News

Masked gunmen kill 6 in mall, take hostages

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

NAIROBI (AFP) – Masked gunmen stormed an upmarket mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Saturday and sprayed gunfire on shoppers…

Kwankwaso to battle illicit drug sale, use

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The governor of Kano state, northwest Nigeria, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared zero tolerance to trafficking in fake…

Pakistan frees senior Taliban leader

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official of…

Boy,15, rapes 3 kids, including 10 month-old baby

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

An Upper Area Court in Mararaba,in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa has remanded a 15-year-old -boy in prison custody…

Oyo state bans Boko Haram-like Islamic sect

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

The government of the western Nigerian state of Oyo has proscribed the Arsuna Islamic Sect over its alleged involvement in…

Boko Haram kills 159 travellers in two attacks

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants killed 159 people in two roadside attacks in northeast Nigeria this week, officials said, far more…

‘We are not Boko Haram’, survivors of Abuja killings say

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Ayorinde Oluokun/Femi Ipaye There has been a twist in the claims by Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the SSS that its men…

Jonathan sacks 2 more aides

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

President Goodluck Jonathan, still wielding the long knife, on Friday relieved two of his special advisers of their appointments. They…

64 elephants killed with cyanide in Zimbabwe

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Zimbabwean wildlife authorities will dispatch a team of experts to the country’s largest game park Saturday to investigate the poisoning…

Liberia in press crackdown charges 2 journalists

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Two Liberian journalists appeared in court in Monrovia on Friday charged with criminal libel after accusing the government of corruption…

Ex-Ivorian First Lady to be tried in Abidjan

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Ivory Coast will try former first lady Simone Gbagbo, who is being sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged…

Indian terror suspect escapes

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

An Indian terror suspect accused of involvement in deadly bomb attacks five years ago escaped from a court in Mumbai…

Drugs: Language stalls US trial of Guinea Bissau’s ex-navy chief

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

The United States is struggling to prosecute one of the prized catches in its global war on drugs, Guinea Bissau’s…

More Soldiers Deployed To Troubled Borno Town

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Nigeria’s military sent reinforcements Friday to the remote northeastern town of Benisheik after Boko Haram Islamists stormed the area, burnt…

Sex ‘Runs’ Thrive As ASUU Strike Persists

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

In the past, part-time prostitution, popularly called runs, and a degree or certificate were not synonymous; but not anymore. It…

Police Inspector Detained For Selling Seized Okadas

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

A Police Inspector attached to B-OPS of Traffic Department, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Michael Oguche, is currently being detained in…

Piracy: Music Marketer Sent To Jail

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

A popular music marketer, Prince Ahmed Adedigba Adepoju, owner of Galaxy Music Company based in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, was yesterday…

9 Fake Taskforce Officials Arrested

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

At least nine fake taskforce officials were on Thursday arrested at Ijaiye area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria for extorting money…

Al-Qaeda Yemen rampage kills 56 soldiers, cops

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

SANAA(AFP) – Suspected Al-Qaeda fighters killed at least 54 soldiers and police in a wave of dawn attacks Friday, the…

Boko Haram, SSS battle near Senators’ Quarters in Abuja

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Ayo Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s Department of State Security Services,(SSS) said it arrested 12 suspected members of the militant sect, Boko Haram,…

Jonathan jets out for UNGA, Obama

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will fly to New York on Saturday to participate in the 68th Session of the United…

Man sent to jail for slapping a police officer

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

A Nigerian upper Area Court sitting in Karu, Abuja, has ordered that one Yahaya Tunawa, be remanded in prison, for…

Cult Of Jesus And The War In Warri

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

By Osuolale Alalade It is much simpler to see the advent of the Maitatsine and its contemporaneous expression in Boko…

Gaddafi’s son charged in a tribal court

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

The son and one-time political heir of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared in a tribal court on Thursday after…

Sambo meets with ASUU

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Nigeria’s Vice-President Namadi Sambo has met with a delegation of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), in a bid…

Police aides of Taraba Speaker in hospital after gun attack

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

The two injured police escorts attached to the Speaker of the Taraba House of Assembly, Mr Haruna Tsokwa, are now…

Court acquits UBEC staff over scam

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Five years after seven persons including four staff of Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education Commission, were arraigned…

Edo monarch regains freedom from kidnappers

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Kidnappers of Edo traditional ruler, HRH Patrick Igbinudu, the Iyase of Udo community in Ovia South West Local…

Dele Alake refutes alleged murder attempt

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

Former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake has refuted reports that he was a victim of…

Boko Haram in gruesome attack kills 87 in Borno

PM NEWS Live

13 years ago

A gruesome attack by Boko Haram insurgents disguised in military uniforms in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno has killed at…

« Prev 1 … 5,995 5,996 5,997 5,998 5,999 … 6,775 Next »