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LASU Crisis: Lawmaker Appeals For Peace

The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Wahab Alawiye-King, has called on the management of the Lagos…

Court Dissolves 26-Year Old Marriage

An Orile Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved a 26-year old marriage over stealing and being troublesome by…

Christian Leader Seeks Action Against Corruption

The President, Centre for Righteous Living (CRL), Reverend Solomon Adebolagun has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to be more active…

Soyinka Gets Awo Prize

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka will today be named the first recipient of the Awolowo Prize for Leadership. He will…

Woman Used As Bait By Robbers Arrested

A woman used as bait by robbers, Joy Ekhoutorwhen, 24 has been arrested. Joy, a native of Benin City, Edo…

Power Gens Pack Up At MMA Airport

Power cuts have caused series of near-tragic landings at the Lagos airport, in southwest Nigeria, over the past few days,…

Nigerian Serial Car Snatcher Faces Trial

A man, Sunday Fatokun, 41, alleged by the police in Lagos to be the ring leader of a five-man car…

Boko Haram Beheads Informant

A man accused of being an informant has been beheaded by Islamist group Boko Haram. The incident was recorded in…

Lagos Set To Reclaim Athletics Glory

There are strong indications that Lagos State Government is out to reclaim its lost glory in athletics in Nigerian sports.…

Chinese couples rush divorces to avoid tax

Chinese couples are flocking to divorce to avoid a new tax property sales tax imposed by the government, after it…

Nigeria: Coronation rites begin for Attah-Igala

The new Attah-Igala, Idakwo Ameh-Oboni, has left Lokoja for Ugwolawo at the beginning of a week-long traditional rites for his…

Anxiety mounts in Kenya over delayed result

Kenyans awaited presidential results with growing frustration Wednesday at controversial delays and mountains of spoiled ballots, five years after violence…

Shekau’s Boko Haram in new video beheads ‘informant’

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram denied any ceasefire deal with the government in a video obtained Tuesday in which…

APC agrees symbol

The merger committee meeting of the Action Congress of Nigeria, All Progressive Grand Alliance, All Nigeria People’s Party and Congress…

Hugo Chavez’ death hits Venezuela hard

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, 58, died Tuesday, Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced, shortly after Caracas revealed that the cancer-stricken leftist…

EFCC charges 2 e-mail hacking suspects

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised alarm over the rising incidences of e-mail spoofing and account takeover by…

Over 46 % NDDC Projects Abandoned, says panel

Chief Isaac Jemide led Presidential Monitoring Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC submitted its report to President Goodluck…

Sultan advocates amnesty for Boko Haram

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar in Kaduna on Tuesday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to grant…

Praises for Obasanjo as he turns 76

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta President Goodluck Jonathan has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a true father and elder statesman, reassuring…

Insight: The Show of Shame in Ogun House of Assembly

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The House of Assembly in the western Nigerian state of Ogun literally turned a bedlam today as…

Fracas as Ogun Assembly Suspends 4 Lawmakers

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The House of Assembly in Abeokuta, the capital of the western Nigerian state of Ogun was thrown into…

Anxiety deepens in Venezuela over cancer-stricken Chavez

Supporters of President Hugo Chavez prayed and wept in his hospital’s chapel Tuesday after learning the cancer-stricken leader’s condition has…

Kenya: Kenyatta in early lead

NAIROBI, March 05, 2013 (AFP) – Kenya’s deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces an international crimes against humanity trial,…

Hijab Crisis: Lagos House Probes Principal

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday evening began the probe of the alleged maltreatment of Aisha Alabi, a…

Zoning: The Problematic Solution

By John  Ayoade Nigeria is an adversarial federation nurtured by multilateral suspicion. The country was created in 1914 in such…

Damoche’s Death Avenged

Following the murder of musician Damilola Olaniyan, a.k.a. Damino Damoche by two unidentified gunmen suspected to be cultists at the…

Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Police Station

Suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram attacked a police station with gunfire and explosives in northeast Nigeria near…

Keshi Invites 24 Local Players For Kenya Tie

Nigeria’s Super Eagles boss, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi this afternoon in Abuja unveiled a list of 24 home-based professional players who…

Jonathan Praises OBJ At 76

President  Goodluck Jonathan has described Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as a true father and elder statesman, reassuring him of continuous sharing…

Nigeria Better Off As A Two Party State –Osoba

A former governor of Ogun State and a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Segun Osoba, on…