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Nigerian Police: How Collomp, French hostage escaped in Zaria

Femi Adi/ Kaduna Kidnapped sixty three year old French engineer, Francis Collomp, who was abducted over eleven months ago escaped…

Boko Haram: Nigerian army raid frees abducted French engineer

French hostage Francis Collomp has been freed almost a year after being kidnapped, according to a statement from the French…

Malta to host next Commonwealth summit

Malta is to host the next Commonwealth summit after Mauritius pulled out in protest over the decision to hold this…

Anambra: INEC disappoints voters in rescheduled election

Seun Bisuga, Simon Ateba, Folarin Ademosu, Oluwasanmi Joseph/In Awka Registered voters in Obosi, North Idemili Local Government Area have gotten…

NGF urges Nigerians eschew docility, sycophancy

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) led by Governor Rotimi Amaechi has appealed to Nigerians to eschew docility by participating more…

DIG Leha commends police in Anambra

Seun Bisuga/ in Awka Philemon Leha, Deputy Inspector General, Operations have commended the efforts of the Nigerian Policemen that participated…

Nigerian army kills 29 Boko Haram fighters in battles

Nigerian troops have killed 29 suspected Boko Haram militants in two days of fighting in the northeast, where President Goodluck…

Anambra election cancelled in 65 polling units

Simon Ateba and Folarin Ademosu/Awka The Anambra governorship election has been cancelled in 65 polling units, the Independent National Electoral…

Hello Brazil… Nigeria’s Super Eagles on the way for World Cup

Taiwo Adelu/Calabar Two goals from Victor Moses and substitute Obinna Nsofor ensured that Nigeria’s Super Eagles booked their place in…

PDP supporter beaten to a pulp waiting for Arthur Eze

Simon Ateba/Dunukofia There was fracas in the house of Chief Arthur Eze, one of the financiers of the People’s Democratic…

Ngige, Ubah condemn INEC over irregularities

Seun Bisuga/ Awka All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidate, Chris Ngige, has condemned INEC’s inconsistencies in the ongoing election in the…

9 Boko Haram militants killed, says Nigerian army

Nigerian troops said Friday they had killed nine suspected terrorists belonging to the Boko Haram in a gunfight in Borno…

APC decries shortage of materials, harassment of officials

Party’s Deputy Nat. Sec. el-Rufai harassed The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the late or non…

Anambra: Voting centres short of materials

Seun Bisuga/ Anambra Inadequate INEC materials have stalled accreditation in some parts of Anambra particularly at Abobu Nnewichi, Nnewi. Over…

Movement restriction fails in Anambra

The Nigerian Police has failed to restrict movement of residents in Anambra State ahead of the gubernatorial election today. Independent…

Anambra:Large voter turn-out in Nnewi

FOLARIN ADEMOSU\Nnewi Many voters turned out for accreditation in polling stations across Nnewi North Local Government Area, LGA, in the…

Traffic Gridlock In Onitsha Ahead Gov Polls

A traffic gridlock on Friday crippled commercial activities in Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra, barely hours to the governorship…

Anambra Election: APC Slams Police For Arresting Election Monitors

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the police of acting out the script of the PDP for Saturday’s governorship…

Reports: Boko Haram Holding Kidnapped French Priest

Boko Haram is holding a French priest who was kidnapped in northern Cameroon, a source within the banned Nigerian Islamist…

Manslaughter Saga: My Story —Pasuma

Fuji music star, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma has disassociated himself from the recent killing of a fan at one of his…

Nigeria In Litmus Test Vote For 2015 Polls

Nigeria’s Anambra state goes to the polls this weekend to elect a new governor in a vote seen as a…

INEC Deploys 362 Generators

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has began deploying over 362 electricity generating sets to the 362 wards across Anambra State…

ThisDay Bomber Jailed For Life

Mustapha Umar, a self confessed Boko Haram member arrested and tried before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja in…

Jonathan v Amaechi: Suspended peace-making bishops to sue CAN

Jethro Ibileke/Benin “Blessed are the peace makers”, so the Holy Book says. In Nigeria, the efforts by some clerics in…

Another American insults Nigerians over Obamacare

It seems President Barack Obama haters in the US love picking Nigerians as soft targets in their campaign against Obama’s…

Nigeria consoles families of slain polio vaccinators with cash gifts

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s government has donated N3 million each to family members of the 10 health workers that were assassinated…

Festus Iyayi for burial in December

Jethro Ibileke/Benin The burial ceremony of Prof. Festus Iyayi, the former President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has…

Ajimobi: I was under pressure in selecting aides

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the western Nigerian state of Oyo today reflected on happenings after the dissolution of…

Tunde Sanni, ThisDay reporter dies

The Oyo State Correspondent of ThisDay newspaper, Mr Tunde Sanni, is dead. The 49 year-old journalist died today at Ijebu…

Pension scam accused remanded in prison

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Justice Bolaji Yusuf of the Nigerian High Court, in Ibadan, Oyo state today ordered that the former Head…