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Nigeria: 32 Students Massacred

At least 32 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, have been killed. Though our correspondent said…

Whereabouts Of Kidnapped Commissioner Unknown

About 48 hours after Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education, Professor Hope Eghagha was abducted by unidentified gunmen, his whereabouts…

Bank Robber Shot Dead

A Lagos-based businessman (name withheld) narrowly escaped being killed as one of the robbers who trailed him on a motorcycle…

Tinubu, Fashola, Others Storm Ondo For Akeredolu

With the commencement of the mega rallies for the 20 October governorship race in Ondo State by the Action Congress…

2 Suspected Killers Of Brother Arraigned

Two brothers, Omotola Ajayi, 48 and Oluwatoyin Ajayi, 41 who allegedly killed their younger brother, Akinbuyi, 39, and sold some…

Court Orders CBN To Declare Cash, Assets Seized From Cecilia Ibru

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, this morning ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to declare…

Crisis Looms As Tokyo Tackles Ajimobi

The face-off between the estranged Chairman of the National Road Transport Worker, (NURTW), Oyo State Chapter, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola alias…

Corruption Rating: TI, Activists Slam Jonathan

Nigerian activists have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to apologise to the citizens of the country for deliberately distorting information on…

Sanitation: Hoodlums Attack Local Govt Boss

The chairman of Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Babatunde Oke, was reportedly attacked by hoodlums wielding dangerous…

Sidmach Tech Launches Portal For WAEC Results Verification

Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited has developed West African Examinations Council (WAEC) online result verification portal that allow people in any…

Ex-Speaker Na’Abba: Obasanjo destroyed Nigeria’s democracy

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba declared in Kano that former President Olusegun…

79,000 Persons Displaced By Disasters In Cross River

EMMA UNA/ Calabar Persistent battering of Cross River State by climate change disasters have left over 79,000 persons displaced in…

US Supreme Court hears Ogoni case against Shell

The US Supreme Court has begun its new session by re-examining a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria alleging…

Boko Haram leader warns over anti-Islam movie

The suspected leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect, has issued a threat in a YouTube video over a US-made anti-Islam…

18.2 million Europeans jobless

Jobless numbers shot up to a record 18.2 million in the eurozone in August, official data showed Monday after a…

Henry Okah’s trial begins in South Africa

On a day that Nigeria is marking its 52nd independence anniversary, Henry Okah, the man suspected to have confined President…

Jonathan vows to battle endemic corruption

Eromosele Ebhomele President Goodluck Jonathan this morning promised that his administration would not tolerate corruption which he described as endemic…

Jonathan: Nigeria making steady progress

AN ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON THE OCCASION OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY ANNIVERSARY ON MONDAY, 1STOCTOBER, 2012…

Lagos police boss seeks reforms

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, has contended that the absence of sustainable logistics and over centralisation…

Untold story of AbdulMutallab, the underwear bomber

7 Actions News investigator, Scott Lewis has revealed new insights about Nigeria’s failed Underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. Lewis…

Nigerian army explains Zaria explosions

The Nigerian army has explained the reason for the bomb explosions and the gun fire that rocked the Nigerian northern…

Governor Dickson denies ill-health rumour

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state on Sunday arrived at the Government House after about three weeks abroad, dispelling rumours…

Tinubu, Fashola, Amosun rally Nigerians for rebirth

Nigeria will clock 52 years as an independent nation tomorrow, amidst an atmosphere of gloom being experienced by citizens. But…

Tinubu: Islam has lost a peerless mouthpiece in Adegbite

A Tribute To Dr. Lateef Adegbite, the late Secretary General of the National Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs By Asiwaju…

Delta commissioner kidnapped

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Delta state Commissioner for Higher Education, Professor Hope Eghagha has been seized by unidentified gunmen. He was kidnapped…

October 1: Jonathan keeps off Eagle Square

Nigeria’s president for the second year will be holed in his official residence at Aso Villa while he celebrated Nigeria’s…

Nigeria resumes hajj flights after Saudi row

National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Sunday resumed flight operations to Saudi Arabia in five centres for this year’s…

2 die as bomb explosion, gun fire rock Zaria

An explosion and gunfire shook an area around an Islamic school in Zaria, Kaduna state Sunday, leaving two suspected attackers…

Seriake Dickson’s Bayelsa state clocks 16

—OKAFOR OFIEBOR/Port Harcourt Bayelsa State which shares the same date of birth with Nigeria, clocks 16 The Ijaw of the…

Emeka Ngige: Nigeria has failed as a state

Chief Emeka Ngige, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, tells FOLA ADEMOSU his assessment of the Nigerian state on its 52nd…