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Nigeria: Type one wild polio reported in Abuja

The Primary Health Care Development Board (PHCDB) of Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja said that a case of type-one wild…

Man taunts Polish ‘miracle’ Virgin Mary icon

Polish police detained a 58-year-old man on Sunday after he threw an object at the country’s Black Madonna of Czestochowa,…

Lagos Traffic Law: 3 sentenced to community service

Lagos government has bared its fangs on its much flouted Traffic Law by commercial motorcyclists in the state. In these…

Nigerian Mullahs force VP Sambo out of daughters’ wedding

It was a double wedding that attracted the movers and shakers of Nigeria and at least 10 state governors. And…

Ghana election: Mahama set to edge out Akufo-Addo

Ghana President John Dramani Mahama held a slim lead over presidential election rival Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday with nearly all…

Oyo opens Technical University 2013

The first set of students will be admitted into Nigeria’s new Technical University next September, increasing Nigeria’s universities to over…

Ex-Oyo state governor Olunloyo joins ACN

A former governor of Oyo state, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo and former chairman of Ibadan South west Local, Alhaji Tajudeen Ajibade,…

After army threat, Egyptian leader Morsi backs down

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi backed down Saturday night in a political crisis marked by weeks of street protests, after the…

Hugo Chavez: My cancer is back

Venezuelan President, 58 year-old Hugo Chavez has admitted a relapse of his cancer and designated vice president Nicolas Maduro as…

TY Danjuma clocks 75

General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, the civil war veteran, the coup maker, former chief of army staff, former defence minister, big…

Obasanjo’s team endorses Ghana’s election

West African observers Saturday declared that Ghana’s just concluded presidential election was “peaceful and transparent,” but noted widespread technical glitches…

Police avert attack on PDP office

The Nigerian police on Saturday in Yola,capital of Adamawa state foiled an attempt to attack the PDP Secretariat. The irate…

8 year-old Amarachi wins Nigeria’s Got Talent show

Seun Bisuga Amarachi Nyanne was nothing short of stunning. She wowed the crowd everytime she was on stage and when…

Jonathan: I will miss my brother Meni

President Goodluck Jonathan has described the death of his younger brother, Chief Meni Jonathan as “particularly too painful to bear”.…

Mandela admitted to hospital

Africa’s icon and former South African leader, Nelson Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria Saturday to undergo tests…

Mahama and Akufo-Addo running neck and neck

Counting of votes has started in Ghana, and early results showed a tight race between incumbent John Dramani Mahama, a…

Ex-Nigerian governor, Balarabe wins anti-corruption award

Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former governor of the old Kaduna state has been named the winner of this year’s civil society…

Owei Lakemfa, Nigerian heads OATUU

Former journalist, Owei Lakemfa, has been elected as the Secretary General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, (OATUU),…

I won’t resign, SURE-P chair Kolade says

Dr Christopher Kolade, former Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Chairman, Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P),…

Boko Haram loses four more commanders

Nigeria’s Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order has disclosed that it shot dead four suspected terrorist commanders of…

Melaye the dad of my child, insists Bisi Ibidapo Obe

In African tradition, before the invention of DNA, the belief was that a woman always knows the rightful father of…

Jonathan weeps at brother’s burial

President Goodluck Jonathan could not hold back his emotions at the burial rites for his younger brother, Meni Innocent Jonathan,…

Council boss uses council fund as personal collateral

Justice I.E Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi state has been told how Yahaya Abubakar, former…

Alleged minister’s assailant acquited 9 years after

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday discharged and acquitted an alleged assailant of former minister of information…

Ex-Militants sue Jonathan over N63.2b amnesty programme

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The planned inclusion of victims of oil pollution as beneficiaries of the N63.281 billion approved by…

Nigerian Pastor charged with rape

The police in Western Nigerian state of Ekiti on Friday arraigned Solomon Olasehinde, 25, before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s court for…

Ghana’s voting stretches to second day

Voting in Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary polls on Friday was extended to the following day due to delays linked to…

Indian Nurse in Britain’s royal family hoax call dies

An Indian nurse at the hospital which treated Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine was found dead on Friday, days after…

Toothless Traffic Law: Okada Riders Defy Fashola

Two months after the Lagos State Government commenced the enforcement of its new traffic law restricting the operation of commercial…

Front Page Comment: Lagos And Its Laws

As the Lagos State House of Assembly churns out laws to make the state a better place, we expect the…