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WHO approves experimental Ebola drugs

The World Health Organization authorised Tuesday the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000…

Celestial Church pastor appears in court for rape

A 23-year old self-professed Celestial Church prophet, Adewale Adeleke, on Tuesday in Lagos, appeared before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court for…

Man kills, roasts mum in Anambra state

Anambra state police command has arrested and detained Ekene Ucheagwu for killing and roasting his mother in Ndikpa Awuka, a…

US to provide $180 mn in South Sudan food aid

The United States said Tuesday it will provide $180 million in additional aid to help feed people facing a looming…

Uganda anti-gay law to be re-introduced in parliament – Speaker

Ugandan lawmakers will vote on reinstating a severe anti-gay law just weeks after it was scrapped by the country’s constitutional…

Ex-militants protest exclusion from amnesty programme

Some former militants in Edo and Delta, who were not captured in the third phase of the amnesty by the…

Bayelsa sets up task force to tackle insecurity in creeks, waterways

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has inaugurated an 11-man task force to police the creeks and waterways across the state…

Anambra winning war against criminals

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Anambra, Mr Anali Chude, has said that the state government is winning…

Job Flight Threatens Nigerian Print Industry

Olugbenga Ladipo, Managing Director, Academy Press, in a chat with Femi Ayodele, talks about the ordeal of indigenous printers and…

‘Men Commit More Crimes Than Women’

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has revealed that women’s involvement in organised…

Egypt’s Sisi visits Putin for arms purchase talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hosted his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for talks about Cairo’s purchase of advanced…

Osun Guber Poll: Avoid Litigation —LP

The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, on Monday advised all stakeholders in the Osun gubernatorial election…

Ebola Virus: Do Not Panic —NOA

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged Nigerians not to panic over the outbreak of Ebola virus in the country.…

ASUU Calls For Socialist Welfare State

The President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr Nasir Isa, on Monday called for the adoption of a…

S.Africa says 250,000 Zimbabweans can stay, for now

South Africa on Tuesday said around 250,000 Zimbabweans living in the country on temporary visas due to expire this year…

Fire Burns Two Children To Death In Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Cyriacus Izuekwe Fire ignited by candlelight has razed a storey building and burnt two children to death…

French MP fined for saying Hitler ‘did not kill enough’

A French court on Tuesday fined an MP Gilles Bourdouleix 3,000 euros for saying that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler “maybe…

Adeboye Ordains 1,101 Pastors

Femi Anjorin The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG,  Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has ordained over…

Police, Robbers In Gun Battle

Yusuf Muhammed One suspected armed robber has been killed, while three others fled during a gun battle with policemen from…

OAU students congratulate Aregbesola

AKINTOLA LUKMAN/Ile-Ife The students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State have sent their congratulatory messages to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola,…

Emir Escapes From Boko Haram

A heavy rainfall late Monday night helped hundreds of residents of Gwoza, Borno State, who had been trapped on the…

Ebola: Kuje Community, FCT Minister at war

There is no doubt that the importation of Ebola Virus Disease into the country by Liberian-American, Mr Patrick Sawyer has…

Philippine ex-general arrested over missing women

A retired Philippine general implicated in multiple political assassinations was arrested in a rundown house in the nation’s capital on…

‘Ethical’ to use experimental Ebola drug, ZMapp – WHO

A panel of medical experts has determined it is ethical to provide experimental treatments to patients infected with the deadly…

Evacuated Spanish priest with Ebola dies

An elderly Spanish priest infected with Ebola died in a Madrid hospital on Tuesday, five days after being evacuated from…

Japan aid agency pulls staff from Ebola-hit nations

Japan’s foreign aid agency said Tuesday it was evacuating two dozen staff from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as the…

Global Ebola death toll passes 1,000 – WHO

The Ebola virus has killed 1,013 people and infected another 1,848, latest World Health Organisation data showed. The fatalities include…

US sends Ebola drug to Liberia, West Africa

In a bid to curb the Ebola Virus, Liberia will receive an untested experimental drug, ZMapp, to treat people infected…

JAMB partners service providers to curb UTME registration irregularities

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has promised to partner its computer-based test service providers to improve the registration…