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Jos bombing catastrophic, says NEMA official

. The dead and injured still being evacuated The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday declared that the casualty…

Jos Blasts: We won’t give hasty casualty figures – Govt

The Plateau State Government says it is “not in a hurry” to release the casualty figures from Tuesday afternoon’s two…

Confab disowns delegate over 2015 polls shift

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

Two arrested over Kano suicide car bomb

Two men have been arrested in connection with a suicide car bombing in the northern Nigerian city of Kano that…

Lagos AG, Lawmakers raise fears Over ‘FERMA Task Force’

Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State Attorney-General, Ade Ipaye, and members of the State House of Assembly, western Nigeria on Tuesday…

ASUU-LASU Begins Strike

Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Lagos State University Chapter, ASUU-LASU, has begun an indefinite strike action. The…

Two blasts rock Jos market

Two car bombs ripped through a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, the latest in…

Unknown Traffic Controllers Invade Lagos

Police in Lagos have intercepted a strange group of usurpers posing as traffic officials on Lagos roads. Dressed in grey…

APC convention holds in June

The National Convention of the All Progressives Congress will now hold in Abuja on the 13th and 14th of June…

Abducted schoolgirls: APC chides Jonathan for snub

The All Progressives Congress issued a statement today on the war against insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast and the rescue efforts…

Federal officials sack LASTMA men from Federal roads

Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Federal Taskforce operating in Lagos on Tuesday sacked officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management…

National Assembly approves state of emergency extension

The National Assembly on Tuesday approved a six-month extension to the state of emergency in three northeast states hit by…

Sanusi vs Jonathan : Court declines jurisdiction

Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja A Federal High Court in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, has declined jurisdiction to determine whether President Goodluck…

Nigeria police order security audit of boarding schools

Nigeria’s chief of police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered his state Commissioners to immediately carry out a nationwide security audit…

Island Relaxation Spots Shut Over Tax Evasion

Seun Bisuga Officials of Iru-Victoria Island Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have sealed the business outlets of tax defaulters following…

Anti-Boko Haram Protest In Ekiti

Simon Ateba, Nkrumah Bankong-Obi & Gbenro Adesina/Ado-Ekiti BringBackOurGirls protests spread to Nigeria’s southwestern State of Ekiti on Tuesday with hundreds…

Gunmen Kidnap Lawmaker’s Father

Jethro Ibileke/Benin  Unidentified gunmen have reportedly kidnapped Pa Ogbewe, father of the Minority Whip of House of Representatives, Samson Osagie,…

Lagos Assembly Okays Demolition Of Ogba Retail Market

Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, has approved the demolition of Ogba Retail Market where there…

Allow Us To Marry Priests, Women Beg Pope

Twenty-six women who say they are in love with Roman Catholic priests have written to Pope Francis urging him to…

How Boko Haram Abducted Girls

A Ghanaian Islamic spiritualist, Shamuna Ustaz Jibirl, has posted a chilling picture of the over 200 abducted Nigerians girls in…

Stop internal recruitment, FCC warns chief executives

The Federal Character Commission (FCC) has warned that it would not permit internal recruitment of staff into Federal Government parastatal…

Man in court for blocking bank entrance with mattress

A 37-year old man, Philemon Kwaghkondo, was arraigned before an Upper Area Court 2, Makurdi, for allegedly blocking the entrance…

Chibok Girls: Israel sends anti-terror experts to Nigeria

Israel has sent two anti-terror experts to Nigeria to join the search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist…

Osun spends N3b yearly on feeding school children – Aregbesola

Osun government spends more than N3 billion annually on its home-grown elementary school feeding programme launched by the Federal Government…

4 dead, 15 injured in train collision near Moscow

At least four people were killed and 15 injured on Tuesday after parts of a freight train derailed and collided…

Joke Silva, others urge Nigerians to fight against Boko Haram

Popular Nollywood actress, Joke Silva, on Monday called on Nigerians to join in the fight against terrorism in the country.…

Martial law must not ‘destroy’ democracy – Shinawatra

Thailand’s ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a hugely controversial figure at the heart of the kingdom’s bitter political divide, said…

China accuses US of ‘hypocrisy and double standards’

China’s defence ministry on Tuesday denounced the US for “hypocrisy and double standards” after a first-ever US indictment of Chinese…

US files hacking charges, infuriating China

The United States on Monday charged five members of a shadowy Chinese military unit with hacking US companies for trade…

Imo govt. to name complex after Oputa

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state said the new state judiciary complex under construction and scheduled for completion in September…