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Fernandez never joked with Yoruba tradition, says group

Eromosele Ebhomele The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, on Monday described the late Ambassador Deinde Fernandez as a man who never…

I will name my cabinet this month, Buhari assures

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Aburi, Ghana reassured Nigerians and the international community that he will name his cabinet before…

Nigeria sends Togo asylum seekers back home – UNHCR

AP — Nigerian authorities have deported at least 100 Togolese asylum seekers, many of them the children who have been…

Lagos midwives protest 20 months salary arrears

Kazeem Ugbodaga Scores of midwives in Lagos State on Monday stormed the Lagos State Governor’s office and the Lagos State…

Italian navy recovers 60 bodies from migrant boat wreck

The Italian navy on Monday recovered another 60 bodies from a boat that sank on the way from Libya to…

Pakistan to support Nigeria’s military

The Pakistani Government has pledged to support Nigeria in strengthening its military apparatus to enable it to join in promoting…

Prostitution: Lagos court jails 30 women for 6 weeks

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 30 women to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution. Those sentenced are…

France to prepare air strikes against IS in Syria – Hollande

AFP – France will launch surveillance flights over Syria from Tuesday with a view to conducting airstrikes on Islamic State…

Probe role of World Bank in Abacha loot, SERAP tells Buhari

Kazeem Ugbodaga A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has recommended to the government of President…

China’s Sinoma signs $600m Nigerian cement expansion with BUA

Reuters – Nigerian conglomerate BUA Group has signed $600 million worth of contracts with China’s Sinoma International Engineering Co. to…
Scene of a plane crash

Senegal medical plane collides with Boeing 737

The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency confirmed on Monday in Dakar that a small medical evacuation plane carrying seven people,…
MACBAN alleges that killings of innocent herders by a vigilance group is going on in Sokoto State with 16 lives lost so far.

Herdsmen need to embrace education – Association

The Chairman of Hausa/Fulani socio-cultural group, Alhaji Muhammad Koli, on Sunday in Abuja called on Fulani herdsmen to embrace education…
Candidates writing JAMB examination using Computer-Based Test (CBT) system

JAMB inspects facilities to be used as UTME centres

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has inspected over 600 facilities nationwide for accreditation as centres for the conduct…

Army chief re-assures troops on welfare

The Nigerian Army on Monday re-stated that it would continue to ensure adequate welfare of its personnel to boost their…

Pakistan to support Nigeria’s military

The Pakistani Government has pledged to support Nigeria in strengthening its military apparatus to enable it join in promoting global…

PICTURES: Alaafin of Oyo visits Aregbesola on Ooni’s transition

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi on Monday paid a visit to Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola to condole with…

10,000 migrants to arrive in Germany on Monday, official says

A regional German official said at Munich’s main railway station on Monday that more than 10,000 migrants are expected to…

Boy,16, burnt to death in Lekki

Kazeem Ugbodaga Early morning fire has burnt to death a 16-year-old boy along with a duplex at Lekki area of…

Woman stops late husband’s burial for 2 years after death

Cyriacus Izuekwe The traditional ruler of Umuchu town in Aguata in Anambra State Eastern Nigeria, Igwe Gody Ezechukwu, has lamented…

World loses forests size of South Africa in 25 years, says FAO

The world lost forests the size of South Africa over the past 25 years, a decline of more than three…

Polio: LG to immunise 81,000 children in Jigawa

The Jahu Local Government Council of Jigawa has said that it is targeting at least 81,000 children for vaccination against…

Al Shabaab militants retake Somali town from African Union

Reuters – The Islamist militant group Al Shabaab took control of a sizeable town in central Somalia on Sunday after…
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Dogara mourns Olu of Warri, says its a big loss to Nigeria

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Yakubu Dogara, has condoled with the government and people of Delta over…

EMCOAN, NBC collaborate towards digitization

The President of the Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria, (EMCOAN) Mrs. Debbie Odutayo, who is in her administration’s…
Medical staff attending to Ebola Virus victim

New Ebola case in Sierra Leone quarantine village – President Koroma

Freetown (AFP) – Another woman has tested positive for Ebola in a village in northern Sierra Leone already under quarantine…
Queen Elizabeth II

No big celebration as Britain’s longest serving monarch – Queen Elizabeth II

AFP – Queen Elizabeth II is planning to keep things low-key on Wednesday when she will overtake Queen Victoria as…

Rooney hopes for ‘special’ Wembley moment

London (AFP) – Having matched Bobby Charlton’s England goal-scoring record against San Marino, Wayne Rooney plans to set a new…

The Reinstatement Of Notorious Zakari Biu

The reinstatement of dismissed Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zakari Biu, by the Police Service Commission, was a wrong and insensitive…

Buhari gives MDAs Sept 15 deadline to comply with single account directive

President Muhammadu Buhari has set a deadline of Tuesday, September 15, 2015 for full compliance with his directive that all…

10 suspected robbers, rapists nabbed in Ogun

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Ten suspected armed robbers and rapists who have allegedly been terrorising Ijebu Ode in Ijebu Local Government Area…