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UNN cancels messy post UTME tests

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State has cancelled its post-UTME screening following an alleged leakage of examination…

Protests in Egypt, confusion overhangs polls

Several thousand Egyptians took to Tahrir Square in Cairo Tuesday to protest against the ruling military’s bid to grab new…

34 Die in Damaturu’s violence

Gun battles between security forces and suspected Islamists in Nigeria’s Damaturu town have killed at least 34 people, including three…

Jonathan approves more schools in South-East

President Goodluck Jonathan at the inauguration of the back-to school campaign, directed the Federal Ministry of Education to build additional…

Gombe’s security chief assassinated

Remorselss gunmen have shot dead, Malam Adamu Mamman the acting director of security matters in the office of the governor…

Togo detains Kodjo, Ex-Prime Minister

Togo briefly detained former prime minister and opposition figure Agbeyome Kodjo Tuesday over protests held last week, the latest in…

Boko Haram: 2 Nigerian cities in a state of war

Gunfire and rioting rocked two northern Nigerian cities on Tuesday in a fresh round of unrest, prompting authorities to slap…

Jonathan Under Fire for Rio Trip

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has criticized President Goodluck Jonathan for embarking on a trip to Brazil for the…

Fresh Riots in Kaduna, Curfew Imposed

Fresh crisis erupted in Kaduna this morning as Hausa/Fulani youths in the state launched a reprisal attack on the Christian…

Arrested Air Nigeria MD Flown To Abuja

The Managing Director of Air Nigeria, Mr. Kinfe Kahssaye, who was arrested yesterday by the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS,…

Woman Pours Hot Water On Hubby’s Penis

To prevent her husband from further looking outside for sexual satisfaction, a woman has done the unthinkable by pouring hot…

JAMB Candidates To Write Exams Through e-Testing

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says candidates are to answer questions by…

Judge Frees 34 Prison Inmates

Fifteen murder suspects, eight armed robbery suspects and six persons awaiting trial for stealing were among those who regained freedom…

Bombings: EU Asks Govt To Punish Culprits

European Union has called for the arrest, trial and punishment of those responsible for recent attacks on churches in the…

Lagos Island LG To Implement Child Rights Bill

Lagos Island Local Government Area, Lagos, southwest, Nigeria, has said it would observed all  the provisions of the Child Rights’…

Man Docked For Setting Sharia Court Ablaze

The Katsina State Police Command has arraigned Ahmad Musa before a Katsina Chief Magistrates’ Court III for arson. Musa was…

ACN, CPC Merger Talk In Progress —Faruk

Mr. Faruk Osuma, the Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in FCT today said the party had started…

Kidnap: Pastor, 2 Others Jailed 20 Years Each

A Delta High Court sitting in Ogwashi-Uku in Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state on Monday sentenced a…

Two Escape Death As Mast Collapses

A mast belonging to Diamond Bank Plc collapsed on Saturday at about 2 p.m. in Idumagbo area of Lagos State,…

Bank Robbery: DPO Redeployed

The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, Umaru Manko, has ordered the immediate redeployment of the Divisional Police Officer…

Youths Urged To Shun Cultism, Drugs

Chairman, Iba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, Princess Ramota Adeyeri-Oseni has advised children and youths to shun wayward…

Clash at Igbinedion varsity caused by cultists

The Presidential Amnesty Office has explained that the clash between former militants and cultists at Igbinedion University was orchestrated by…

Abia gives police 30 patrol vans

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state, eastern Nigeria, on Monday donated 30 patrol vans to the State Police Command as…

Ogun electoral commission clears 89 for polls

The Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) has so far cleared 89 chairmanship candidates from 28 political parties to contest…

Nigerian town hit by a cocktail of bombs, gunshots

Fresh explosions and gunfire have rocked Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, a day after suicide attacks claimed by Islamists and…

Romanian PM accused of Plagiarism

The science journal Nature reported claims on Monday that Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta had plagiarised large parts of his…

Jonathan to attend UN Earth Summit

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will depart Abuja tomorrow to attend the United Nations’ Earth Summit, RIO+20, opening in Brazil on…

Nigerian student posing as ‘gay’ jailed 20 years

Justice Mohammed L. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna has sentenced an undergraduate of the University of…

Tears As Dana Crash Victims Are Remembered

Emotions were high and tears abundant yesterday as hundreds of people gathered in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, to remember the victims…

Lagos Seals Off Distressed 3-Storey Building

The Lagos State Government has sealed off a distressed three-storey building and evacuated its occupants on Ajayi Road, Ogba area…