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US condemns Charlie Hebdo protests by Muslims

The United States condemned Friday sometimes violent protests by thousands of people in Muslim majority countries against a new cartoon…

FG urges states to impose more taxes, trim spending

The Minister of State for Finance, Mr Bashir Yuguda, on Friday urged Nigerian state governments to adopt the austerity measures…

Nigeria earns less in December, but Federal, states take more money home

The Minister of State for Finance, Mr Bashir Yuguda, on Friday announced that Federal, States and Local governments shared N580.4billion…

Boko Haram bomber abandons bomb-laden vehicle

A suspected bomber on Friday abandoned a bomb-laden pick-up vehicle at a police check point on the Gombe-Biu road. The…
Ebenezer Alabi, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, dump party over alleged extortion

Campaign office of PDP candidate set ablaze

Some unidentified persons have set ablaze the campaign office of the Zamfara Central Senatorial candidate of PDP, Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu,…

ECOWAS mulls regional force for Boko Haram: Mahama

West African leaders are considering creating a military force to fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants and will hold a…

University Student Wins N2.4m Golden Bet Lotto

A final year student of Economics at the Ekiti State University, Adeboye Ogunsanya, became an overnight millionaire after winning N2.4m…

Jonathan hopeful Nigeria will produce a female president

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday expressed the hope of a woman becoming Nigeria’s president in his life time. Jonathan, who…

Aregbesola to run his office with N18.6 billion

Mr Gboyega Oyetola, the Chief of Staff to Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, on Friday disclosed that the budget for…

Buhari is fit as a fiddle, APC kicks back

The APC Presidential Campaign Organisation has asked Nigerians to ignore the “utterly silly and reckless statement” credited to the over-exuberant…

Wike caught in cross fire, escapes death at campaign rally

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nyesom Wike, the governorship candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP) narrowly escaped death on Thursday afternoon…

Hundreds queue in London to purchase latest Charlie Hebdo

Londoners lined up by the hundreds on Friday to buy copies of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, as religious leaders met…

Police boss warns against tearing rival parties’ posters

The Commissioner of Police in Osun, Abubakar Marafa, on Friday warned that anyone caught tearing posters of rival political parties…

Agbaje promises to return all illegally acquired lands in Lagos

The Lagos state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jimi Agbaje, on Friday promised to return illegally…

Turkey’s Erdogan blasts ‘provocative’ Charlie Hebdo

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday lashed out at Charlie Hebdo for its “provocative” publications about Islam, saying the…

Boko Haram committing ‘crime against humanity’ – Hollande

French President Francois Hollande has taken a swipe at Islamist movement Boko Haram, who he said were carrying out “crimes…

Another APC office bombed in Rivers state

Another office of the All Progressives Congress has been bombed in Rivers State, a day after police said the campaign…

Nations Cup: Fireworks Begin In E/Guinea

Sunday Akintoye Attention will be shifted to Equatorial Guinea as 2015 Africa Cup of Nations kicks off tomorrow in Bata.…

Don’t Campaign On Pulpit, Adeboye Warns Redeemed Pastors

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has again warned all the…

Soyinka Blasts Fraudulent Election Campaigners

Daniels Ekugo Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has lashed out at fraudulent election campaigners purporting that he issued a statement…

Don’t Sell National Theatre —Aig-Imoukhuede

Eromosele Ebhomele A popular culture activist, Frank Aig-Imoukhuede, has appealed to the Federal Government to rescind any decision to sell…

Ambode Promises N25b For Employment Trust Fund

Kazeem Ugbodaga The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode has promised to inject N25 billion…

Lagos Kills 2,000 Fowls As Bird Flu Hits Town

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government says that 2,000 birds have been killed in a poultry farm in Badore area…

INEC wants Electoral Offences Commission created

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the National Assembly to give priority to the establishment of special commission…

What really happened in Baga? Fact checking

By Julian Rademeyer and Eleanor Whitehead Accounts of Boko Haram attacks on the remote northern Nigerian towns of Doro Gowon…

Kosoko, Makinde,  Others Honoured Tonight

Actor turned politician, Rotimi Makinde, who is a member, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, and veteran actor Jide Kosoko, will be…

3 warehouses, 300 shops destroyed by fire in Lagos

Over 300 shops have been razed down by early morning fire which engulfed the popular Berlin Market on Lagos Island,…

Actress Tope Osoba Goes Raunchy

Bolatito Adebola It could pass as a case of a good girl going bad. That seems to be the story…

‘Hundreds’ of women, children held after Boko Haram assault

Boko Haram fighters detained hundreds of women and children at a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Baga after…

Police clash with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters in Karachi

Police fired water cannon and bullets in the air as they clashed with anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters outside the French consulate…