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National Confab committees’ change venue, as deliberation commence

The National Conference Chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi (retd.), has announced a change of venue for some of the confab’s standing…

Three-month old baby stolen in Makurdi

The Benue Police Command has today confirmed that a three-month old baby belonging to one Mr Ikyavngi Imande had been…

Boko Haram: Abducted school girls jump to 234

The number of secondary school girls still under Boko Haram captivity is more than the figure widely circulated. There are…

Three Bosnian Croats arrested for wartime rape

Three Bosnian Croats, suspected to have raped Serb women at the beginning of the 1992-95 inter-ethnic war in Bosnia, were…

Marketers urge FG to pay outstanding fuel subsidy claims

Obafemi Olawore, Executive Secretary, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, has pleaded with the Federal Government to pay marketers’ subsidy…

52 die in Ogun auto crashes in 3 months

A total of 52 persons lost their lives in 66 road accidents recorded in Ogun from January to March 2014,…

NURTW calls for collaboration with security agencies

Najeem Yasin, President, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), has called for strengthened collaboration between the union and security…

Election by consensus has yielded good candidates, says APC chief

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe,Alhaji Sani Fema, said the party’s election by consensus in the…

Armed man takes 3 persons hostage in Russian bank

Police were in talks with a man armed with a hunting rifle who took three people hostage in a bank…

Myanmar pro-democracy campaigner Win Tin dies at 84

The co-founder of Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition and the nation’s longest-serving political prisoner, Win Tin, has died at the age of…

An Arab, 110 suspects arrested in multiple raids

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta One hundred and ten suspects have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command after multiple raids of…

Jonathan: Nigeria will survive despite Boko Haram

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday vowed to keep Nigeria a united country despite the attempts by Boko Haram militants to…

Drone attack kills 30 ‘Qaeda’ suspects in Yemen

A drone strike in south Yemen killed at least 30 suspected Al-Qaeda militants on Sunday, the latest in an intensified…

Fire guts Kaduna Airport control tower

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Fire has engulfed the control tower of the Kaduna Airport, severely damaging it. Witnesses said fire started…

Police arrest 24 suspects in Taraba

The Police in Taraba State have arrested 24 suspects in connection with a clash which that occurred in Wukari on…

Borno Christians begin fasting for abducted school girls

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Borno state has declared fasting from Monday to Wednesday to seek divine intervention for…

Tinubu chancellor of LAUTECH, receives D.Sc honour too

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, Oyo state will on Wednesday 23 April invest former governor of Lagos…

5 year-old girl killed in attack by gunmen

Police in Bauchi State said gunmen set ablaze some houses in the staff quarters of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS),…

11 soldiers killed, 14 wounded in Algeria attack

Eleven Algerian soldiers were killed and 14 wounded when they fell into an ambush in the restive Kabylie region east…

APC shelves congresses to allow governors meet Jonathan

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its State Congresses scheduled for Wednesday, April 23rd, to allow State Governors under…

Forget scandal, Zuma poised for landslide victory

South Africa’s general election is still several weeks away, but President Jacob Zuma may begin to pop the champagne with…

CNN presents Mo Abudu as Africa’s Oprah

CNN has profiled Nigeria’s Mo Abudu, Executive Chairman and CEO of EbonyLife TV and first black woman to own a…

No Mugabe, Zimbabawe more corrupt than Nigeria, says Campbell

Ambassador John Campbell, a great critic of Nigeria’s government has waded into the diplomatic spat between Nigeria and Zimbabwe, over…

Borno residents witness first rain in 2014

Residents of Maiduguri, Borno state capital, have witnessed their first rain in 2014, recording light showers lasting about 45 minutes.…

5 unresolved riddles about Jesus Christ

Livescience.com dredges up some five salient issues about the life and times of Jesus Christ. P.M.NEWS shares the article with…

Police officer caught on video beating a woman arrested

A police officer caught on video beating a civilian woman in Lagos state has been arrested after an investigation by…

Security tips for churches, mosques

By Frank Mba Places of worship such as Churches and Mosques are traditionally regarded as places of peace. They are…

Declaring our seats vacant could backfire , say Rep defectors

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The 37 members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives who defected from Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP to the All…

Nigerian students in Malaysia cry for justice

Nigerian Students in Malaysia said they are fed up with the constant intimidation, harassment and illegal arrests carried out on…

In Pictures: VP Sambo at the turbaning of Kaduna Governor

Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of the northern state of Kaduna was today honoured with the title of Dallatun Zazzau by…