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Egypt sentences 54 Morsi supporters to life in jail

An Egyptian anti-terror court on Wednesday sentenced 54 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison for…

FG stops 1% deduction from Federation Account

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Federal Government has stopped the one per cent illegal deduction from State’s share in the Federation Account.…

I wish you safe journey, Oshiomhole tells defectors

Jethro Ibileke/Benin ‎ Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says he will not be intimidated to surrender the resources of…

Lagos Assembly To Resolve LASU Crisis

Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, will resolve all lingering crises facing the state-owned university, LASU,…

Tenure Extension: Confab Boss Disowns Delegate’s Demand

The Chairman of the 2014 National Conference, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, and other Principal Officers have dissociated themselves from comments…

APC Slams PDP Over Threat To Burn Oba Akiolu’s Palace

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as irresponsible, uncouth and callous the allegations leveled…

Jos Bombing: I’m Not Shaken, Says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration will not be cowed by the atrocities of enemies of human progress…

14 APC Govs Storm Ekiti For Fayemi

Simon Ateba, Nkrumah Bankong-Obi & Gbenro Adesina/Ado Ekiti A number of governors, Senators, House of Representatives members and leaders of…

Three killed, 25 wounded in Taiwan knife attack

A knife-wielding attacker went on a stabbing spree aboard a Taipei subway train Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 25…

Jos blasts: PDP postpones Ekiti governorship flag-off

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed, by one week, the presidential flag-off of Ekiti…

Prince Charles ‘compares Putin to Hitler’

Prince Charles was mired in controversy on Wednesday after he reportedly compared the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin in…

Two Boko Haram attacks near Chibok kill 30

Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more…

Nigeria’s Israel-made drones grounded by corruption

It has been revealed that Nigeria would have had no need for foreign help to trace the schoolgirls kidnapped by…

El-Rufai sues PDP, Metuh, Thisday for N1.5bn

Malam Nasir El-Rufai, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, has sued the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, PDP National Publicity…

African countries send 5 battalions to fight Boko Haram

Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Chad will contribute one battalion of troops each to the international force set…

PDP promises Nigerians good leadership

The Peoples Democratic Party National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, said the party would continue to provide good leadership to the…

Pakistan air strikes kill 32 militants

Precision military air strikes on Wednesday killed at least 32 militants including key commanders in a restive Pakistani tribal region…

Wazobia FM journalist docked for urinating in public

A 54-year-old radio journalist, Pius-Junior Opute ,(a.k. a .OPJ), who was allegedly caught peeing in a drainage and resisting arrest,…

Guinea Bissau: Mario Vaz is president elect

Guinea-Bissau’s former finance minister Jose Mario Vaz scored a resounding victory Tuesday in a presidential election seen as a key…

Jos bombing: NEMA, Police disagree on death toll

The Nigerian police and the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA are locked in conflict over the number of the dead…

3 feared dead as rival groups clash in Imo

There was pandemonium at the Umuapu Junction on the Owerri-Port Harcourt Road on Tuesday following a clash between the youths…

Tambuwal condemns Jos bomb blasts

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has condemned the two bomb blasts that occurred in Jos on Tuesday.…

At least 118 killed in Jos blasts – NEMA

At least 118 people were killed in a car bomb attack in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the country’s…

Falode’s son: Tambuwal tasks UAE to find killers

Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has urged authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to find…

Nigeria wants UN sanctions on Boko Haram

Nigeria has asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Boko Haram, the armed Islamist group that claimed the…

‘My story’, by victim of N9.8bn Nigerian fraud

A man, Matthew Chukwu, on Tuesday told a Nigerian Federal High Court in Lagos that a “Wonder Bank” Operator, Fortune…

1 dead, 4 houses burnt in gunmen attack in Lagos

At least one person was killed and four buildings burnt on Monday night at Dawodu Lane in Ilogbo Community at…

46 Killed in Jos Blasts – Police

Twin car bombings killed 46 people on Tuesday at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, as…

Wammako, Ngige lead APC convention committee

Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised a 15-member committee ahead of its National Convention rescheduled for June 13 and…

Court prevents FRSC from imposing driver’s licence

An Abuja Federal High Court has restrained the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) from imposing the new driver’s licence and…