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Nigerian Navy posts senior officers

The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Dele Ezeoba, has approved the redeployment of 266 officers. The redeployment is contained…

APC Politics: Shekarau’s supporters pledge loyalty to Kwankwaso

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The absence of immediate past governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau in Kano Government House on Friday…

Bus Driver Crushes Motorcyclist, Passenger To Death

A commuter bus driver Thursday crushed to death a commercial motorcyclist and a passenger at Alagbole, a border town between…

Nigerian Police distorted arrest of Lloyd, says government

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Government has reacted to the allegations made by the Police concerning the arrest of…

Hery Raja wins Madagascar’s run-off poll

(Reuters) – Former Finance Minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina won Madagascar’s run-off presidential election, the electoral commission (CENIT) said on Friday, but…

Kano to establish 44 e-learning centres

The Kano State Government in northwest Nigeria says it will establish an e-learning centre in each of the 44 local…

Sokoto APC attracts more big guns

Two governorship candidates in the 2011 elections in the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto , Alhaji Abubakar Yabo and Alhaji…

PDP tempts APC’s Shekarau

A chieftain of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Thursday assured PDP elders in Kano state of his…

Chidi Llyod, Rivers lawmaker arrested for double murder

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The majority leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd has been arrested by the…

1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission

THE HAGUE (AFP) This is not a hoax. A reality TV show in the Netherlands, is planning to send people…

Jonathan to appoint Surgeon-General of the Federation

President Goodluck Jonathan has agreed to appoint a Surgeon-General of the Federation as demanded by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA),…

Idika Kalu decries poor infrastructure in Abia state

A former Nigerian minister of finance and economic planning, Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, has said that the state of infrastructure…

Dangote $9.2 billion richer in 2013, Gates leads the world

The man who is the most generous giver on earth, Bill Gates is also the richest individual, according to a…

Doctors Strike: Jonathan summons crucial meeting

President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned a crucial meeting with stakeholders in the medical sector to find a solution to the…

PDP women’s leader joins APC

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The former Women’s Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP in Western Nigeria,Otunba Iyabo Odunmolorun Omotayo has defected with…

Woman with heroin hidden in bag arrested in Lagos

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said on Thursday it has intercepted a woman and a…

In Video: Happy New Year Lagos!

Some video shots of the New Year eve event in Lagos on Tuesday night. Styled, Lagos Countdown 2013, the event…

Tanzanian Finance Minister Dies In S/Africa

Tanzania’s finance minister William Mgimwa has died of natural causes at a Pretoria hospital, the South African government said Thursday.…

2 Kids Burnt To Death, Graduate Commits Suicide

Two children were burnt to death last night when a candle light razed their parents’ home at 12, Adebari Street,…

The Mighty ’ll Fall In 2014 —T.B. Joshua

  Prophet T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) has declared 2014 as a year Nigeria’s corrupt…

Rwanda’s ex-intelligence chief murdered

(Reuters) – An exiled former Rwandan intelligence chief was found murdered in a Johannesburg hotel room, police said on Thursday,…

Italian Navy rescues boat carrying Nigerian migrants, others

Italy’s navy has rescued 233 mostly Nigerian and other African immigrants from a boat in trouble off the coast of…

Niger Delta ex-militants to gulp N63b in new budget

Nigeria’s Federal Government will spend N63.28 billion on Niger Delta former militants in 2014, figures in the new budget reveal.…

Nigeria: Monarch, 21 prisoners get state pardon, amnesty

Gbenro Adesina/ Ibadan Oba Gabriel Adepoju Adeyemo of Oko-Ile of Ogbomoso in Oyo State, western Nigeria was among the four…

Six-year old son of ex-commissioner abducted

A six-year-old son of a former Commissioner in Bayelsa state, Chief Godknows Powell, was on Wednesday kidnapped by gunmen. The…

2014 to define Nigeria’s destiny, says Pastor Adeboye

Kazeem Ugbodaga General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye says God told him that the destiny…

De Blasio sworn in as mayor of New York

NEW YORK(AFP) – New York’s new Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in Wednesday promising to restore progressive ideals…

Nigeria to celebrate centenary February, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday disclosed that the nationwide ceremonies to mark the hundred years of the Nigeria’s existence would…

I am loyal to Suntai, says Taraba deputy governor

The Acting Governor of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Taraba, Alhaji Garba Umar, on Wednesday, said his loyalty to his…

Boko Haram: Freed French priest arrives in Paris

A French Roman Catholic priest abducted in Cameroon by Boko Haram militants arrived Paris Wednesday after a seven-week ordeal he…