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Mugabe dares partner, sets date for election

HARARE(AFP) – Zimbabwe was plunged into fresh political crisis Thursday as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai vowed to fight a unilateral…

Improving Mandela clocks sixth day in hospital

JOHANNESBURG(AFP) – Nelson Mandela remained at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria for a sixth day on Thursday receiving treatment…

World Cup: Countdown clock unveiled in Rio

A clock designed by the late architect Oscar Niemeyer to mark the one-year countdown to next year’s World Cup was…

Jonathan, Tinubu, Fashola mourn Rolling Dollar

President Goodluck Jonathan led the flood of tributes for the departed accomplished and multi-talented Nigerian musician, Pa Fatai Olayiwola Olagunju,…

Fashola, Tinubu Call For Challenge Of Impunity Culture

As Nigerians mark the 20th anniversary of the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos…

Fatai Rolling Dollar Is Dead

Highlife music veteran, Fatai Rolling Dollar is dead at 86. The octogenarian passed on this morning at Ahmadiyya Hospital in…

New Bride Strangled In Husband’s Home

Unidentified assailants on Wednesday strangled the wife of the Director of Information in the Kano State Ministry of Information and…
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IBB Has No Hand In Abiola’s Death, Says Brother

A bombshell was dropped Wednesday when Chief Mubashiru Abiola, the head of the Abiola family of Gbagura, Abeokuta, Ogun State,…

Lagos To Deploy Hi-tech Traffic Software

The Lagos State Government, in its efforts at improving the efficiency level and service delivery of its staff, is set…

NAPTIP Uncovers 300 Human Traficking Routes

About 300 illegal routes used by human traffickers to ferry their victims out of the country have been discovered in…

Mass Protest In Benin Over Motorcycle Ban

Thousands of operators of commercial motorcycles, popularly called Okada, took to the streets of Benin City, capital of Edo State…

Collapsed Mushin Building Has 10 Landlords

Facts have emerged that ten landlords own the building that collapsed Tuesday in Challenge Bus Stop area of Mushin, Lagos,…

Fire Destroys Certificates In Edo Ministry Of Education

Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed Wednesday morning during a fire outbreak that gutted the building of the Edo…

How DPO Killed UNIBEN Student

The manner in which Ibrahim Momoh, the contentious UNIBEN student was murdered by the police in Benin, was Tuesday revealed…

Odua Group Slams Obasanjo

A patently pro-Goodluck Jonathan group, Odua Elites Solidarity Movement, has come down hard on former president, Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ). In…

20th Anniversary: Nigerians Remember June 12, Abiola

Nigerians from all walks of life Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of the freest and fairest presidential election ever conducted…

‘Celebrate My Birthday With The Poor’

Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has directed his followers not to…

World’s oldest person dies in Japan

The world’s oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116 years,…

Edo State imposes partial ban of motorcyles

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The use of motorcycle as means of transportation has been outlawed in three Local Government Areas of Edo…

World’s biggest bike congress opens in Vienna

The dangers of drunk-cycling, the eternal war between cyclists and pedestrians and a dozen cities’ efforts to be hip, green…

June 12 Is Unforgettable In Nigerian History —Ashafa

As Nigerians mark the 20th anniversary of June 12, 1993 presidential election, which the late Chief MKO Abiola won, the…

Pro-Democracy Groups Condemn Wamakko’s Suspension

A coalition of civil society organisations, has condemned the suspension of Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto by the National Working…

Lagos To Demolish Houses In Ifako-Ijaiye Gorge

Hundreds of houses built in the gorge in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria are to be…

Tinubu outlines APC agenda for a new Nigeria

In a speech delivered to a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Room , Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London…

WHO Alerts On 3 Deadly Viruses

The World Health Organisation has raised alarm over fears that the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS) discovered last…

Reactions Trail New Lagos Cremation Law

Mixed reactions have trailed the new Lagos Cremation Law, which was signed into law on Monday by Governor Babatunde Fashola.…

Clearing Agent Murdered

A popular clearing agent based at Seme border was in the early hours of Sunday murdered at his home in…

Baby’s Eyes, Private Part Removed In Hospital

Angry youths of Abule Iroko in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, have vandalised an ambulance and an SUV at a medical…

Fred Ajudua Sent To Jail

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja  Tuesday ordered that notorious fraudster Fred Ajudua be remanded in Kirikiri Prisons over…

ACN: Sponsors Of Terror PDP Members

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has rejected any attempt by the presidency and the ruling PDP to portray the…