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The Changing Faces of Shekau

Are the pictures below of the same Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria? There is the…

Fowler joins governorship race in Lagos

Kazeem Ugbodaga Chairman, Lagos Internal Revenue Service, LIRS, Tunde Fowler has resigned to pursue his governorship ambition of governing Lagos…

Ajimobi washes hands off Ibadan killings

Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, western Nigeria, on Monday denied allegations that his government was involved in the killings…

Nigeria sets up more centres to diagnose TB

Nigeria’s Federal Government said it has scaled up the number of sites with GeneXpert technology from nine to 52, to…

Aregbesola submits nomination form for second term

Sen. Osita Izunaso, Interim National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed the party’s determination to conduct…

Army claims killing 18 Boko Haram terrorists

Nigeria’s military on Monday in Abuja said that it killed 18 suspected terrorists while troops captured more weapons and aborted…

UNN honours Emeka Ojukwu, Folorunso Alakija

Former Nigerian warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will on Saturday receive a posthumous honorary doctorate degree in law from the University…

Boko Haram releases video of army barracks attack

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the 14 March attack on Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast.…

Restless youths riot outside Nigerian ‘House of Horror’

Scores of rioters went on the rampage on Monday outside an abandoned building in Nigeria dubbed the “House of Horror”…

Oil theft: Lab tests exposed Police ASP

A Laboratory Chemist, Idris Tahir who is a witness in the on-going trial of a police officer, Dodo Chilla Bulus,…

Confab in stormy session over rules of procedure

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja After hours of stormy session devoted to considerations and arguments over rule of procedure that will guide the…
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Fire Guts Ogun Gov’s Office

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A section of the office of Governor Ibikunle Amosun at Okemosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, southwest Nigeria,…

N47bn Theft: Akingbola Challenges Court Jurisdiction

Henry Ojelu Former Managing Director of  Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola, today challenged the jurisdiction of a Lagos High…

Boko Haram: Nigerian Students Protest In U.S.

A group of Nigerian students protested outside the Mountainlair on Sunday against the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Boko…

National Confab: Delegates Queue For Hours To Enter Venue

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja with NAN Delegates to the ongoing National Conference on Monday in Abuja queued for about two hours before…

Ezekwesili, Kumuyi Charge Youths On Character Development

Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, and the General Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, have…

Egypt: 529 Morsi supporters sentenced to death

A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a mass…

Police probe Nigerian house of horror

Nigerian police said they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned…

APC wins 6 LGAs, PDP 4 in Nasarawa poll

The Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) has released the results of Saturday’s local government elections, with the PDP winning…

Nigerians topple Russians as third biggest spenders in UK

Nigerians accounted for four percent of shopping in the United Kingdom in February, spending an average of 628 pounds per…

Experts warn over Nigeria’s ‘viagra drinks’

Nike Ajibade and three of her colleagues sit on a Lagos pavement with small plastic bottles of liquids tucked inside…

Sierra Leone bids farewell to Tejan Kabbah

Thousands of Sierra Leoneans gathered under a tropical sun in Freetown’s national stadium on Sunday to pay their last respects…

Suspect Knocks Down EFCC Operative

An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde,has been knocked down by a Honda Accord…

20 die in Bama market bomb

Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in a village near Bama,Borno state, northeastern Nigeria killing…

Reports: US spies on China’s telecom giant Huawei

The US National Security Agency has secretly tapped into the networks of Chinese telecom and internet giant Huawei, the New…

Ailing Algerian leader eyes 4th term in office

.Bouteflika says he is hearkening to the people’s wish Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Saturday his ailing health does not…

Tinubu says Amosun’s projects people-oriented

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…

Senator Oduoye dies

A former military administrator of Ebonyi state who later became a Nigerian Senator, Simeon Oduoye, is dead. He was aged…

Nasarawa council polls: Voters protest in Doma

Some voters in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Saturday staged a peaceful protest against the non-availability of…

Fayose to slug it out with Fayemi in Ekiti

A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, was on Satuday declared winner of the PDP governorship primaries in…