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Anyaoku recommends way out of Nigeria’s crisis

Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a former Commonwealth Secretary-General, said that the only way to put an end to the problems and…

Cardinal Okogie condemns brawl in Rivers Assembly

Nigeria’s Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Sunday expressed displeasure over the recent brawl…

Boko Haram: Women, children rescued, mass grave found

Nigeria’s military on Sunday claimed the rescue of women and children hostages from a Boko Haram Islamist stronghold, saying troops…

US Sprinter Tyson Gay fails dope test

US sprinter Tyson Gay, who posted 9.75 secs in 100metres, as season’s best, has failed a dope test, according to…

Rivers crisis: ACN urges Police agency look beyond symptoms

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to address the causes rather than…

ICC indicted Sudan’s Bashir heads to Nigeria for AIDS talks

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir travelled on Sunday to a health summit in Nigeria, official media said, after Human Rights Watch…

Ex-NFA Scribe, Achebe Buried

The remains of the deceased three-time Secretary General of the then Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Chief Philip Onuora Chikaodili Achebe,…

Man kills wife over breastfeeding of twins

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A middle aged Nigerian, Endurance Enadeba, has killed his wife in Benin, over an argument on breastfeeding of…

Aregbesola to build N14.5b road in Osogbo

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of the western Nigerian state of Osun has inaugurated the construction of 18 km Osogbo east bypass…

Kidnapping: Lawmaker’s wife, 8 others rescued

The police in the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi have rescued the wife of a member of the state assembly…

Rights group urges Nigeria arrest Sudan’s Bashir

Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Nigeria to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he attends an African AIdS summit…

Shekau backs Yobe school massacre

The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants said he supported a July 6 attack on a government owned school in…

Robbery gang storms Taraba college

A gang of suspected armed robbers in the early hours of Saturday invaded the campus of Taraba State College of…

Anyim: Nigerians abroad remit $21b in 2012

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, said on Friday that Nigerians in Diaspora…

FIDA boss cautions men to respect rights of wives

The President, International Federation of Women Lawyers, (FIDA), Ms. Hauwa Shekarau, has called on couples to always consider their children…

Fasheun lauds Al-Mustapha’s release

Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasheun, has hailed Nigeria’s Appeal Court’s judgment acquitting Major Hamza Al-Mustapha…

Al-Mustapha visits TB Joshua

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer of Nigeria’s tyrant, General Sani Abacha, has paid a surprise visit to Pastor…

Wounded Rivers assemblyman flown abroad

The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, said in Port Harcourt on Friday that Michael Chinda, the wounded…

Obasanjo leads AU election monitors to Zimbabwe

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo will lead a team of 60 African Union monitors to Zimbabwe for the July 31…

Minister Olubolade joins Ekiti governorship race

The Minister of Police Affairs, retired Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade, on Friday formally declared interest to contest the 2014 governorship…

Al-Mustapha, Sofolahan released from Kirikiri Prisons

Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha, the chief security officer of Nigeria’s tyrant, Sani Abacha, was on Friday released from the Kirikiri Maximum…

Supreme Court endorses death verdict on baby killer

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence passed on Akinola Olatunbosun, for killing a three-month-old baby in 2003…

Census tribunal orders recount in Lagos council area

The Census Tribunal on Friday invalidated the 2006 enumeration figure for Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State as declared…

7 dead in Paris train derailment

At least seven people were dead and dozens injured on Friday after a speeding train split in two and derailed…

Tunisia TV boss on trial for corruption

The trial of Tunisian television chief Sami Fehri, accused of corruption during the rule of now-toppled strongman Zine El Abidine…

Hezbollah-linked Lebanese suspects denied bail

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Three Lebanese arrested in connection with the discovery of a cache of arms and ammunition in…

Forex trafficking:Court Convicts Gov.Lamido’s son

Aminu Sule Lamido, the 34-year old son of Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, was today convicted by Justice Fatu…

Nigerian Gay Activists Decry Harassment

Nigerian security services and the police are harassing and intimidating some gay activists in the country for defending the rights…

Appeal Court Frees Al-Mustapha

An Appeal Court sitting in Igbosere, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria has discharged and acquitted Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha, the former chief security…

Nigerian Company Pays Clinton N100m To Speak

Just to speak at an event in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, a Nigerian company paid the former American President, Bill Clinton,…