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SUG president-elect denies violence in AAU

Harrison Iyoha Contrary to reports making rounds that a student was shot dead during the Students Union Government, SUG, election,…

Nigerian nabbed with heroine concealed in lady’s shoes

A Nigerian has been arrested in New Delhi, India with heroine concealed in a lady’s shoes. The 23 year old…

Boko Haram kills 20, fourth attack in three days

Suspected Boko Haram militants have struck for a fourth time in three days in Nigeria, killing 20 people including a…

Abbott: MH370 mini-sub search will end within week

PERTH (AFP) – The mini-submarine hunting for flight MH370 will finish scouring its current strip of the Indian Ocean within…

Senegal to try ex-president’s son for corruption

Son of Senegal’s former president will face trial in two months for corruption charges, a year after he was accused…

Confab Ends Plenary Session, breaks for Easter

Chairman of the 2014 National Conference and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, retired Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, GCON, on Wednesday…

No clear winner in Guinea-Bissau’s poll

Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election will go to a second round between the main party’s candidate and the army-backed hopeful, the election…

PDP will win Ekiti, Osun – Sambo

Namadi Sambo, Vice President of Nigeria has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the gubernatorial polls in…

In Pictures: APC governors console victims of bomb disaster

The All Progressives Congress Governors Forum (APCGF), on Wednesday appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to intensify effort to fish out…

Bandits steal United Nations vans in Bauchi

The Nigerian Police in Bauchi state said on Wednesday that gunmen had snatched two Hilux vans belonging to the United…

Confab delegate hospitalised

A member of the National Conference, Mr Abdulmumuni Abubakar, slumped after the afternoon session and was admitted at a hospital…

Many Kidnapped Borno School Girls Freed, says Nigeria’s military

Nigeria military forces said on Wednesday that most of the girls abducted by people suspected to be members of Boko…

APC Warns Obanikoro To Steer Clear of Osun

Jamiu Yisa As Osun State moves closer to August 9 governorship election, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has read…

Hospitals seek blood donors for bomb victims

Thirteen hospitals in Abuja treating 126 injured victims of the twin bombing at a bus terminus in Nyanya, Abuja on…

Maku condemns media coverage of Abuja bombings

Nigeria’s minister of information, Labaran Maku has described as “unethical, unprofessional and insensitive’’, the manner some sections of the media…

Idris Wada dissolves cabinet

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state on Wednesday sacked all his commissioners. Mr Jacob Edi, Special Adviser to the Governor…

Woman accused of baby theft remanded in prison

A Nigerian Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo state has ordered a petty trader to be remanded in…

Abuja blasts: Families of victims claim bodies for burial

Family members of persons who died in Monday’s bomb blasts in Nyanya trooped to the National Hospital Abuja on Wednesday…

Two children, aged 4 and 6, drown in Ebonyi pond

Two children of the same parents drowned in a pond at Enwugba village in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi.…

Jonathan summons emergency security council meeting

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has summoned a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the growing terrorism and insecurity…
Vice President Kashim Shettima

Shettima offers N50m reward to save kidnapped school girls

Governor Kashim Shettima of the beleaguered Borno state, in northeast Nigeria has offered 50 million naira ($300,000, 215,000 euros) reward…

Troops pursue Boko Haram kidnappers of school girls

Nigerian soldiers are on the trail of Boko Haram gunmen who kidnapped about 100 girls from a secondary school in…

Patience Jonathan wants Borno abducted girls released

Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has called for the release of the 100 school girls abducted by insurgents…
Ebenezer Alabi, a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, dump party over alleged extortion

Oyedepo elected Kwara PDP chairman

Iyiola Oyedepo, a legal practitioner, has emerged Kwara State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Senator Bernabas Gemade, the…

Police Beef Up Security In Lagos

Cyriacus Izuekwe Ahead of the forthcoming Easter festivities and Lagos State Black Heritage Carnival, the Lagos State Police Command has beefed…

Keyamo’s absence stalls Fani-Kayode’s trial

The absence of the prosecutor has stalled the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, before a Federal…

Fashola Vows To Tackle Goitre Epidemic

Lagos State Government has vowed to control the incidence of Goitre attack by taking on the disease frontally through surgical…

Woman Stabs Co-Tenant Over Bathroom Key

Paul Iyoghojie A 32 year-old woman, Rahman Raliat, has been arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria,…

6,000 Soldiers, Cops To Guard World Economic Forum Delegates

The World Economic Forum on Tuesday said its Africa summit will be held in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, next month despite…

Lagos Denies Attempting To Kill Adegboruwa

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has denied attempting to assassinate Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the human rights lawyer who sued…