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APC Has No Integration Problem

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lai Mohammed speaks to FOLARIN ADEMOSU on the merger between…

Obasanjo liar, megalomaniac, hypocrite, says daughter

The first daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo, has ruled out further communication with her father till death, describing…

400-500 injured in South Sudan clashes, says UN official

Between 400 and 500 bodies have reportedly been taken to hospitals in South Sudan’s capital after clashes between rival army…

Oil Worker’s Wife, Pastor-Lover Paraded For Murder

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The police in Benin have paraded a Pastor and the wife of Mr. Isonguyo Victor, a Deputy Manager…

APC vows to resist disenfranchisement of supporters

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC Tuesday warned that it will resist attempts to disenfranchise voters in…

India-based Nigerian bizman charged by NDLEA

.28 year old wealth sparks suspicion of drug business The Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in the eastern city of…

African migrants protest in Israel

Nearly 200 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally demonstrated Tuesday in Jerusalem against being housed at a new open…

Kidnapper of 6-year old boy jailed 5 years

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in the Nigerian Federal Capital territory, Abuja on Tuesday sentenced one Umar Goni to five years’…

1000 African migrants blocked from crossing into Spain

Security forces averted an attempt by about 1,000 migrants to rush a towering, triple-layer border fence separating Morocco from the…

FGN-ASUU Agreement 2013

The FGN-ASUU agreement brokered by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress. Please download the three-page document here.…

Nigeria unveils locally made drone

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria unveiled its own drone on Tuesday, appropriately named “GULMA,” (Hausa word for gossip). The unveiling was done…

Explosion Rocks Rivers Deputy Governor’s Office

The political situation in Rivers State is getting messy by the day as an improvised explosive device was thrown at…

Turkey detains ministers’ sons over bribery

Turkish police detained the sons of three cabinet ministers and several high-profile businessmen on Tuesday in a sweeping probe into…

Thousands flee as rival troops battle in South Sudan

JUBA, December 17, 2013 (AFP) – Rival troops were locked in fresh battles in South Sudan’s capital on Tuesday in…

The Ijaw Will Kill Jonathan If…

Elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, in this interview with OLUOKUN AYORINDE, speaks on many key issues in the Goodluck Jonathan…

I Have No Regrets Being A Journalist

Prince Ajayi Memaiyetan, a veteran journalist, public relations consultant and community leader in Kano who clocked 71 recently, was educated…

Jonathan Should Not Dump Our Report

Senator Femi Okurounmu, Chairman, Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, in this interview with AYORINDE OLUOKUN, speaks about the work of…

Jonathan’s 2015 Posters In Ogun

Amid internal wranglings in his political party and allegations ranging from corruption to tyranny, President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 presidential campaign…

Security Guard Sacks Landlord

An estate agent, Mr. Dito Oyoakombo on Monday made a shocking revelation before the Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, western…

15,000 Nigerians Jailed Abroad

Over 15,000 Nigerian citizens are currently imprisoned in various prisons overseas, with the largest number of 752 in the United…

Saheed, Fathia Balogun In Fresh Divorce Row

The acrimonious marital feud between top Yoruba movie actor and actress, Saheed and Fathia Balogun, is degenerating to a war…

Gov. Ahmed defends Saraki over bad road

FOLARIN ADEMOSU Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has rebutted a claim that his predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraka, asked indigenes plying…

ASUU formally ends strike

Nigerian university lecturers on Tuesday formally called off a long-running strike that paralysed higher education in the country, after they…

INEC clarifies stance on polls in Borno, Adamawa

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Tuesday that it would conduct elections in states under emergency rule, if…

UNN pro-chancellor suspended

The Chairman and Pro-Chancellor of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Governing Council, Dr Emeka Enejere, has been suspended by the…

Of Heroes And Heroines

While the whole world mourns the passage of Nelson Mandela, it is only proper to recognise his qualities and eulogise…

For Jonathan, a week to forget

Bamidele Johnson Former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s 18-page stinker caps what has been a rotten week for President Jonathan Eminently forgettable.…

Merciless Saudi beheads 76th person for drugs

Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian man convicted of smuggling drugs to the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.…

Fighting resumes in South Sudan after botched coup

JUBA(AFP) – Fierce battles raged on Tuesday in South Sudan’s capital Juba, witnesses said, as troops loyal to the president…

Ghanaian wife killer blames her Nigerian lover

A Ghanaian man jailed Monday in the United Kingdom for 17 years after he killed his wife has blamed the…