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Obasanjo led AU observers laud Zimbabwe polls

African Union poll observers, led by Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo, said Zimbabwe’s crunch presidential election Wednesday had so far…

Nigerian Leaders Are Anti-Intellectual

Professor Ropo Sekoni, a retired university don, is the chair, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting. In addition to his…

Man Scales Fence For Sex With Mad Woman

Officials of the Lagos State Government have arrested a 21-year old man, Lateef Sulaiman, for allegedly scaling a 14-feet fence…

Duped Ketu House Seekers Storm Alausa

About 100 duped Ketu house seekers stormed the office of Governor Babatunde Fashola on Wednesday with placards to seek help,…

Ladipo Market Factional Leader, Okoli Still In Prison

There is no reprieve yet for factional President of the Aguiyi Ironsi Traders Association, Ladipo, southwest Nigeria, Jonathan Okoli who…

Fake Herbalist Dupes 10, Arrested

A suspected fraudster who posed as a herbalist, an estate agent and phone repairer to dupe at least ten people…

Lagos Is Safe For Igbo, Says ACN

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has lashed out at those who are playing cheap…

INEC Registers APC As A Political Party

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has approved the application by three political parties, the Action…

Mali: Nigerian troops withdrawal begins today

Nigeria will today begin withdrawal of some of its troops from Mali because they are needed back home, where the…

ASUU Strike: No deal, South East Zone says

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the South East Zone of Nigeria said it would continue with its…

Veteran Mugabe vows to ‘surrender’ if he loses vote

HARARE (AFP) – Veteran Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe pledged Tuesday to step down if he loses fiercely contested elections in…

WikiLeaks Whistleblower found guilty of espionage

A US military judge found Wikileaks’ source Private Bradley Manning guilty of several counts of espionage on Tuesday but cleared…

Mali’s ex-premier Keita leads in presidential poll

BAMAKO (AFP) – Mali’s former prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has taken a wide lead in the presidential poll, initial…

Corruption can trigger mass protest, Braithwaite warns

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Lagos based lawyer and politician, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite has declared that except corruption is dethroned before Nigeria’s…

Cholera: Ogun curtailing spread, says Soyinka

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The government of the western Nigerian state of Ogun has allayed public fears on the incidence of…

More than 12 people died in Kano blasts: Investigation

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano P.M. NEWS can authoritatively disprove the claim by Nigeria’s security agencies that only 12 people died in the…

Nurse Sets 11-Yr Old Girl Ablaze

Doctors at the General Hospital, Gbagada, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, are seriously battling to save the life of an 11-year old…

Al-Mustapha: Jonathan Sitting On Keg Of Gun Powder

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is sitting on a keg of gun powder which may explode anytime soon, Ganiat Ibukun, wife…

Cocaine: Nigerian, Cape Verdean arrested

Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday announced the arrest of two persons, including a Cape Verdean over…

Man kills wife over killed snake

A middle age Nigerian, Godwin Idon, has beaten his wife, Mrs Marvis Idon, to death for killing a snake inside…

42 Boko Haram suspects arrested in Lagos, Ogun

The Nigerian Army in raids carried out between July 12 and 23, said it arrested 42 suspected members of Boko…

Multiple blasts targeting revelers kill over 30 people

No fewer than 30 people have died in the twin bomb explosions that rocked the Northern Nigerian city of Kano…

Breaking news: Twin bomb blasts in Kano

Maduabuchi Nmeribe/Kano Two bomb explosions have occurred in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, despite talks that the Boko Haram…

Mbu: PSC boss Okiro in Port Harcourt for fact-finding

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Chairman of the Nigeria Police Service Commission, NPSC, and former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro,…

UK launches campaign urging immigrants go home

Britain’s government on Monday defended a controversial campaign featuring vans with billboards urging illegal immigrants to “go home or face…

Nigeria widens charge against Hezbollah-Lebanese

Nigerian prosecutors on Monday widened charges against three Lebanese nationals accused of links to Hezbollah as their trial began with…

Dikko heads PDP panel filled with Jonathan’s loyalists

To maintain discipline within its ranks, the troubled Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Monday appointed Second Republic politician…

Court nullifies INEC’s de-registration of parties

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Reprieve came the way of aggrieved deregistered political parties in Nigeria as Justice Gabriel Kolawole of…

Kano lawyer docked for theft of N4.8m

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a legal practitioner, Hassan Tanko Kyaure before a…

Judge sacked over false date of birth

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s National Judicial Council on Monday announced the compulsory retirement of the Acting Chief Judge of…