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Dame Patience, Our President’s Darling Wife

By Reuben Abati DEMOCRACY is readily associated with freedom: the freedom to be free in many respects and increasingly in…

Funke Akindele Finally Confirms Marriage Collapse

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE After five days of holding her fans and other Nigerians in suspense, star actress Funke Akindele has finally…

Rivers PDP faction expels Governor Amaechi

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A faction of the People’s Democratic Party, loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan, has announced the expulsion of…

Cancer-stricken Vilanova quits as Barcelona coach

BARCELONA (AFP) Tito Vilanova’s time in charge of Barcelona drew to a close after just 14 months on Friday when…

Funke Aboyade, Obla, Victoria Awomolo named SANs

Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Seventeen Nigerian lawyers, including Ms. Olufunke Aboyade, an Editor at Thisday Newspapers, the Attorney General of…

Nigerian Murder Suspect Loses Teeth In UK Jail Clash

Lee Rigby’s murder suspect Michael Adebolajo has lost two front teeth in a violent clash with prison officers. Adebolajo, 28,…

$7b racket: Nigeria moves to rein in oil thieves

Governor Godswill Akpabio of the southern Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom has been appointed as the head of the Committee…

8 governors urge Amaechi brief Jonathan on security

A delegation of eight Nigerian governors has advised Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state , to personally visit President Goodluck…

Deeper Life Pastor Defiles 2 Under-aged Girls

A pastor with Deeper Christian Life Bible Church,  Abudu, in Orhiomnwon Local Government Area of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, Eze…

Fake Army General Dupes Governor

Operatives of International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL, at the Nigerian Police Force, Force CID, Alagbon Close, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have…

Fire Razes Coscharis Warehouse

Lagos State Fire Service and the Navy are battling to extinguish a raging fire that gutted a warehouse belonging to…

Rivers State’s Crazy ‘Demo’

With the recent drama at the Rivers State House of Assembly and others, subterranean moves to remove Governor Rotimi Amaechi…

Mandela: Global celebration on birthday

JOHANNESBURG, July 17, 2013 (AFP) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela will spend his 95th birthday in hospital Thursday,…

Police declare Amaechi’s loyalists wanted

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigerian Police in Rivers State on Wednesday declared the Majority Leader of the state House of…

Outrage Over Attack On Govs In Rivers

Prominent Nigerians have condemned the attack on governors of four northern states in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Tuesday…

Ketu Tenants Unmask Fleeing Agents, Landlord

A fleeing landlord, his brother and an agent said to be the landlord’s son who swindled hundreds of house seekers…

Cripple, 19 Beggars Sent To Jail

A 45-year old cripple, Sunday Erim Udoyo and 19 others have been convicted by the Special Offences Court in Alausa…

Soyinka Again Denounces Crisis In Rivers

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has again denounced the crisis in Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria, saying such political crises bordered…

Police find Biafra war bombs, rocket launcher

The Nigerian police in Imo on Tuesday announced the recovery of weapons abandoned during the Nigerian Civil War, 43 years…

Presidency: It’s North’s turn, says Ango Abdullahi

By Femi Adi/Kaduna Professor Ango Abdullahi, former adviser to former Nigerian leader, Olusegun Obasanjo on Food and Security and Secretary-General…

Fugitive Sudanese leader scurries out of Nigeria

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has scurried out of Nigeria with the International Criminal Court demanding his arrest, but Sudanese officials…

Fayose’s Thugs Disrupt Ekiti PDP Gov. Consensus Committee

There was bedlam Tuesday morning at the Ekiti State secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, where thugs suspected to be…

Thugs Block P/H Airport To Protest Govs’ Visit

Anti-Governor Chibuike Amaechi political thugs under the aegis of Democratic Initiative loyal to Nyesom Wike today besieged the Port Harcourt…

Police Smash Island Robbery Gang

A combined team of policemen from Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and Adeniji Adele Police Division has smashed a suspected robbery…

100 Tenants Battle Over 13 Flats

Over a hundred tenants who were expecting to be given keys to their new apartments on Monday stormed Ketu area…

Outrage Over Reprieve For Al-Mustapha Persists

Nigerians have continued to express outrage over the recent Appeal Court judgement which discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and…

Okogie Decries Crisis At Rivers Assembly

Anthony Cardinal Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Sunday expressed displeasure over the recent brawl at the…

Heroic welcome for Al-Mustapha in Kano

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha wept in…

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…

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…