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150 killed in Sudan clan battle near oil field

A battle between rival Sudanese clans near an oil-drilling site killed 150 people and wounded 100 more, state-linked media reported…

Physically challenged man dumped in refuse heap

Jethro Ibileke/Benin A man living with disability and the only child of his late mother, identified as Danjuma, has been…

Confab: Nigeria to adopt new system of government

The National Conference on Thursday 3 July voted in favour of Modified Presidential System of Government following a recommendation by…

Confab dumps Obasanjo’s national anthem

The National Conference on Thursday 3 July unanimously adopted a proposal that Nigeria revert to her old National Anthem, “which…

Knocks For FG Over ASUP Strike

Damilare Okunola & Harrison Iyoha Students of various Nigerian polytechnics have blamed the protracted industrial action by their lecturers on…

Boko Haram Beats US Efforts To Choke Its Finances

When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture.…

‘Boko Haram Can Only Be Defeated If Corruption Ends’

An Italian nun who has been living in Southern Nigeria for the past 18 years has declared that Boko Haram…

Thai court sentences first anti-coup protester under junta rule

A Thailand court Thursday passed a suspended prison sentence on an anti-coup activist for breaching a ban on political gatherings,…

Google ‘forgets’ stories on BBC, UK newspaper sites

Google has restricted access to a BBC blog posting and several British newspaper stories under a legal ruling granting people…

Sect Can’t Break Nigeria —Soyinka

Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil…

‘Lagos Not For Politics Of Poverty And Stomach’

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has assured Lagosians that it is ready and prepared to…

Omisore Can’t Win Osun Election —Uncle

Eromosele Ebhomele A Lagos lawmaker and uncle to Iyoola Omisore, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the…

Jilted Graduate Commits Suicide

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A young graduate, Oluwatosin Otaiku, has stabbed himself to death because he was jilted by his fiancee. The…

Police Corporal Lynched By Driver

A driver has lynched a Police Corporal in Benin City, the Edo State capital, southern Nigeria. The incident happened on…

Confab Delegate, Niyi Akintola Suffers Cardiac Arrest

There was panic at the National Judicial Institute, NJI, venue of the ongoing National Conference, when a delegate from Oyo…

Boko Haram Attacks: Security Beefed Up In Abuja

Sola Adeola/Abuja Security surveillance over the nation’s capital, Abuja, has increased following recent bomb attacks in the city. Soldiers this…

In Pictures: Freedom House Democracy Lecture

Photos by Emmanuel Osodi Freedom House Democracy Lecture titled ‘ Nigeria Governance Predicament: Poverty, Terrorism And Democracy’ held in Lagos…

Seadogs call for credible 2015 election

The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) has called for free, fair, credible and acceptance general election in 2015 saying it…

South Sudan famine within weeks without funding

Famine will break out in war-torn South Sudan within weeks unless massive funding for food aid is provided, aid agencies…

China to release daily Japanese war crimes ‘confession’

China on Thursday began publishing “confessions” of 45 convicted Japanese World War II criminals, officials said, in Beijing’s latest effort…

China’s Xi snubs N. Korea with summit talks in South

China’s president held talks in Seoul Thursday with South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye at the start of a state visit…

11 injured in Gaza raids, rockets strike Israeli houses

Eleven Palestinians were wounded Thursday when Israel pounded targets in Gaza as militants kept up a volley of cross-border fire,…

Egypt Islamists call ‘day of anger’ to mark Morsi ouster

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called for a ‘day of anger’ Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the military overthrow of…

Somali lawmaker assassinated, Shebab claims responsibility

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsiblity for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another on Thursday, the latest in a surge…

Saudi MERS: Philippines urges its Muslims to abort Hajj

The Philippines urged its large Muslim minority on Thursday to reconsider plans to join pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year…

Student Unionism Has Been Destroyed

Sanai Agunbiade, the lawmaker representing Ikorodu Constituency 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly has become one whose contributions…

How Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko Was Foiled 30 Years Ago

Thirty years ago, there was an attempt to kidnap a Nigerian minister, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, who died in London on…

Engineering Student Jailed For Kidnapping

Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Ndudi Ogwu, an ND II Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has been convicted and sentenced…

Olu Of Ikeja Dies, markets shut down

Yisa Jamiu The Olu of Ikeja Kingdom, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi, is dead. He was said…

Court Bailiff Faces Trial Over Pension Scam

Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Magistrate Oyeyipo of an Abuja Magistrates’ Court’s siting at Karu has fixed 25 Friday July, for the trial…