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Police shoots man dead for resisting arrest

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A young man in his late 30s, Saheed Bamiro, was Wednesday morning shot dead by a policeman, simply…

Lion on the loose in Jos

A lion has escaped from the Jos Wild Life Park, in the central Nigerian state of Plateau. According to Mr…

Rivers APC demand Wike’s resignation

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for the immediate resignation and…

Three dead in double suicide blast in Cameroon

Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in north Cameroon overnight, killing at least three people, an official and…

Onitsha Protest: Arase orders arrest of pro-Biafra, MASSOB agitators

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has issued a stern warning to MASSOB and IPOB activists to stop threatening…

Save us from police harassment, Lagosians beg Assembly

Eromosele Ebhomele Scores of residents of Lagos Island in Lagos State, Nigeria stormed the state House of Assembly on Tuesday…

Arms Deal: Raymond Dokpesi arrested, quizzed by EFCC

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Media mogul, Raymond Dokpesi was on Tuesday invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja, over…

410 births, 187 marriages recorded at IDP camps

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Over 410 births were recorded between August and September and 187 marriages were conducted at Internally Displaced Persons…

Buhari proffers solution to migrant crisis in Europe

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Paris asked developed countries to make strong financial commitments to the 14 billion dollars…
Aisha Alhassan also known as Mama Taraba

Taraba indigenes, residents root for APC’s Alhassan

The Taraba State Coalition for True and Grassroots Democracy has declared support for the tribunal ruling that removed Governor Darius…

Ambode canvasses attitudinal change among Lagosians

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday canvassed the need for Lagosians to embrace attitudinal change and shun all…

Money Laundering: Ex-Nasarawa governor breached due process – Ex-Finance Director

The trial of Aliyu Akwe Doma, former Nasarawa governor and others continued on Monday, November 30, 2015 with prosecution witness,…

Ambode to host annual security town hall meeting

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will on Tuesday, December 15, host the annual Town Hall Meeting on Security being…

Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo communities pledge support for Oshiomhole

Jethro Ibileke/Benin ‎ The Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa communities in Edo have pledged their unflinching support for the administration of…
Organised Labour announces nationwide strike from Monday, June 3rd, over failure of to agree on a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.

South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana rank among most corrupt countries in Africa

Transparency International has stated that corruption is undermining development in sub-Saharan Africa with citizens of Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia and…
Vice President Kashim Shettima

Over 400 schools in Borno reopen after 18 months

Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many…

Four days after kidnap: Whereabouts of woman, 78, unknown

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nothing has been heard about Mrs Mabel Abiante, the 78-year-old woman who was abducted by over 15…
former Governor Idris Wada

Kogi Polls: Court to rule on Wada’s suit on Friday

A total of four suits have been filed so far on the 21 November Kogi State gubernatorial elections with one…
Burkina Faso President, Roch Marc Christian Kabore

Buhari congratulates Kabore on his election as Burkina Faso President

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Mr. Roch Marc Christian Kabore of the Movement of People for Progress Party on his…

Man arrested for visa Scam

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 39-year-old man who procured a fake visa and other travel documents for another man has been arrested…

Man arrested for keeping teenager as sex slave

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 35-year-old man has been arrested by the police and charged before a court for allegedly abducting a…

VIDEO: How I was blinded by my ex-boyfriend – Mandela’s step-daughter

The daughter of Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel has been speaking for the first time on television about her experience…

DAPPMA depots begin massive loading of petroleum products

Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMA) said its members had begun massive loading of petroleum products to…

BREAKING: Sambo Dasuki arrested by DSS

Operatives of Department of State Service (DSS) on Tuesday morning arrested ex-National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd). Dasuki who…

Okorocha: We don’t want PDP to die

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has said that the All Progressives Congress–led government and the people of the state do…

Breasts of little girls mutilated in Cameroon to protect them from Boko Haram

A brutal tradition akin to female genital mutilation is spreading in Cameroon’s war zone. Girls’ breasts are “flattened” with hot…

Civilian fighters prevent Boko Haram from taking town, as Nigerian troops flee

Boko Haram destroyed a Nigerian military base as soldiers fled and only self-defense fighters prevented the insurgents from retaking a…
Court grants EFCC interim order to freeze 1,146 bank accounts being investigated for unauthorized dealing in forex exchange, others

EFCC docks man for N300m fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 30, 2015 arraigned one Ibrahim Kamba and his company, Kamba…
Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader

Boko Haram expanding and should be stopped now – UN official

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militant group is expanding and there is only a small window of opportunity to stop it,…

N300bn: Jonathan, Dasuki in arms contracts fraud

Former President Goodluck Jonathan will have a case to answer over fraudulent defence spendings running into over N300 billion during…