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Hell Let Loose As Ogun Assembly Suspends 4 Lawmakers

The Ogun State House of Assembly has suspended four members for allegedly causing disaffection among staff of the assembly and…

PPMC Redirects Pipelines From Reach Of Vandals

The Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) says it has engaged the services of an engineering firm, ENIKKOM, to redirect…

Man Jailed 9 Years For Rape

The Federal High Court sitting in Enugu on Monday sentenced an artisan, James Onuele, to five years imprisonment for raping…

Obasanjo Calls For Cultural Security In Africa

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Africans to guide their cultures jealously. Addressing participants at the regional summit on…

Sea Piracy: I Received N7m From Vessel Hijack

Detectives at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad at Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a member of a…

Birthday Present: Family Battles Obasanjo Over Land

In what appears to be a bad birthday present to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a family in Badagry whose land the…

Why I’m Bringing Playwrights Together

Renowned academic and dramatist, Professor Femi Osofisan tells NKRUMAH BANKONG-OBI about the problems impeding a flourishing  playwriting culture in the…

The Pension Mess

Despite the sack of Abdulrasheed Maina-led Pension Reform Task Team, the mess and corruption associated with the administration of pension…

A New Covenant

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State seizes the opportunity of his second inauguration to appraise the past and renew his…

Dividing The Governors

The rumblings in the Peoples Democratic Party get messier as the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF is sucked in The crack…

BIAFRA: The Facts, The Fiction

Placed side by side independent accounts of the Nigerian Civil War, Professor Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is a…

Gambia destroys Europe bound $1billion seized cocaine

Gambia’s government Monday held a public destruction of more than two tonnes of cocaine worth about one billion dollars seized…

British Queen Elizabeth discharged from hospital

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II smiled as she left a London hospital on Monday following a 24-hour stay, having been assessed…

ASUU warns on lawlessness in universities

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Monday in Kano, raised alarm over what it described as high-handedness…

Nigeria’s Pension Thief Slumps In Court

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Convicted pension thief, John Yahaya Yusufu, who is standing trial on an alleged false declaration of…

New Pope: Cardinals Begin Talk

Catholic cardinals began talks on Monday ahead of a conclave to elect a new Pope after Benedict XVI’s resignation, as…

Sacking Corrupt Judges

It was with excitement that Nigerians last week received the news that the National Judicial Council (NJC) had wielded the…

Why Chief Tony Anenih Was Made BoT Chairman Of PDP

By Joe Igbokwe Do you know why Chief Tony Anenih was brought in a BoT Chairman of PDP? Do you…

Man Blames Mother-In-Law For Crashed Marriage

A 28-year-old factory worker has told an Agege Customary Court, Agege, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, that his seven-year-old marriage crashed because…

Residents Seek Reopening Of Banks In Auchi

Residents of Auchi in Edo State have called for the reopening of three commercial banks shut in November 2012, after…

2015: Lawmakers Sure Of APC Victory

Two opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives have expressed confidence that the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) will make a…

Ogba Residents Protest Over Blocked Streets

Residents of Olufemi Ogunsola Street under the aegis of New Life Community Development Association at Agege, Ifako Ijaiye Local Government…

Ladipo: 10 Bakassi Boys, 32 Others Sent To Jail

Ten suspected Bakassi Boys and 32 traders arrested at Ladipo Market in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria , last week have been…

Coup: Colonel, Bizman Arrested

Benin Republic said Sunday that authorities have thwarted an attempt to oust President Thomas Boni Yayi and install a military…

Prophet In Jail Over Love Potion

A prophet, Samson Egbeola, is now in prison custody at Kirikiri after he was arraigned in court for allegedly engaging…

Kenya’s Election: 4 Cops Killed In Mombasa

Kenyans stood patiently in long lines on Monday to elect a new president but machete-wielding youths on the coast killed…

Bill Clinton, 258 others nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

A record 259 nominees are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize — 209 individuals and 50 organisations…

Queen Elizabeth ill with gastroenteritis

Britain’s 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was admitted to hospital for the first time in 10 years on Sunday as a…

Travelogue: My Experience With Nigerian Pirates

Simon Ateba Simon Ateba, a Senior Correspondent with TheNews Magazine and P.M.NEWS, who travelled by sea from Cameroon to Nigeria,…

Benin foils coup against Yayi

Benin Republic said Sunday that authorities have thwarted an attempt to oust President Thomas Boni Yayi and install a military…