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Akpabio, Fayose urge PDP members to collect voter card

Chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday appealed to members to obtain the INEC permanent voter card ahead…

In Pictures: Jonathan and PDP hold rally in Lagos

Photos By Emmanuel Osodi President Goodluck Jonathan storm Lagos State for PDP’s South-West Sensitisation Rally.

Jonathan thanks PDP for adopting him

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed gratitude to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for giving him the opportunity to fly the…

2015: PDP will hold primaries in Lagos, say Shelle, Obanikoro

The Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tunji Shelle, said on Saturday that the party would…

50 armed men attack Rivers community, behead youth

Over 50 armed men have invaded Taaba Community in Khana Local Government Area. The Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State…

Ecuador vice president’s father gets 20 years for rape

The father of Ecuador’s vice president was sentenced to 20 years for raping a 13-year old girl, the prosecutor’s office…

Boko Haram ‘kill several’ as they loot Borno market

Boko Haram gunmen stormed a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno, killing several people and carting away…

Belgium thwarts jihadist attacks

The Belgian authorities have prevented several attacks by jihadist fighters returning home from Syria and by sympathisers with the Islamic…

Abandoned day old baby found in gutter

Kayode Aponmade An abandoned day old baby boy has been rescued from a drainage channel on Holy Timothy Street Aboru,…

Guber aspirant hails Jonathan’s transformation agenda

A governorship aspirant in Abia, Uche Ogah, on Saturday lauded President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda, saying it had launched the…

Ebola: UNICEF makes case for Liberia, Sierra-Leone, others

Mrs Jane Giogh, United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) representative in Nigeria, has appealed to countries with adequate human resources…

Yemen clashes ground planes, close schools

Flights to the Yemeni capital were suspended for a second straight day Saturday as the toll mounted from clashes between…

Benue to create 12 local government councils

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue said arrangements had been concluded to create 12 additional local government councils in the state…

Woman arrested for stripping friend naked in public

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 23-year old woman, Joy Okafor has been arrested by the police for ripping off the cloths of…

Jonathan visits Synagogue as death toll stands at 86

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the collapsed guesthouse at a mega-church in Lagos, promising to investigate the cause…

Bunkering: Navy destroys 53 illegal refineries

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta, Warri, said on Saturday that it has destroyed 53 illegal refineries in Ashafama forest…

Ebola: Lagos clears last suspect, affirms Sept. 22 resumption date

The Lagos State Government on Friday said the last suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the state…

Orji Kalu acquires jet for N11.5b

Chief Orji Kalu, the immediate past governor of Abia state and Chairman of Slok Group of Companies has purchased a…

India court sends 13 men to jail over gang-rape of tribal woman

An Indian court on Saturday sentenced 13 people, including a village headman, to 20 years in jail for gang-raping a…

One dead as Christ Chosen building collapses

Jethro Ibileke/Benin At least one person have been confirmed dead in a collapsed storey building belonging to Christ Chosen Church…

Drunken hunter fights crocodile with an eye-poke

A tipsy goose hunter said Saturday he lived to tell the tale of being attacked by a two-metre-long crocodile in…

Synagogue: Forensic test needed to identify victims – NEMA

Charles Otegbade, Director, Search and Rescue, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said proper forensic test was needed to identify the…

Ogun postpones resumption date of schools to Oct. 8

The Ogun Government on Friday in Abeokuta announced 8 October as the new resumption date for private and public schools…

Assembly minority leader defects to PDP

Alhaji Mohammed Buba, the Minority Leader of the Gombe State House of Assembly, has defected from the All Progressives Congress…

18 IS jihadists killed fighting Syria Kurds

At least 18 jihadists from the Islamic State group were killed in overnight clashes with Kurdish fighters in northern Syria…

White House scare after man jumps fence

A man sparked an evacuation at the White House on Friday after he scaled and jumped over a fence and…

LASG releases 2014 promotion letters to civil servants

Dr Olujobi Ososanya, the Chairman, Lagos State Civil Service Commission on Friday said Gov. Babatunde Fashola has approved the release…

Indonesia to punish gay sex with 100 strokes of cane

Gay sex could be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane in Indonesia’s staunchly conservative Aceh province if parliament passes…

Air Force graduates 36 pioneer commercial helicopter pilots

The first set of commercial helicopter pilots trained in the country graduated from the Nigerian Air Force International Helicopter Flying…

FG investigating Synagogue mystery aircraft – Obanikoro

Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of state for Defence, on Friday said investigations were ongoing to unravel the mystery of the…