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Edo Council Elections Set For April

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Nigeria’s Edo State has announced a date for the council elections, last held about six years ago. The…
A- yet- to be identified operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has committed suicide at his residence in Abuja.

EFCC Declares Ex-Nigerian Rep Wanted

A former member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Chief Gbineje Obukowho Napoleon has been declared wanted by the Economic and…

11 die as abnormal weather blasts Middle East

Abnormal storms which for four days have blasted the Middle East with rain, snow and hail have left at least…

Amosun spares TASUED, appoints new VC

An indication that Governor Ibukunle Amosun may have changed his mind about merging Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria’s first…

Fire guts Oyo monarch’s palace

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The Palace of Nigeria’s Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III was today gutted by fire, which…

Martyr of Subsidy Protest Won’t Die In Vain, Vows LG Boss

The Nigerian youngster, Ademola Abe, killed in Lagos during the mass revolt of Nigerians against the steep rise of petrol…

Gov Fayemi Dissolves Cabinet

The Governor of Ekiti State, southwest Nigeria, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has dissolved the state executive council. The dissolution took place…

Alleged HIV/AIDS Breakthrough: UNIBEN Disowns Don

Authorities of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), have disowned the Dean of School of Basic Medical Sciences of the University,…

One Way Drive: Truck Driver Jailed

A court in Nigeria’s foremost commercial hub, Lagos has sentenced a truck driver to three months imprisonment for driving against …

Abuja Residents Troop To Fetch “Kerosene” From Well

There was commotion in Kuje, one of the six Area Councils in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, over the discovery of petroleum…

Funding Hampers Lagos-Badagry Expressway —Fashola

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says completing the Lagos-Badagry Expressway is tied to funding, which the state government is…

Terrorism: Suleja Bomb Suspects Move To Thwart Trial

Suspects arrested in connection with the 2011 bombing of Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in Suleja, Niger State, who are…

Nigerian Traders Urge Fashola On Sanitation Laws

Some small scale traders in Lagos have appealed to the state government to give them concessions in the implementation of…

UNIBEN Unveils New Cure For HIV/AIDS

Professor Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin, on Tuesday announced the development of a new drug that can cure…

Bode George To Reform PDP

Ex-convict, Chief Olabode George was on Tuesday night named among six members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees,…

Fire Guts MRS Tank Farm

Fire has gutted MRS petroleum tank farm at Tin Can Island, opposite PPM Terminal, in Apapa, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Unofficial…

Fashola promises to deliver Lagos light rail June

Governor of Nigeria’s Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola said today that The first phase of the Lagos light rail project,…

Okonjo-Iweala denies blocking oil subsidy payments

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has refuted media reports which alleged that her ministry was blocking verified payments…

Boko Haram: Obasanjo faults Jonathan’s approach

Nigeria’s former leader, Olusegun Obasanjo has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan’s approach in resolving the menace of the Boko Haram insurgency.…

INEC’s Absence Stalls Oni v Fayemi

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Hearing of an appeal instituted by former Governor of western Nigeria’s Ekiti state, Mr. Segun Oni,…

UNIBEN Lecturer Arrested Over Extortion

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The security department of Nigeria’s University of Benin, UNIBEN, has foiled a syndicate of lecturers which specializes in…

Dele Giwa’s Mom Dies At 87

Elekiya Ayisat Giwa, the mother of the founding Editor-In-Chief of Newswatch magazine, Dele Giwa, who was killed in 1986 by…

ACN Slams FG For Plotting Against Merger

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has alerted the nation about the desperate measures being planned by the PDP-led Federal…

Nigerian Lady Dumps Baby In Pit Latrine

Residents of Manchok in Kaura Local Government Area of  Nigeria’s Kaduna State have recovered a baby from a pit latrine…

Food Aid Pillaged In Central Africa

Hundreds of tonnes of food aid have been stolen from warehouses across the restive Central African Republic, the UN’s World…

Man Collects Lover’s Money, Then Dumps Her

A  midddle aged woman, Amusa Taiwo, has been left in the lurch after she allegedly gave her lover, Adesokan Ifeoluwa,…

Jonathan, OBJ Clash Over BoT Chair

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and his political godfather, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will today engage each other in a…

Nigeria to charge Russian sailors over arms import

Nigeria’s navy has transferred for prosecution 15 Russian sailors detained since October for allegedly transporting illegal arms, a navy spokesman…

Onitsha roars back to business with rain

Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria’s South-East and South-South, witnessed its first rain in 2013 that lasted for 40…

Panel uncovers N24b fraud in Abia

The judicial panel of inquiry set up by Nigeria’s eastern state of Abia to probe the Abia Physical Planning and…