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Crack smoking mayor launches bid for re-election

Toronto’s scandal-plagued mayor Rob Ford, who has admitted to binge drinking and smoking crack, has launched his bid for re-election.…

12 killed in worst-ever Everest accident

KATHMANDU (AFP) – At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers were killed Friday by…

Outstanding LASPOTECH students get employment, cash reward

Harrison Iyoha Two outstanding students of Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH, Adebola Oluwatosin Adedoyin and Tolulope Adeolu Ige, have been given…

News Analysis: Big blow on Nigeria’s military

By Bayo Onanuga Skeptics of Nigeria’s military campaign against the murderous Boko Haram gunmen in Nigeria’s northeast now have a…

Confab dissolves into 20 Committees

The plenary session of the National Conference in Abuja drew to a temporary close on Thursday as delegates get set…

First Earth-sized planet in star’s “habitable zone” found

As­tro­no­mers said they have found an Earth-sized plan­et, out­side our own so­lar sys­tem, or­bit­ing a star at a dis­tance suit­a­ble…

South Sudan: Gunmen storm UN refugee base, kill 20

At least 20 people were killed and another 70 injured by gunmen posing as peaceful protestors who stormed a UN…

Student arrested for swindling WASC exam candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has arrested a 20-year-old student for swindling candidates participating in the ongoing 2014 May/June…

Abducted school girls: Nigeria’s military say they goofed

Nigeria’s military authorities have acknowledged that they goofed over their statement that all but eight of the 129 abducted school…

DSS arraigns kidnappers of Archbishop Kattey

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three men suspected to be the kidnappers of Bishop Ignatius Cosby Ogborun Kattey, the Anglican ArchBishop of…

APC governors not invited to security summit, says Akpabio

Governors of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC were not invited to the expanded security meeting called by President Goodluck…

Security Summit: APC governors told meeting called off

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked criticisms that its governors shunned an enlarged meeting on security with President Goodluck…

NEMA names 136 injured bomb blast victims

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday in Abuja, released the names of 136 casualties of Monday’s bomb blast…

US city ditches water reservoir after man urinates in it

The US city of Portland, Oregon, is ditching 38 million gallons of drinking water from a reservoir after a teenager…

Obama urges Democrats to be proud of Obamacare

US President Barack Obama told fellow Democrats to stop saying sorry for his health care law Thursday, revealing that eight…

LASU lecturers set to go on strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo Chapter, has threatened to go on strike at…

LAUTECH to graduate 21,647

No fewer than 21,647 students will be conferred with degrees and prizes of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH),…

Chelsea Clinton is pregnant

America’s former first daughter Chelsea Clinton announced in New York today that she is pregnant with her first baby, giving…

Godfather of magic realism, Garcia Marquez dies at 87

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship…

APC aids and abets terrorism – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of aiding and abetting terrorism in the country…

FG should adopt modern approach in fighting insurgents – Sokoto Speaker

Malam Lawali Zaiyana, Speaker, Sokoto State House of Assembly has urged the Federal Government to adopt advanced security approach in…

We’ve not received salaries since December 2013 – LAUTECH doctors

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso Chapter, has appealed to Oyo and Osun state…

Brazil sends troops to troubled World Cup city

Troops patrolled Salvador de Bahia on Thursday after a wave of looting and murder erupted amid a police strike in…

Ukraine slams entry ban on Russian males

Ukraine has banned entry to its territory for all Russian males aged between 16 and 60, the Russian flagship carrier…

Man beheads 2 year-old boy, rapes mother

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Ogun State Police Command has arrested a middle aged man, for raping a woman and beheading her two…

Calm returns in strife-torn Wukari

Some order has been restored in Wukari, Taraba state, where a mix of ethnic and religious conflict ignited deadly violence…

JAMB releases UTME results, invalidates 36, 164

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said today that it has released the universities matriculation examination held nationwide on…

Enugu sets up rape victims referral centre

The Enugu State Ministry of Justice says it has set up a referral centre for counseling rape victims due to…

Auto crash kills 31 in Lagos in 3 months – FRSC

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Lagos has said no fewer than 31 persons died in 87 road accidents…

JTF seizes vessel, arrests crewmen in Bayelsa

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, has announced the seizure of a vessel laden…