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Ansaru terror group claims kidnap of 7 foreigners

Islamist group Ansaru on Monday claimed the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a deadly weekend raid on a construction site…

Another Budget Debacle

The 2013 Appropriation Bill remains unsigned and enmeshed in a familiar crisis of distortions Watching President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday…

Lagos Sand Dealer Killed In Bomb Explosion

A middle aged businessman, Oladele Pius, was this morning killed when a bomb planted under FESTAC/Mile 2 link bridge, Lagos,…

Nigerian Jailed In UK For Lotto Scam

A Nigerian has been jailed in UK for lottery scam. The Nigerian who returned to Britain after being deported was…

Childless Nigerian Couple Crushed To Death

It was a black weekend as a  childless man and his wife who  both work with the Lagos State Government…

Pistorius’ Girlfriend For Burial ‘Morrow

The family of Reeva Steenkamp says her body is back in her hometown of Port Elizabeth and a private funeral…

Nigeria’s senior cop, 147 others to serve in Mali

A Nigerian deputy commissioner of police, Subair Olusola Kamar, has been appointed by the ECOWAS Commission as the Deputy Police…

Dame Jonathan: ‘ I Was Dead for One Week’

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja For Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s President, Sunday 17 February, was a day of thanksgiving and praises…

America’s Secret Files: The Untold Biafran story

TheNEWS’ World Exclusive Forty three years after the Civil War, the Americans have released their dossiers—21,000 pages of diplomatic dispatches…

Serena Williams regains top tennis spot

America’s Serena Williams regained the number one ranking in tennis by beating Czech Petra Kvitova in three sets in the…

South Africa: Murder so shocking on Val day

PRETORIA (AFP) – Olympic star Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears in the dock Friday as he was charged with…

Jonathan wants absconded pension chief sanctioned

President Goodluck Jonathan has asked Nigeria’s top bureaucrat, the Head of Service, to commence “disciplinary action against Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina,…

Pistorius formally charged with murder

A tearful Oscar Pistorius appeared before a South African magistrate on Friday where he was formally charged with murdering his…

Over 400 injured in Meteor terror over Russia

A plunging meteor exploded with a blinding flash above central Russia on Friday, sowing panic as the hurtling space debris…

Controversial In Death

Controversies trailing the demise of Afro pop singer, Oluwabimpe Susan Filani, popularly known as Goldie Harvey, are as shocking as…

Thai couple kiss into a new world record

A kiss lasting nearly two-and-a-half days propelled one determined Thai couple to a new record for the world’s longest smooch…

How We’ll Mark Val’s Day

Saint Valentine’s Day,  popularly  known as Lovers’ Day is here again. Nigerians, like their counterparts in other  parts of the…

INEC Drops 2 More Parties

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has de-registered two more political parties, bringing the total number of de-registered parties to…

Beware Of Kissing Diseases, Doctors Warn

Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly known as Valentine’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on 14 February each…

Soyinka, Women Protest N4b Mansion

Hundreds of women Thursday took to the streets of Lagos to protest against the allocation of N4 billion for the…

Nigeria Jumps In FIFA Rankings

With just five days after the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa,  Nigeria is reaping from the gold…

South Africa’s Blade Runner charged with murder

South Africa’s Olympic sprint star Oscar “Blade Runner” Pistorius has been charged with the Valentine’s Day murder of his model…

Nigerian Corruption: Obasanjo blasts leaders for indifference

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Nigerian leaders have been criticised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo for attempting to cover up issues of corruption…

Bimpe Sorinolu, ex-governor Fayose’s sister dies

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE Bimpe Oluwayose-Sorinolu, the popular Lagos socialite turned apostle and the younger sister to Ayo Fayose, former Ekiti State…

Mexican lady derided as ‘world’s ugliest’ buried 153 years after

A Mexican indigenous woman exhibited in 19th-Century Europe as the “world’s ugliest woman” has been buried in her native Mexico…

Nigeria’s police boss shuffles commissioners

The Inspector General of Police, Mr. MD Abubakar, has ordered the immediate redeployment of 33 Police Commissioners across its various…

9 South Africa Pupils Struck By Lightning

Nine schoolchildren are in hospital in the South African city of Johannesburg after being hit by lightning in two separate…

Majek Fashek: I’m Not Sick

Nigeria’s reggae music star, Majek Fashek, who was recently rumoured to be having medical and mental challenges, has claimed that…

Ageing Pope Benedict steps out, asks for prayers

Pope Benedict XVI made his first public appearance on Wednesday since his shock resignation announcement, asking thousands of cheering pilgrims…

2015 Poll: Court to pronounce on Jonathan’s eligibility

Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of Nigeria’s Federal High Court in Abuja will give judgement 1 March, in a case filed to…