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Stop Ridiculing Yourselves, Lagos ACN Tells PDP, Shelle

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described  as ridiculous and yet  a continuation of…

APC: Change Is Coming

By Joe Igbokwe All over the world the only thing that is permanent is change. You buy a motorcycle or…

Yes, I Attempted Suicide, Tricyclist Tells Judge

A 27-year old tricycle operator, Sanni Abdulahi who attempted to hang himself in a police cell in Lagos State, southwest…

Bus Conductor Bags 2-Year Jail Term

An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court, Kwara State, northcentral Nigeria, has sentenced a 26-year old bus conductor, Rasaq Sikiru, to two years…

LG Boss Sacks Ladipo Market Union

The Chairman of Mushin Local Government Area, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, Mr Babatunde Adepitan, has banned any form unionism at…

Inspector Shoots Danfo Driver To Death

A police inspector attached to the Elere Police Station in Agege, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has been arrested for killing a…

Rivers Crisis: Soyinka Warns Jonathan

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has warned President Goodluck Jonathan to prevent the political crisis in Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria,…

Pregnant Bride Dies In Soakaway Pit 2 Weeks To Wedding

A 21-year old woman has died inside a soakaway pit two weeks before her wedding. The deceased identified as Akinjolie…

Medical doctor kidnapped in Abakaliki, guard killed

A Nigerian medical doctor in the eastern Nigeria state of Ebonyi has been kidnapped. Police said Dr Pius Mauyike, a…

Opposition snatches councillorship posts in Kogi polls

The PDP has won all the 21 chairmanship positions in the Local Government council elections conducted on Saturday in the…

OOUTH Workers Begin 4-Day Warning Strike

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State today…

Soyinka: Cool It, President Jonathan

Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka today issued a press statement, advising President Goodluck Jonathan on the handling of state…

Obama petitioned over Guantanamo prisoners

Free them or put them on trial. Thus urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at…

Nigeria: 18 killed in weekend of violence

Gunmen killed 18 people in two separate attacks in Nigeria at the weekend. In Bayelsa state, eight former militants were…

8 Niger Delta ex-militants killed

Eight young men suspected of being ex-militia members from two rival groups were killed early Sunday in a shootout in…

ACN, CPC, Jonathan’s aide in public spat

Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, latest salvo against President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of sliding…

Malaysia: Opposition alleges vote fraud

Malaysia’s ruling coalition retained its 56-year hold on power, the country’s Election Commission said early Monday, but a bitter opposition…

Residents of Nigeria’s curfew town in distress call

Residents of Wukari, a central Nigerian town where 39 people died in fierce fighting between Christian and Muslim mobs said…

Jonathan to discuss trade with Zuma

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma will discuss ways to boost trade between Africa’s two…

Obama tagged ‘grand chief of devils’

Venezuelan disputed President Nicolas Maduro took a swipe at Barack Obama on Saturday, calling him the “grand chief of devils”…

N50 billion property goes up in smoke

The Controller-General, Federal Fire Service, Mr Olusegun Okebiorun, says Nigeria looses property worth N50 billion annually to fires. Okebiorun announced…

British MP arrested over sodomy claims

A deputy speaker of Britain’s lower house of parliament was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of raping one man and…

Slain politician buried in Ekiti

A former member of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti state, Mr Ayo Jeje killed by suspected party thugs…

Family of abducted ex-oil minister begs for his release

The Family of Dr Shettima Ali Monguno, the elder statesman kidnapped in Maiduguri on Friday, has appealed to his abductors…

12 bomb disposal experts abducted in Senegal

Suspected separatist rebels have abducted 12 bomb disposal experts in southern Senegal, a security source said Saturday. The source said…

Governor Fayemi nominates new deputy

Jamiu Yisa Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has forwarded the name of the Chairperson of the State’s Universal Basic…

Death toll rises in Nigeria’s latest religious fracas

More deaths have been reported in the bloody clash between Christian and muslim mobs in Wukari, Taraba state, in the…

Onayekan, Kukah highlight Nigeria’s twin monsters

Two of Nigeria’s leading and respected bishops have told the European Parliament and other politicians that their country is being…

Curfew in Taraba after 20 killed in religious violence

At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria’s Taraba state on…

Woman In TheNEWS: Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar

Nigeria’s Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar is surely on a mission to cleanse Nigeria’s judiciary. She has already blown some…