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Seme-Border Customs Arrests Couple With Drugs

Simon Ateba Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service at Seme Border have arrested a couple (names withheld) with 30 compressed…

Tinubu, ACN leader promises better deal for Ondo people

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of Action Congress of Nigeria said on Tuesday that an ACN government would…

Nigeria: 32 Students Massacred

At least 32 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, have been killed. Though our correspondent said…

Boko Haram leader warns over anti-Islam movie

The suspected leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect, has issued a threat in a YouTube video over a US-made anti-Islam…

Henry Okah’s trial begins in South Africa

On a day that Nigeria is marking its 52nd independence anniversary, Henry Okah, the man suspected to have confined President…

Jonathan: Nigeria making steady progress

AN ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON THE OCCASION OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY ANNIVERSARY ON MONDAY, 1STOCTOBER, 2012…

Untold story of AbdulMutallab, the underwear bomber

7 Actions News investigator, Scott Lewis has revealed new insights about Nigeria’s failed Underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. Lewis…

Delta commissioner kidnapped

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Delta state Commissioner for Higher Education, Professor Hope Eghagha has been seized by unidentified gunmen. He was kidnapped…

October 1: Jonathan keeps off Eagle Square

Nigeria’s president for the second year will be holed in his official residence at Aso Villa while he celebrated Nigeria’s…

Nigeria not yet a nation

The happy estimation of Nigeria as a nation has proved unjustifiable BAMIDELE JOHNSON In the last one year, even the…

Nigeria stunted at 52

Ademola Adegbamigbe At 52, Nigeria is suffering from arrested development. Almost at the same time, Nigeria and some Third World…

Encomiums as Adegbite buried in Abeokuta

Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta The body of the late Secretary General of Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Dr. Abdul Lateef…

Debate: Should Nigerian military officers retire at 70?

The Nigerian Army says it has begun the process of reviewing upward to 70 years, the retirement age for its…

Lateef Adegbite, Islam’s spokesman dies

Dr Abdul-Lateef Adegbite, lawyer, former attorney general for Western Nigeria, Secretary-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, and its spokesman…

Hajj flights suspended as 509 female pilgrims deported

The Saudi authorities have stepped up the deportation of unaccompanied Nigerian female pilgrims, sending back to Nigeria 508 of them…

Achebe out with memoir on Biafra

Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe, often called the father of modern African literature, released his first major work in years Thursday with…

Nnimmoh Bassey wins Rafto prize

Nigeria’s human rights and environmental campaigner, Nnimoh Bassey has won this year’s Norwegian Rafto Prize in recognition of his long-term…

171 Nigerian female pilgrims home after Saudi ban

About 171 of Nigerian unaccompanied female pilgrims, barred from entering Jeddah for the annual Hajj by the Saudi authorities, returned…

Tycoon offers $65m to marry off gay daughter

Are you an eligible bachelor ready to marry? Can you play a lovey-dovey and win the heart of a 33…

Official: Only 71 private jets in Nigeria

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Contrary to media reports that there are more than 100 private jets in Nigeria, the Nigerian Civil…

Honest Abuja taxi driver gets his reward

Mr Imeh Usuah, a taxi driver, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International, Abuja, on Tuesday emerged the winner of the Securities…

Flood: Senators urge Jonathan send special budget

With no end in sight to the ravaging flood which has rendered thousands homeless in at least 20 States across…

IBB, Otedola, Elumelu win bids for Nigeria’s power plants

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Amperion Power Distribution Limited, a consortium made up of Israeli-based BSG Resource Limited, State Grid Corporation of China…

Jonathan calls for world order based on rule of law

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Monday in New York assured the global community of his administration’s “unwavering commitment” to upholding the…

Thousands Protest Anti-Islam Film In Kaduna

Shiite Muslims in their thousands trooped out in Kaduna, Kaduna State in Northcentral Nigeria today to protest the widely-condemned anti-Islam…

We Need To Fight

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, once again, came to media attention last week when he spoke at this year’s Leadership Newspapers…

Arik begins flying again Sunday

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s biggest airline, Arik Air, said on Saturday that it will resume fight operations on Sunday, three…

Femi Otedola leads toxic Nigerian bank debtors

With a humongous loan portfolio of $1.2 billion, Femi Otedola, President Goodluck Jonathan’s business friend is the biggest danger to…

Bad Debt makes AMCON Take Over Aero Contractors

Simon Ateba From all indications, Nigeria’s aviation industry has plunged further into crisis with the take over today of Aero…

Was Jesus married? New evidence says so

Four words on a pre­vi­ously un­known pa­py­rus frag­ment pro­vide the first ev­i­dence that some early Chris­tians be­lieved Je­sus had been…
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