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Cricket: Team Nigeria Set For ICC T20 Tourney

Nigerian team are battle ready for the 2013 Pepsi ICC-Africa Division 1 Championship which begins in Kampala, Uganda this weekend.…

French family captured in Cameroon, freed in Nigeria

The seven members of a French family who were seized in northern Cameroon earlier in the week have been found…

Kidnap threats compound woes of northern Nigeria

A string of kidnappings of foreigners blamed on Nigerian Islamists has added a new layer of insecurity in the country’s…

2015 to decide Nigeria’s unity, says MEND

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), which is currently agitating for the release of Henry…

SSS busts Iran-linked plot to kill Babangida, Dasuki

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s State Security Service,SSS, on Wednesday stated that it has uncovered a terrorist plot to attack…

Jonathan for Lagos and Malabo summit

President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea tomorrow to participate in the 3rd Summit of Heads of…

Agba, Oroh, Odion back in Oshiomhole’s cabinet

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The much awaited list of Commissioner nominees to form the cabinet for the second term of Comrade Adams…

3 Iran-linked terror suspects arrested in Nigeria

Nigeria’s State Security Service, SSS, today announced the arrest of three persons suspected of being members of an Iran-linked terror…

Suspected terrorists docked for robbery

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Seven persons alleged to have robbed some banks in the Nigerian northern state of Bauchi in…

Traditional rulers sue Ajimobi over land dispute

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN A Nigerian court in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state has fixed 21 March 2013 for hearing in the…

France vows not to surrender to Nigerian terrorists

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that his country would not give in to “terrorists” after the kidnapping of…

2015: Opposition Merger and What Lies Ahead

By Theophilus Ilevbare There is a need to provide a credible alternative for the electorate, a radical change borne out…

Witnesses: Pistorius ‘fought’ with lover before killling

PRETORIA (AFP) – Bail hearing has been shifted to Thursday by a South African court in the riveting trial of…

Illegal Betting: Lottery Board Nabs Serbian, 10 Others

The Lagos State Lotteries Board has arrested a Serbian national for engaging in illegal online sports betting without being licensed…

Fire Guts FAAN Fuel Dump In Lagos

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) owned and operated fuel dump, close to FAAN’s corporate headquarters at the Murtala…

Lagos To Build Holiday Market In Badagry

The Lagos State Government has concluded arrangements to construct a holiday market in Badagry, Mr. Ashamu Fadipe, Permanent Secretary, Lagos…

Okada Riders Decry Extortion

Commercial motorcycle operators, also known as okada riders in FESTAC Town have cried out over extortion  by policemen attached to…

Reps Tackle Ghost Workers In MDAs

The House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday mandated an ad hoc committee to investigate the incident of ghost workers…

Govs Not In Same Class With Ministers —Fashola

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state says appointed federal ministers can never be in the same class with elected governors…

Nigeria-Based International Fraudster Exposed

A man who claims to be from the United  Kingdom, but living in Nigeria, has continued to defraud innocent victims…

Nigerian Bishop Arrested For Theft

A bishop has been arrested by the police in Lagos state, southwest Nigeria, for his alleged involvement in fraud. He…

Man Rapes Chained Deranged Girl

A 42-year old man, Gowon Ewhe, has been arrested by the police for allegedly raping a 17-year old girl who…

BOTCHED KIDNAP: Policeman Killed, Lebanese Escapes

Unidentified gunmen yesterday at about 10 p.m. killed a police corporal simply identified as Levi at Festac town, Lagos state,…

France urges citizens vacate northern Cameroon

France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in…

Nigerian actors mourn veteran Nollywood star, Esiri

Members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) Wednesday bemoaned the death of a veteran actor, Justus Esiri. In their…

Nollywood’s veteran Justus Esiri dies

Nehru Odeh & Bayo Adetu Veteran Nollywood actor Justus Esiri is dead. The legendary actor, who had acted in many…

Ex-Ivorian leader docked for crimes against his people

THE HAGUE (AFP)- Ivorian ex-president Laurent Gbagbo bears responsibility for some of the worst crimes committed during a bloody post-election…

Man bites off lover’s ear in the name of love

A 25-year-old Nigerian tiler, Ebenezer Makati, who allegedly bit off part of his girlfriend’s two ears, following a lover’s spat,…

Nigerian editors set for new elections

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) will elect its new executives on March 1, at its convention scheduled to hold…

Family of 7 kidnapped in Cameroon, near Nigeria

Seven French tourists, members of the same family—three adults and four children, were kidnapped Tuesday by unidentified men in northern…