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Nigeria’s Onaiyekan now a prince of Catholic Church

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday officially named Nigeria’s Archbishop John Onaiyekan and five other non-European cardinals to the body that…

Egyptian judges join protest against Morsi

Egyptian judges accused President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday of an “unprecedented attack” on the judiciary by assuming sweeping powers putting…

Late Turkish president’s autopsy finds poisons

An autopsy of the exhumed remains of Turkish president Turgut Ozal, who died in office in 1993, revealed the presence…

Was Yasser Arafat poisoned to death by Israel?

What really happened to 75 year-old Yasser Arafat in 2004 when he died? Theories about his death abound, with many…

No movement ban as Lagos cancels clean-up

Nigeria’s Lagos State government has cancelled Saturday’s environmental sanitation exercise, which normally restricts movement from 7a.m to 10 a.m A…

ACN loses another Lagos council to PDP

. Tribunal orders Fresh poll in Yaba Reported by Cyriacus Izuekwe & KAZEEM UGBODAGA After losing Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development…

Nigeria worst country to have a child

—EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Nigeria is now the worst country for a woman to have a child, according to the 2013 ranking…

Koroma takes oath, begins second term journey

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma was sworn-in as president Friday night after a convincing win and vowed to transform the…

Reports: 20 ladies in mini-skirts killed in Maiduguri

Twenty Nigerian ladies in trousers and mini-skirts were killed overnight by yet to be identified gunmen in the troubled Nigerian…

Powerful Nigerian delegation goes to Rome

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has sent a powerful delegation headed by the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark…

School vandal jailed 18 months

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An Oredo Magistrate Court sitting in Benin, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state, has sentenced 18 year-old Ogunbajo Olumide…

Ibori’s $15m: Court dismisses interloper

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declined to grant…

Governor Uduaghan budgets $2.7 billion for 2013

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented a budget of N398.31 billion, about…

Supreme Court clears way for Governor Audu’s Trial

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on November 23, 2012, recorded a major victory in the trial of former…

Sierra Leone: Koroma re-elected for second term

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma swept to a second term Friday, winning 58 percent of votes in a poll that…

N50m offered for capture of Boko Haram’s Shekau

Nigeria’s military went the way of USA’s FBI, offering Friday hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards for information leading…

PDP Threatens EFCC Over Ikuforiji’s Trial

The Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed intention to file a petition against the Economic and…

Constitutional Review: Fresh Case For Lagos Special Status

Lagos State, southwest Nigeria had been the Federal Capital of the nation since Nigeria attained nationhood in 1960. Lagos, with…

Lagos Assembly Begins Inspection Of LG Projects

The Lagos State House of Assembly has begun an inspection tour of all the 20 local government areas and the…

Fani-Kayode’s Trial Fixed For 11 Feb

A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Thursday fixed 11 February, 2013 for the commencement of trial of a former Minister…

LASG Floats N80b Bond For Projects Completion

The Lagos State Government has signed financial deal to raise N80 billion through Bond with Chapel Hill Limited as lead…

‘My Husband Behaves Like Animal’

A 35-year old trader on Thursday pleaded with the Grade ‘B’ Customary Court, Orile-Agege, Lagos, to dissolve her 15-year old…

Segun Ogundimu Urges Fashola To Reconsider Stance On Okada Ban

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State and former Commissioner for Transport and Health, Dr Segun…

Irresistible Ankara

If there is a fabric that has effectively sold the African culture to the rest of the world, it is…

Ayobo-Ipaja LCDA Donates Patrol Vans To Police

The Chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Shakiru Adisa, has donated two utility patrol vans to…

Ojukwu’s Eldest Son Sues Bianca

By AKIN KUPONIYI Chief Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu, eldest son of the late Biafran warlord, Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (Eze Ndigbo Gburugburu) has…

Lagos to demolish 20 houses at Jakande Estate

The Lagos State Government has marked more than 20 houses for demolition at Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, near Isolo, Lagos following…

Faroukgate: Lawan Battles Otedola

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigerians’ hope of unraveling the truth behind the alleged demand and receipt of $620, 000 by…

Kano restricts motorcycles

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Disturbed by the incessant attacks by gunmen on motorbikes which have claimed lives in recent times, the Kano…

Nigeria quells sectarian riot

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano But for the timely intervention of security forces, the bubbling community of Bichi in Kano, northwest Nigeria would…