Bus Driver Rapes 2 Daughters For 2 Years

A 35-year old bus driver, Adewale Adeleke has been arrested by the police for defiling his two daughters. The little…

Man Jailed For The 6th Time

A 25-year old man, Hope Ariyo, has been sent to prison for the sixth time for committing various crimes in…

Schools shut after Boko Haram massacre

Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state on Sunday ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist…

History maker Andy Murray wins Wimbledon title

Andy Murray ended Britain’s agonising 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men’s champion on Sunday when he destroyed world number one…

Wimbledon: Marion Bartoli final winner, Lisicki weeps

Sabine Lisicki broke down in floods of tears after crippling stagefright condemned her to a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Marion…

Death toll in Boko Haram school killings hits 42

The death toll of students and teachers killed by Boko Haram gunmen in a Yobe state boarding school has reached…

Wimbledon: Dream final as Murray meets Djokovic

It’s a dream tie in the Wimbledon men’s final on Sunday as Andy Murray, world number two, locks horns with…

Djokovic scales Del Potro’s test for Wimbledon final

LONDON(AFP) – Novak Djokovic defeated heroic Juan Martin del Potro 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-7 (6/8), 6-3 on Friday in…

Vatican Approves Sainthood For John Paul II, John XXIII

Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception…

Jonathan: Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Ready In 4 Years

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan today disclosed that the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was withdrawn from the Bi Courtney company…

Lagos School Turns Brothel

A school that was turned into a brothel where hoodlums pay guards to allow them have sex with their female…

PDP faction carpets Amaechi over Jonathan

A faction of Rivers State chapter of People’s Democratic Party believed to be sponsored by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of…

Jonathan plays the game without Amaechi

To President Goodluck Jonathan, incumbent Governor Rotimi Amaechi no longer counts in his calculus of winning Rivers State in the…

Fake ‘Youth Corper’ To Serve In Prison

A suspected fake National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, Opeyemi Ajala, 34, has been remanded in prison custody after he…

166 Suspects Arrested

At least 166 suspected hoodlums have been arrested in Oshodi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, by the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental…

Nigerian Banks As Slave Camps

Apart from working like elephants and feeding like ants, bank workers are subjected to many unwholesome labour conditions by their…

Egypt: Army detains President Morsi, aides

Egypt’s army is “preventively” holding ousted president Mohamed Morsi after his ouster by an army decree, a senior army official…

100 attacking herdsmen killed by Nigerian troops

A Nigerian military commander claimed on Wednesday that soldiers had since last week killed more than 100 attackers responsible for…

Army topples Egypt’s Morsi

The Egyptian army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday after a week of bloodshed that killed nearly 50 people…

Mandela’s Grandson Ordered To Return Family Remains

A South African court on Wednesday ordered that the graves of three of Nelson Mandela’s children be immediately returned to…

Egypt Crisis: Morsi Offers Consensus Govt

Egypt’s embattled President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday proposed a consensus government as a way out of the country’s crisis, as…

Man Beheads Friend For Money Ritual

A 25-year old commercial motorcycle rider identified as Wasiu, is currently cooling his heels at the Ondo State Crime Investigation…

Amaechi: Why the state police boss must go

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt For the second time in a week, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Nigeria’s Rivers state has called on…

Kidnappers of The Rhodes-Vivours arrested

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Three members of a gang that allegedly kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of a Judge of the…