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24 killed by Boko Haram in separate attacks

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 24 people in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, just as…

Boko Haram: Nigerian Army vows tighter security at Xmas

Military authorities in Nigeria on Saturday pledged to secure communities in the northeastern states, bordering Chad, Niger and Cameroon over…

Philippine: Boxer Pacquiao spends night with typhoon victims

Boxing hero Manny Pacquiao will spend Saturday night in a tent city with victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the…

ESUT, UNN reopen Monday

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), said their academic activities…

Anambra election: Residents ignore movement restriction

The restriction of movement imposed by the police and INEC during the ongoing Anambra supplementary governorship election was not effective…

Most Anambra voters shun partial poll

Officials of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission and materials arrived early today, some as early as 6.00 a.m, at the…
Scene of a plane crash

Wreckage of Mozambican plane found, no survivors

The Namibian Police on Saturday found the burned wreckage of a missing Mozambican Airlines plane in a remote area in…

N100m Suit: Etisalat replies comedian Julius Agwu

Jamiu Yisa Telecommunication giant, Etisalat Nigeria, has reacted to Julius Agwu’s seven day ultimatum to the company that it should…

Why Benin Freed Asari-Dokubo

Benin freed a former militant leader from Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region on Thursday after a personal intervention by Nigerian President…

Senator, others docked for robbery

The police in Zamfara on Friday have docked Senator Yarima Bakura and 29 others at a Zamfara High Court over…

Mozambique plane carrying 34 passengers missing

A Mozambican Airlines airplane carrying 28 passengers and six crew members went missing en route from Mozambique to Angola on…

Photographer jailed for possession of fake currency

A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State presided over by Justice Babatunde O. Quadri, on Friday November…

Court frees 2 Hezbollah linked Lebanese, jails another for life

NNAMDI Felix / Abuja A Nigerian Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Friday discharged and acquitted two Lebanese, Mr.…

Court Clears Hezbollah Linked Lebanese

Three Lebanese nationals suspected of being Hezbollah members were cleared of terrorism charges in Abuja, Nigeria on Friday, but one…

President Jonathan Can’t Fight Corruption

Popular Lagos-based human rights activist Biodun Sowunmi is saddened by the lackadaisical attitude of the clergy and civil society groups…

ASUU Mocks FG Over Ultimatum

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have described as a huge joke the 4 December ultimatum issued…

Sacked Council Boss Vows To Stay In Office

Two persons, Timothy Nsirim the sacked chairman and Mr.Singer Azubuike Singer, Head of Local Government Administration,HLGA, are now claiming the…

Spain arrests 3 Nigerians for forcing women into prostitution

Spanish police said Thursday they have arrested three Nigerians who forced fellow African women into prostitution in Europe, including by…

Justice Oguntade Decries Low Standard Of Court Judgments

Former Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice George Oguntade (rtd) has cried out over the declining quality of judgment being …

Amaechi sacks Obio-Akpor councillors, chairman

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Forty eight hours after a Port Harcourt High Court reinstated Timothy Nsirim, the Chairman and 17 Councillors…

South Africans troop to cinemas to watch Mandela

South Africans flocked to cinemas on Thursday to watch the first screenings of the hotly-anticipated Nelson Mandela biopic in a…

Nigerian military bombs Boko Haram camps, many killed

Nigeria’s military has launched air strikes on Boko Haram camps in the country’s northeast killing “many” insurgents, a spokesman said…

Anambra: Rep member withdraws suit against Obiano

Rep. Uche Ekwunife, a governorship aspirant under the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance in Anambra state, has withdrawn her…

I am ready to work with Oni, says Fayemi

Governor Kayode Fayemi of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti said on Thursday that he was ready to work with…

In Pictures: APC Protests Anambra Poll Fraud

Leaders of the APC today in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, defied a denial of police permit to protest the 16…

Discordant tunes in Kwara APC

Stephen Oni/Ilorin The national Leadership of the All Progressives Congress,APC, has been warned against handing over the leadership of the…

Nigeria calls 5,025 lawyers to bar

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Five Thousand and twenty five new lawyers were on Thursday delivered to the nation following their…

Fashola: Oduah’s armoured cars ‘ll buy 51 patrol vehicles

Jamiu Yisa Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said that the two armoured cars bought at the cost of…

Tinubu to launch book on Obasanjo

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is billed to launch a…

Anambra Poll: Police charge officers to be neutral

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, has reassured Nigerians of the readiness of the Nigerian police to provide adequate…