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Boko Haram gunmen kill another nine students

Few days after suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed seven students and two teachers in Nigeria’s north eastern city of Damaturu,…

WikiLeaks founder marks first year in Ecuador’s embassy

A year after seeking refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange remains fearful of US “revenge” over the…

Senator Albert Legogie Dies At 76

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Deputy Senate President in Nigeria’s Third Republic, Senator Albert Legogie, is dead. He was aged 76. Legogie who…

Amaechi opens up 3 local council areas

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three local government areas in Nigeria’s Rivers State that have been inaccessible by road would soon heave…

Man Burns 12-Year Old Girl With Pressing Iron

A member of staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kwara State Command, northcentral Nigeria, Mr. Yemi Afolayan, has been arrested…

Prepare For Heavy Rains –NEMA

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday, warned residents of the southern parts of the country against severe weather…

Police Shoot At Protesting Students

At least four students were allegedly shot by policemen at the Michael Otedola College Of Primary Education, MOCPED, Epe on…

Guard Arraigned For Duping Blind Teacher

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Gift Onyegam before Justice M. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court,…

Okada Ban: Bicycles To The Rescue In Benin

Following the ban on the use of motorcycles and tricycles both for private and commercial purposes in Benin City metropolis…

Fidau: Lagos Stands Still For Abibat Mogaji

Eminent Nigerians from all walks of life, defied the early Tuesday morning rain and gathered at the Tafawa Balewa Square,…

Commuter Bus Drivers Protest In Ikoyi

Scores of commuters including school children going to Ikoyi, Eti-Osa, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, were on Tuesday morning stranded at…

I Can’t Be Consoled, Mother Of 9-Year Old Boy Killed By Police

Funke Ebun, the distraught mother of Timilehin Solomon Ebun, the nine-year old boy who was killed by the police in…

Latest report: Nelson Mandela ‘doing very well’

Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital for 10 days suffering a lung infection, is “doing very well”, one of…

Boko Haram militants kill 7 students, 2 teachers

Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast state of Yobe, leaving 11 people…

6-star Nigeria’s Super Eagles swamp Tahiti

BELO HORIZONTE, June 17, 2013 (AFP) – Nnamdi Oduamadi claimed a hat-trick as Nigeria shook off the jet lag to…

Jonathan eyeing 2015 meets 2 voting blocs

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan appeared today to have launched his campaign for re-election in 2015, meeting a high-powered delegation of…

PDP lifts suspension on Governor Wamakko

Ayo Oluokun/Abuja The Alhaji Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC of Peoples Democratic Party finally ate the humble pie…

Commuters Groan As Okada, Keke Ban Bites Hard In Benin

The withdrawal of commercial motorcycles from roads in Benin metropolis, southsouth Nigeria, Monday began to cause hardship as thousands of…

Man Arraigned Over Human Sacrifice

A 40-year old man, Ajadi Rafiu, has been charged to a magistrates’ court in Ilorin, Kwara State, northcentral Nigeria, for…

Life Jail For Rapists, Robbers

An Ughelli High Court in Delta State, south south Nigeria, has sentenced two men, Ernest Steve,  30, and Jerry Godwin,…

138 Hoodlums Arrested, 66 Sent To Jail

At least 138 suspected hoodlums have been arrested in various parts of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, by officials of the…

Tricycles Banned In Edo State

The Edo government on Sunday threatened to destroy commercial motorcycles or tricycles, popularly known as Keke NAPEP, that flouted the…

I’ll Miss My Mother —Tinubu

National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu says…

Climate agency warns on dangers of burning coal

With rainfall patterns changing and food growing region getting drier, an Australia climate agency warned today that most fossil fuels…

Enyeama: Eagles Bonus row not settled yet

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil(AFP) – Nigeria’s Super Eagles captain Vincent Enyeama said on Sunday that the row over bonuses that delayed…

Okonjo-Iweala: My briefing on Nigeria’s economy

Nigeria’s finance minister and co-ordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has responded to media stories accusing her of…

Amaechi disowns governors’ meeting

Governor Rotimi Amaechi, chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum has dismissed a planned meeting of another forum of minority Nigerian governors…

Tinubu’s Mother, Abibat Mogaji Buried

Kazeem Ugbodaga & Jamiu Yisa The remains of Alhaja Abibat Mogaji, the mother of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN,…
Ex-Tinubu's aide eulogises Abibat Mogaji's qualities

Abibat Mogaji: Fashola, others condole the Tinubus

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, his counterpart in the state of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola and Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the…

Iran elects Rowhani as Ahmadinejad’s successor

Hassan Rowhani’s election as Iran’s new president, backed by both moderates and reformists, gives a shot in the arm to…