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Rivers PDP faction in comic expulsion of Amaechi’s cabinet

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the southern Nigerian oil rich Rivers State today…

Police Spread Dragnet For Ozekhome’s Kidnappers

The Edo State Police Command has spread its dragnet to track down kidnappers of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN. Ozekhome and…

Fashola Advocates Family Values As Building Blocks For Good Governance

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Sunday advocated the promotion of family values in the home as the building…

Patience Causes Traffic Jam In Lagos

The visit of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Sunday, caused untold hardship to motorists plying…

A Replay Of Yar’Adua Saga

With yesterday’s arrival of ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State in the country after 10 months of medical treatment…

China: Corruption trial of Bo Xilai ends

The trial of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai on bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power charges ended Monday after five…

Japan woman kills cheating husband with coffee cup

A Japanese housewife battered her septuagenarian husband to death with a coffee cup after discovering he was cheating on her,…

BBA: Namibia’s Dillish sweeps $300,000 grand prize

The 8th Season of the Big Brother Africa The Chase was over Sunday night. And it was not romance-stuck Beverly…

Photospeak: Puzzles over Governor Suntai’s return

Governor Danbaba Suntai has been away from his job as governor of Nigeria’s northern state of Taraba, since October last…

One million cockroaches flee China farm

At least one million cockroaches have escaped a farm in China where they were being bred for use in traditional…

Kano awards overseas scholarship to 300 students

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Another batch of 300 students from the northern state of Kano has been selected to benefit from the…

Supreme Court to hear Ondo poll appeal this week

Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court has rescheduled the hearing of appeals filed against the judgment of the Court of…

3 cult members, mistaken for robbers, killed in Kwara

Stephen Oni/ Ilorin Three alleged members of the Nigerian students Cult group, Aiye Confraternity have been killed in the central…

Governor Suntai returns home…but no speeches yet

Gov. Danbaba Suntai of Nigeria’s Taraba state on Sunday arrived in Abuja after 10 months of medical treatment in Germany…

APC sets up state harmonisation committees

The National Interim EXCO of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the establishment of State Harmonisation Committees, to avoid…

Drugs killing ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson

Former world heavyweight Boxing champion Mike Tyson has claimed he is on the verge of dying from drug and alcohol…

5 Civil Defence staff nabbed for petrol theft

The Nigerian police force in the central state of Kwara has arrested five officers of the Nigerian Security Civil Defence…

Iran threatens America over Syria

A top Iranian military chief warned on Sunday that the US will face “harsh consequences” if it intervenes in ally…

Taraba Governor Suntai departs New York for Nigeria

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Nigeria’s Taraba State early Sunday left the Republic Airport in Long Island Area of New York…

Syria’s chemical warfare could draw US intervention

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Signs are growing that the horror of chemical warfare could for the first time draw the United…

7 editors honoured as Guild ends Asaba confab

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Saturday in Asaba honoured three senior journalists of the News Agency of Nigeria…

Uba wins Anambra PDP primaries

Senator Andy Uba has emerged the winner of one of the two factional primary elections of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party…

Keyamo Begs Kidnappers To Release Ozekhome

Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo has appealed to the kidnappers of human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome to release him.…

Thousands in US mark MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Tens of thousands gathered Saturday to mark 50 years since the March on Washington, the civil rights…

Thousands rally for Egypt’s Morsi in Northern Nigeria

Thousands of Muslims rallied peacefully in northern Nigeria on Saturday to demand the return of Egypt’s Islamist former president Mohamed…

Hungry Boko Haram militants turn cannibals

Dozens of suspected Boko Haram militants in Magumeri forest, Borno state, north east Nigeria, have turned to human eaters after…

Oil mogul, Saleh Jambo dies

Alhaji Saleh Jambo, an oil mogul and founder of NorthEast Petroleum, has died in Abuja. Jambo, who once aspired to…

Stowaway boy arrested At Lagos airport

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent A teenage boy who beat security personnel at the Benin Airport to hide inside an Arik plane…

Ozekhome, senior Nigerian lawyer, 3 others kidnapped

JETHRO IBILKE/Benin Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has been abducted by suspected kidnappers in Edo…

Mandela latest: ‘Sometimes unstable but resilient’

Former South Africa’s president Nelson Mandela latest medical report says he is “unstable” at times but has shown “great resilience”…