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Crocodiles devour their handler

A weird spectacle for holiday revellers turned tragic as crocodiles swooped on a 70-year- old man and tore him into…

Togo police fire teargas at protesters

Togolese authorities fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse a protest by several thousand people in the capital Lome, the latest…

Cameroonian prince, companion kidnapped in Bakassi

Pirates have kidnapped a Cameroonian traditional prince and his companion on the country’s volatile Bakassi peninsula, a security source and…

Jonathan visits Senegal

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday begin a two-day official visit to Dakar, Senegal. According to Dr Reuben Abati,…

Doctors: Girl, 11, has breast cancer not demonic attack

A medical mission in Anambra state, eastern Nigeria has detected breast cancer in an 11-year-old girl, according to one of…

Nigerian phone seller arrested with N27m hard drug

Simon Ateba Officers of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have apprehended a 26-year old man in connection with…

Ocean surge: PDP wants Eko Atlantic City stopped

Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party has blamed the frequent oceanic surge in Lagos State on sand filling of the ocean…

Court orders Mandela’s grandson arrested

An arrest warrant was issued for a grandson of Nelson Mandela on Monday after he failed to appear in a…

Ethiopia’s PM Meles Zenawi dies

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in power for over two decades, has died in hospital abroad, the government said Tuesday…

Togo vows to stop opposition rally Tuesday

Togo’s security minister on Monday vowed that an opposition rally planned for a key district in the capital would not…

Crisis as Edo doctors elect 2 chairmen

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Crisis appears to be brewing in the Edo State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), following the…

Police, Prisons not in sync on Nigeria’s Jail Break

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin More than 36 hours after the jail break at Oko Minimum Prisons in Benin City, the Police and…

Kwara state suspends urban law

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Nigeria’s Kwara state has suspended the implementation of the Urbanisation Law 2009, which empowered the state…

Maku allays fears over Nigeria’s rising debt

Nigeria’s minister of information, Mr Labaran Maku, has dispelled fears that Nigeria’s foreign debt of 5 billion U.S. dollars could…

Ministry issues another flood warning

The Federal Ministry of Environment has issued yet another warning predicting a heavy downpour, which may cause flooding between now…

Gunmen kill 2 guests of PDP boss

Unidentified gunmen have killed two persons in Mubi, Adamawa state. One other person was injured in the attack on Sunday…

Explosion destroys school in Yobe

The police in Yobe on Monday said that a section of Damagum Primary School in Damagum Local Government Area was…

Mimiko slams Oke, Akeredolu as anti-progress

The Olusegun Mimiko campaign Organisation on Monday lashed out at both Olusola Oke and Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, governorship candidates of…

Governor Jang’s ex-aide eyes vacant senate seat

Mr Gyang Pwajok, the Plateau Government’s Chief of Staff, who resigned last week, is to contest the Plateau North senatorial…

Prison authorities probe death of Clifford Orji

The Lagos State Command of Nigeria Prisons said that the cause of death of Clifford Orji, an inmate, was being…

Assange: South American nations back Ecuador

South American nations on Sunday backed Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, urging dialogue to end…

Policeman kills self, after shooting wife, daughters

A Nigerian Police Corporal, Anthony Ugwuoke, on Sunday at Edda Village, Ugwuachara in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi state,…

Beyonce’s UN video sets social media record

A music video by pop singer Beyonce helped inspire one billion messages for World Humanitarian Day on Sunday, which the…

Sudan minister, 31 others die in plane crash

A cabinet minister was among 32 politicians, generals and others killed on Sunday when a plane crashed on its way…

Imam warns muslims against suicide

The Imam of Gwallaga Mosque in Bauchi metropolis, in north western part of Nigeria, Sheikh Suleiman Bashir, on Sunday warned…

PDP tells rival parties: ‘watch your tongues’

The Peoples` Democratic Party (PDP) has called on opposition political parties to guard their utterances in the interest of the…

Tukur: I will let my son face the music

National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria’s ruling party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, says if the court of law finds his…

Assange thanks Ecuador, asks Obama stop witch-hunt

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed in the Ecuadorian embassy asylum in London spoke toady for the first time since June,…

Gunmen storm Nigerian prison, 12 escape

Jethro Ibileke/ Benin Gunmen have stormed the Oko Minimum Prison on the outskirts of Benin City, west of Nigeria. They…

Eid-el-Fitri: Jos, Kano spared by terrorists

Jos, the Plateau state capital, was calm and peaceful today as Muslims celebrated the Eid-el-Fitr festival to mark the end…