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Outrage Over Reprieve For Al-Mustapha Persists

Nigerians have continued to express outrage over the recent Appeal Court judgement which discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and…

Alfa, 3 Others Face Trial For Murder

An Islamic cleric, Alfa Lukeman Olamide, 30, and three other suspects, Kola Oladipo, 32, Ekene Ezenwa, 36, and Jude Ezeobi,…

Okogie Decries Crisis At Rivers Assembly

Anthony Cardinal Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Sunday expressed displeasure over the recent brawl at the…

Lagos To Demolish 30 Houses In Ebute Meta

The Lagos State Government has marked 30 defective buildings for demolition at Ebute-Metta area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The action …

Impeach Jonathan Now, Accord Party Urges NASS

The national leadership of Accord Party,  AP, has thrown its weight behind the National Assembly over its decision to take…

Soyinka to Nigerian students: ‘don’t be discouraged’

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerian students, especially those residing in violence-prone areas of the…

Fashola: Lagos plants 4.6million trees

Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Nigeria’s Lagos State said the government planted 4.6 million trees in the last six…

NDLEA: Baba Suwe Heads To Supreme Court

Kazeem Ugbodaga Ace Nigerian actor, Mr Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against…

Heroic welcome for Al-Mustapha in Kano

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha wept in…

Ogun ACN suspends rep member, 12 others

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Action Congress of Nigeria in Yewa South local government area of Ogun State has suspended a…

Anyaoku recommends way out of Nigeria’s crisis

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a former Commonwealth Secretary-General, said that the only way to put an end to the problems and…

Cardinal Okogie condemns brawl in Rivers Assembly

Nigeria’s Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Sunday expressed displeasure over the recent brawl…

Boko Haram: Women, children rescued, mass grave found

Nigeria’s military on Sunday claimed the rescue of women and children hostages from a Boko Haram Islamist stronghold, saying troops…

US Sprinter Tyson Gay fails dope test

US sprinter Tyson Gay, who posted 9.75 secs in 100metres, as season’s best, has failed a dope test, according to…

Rivers crisis: ACN urges Police agency look beyond symptoms

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to address the causes rather than…

ICC indicted Sudan’s Bashir heads to Nigeria for AIDS talks

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir travelled on Sunday to a health summit in Nigeria, official media said, after Human Rights Watch…

Ex-NFA Scribe, Achebe Buried

The remains of the deceased three-time Secretary General of the then Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Chief Philip Onuora Chikaodili Achebe,…

Man kills wife over breastfeeding of twins

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A middle aged Nigerian, Endurance Enadeba, has killed his wife in Benin, over an argument on breastfeeding of…

Aregbesola to build N14.5b road in Osogbo

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of the western Nigerian state of Osun has inaugurated the construction of 18 km Osogbo east bypass…

Kidnapping: Lawmaker’s wife, 8 others rescued

The police in the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi have rescued the wife of a member of the state assembly…

Rights group urges Nigeria arrest Sudan’s Bashir

Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Nigeria to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he attends an African AIdS summit…

Shekau backs Yobe school massacre

The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants said he supported a July 6 attack on a government owned school in…

Robbery gang storms Taraba college

A gang of suspected armed robbers in the early hours of Saturday invaded the campus of Taraba State College of…

Anyim: Nigerians abroad remit $21b in 2012

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, said on Friday that Nigerians in Diaspora…

FIDA boss cautions men to respect rights of wives

The President, International Federation of Women Lawyers, (FIDA), Ms. Hauwa Shekarau, has called on couples to always consider their children…

Fasheun lauds Al-Mustapha’s release

Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasheun, has hailed Nigeria’s Appeal Court’s judgment acquitting Major Hamza Al-Mustapha…

Al-Mustapha visits TB Joshua

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer of Nigeria’s tyrant, General Sani Abacha, has paid a surprise visit to Pastor…

Wounded Rivers assemblyman flown abroad

The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, said in Port Harcourt on Friday that Michael Chinda, the wounded…

Obasanjo leads AU election monitors to Zimbabwe

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo will lead a team of 60 African Union monitors to Zimbabwe for the July 31…

Minister Olubolade joins Ekiti governorship race

The Minister of Police Affairs, retired Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade, on Friday formally declared interest to contest the 2014 governorship…