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I’m Worried About Half-Baked Graduates

Professor Bamitale Omole, Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, speaks to TOKUNBO OLAJIDE on how he is running the institution,…

Boko Haram: The Amnesty Debate

The clamour for amnesty for Boko Haram members as a solution to the insurgency ravaging the North delivers its first…

Crying For Justice

A victim of electrocution holds the Power Holding Company of Nigeria responsible On Saturday, 23 February, Uchechukwu Ewurum, 12, a…

Another Bloody Attack By Fulanis

Suspected Fulani herdsmen descend on a Southern Kaduna village killing dozens While Christians across the country were celebrating the symbolic…

Flawed Implementation Of Amnesty Programme Cause Of Oil Theft In The Niger Delta

Toyin Akinosho, geologist and former employee of an international oil company is the Publisher of the highly rated Africa Oil…

Epic Oil Theft

Activities of big time oil theft syndicates, abetted by powerful political figures, tonnes of cash and military-style weapons, threaten to…

2013 Hajj: Lagos To Allocate 80% Slot To Fresh Pilgrims

The Lagos State Government says it will allocate 80 percent of the slots given to the state to intending pilgrims…

No More Cancellation Of Sanitation Exercise For WASCE, UTME

The Lagos State Government says it would no longer cancel the monthly environmental sanitation exercise for national examinations, such as…

11 bodies of killed cops found, one still missing

Nigeria’s Security agents Tuesday found 11 bodies of policemen declared missing at the weekend in the southern Bayelsa state, police…

Nollywood legend, Justus Esiri Begins Final Journey

Veteran actor, Justus Esiri, 70, began his final journey home yesterday with a Tribute Night organised in his honour by…

Lawyer’s withdrawal stalls Lagos Speaker’s trial

Akin Kuponiyi Nigeria’s Federal High Court Justice Okechukwu Okeke’s plan to accord accelerated hearing in the money laundering case against…

Protesting TASCE Students attack DPO

Abiodun Onafuye/Ijebu-Ode Protesting students of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State southwest Nigeria, clashed with policemen…

Tenant Sends Landlord To Prison Over Missing Chicken

A Nigerian landlord, Olubukunaji Obajimi, 56, has been remanded in prison after he was arraigned in court for locking his…

Paedophile, 48, remanded after assaulting baby 15 mths old

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year old Nigerian paedophile, Slyvester Ehiyele, who allegedly raped his own daughter, 7, and 15 month-old grand-daughter…

Islamic Group Rejects Amnesty For Boko Haram

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Ahead of the inauguration of the committee on amnesty for Boko Haram members by President Goodluck Jonathan, an…

60 Lagos Civil Servants Escape Death

BAYO ADETU At least, sixty workers of the Lagos State Government escaped death early this morning after the brake of…

7 killed, houses burnt in clashes with herdsmen

There appears no end in sight in the bloodletting between Fulani herdsmen and settler-farmers in Nigeria’s Plateau state. With close…

Police: Kidnapped woman a Nigerian not American

Alhaji Usman Abubakar, the Commissioner of Police in the eastern Nigerian state of Abia, has refuted reports that an American…

Kenya’s new leader wanted in the Hague for war crimes

Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding president, has taken up his father’s mantle to become head of state despite…

Uhuru Kenyatta takes oath, promises diligence

Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn as Kenya’s fourth president on Tuesday to cheers from tens of thousands of supporters, despite facing…

Nigeria: Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20

A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20…

4 Nigerian journalists detained by police

Nigerian police have detained four journalists after they refused to disclose the source of an alleged presidential document that calls…

Jonathan to attend Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja later tonight for Nairobi where he is scheduled to join other African leaders…

Nigeria: Mass burial for victims of weekend tragic accident

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Arrangements have been concluded to bury en masse victims of last Friday’s fatal auto accident that occurred at…

Brixton Londoners party over Thatcher’s death

Hundreds of people on Monday took to the main square in Brixton, an area of south London which suffered serious…

WikiLeaks throws US historical archives online

WikiLeaks on Monday launched a searchable archive containing 1.7 million US State Department documents from 1973-6 that had long been…

Nigeria’s police boss orders manhunt for cop-killers

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja In a reaction to the killing of 12 policemen at Azuzama, in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa state,…

Assemblyman to pay N300K to colleagues for reciting Yoruba alphabets

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Southwest Nigeria is to give out the sum of…

Akingbola seeks court’s nod to travel for medical treatment

Henry Ojelu The embattled former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, has filed a motion before an Ikeja…

Italy’s highway robbers snatch gold, cash

Kalashnikov-toting gunmen robbed a security van in Italy on Monday, blocking traffic with a blazing truck, firing into the air…