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What Chinese explorers found under Nigerian waters

Chinese scientific research ship Dayang Yihao, or Ocean One, has returned to east China harbour, almost four months after it…

NNPC: Fuel price remains N97 in Nigeria

Nigeria’s Federal Government will not increase the pump price of petrol in January, the Acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs…

Nigerian state outlaws cruelty to chickens, ducks

A Nigerian state has guaranteed chickens and other poultry birds such as guinea fowl, duck and pigeons a new lease…

Injured Gov Wada improves, ADC buried

Governor of Nigeria’s central state of Kogi, Idris Wada, who survived an auto crash on Ajaokuta-Lokoja Road on 28 December…

Central Africa: Rebels close in on Bozize

Authorities in the Central African Republic capital Bangui have imposed a nighttime curfew as fighters from a rebel coalition move…

7 die as 34,000 scramble to fill 90 jobs

As in Nigeria, where hundreds of thousands apply to fill few vacancies, so it is in South Africa, where unemployment…

Jonathan: Attitude not corruption Nigeria’s challenge

President Goodluck Jonathan claimed today that Nigeria’s biggest challenge to good governance is not corruption, but the attitude of Nigerians.…

Azazi: Jonathan, Amaechi pay glowing tributes at burial

General Andrew Owoye Azazi, Nigeria’s former National Security Adviser who died in a military helicopter crash 15 December was buried…

Robbers kill 4 on Abuja Highway

Four persons have been killed in a robbery attack launched by a gang of armed robbers on a luxury bus…

Bag snatchers on holidays in Onitsha market

Bag snatchers notorious for plying their acts in Nigeria’s busy market of Onitsha, in the eastern state of Anambra, appeared…

Nigeria reports eight new cases of polio

Eight new cases of wild polio virus have been reported in Nigeria’s north western state of Kebbi, according to Hajiya…

Lagos targets 370 income tax defaulters

Nigeria’s Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola Raji said his government would soon swoop on 370 high net-worth residents of the…

Zimbabwe’s rights chief quit

The chairman of Zimbabwe’s human rights commission, appointed to help curb rights violations, has resigned citing inhibiting laws and lack…

Government soldiers routed by rebels In CAR

Rebels in the Central African Republic have repelled government soldiers who were trying to recapture the central city of Bambari,…

Nigeria: Boko Haram gunmen free prisoners, kill 7

Nigeria’s police authorities have given a near full picture of the damages done by armed men, believed to be Boko…

Nigeria’s governors annus horribilis

TOKUNBO OLAJIDE For many Nigerian state governors, it’s a year of the locust. From the tragic death of one, to…

Barcelona’s Pique makes ‘Messi’ of a birth joke

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique irked much the world’s media Friday by announcing his girlfriend Colombian pop star Shakira had given…

PDP urges prayers for injured Governor Wada

Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has directed its members to observe minutes of prayers on Saturday for the speedy…

Azazi: Dickson’s eulogy at service of songs

Governor Seriake Dickson of Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa State has described late Gen. Owoeye Azazi, as a visionary leader who…

Lagos House approves cremation bill

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Lagos State House of Assembly late Friday passed the controversial Cremation Bill into law and instructed that the…

Lagos House jacks up budget by N1.9b

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE The Lagos State House of Assembly Friday evening approved N499 billion as the budget for 2013. The approved…

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore

Singapore (AFP) An Indian gang-rape victim died Saturday in Singapore after suffering severe organ failure, the hospital treating her said,…

Britain honours Murray, Farah, others

Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins led a parade of Olympic champions whose achievements in a remarkable summer of sport…

Free uniforms for Osun students, computers on the way

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Nigeria’s State of Osun on Friday distributed school uniforms worth N800 million to students in the…

Injured Governor Wada may have lost a leg

Governor Idris Wada of the Nigerian central state of Kogi, who was involved in a ghastly motor accident Friday, may…

Kaduna swears in Bajoga as deputy governor

Former Nigerian ambassador to Poland, Nuhu Bajoga was sworn-in today as the new Deputy Governor of Kaduna State. He was…

Nigerian governor critically injured in crash, aide dies

TOKUNBO OLAJIDE Governor of Nigeria’s central state of Kogi, Idris Wada, has been reportedly injured in a fatal auto crash…

Photos Update On Jankara Fire

These are some of the building earmarked for demolition in Lagos Island where a warehouse stocked for fireworks exploded recently…

Lagos marks 50 Houses For Integrity Tests

Nigeria’s  Lagos State Government has ordered structural integrity tests to be conducted on at least 50 houses at Jankara area…

Aturu Slams Fashola Over Comment On Lagos Fire

Nigeria’s  rights activist and lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, has criticised Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State over his comment purportedly directed…