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Jonathan vows to book attackers of Emir Bayero

Nigeria’s Presidency on Monday vowed to bring those behind the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, to…

Senator Ugbane, Elumelu for retrial

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former Chairman, of Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Power, Senator Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and his counterparts at…

Obama rallies Americans for unity, equality

President Barack Obama issued a impassioned call for national unity and equality on Monday, warning political “absolutism” must not thwart…

Full Text of Barack Obama’s inaugural address

The following is the full text of the inaugural address of US President Barack Obama as prepared for delivery: “Vice…

Bomb found, pretenders to Kano throne quizzed

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Several traditional chiefs who are believed to be interested in the throne of the Emir of Nigerian northern…

ACN flays Jonathan over comments on police college

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that while President Goodluck Jonathan’s surprise visit  to the Police College in…

Fashola gags Commissioners

By Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Nigeria’s Lagos State  has banned commissioners, other political office holders and all civil…

Declare Emergency Against Poverty, urges Group

BY EROMOSELE EBHOMELE  Nigeria’s  National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations (NACOMYO) has decried the level of poverty in the country…

Girl Sleeps Non-Stop For Weeks

 A teenager, Louisa Ball, 15, sleeps for up to two weeks at a time, because she suffers from an incredibly…

Ex-NIMASA Boss Re-Arraigned

By Akin kuponiyi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, re-arraigned the former Director-General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and…

One In 3 Adults Has High Blood Pressure —WHO

 BY EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that one out of every three adults worldwide has high…

Sex worker gets six year jail for manslaughter

 By Henry Ojelu/Judiciary Correspondent A Nigerian commercial sex worker in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State, Nkechi Okafor has…

Nigeria: When A Rose Fades

By ANTHONY EGBE Mrs. Rose Uzoma retires as Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service amid controversy Last week’s announcement of the…

Nigeria: A Murder so cruel

BY GBENRO ADESINA/Ibadan   A 35-year-old Nigerian graduate, due to marry in less than two months from now, is felled by…

Nigeria Needs Cultural Rebirth To Develop

Professor Tunde Babawale, Director-General, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, CBAAC, explains to TOKUNBO OLAJIDE how indifference to…

Why Opposition Parties Can’t Work Together

Nigerian Senator Chris Anyanwu, journalist, publisher and broadcast entrepreneur, represents Imo East Senatorial District in the National Assembly. In this…

The Injustice In Church-Owned Schools

Cardinal John Olufemi Onaiyekan, Catholic Archbishop of Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, tells OLUOKUN AYORINDE and SOLA FOLORUNSO-ADEOLA about his…

Will Nigeria’s PDP Implode?

 BY AYORINDE OLUOKUN & DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja Internecine feuds currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party predispose it to an implosion   …

The Fault Lines in Nigeria’s ruling party

BY JAMIU YISA Crisis rocks PDP in Adamawa, Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states  Adamawa The power struggle within the ruling…

Heavy snow blankets Moscow

Unusually heavy snowfall of almost 50 centimetres (20 inches) in Moscow caused traffic jams on Monday but did not affect…

An Agenda To Accelerate Development

BY DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja  The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s  President on Millennium Development Goals adopts an implementation…

Henry Okah convicted of terrorism charge

A South African court on Monday convicted Nigerian Henry Okah of 13 terrorism charges, including bombings that killed 12 people…

11 killed over land dispute

Eleven persons have been killed and no fewer than 2,000 people displaced in Adadama, Abi Local council of Nigeria’s south…

Nigerian governor offers cash for guns

Governor of Nigeria’s central state of Nasarawa, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, on Sunday promised to pay ethnic militia groups which lay…

Obi offers reward for clues on floating bodies

Governor of Nigeria’s eastern state of Anambra, Peter Obi, has offered a N5million reward for clues on the corpses found…

Ansaru terror group: ‘We bombed Nigerian troops’

The radical Islamist group Ansaru on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack in Okene, Kogi state in central Nigeria that…

Robbers attack ex- deputy governor

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The former deputy governor of Nigeria’s western state of Ogun, Alhaji Abdul Rafiu Ogunleye was early this…

Mali: France plans total takeover from Islamists

French troops on Sunday consolidated gains in Mali’s Islamist-held north as Paris said the aim was its “total reconquest” and…

Osaze Odemwingie now a father

Nigerian striker, Osaze Odemwingie has revealed that his wife, Sarah put to bed a bouncing baby boy Sunday morning in…

Emir Bayero, wounded sons fly to Britain

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Impeccable sources from Kano’s Emirate Council have told P.M.NEWS that the Emir of northern Nigerian city of Kano,…