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Ezekwesili, Odumakin Lead Agitation Against Child Marriage

Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, former Minister of Education; Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, Executive Director, Women Arise for Change Initiative; Jimi Agbaje and…

We’ll Sustain Academic Excellence —Fashola

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Thursday presided over the third annual Governor’s Education Award, with a renewed commitment…

In Pictures: Nigeria Buries Fallen Soldiers

The remains of fifteen soldiers who died during military operation against Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and Mali between May…

Varsity Strike: ASUU rejects new deal with government

Efforts to resolve the strike by Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), may take a longer time as the…

Senate wants Rivers ‘political police boss’ kicked out

The Nigerian Senate has urged the Inspector General of Police to immediately redeploy, Mr Joseph Mbu, the Commissioner of Police…

Fayose: My suspension by PDP a rumour

A former governor of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti, Mr Ayo Fayose, has described his alleged suspension from the…

Kidnapped Lebanese released

A Lebanese national kidnapped by gunmen more than two weeks ago in Benin City, capital of Edo state in southern…

Jonathan vows to reduce political temperature

President Goodluck Jonathan pledged Thursday in Abuja that as President of Nigeria and leader of its ruling political party, he…

US Arts Academy chief quits over false resume

The chief executive of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has agreed to resign on July 31, the body…

Nigerian drug mules linked with Senegal police chief’s fall

Nigerian drug traffickers were being mentioned in Dakar Senegal, in the grace-to-grass fall of Senegal’s top police chief and former…

Legendary newspaper columnist, Odunewu dies

Veteran journalist and legendary newspaper columnist, Alhaji Alade Odunewu is dead. Sources said he died Thursday at St Nicholas Hospital…

Court shields Ubah from arrest.

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Justice Abdul Kafarati of Nigeria’s Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Thursday restrained the Economic…

Court Halts PDP’s Special Convention

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Arrangements for the forthcoming special convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were on Thursday halted…

Tunisian Politician Mohamed Brahmi ‘Assassinated’

Tunisian opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi has been shot dead outside his home in the capital, Tunis, reports say. Mr Brahmi,…

Employment Scam: SSS Impostor Arraigned

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday 24 July, 2013 arraigned Mohammed Ayuba before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of…

Cop Who Raped Woman At Gunpoint Charged

A police constable who allegedly raped a woman at gunpoint has been charged before a South African Court. While testifying…

Fake Fashola’s Wife Charged

A 53-year old teacher on grade level 10, Mrs Asogbon Victoria Abosede has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court…

Insider Abuse In Nigerian Banks

The country’s banking industry is crawling with criminally-minded people who, through a variety of tricks, continue to milk depositors. Now…

Falana petitions UNCHR over maltreatment of Nigerian

A human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) on Wednesday filed a petition against the U.S. government over alleged inhuman…

Patience Jonathan back home to mourn late mother

Mrs Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s President has returned home from a three-day trip to Geneva to mourn her late…

Akpabio’s Governors Forum snubbed by PDP states

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Chairman PDP Governors Forum, has called on Rivers state warring factions to sheath…

Death toll hits 69 in Spain’s train accident

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, July 25, 2013 (AFP)A train hurtled off the tracks in northwest Spain Wednesday killing at least 69…

35 die in Spanish train crash

At least 35 people died and 200 people were injured when a train derailed in Galicia in northwestern Spain on…

Rivers State Calm, Peaceful, says Presidency

The Nigerian presidency has declared that contrary to popular impression and reports in the media, there is no cause for…

Britain’s future king is George Alexander Louis

Britain’s new prince has a name. The new son of Prince William and his wife Kate has been named George…

US donates bomb disposal robots to Nigeria

The US government has donated bomb disposal robots to Nigeria’s police to strengthen its capacity in tackling terrorism and other…

Women’s best period to have babies

Dr Fred Achem, a Nigerian gynaecologist, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the best period for women to have children…

Oshiomhole denies signing death warrants for convicts

Jethro Ibileke/ Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has denied claims that he had signed death warrants of two…

Prison set to execute condemned prisoners, says AI

Amnesty International said it has received reports that Nigerian prison authorities in Benin have moved a group of death row…

Police: ‘Chidi Lloyd Helping Us’

Chidi Lloyd, majority leader at the Rivers State House of Assembly, detained since yesterday in Abuja,  is still being held…