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Five Afghan gang rapists to be hanged

Five Afghan men are due to be hanged on Wednesday for the gang rape of four women after a trial…

Ponmo consumption is dangerous to health – Leather Scientist

Dr Isuwa Adamu, Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Leather Science and Technology (NILEST), Zaria, on Tuesday warned against the consumption of…

2015: No rift over consensus candidate – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State has dismissed rumours of a rift in the party over the endorsement…

PDP Elders excludes former Minister, lawyer from guber race

The PDP elders’ caucus in Benue South West Senatorial zone has excluded former Niger Delta minster Sam Odeh and Mr…

Myanmar frees 3,000 prisoners, including ex-military chiefs

Myanmar began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners on “humanitarian” grounds, officials said Tuesday, in the latest large-scale amnesty in the…

FG to improve training of Niger Delta Youths – Minister

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Stephen Oru, in Abuja on Tuesday reiterated the ministry’s commitment to empower youths…

EU demands explanation from Spain on Ebola case

The European Union said Tuesday it has asked Spain to explain how a nurse treating Ebola patients in Madrid contracted…

Suicide car bomb attack kills 17 in Iraq

A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden armoured vehicle into houses used by Shiite militiamen north of the Iraqi city of…

Robot cheerleaders, health T-shirts, mind-reading bar unveiled in Japan

Glasses that tell you how to get home, adverts that know where you are looking and a T-shirt that knows…

Gov. Yero urges religious tolerance for sustainable national growth

Governor Muktar Yero of Kaduna state on Monday advised Muslims and Christians to embrace and tolerate one another to guarantee…

Anambra police parade 40 armed robbers, kidnappers

The Nigeria Police operating under the code name “Operation Kpochapu” have arrested suspected fake number plates manufacturers specialised in car…

Pastor who made followers eat grass, now gives them petrol

Pastor Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Christ Ministries, in the South African capital of Pretoria is making his followers connect to…

IS jihadists ‘seize parts of key Syrian town’

Islamic State jihadists pushed into the key Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border Monday, seizing three districts in…

In Pictures: The glamorous Ojude Oba festival

Photos By Abiodun Onafuye/Ijebu Ode

Ojude Oba 2014: Awujale renews call for Ijebu State

Abiodun Onafuye/Ijebu-Ode The Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona,Ogbagba II has renewed his call for…

Abducted school teacher rescued by police

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba The police in Delta state has rescued a kidnap victim, Abemu Gabriel, a school teacher from the hands…

Man, 39, arrested for violating two-year old girl

A 39 year-old man, Gbenga Anaorin, has been arrested and detained by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly having…

Dasuki defends $5.7mn arms transaction in South Africa

Nigeria has denied any wrongdoing over the $5.7million frozen by South Africa in a bank. In a reaction to the…

Boko Haram fires rocket at Cameroon, 8 killed

At least eight persons were killed in Cameroon on Monday in a rocket attack blamed on the Islamist group Boko…

Boko Haram beheads 7 in fresh attack

Boko Haram militants killed seven people early on Monday in the remote northeast of Nigeria, residents and an official said,…

Why I rejected the CON award – Oyegun

Chief John Odigie Oyegun, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said he rejected the national award that…

Jonathan, PDP have run out of steam, says APC

Chief John Odigie Oyegun, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, believes that it is time that Nigerians vote…

Spain battles Ebola as nurse is infected

An assistant nurse at a Madrid hospital in Spain, where two Ebola patients died is infected with the virus herself,…

No presidential zoning in APC, anyone can contest – Oyegun

Jethro Ibileke/Benin National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, has dispelled rumours in some quarters…

Less than 3 percent of land owners have C of O, says FG

The Surveyor-General of Nigeria, Professor Peter Nwilo, said on Monday that less than three per cent of Nigerians who own…

Bakassi does not belong to Nigeria – FG

The Surveyor-General of the Federation, Prof. Peter Nwilo has said Bakassi Peninsula, does not belong to Nigeria but to Cameroun.…

Nigerian politicians lack political ideology – Tsav

Anti-corruption crusader, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has chided politicians in the country for practicing politics without defined ideologies. Tsav, who is…

Terrorism: Jonathan goes to Niamey for summit

President Goodluck Jonathan will undertake one-day official visit to Niamey, capital of Niger Republic tomorrow to participate in an Extraordinary…

Uju Okorocha to marry SSG’s son

Governor Rochas Okorocha’s daughter, Uju Vanstasia will marry Uzoma Tony Anwuka, son of the secretary to the state government, Professor…

Trio win Nobel medicine prize for brain’s ‘GPS’

British-American researcher John O’Keefe on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize with a Norwegian couple, May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for…