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‘Stop Collecting Toll On Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge’

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Federal High Court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria Thursday ordered the Lagos State Government to stop collecting toll…

Governor Dickson Sacks 7 Commissioners

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria, has sacked seven commissioners in his cabinet. Thos affected in the cabinet…

LASTMA Unit Head Arraigned Over Sale Of Seized Van

Cyriacus Izuekwe Ejigbo sectional head of the Lagos State Transportation Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr. Adeoti Bamidele Wasiu, has been arraigned,…

School Accountant Dupes 92 Students

Paul Iyoghojie The Chief Accountant of Home Science Association School, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, Adetoye Adegoke, 50, has been arraigned…

NJC Suspends Rivers Chief Judge

Nnamdi Felix/Abuja The last appeared not to have been heard about the lingering crisis in Rivers state judiciary where Governor…

Chinese man kills 6 over property dispute

A Chinese man went on a killing spree following a dispute over family properties Thursday, leaving six people dead in…

Philippines, muslim rebels sign peace deal

MANILA (AFP) – The biggest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines signed an historic pact Thursday to end one of…

Pope Francis meets Obama, great fan from US

US President Barack Obama met with Pope Francis for the first time on Thursday for talks expected to focus on…

Kenya orders terrorists shot at sight

Kenya’s authorities on Thursday issued shoot-to-kill order on anybody found perpetrating acts of terrorism in Mombasa. The order came amidst…

Zimbabwe mulls open prison for female inmates with kids

The Zimbabwean government is working on setting up an open prison to accommodate female prisoners with minors, a senior government…

Obama praises Pope Francis’ moral leadership

U.S. President Barack Obama has praised Pope Francis’ moral leadership in an interview published ahead of their first-ever meeting during…

Thailand’s satellite spots 300 objects in Malaysian jet search

Thai satellite images have shown 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean during a search for the missing Malaysian…

Tennis: Nishikori sends Federer out of Miami

World No. 5 Roger Federer crashed out of the ATP Miami Masters tournament on Wednesday, losing 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in…

Sultan leads muslim protest to Jonathan on confab

Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, on Wednesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan behind closed doors in company of…

FG sets up committee to handle NIS recruitment

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the composition and mandate of the Special Presidential Committee to assist in re-staging the aborted…

Nigeria’s Confab adjourns again

The National Conference on Wednesday adjourned plenary till Monday for consultations on the mode of voting. The Chairman of the…

PDP confirms Fayose governorship candidate

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, on Wednesday approved the election of Mr Ayo Fayose as the party`s…

Kenyan lawmaker likens homosexuality with terrorism

(Reuters) – Homosexuality in Kenya is as bad a problem as terrorism, the ruling party’s parliamentary leader said on Wednesday,…

Jonathan to attend ECOWAS summit

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will depart Abuja Thursday for Yamoussoukro, Cote D’Ivoire to participate in the 44th Ordinary Session of…

Turkish court overturns ban on Twitter

A Turkish court Wednesday overturned a controversial Twitter ban imposed after audio recordings spread via the social media site implicated…

More than 1000 killed by Boko Haram in 3 months

More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in three states in northeastern Nigeria worst hit by…

Nigeria wants US return seized Abacha loot

Assets worth $458 million stolen by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and frozen by the United States should ultimately be…

LASU gives deadline for fees payment

The Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has fixed Thursday as the deadline for the payment of school fees by its…

Court affirms police powers of arrest

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed a suit filed by an oil marketer, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, seeking to…
Nigeria on the Path to Greatness Again

Bamidele pledges one-term in office

The governorship candidate of Labour Party in Ekiti State, Mr Opeyemi Bamidele, has promised to spend one term in office…

Crimea crisis: Ukrainian women to deny Russians of sex

KIEV (AFP) – Political and economic sanctions may not have dissuaded Russia from annexing Crimea, but a group of Ukrainian…

Police hunt kidnappers of wife, daughter of transporter

The Nigerian Police Command in Edo state on Wednesday confirmed the abduction of the wife and daughter of a transport…

Yakov Sinai, Russian, wins Abel mathematics prize

Yakov Grigorevich Sinai, Russian Mathematician, has won the prestigious Abel mathematics prize for his work in dynamical systems and mathematical…

US secret agents expelled from Europe for drunkenness

In a new embarrassment for the US Secret Service, three agents were sent home from Amsterdam for drunkenness, after one…

Jonathan’s Approval Rating Poor, says Fashola

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State granted TheNEWS editors an exclusive interview. He seized the opportunity to speak on…