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Jonathan had ‘acute abdomen’ crisis , returns Sunday

Doctors who examined and treated President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for the sudden onset of severe abdominal pains in London have…

Jonathan denies drinking spree on birthday, condemns rumour mongers

President Goodluck Jonathan has described as fiction the story that he fell ill in London after a “heavy birthday party…

Aero Contractors becomes national carrier

Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s Federal Government is set to turn heavily indebted Aero Contractors Airline into the country’s national carrier,…

APC rejects supplementary election in Anambra

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected Friday’s announcement by INEC to hold supplementary election in Anambra State on 30…

Election now Nigeria’s worst enemy, says muslim cleric

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Move over Boko Haram. A new bugaboo has seized Nigeria’s landscape, with its attendant fear and anxiety. The…

Jonathan Recovers, Attends Investors’ Meeting

Ayorinde Oluokun President Jonathan who took ill yesterday and was admitted at a London hospital for treatment has fully recovered.…

UK court fails to pity Nigerian asylum seeker on hunger strike

A Nigerian asylum seeker said to be near death from a hunger strike failed in his bid on Thursday to…

How I escaped from my captors, by Frenchman Collomp

The French hostage held for 11 months by Ansaru terror group in Nigeria told French television on Thursday he made…

Jonathan ill in London, fails to meet investors

Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan has fallen ill in London and could not attend the meeting of Nigeria’s Honorary International Investors’…

Karen Igho Dumps Nigeria For British Citizenship

Karen Igho, ex-Big Brother Africa winner has dumped her Nigerian passport for British citizenship. The controversial reality show star announced…

Anambra Poll: APC takes case to Jega, demands annulment

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has formally petitioned INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega seeking the cancellation of the Nov. 16th Governorship…

Debo Basorun: Why I Fled Nigeria

Major Debo Basorun (rtd.) wants the public to know what transpired during the regime of former military president, General Ibrahim…

Jihadist Chief Killed In Mali

French special forces have killed the second-in-command of the feared Islamist commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar in an operation in the region…

Lecturer, 4 other suspects paraded as Boko Haram members

Nigeria’s Department of State Services said it uncovered a Boko Haram cell in the central Nigerian state of Kogi and…

How Lord Chosen’s Truck Killed 6 At Oshodi

Details of how a truck carrying sand belonging to the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Movement lost control on the ever-busy Oshodi-Apapa…

Pastor’s Wife Bathes Sister With Hot Water

The police at Idimu, Lagos, western Nigeria have arrested the wife of a pastor, Mrs. Angela Uzoma, for pouring hot…

Fashola Bans Skating On Expressway

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has vowed to arrest and prosecute Mr. Michael Ekundayo, an official of the Lagos…

President Jonathan, Dame Patience And I

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State explains his fractious relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan to TheNEWS editors In the last…

Amaechi: Battered But Unbowed

Rattled. That is what Rotimi Amaechi should be. Months of enduring body blows from an out-and-out heavyweight that is the…

Collomp, ex-Nigerian hostage back home in France

A French engineer abducted by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria and held for 11 months arrived back in France on…

Nigeria: Traffic lockdown on Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos

A traffic tragedy in which three school pupils were killed in an auto-accident early today on the Lekki-Epe Expreswway, in…

Anambra election ends without a winner

Simon Ateba and Seun Bisuga/Awka The controversial governorship election in Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria, has ended without a winner, the…

Ngige, Nwoye, Ubah want Anambra poll annulled

The trio of Senator Chris Ngige of APC, Mr Tony Nwoye of PDP and Dr Ifeanyi Ubah of LP have…

Anambra election: PDP’s Nwoye rejects results, demands fresh poll

Seun Bisuga/Awka Tony Nwoye, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria is still in…

‘Pharmacist’ pope hands out rosaries as spiritual medicine

Pope Francis on Sunday advised Catholics to take a special dose of spiritual medicine, offering some 20,000 boxes of “mercy”…

APC wants Anambra poll cancelled, says it’s new low for INEC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded a total cancellation of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State based on the…

Anambra poll a mockery of democracy, says Ngige

Senator Chris Ngige, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress has indicated that his party will challenge the outcome…

Francis Collomp: Exclusive photograph of ex-French hostage

Francis Collomp, the French engineer captured by the terror group, Ansaru in Rimi village, Katsina state in Northern Nigeria, last…

Nigerian Police: How Collomp, French hostage escaped in Zaria

Femi Adi/ Kaduna Kidnapped sixty three year old French engineer, Francis Collomp, who was abducted over eleven months ago escaped…

Boko Haram: Nigerian army raid frees abducted French engineer

French hostage Francis Collomp has been freed almost a year after being kidnapped, according to a statement from the French…