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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

University annuls degree awarded ex-governor Kalu

The Senate of Nigeria’s Abia State University, Uturu, has revoked the degree in Government and Public Administration that it claimed…

Man swallowed alive in bedroom by Florida sinkhole

Rescue workers announced Saturday that they have halted their search for the body of a man whose bedroom was swallowed…

Chad says it killed one-eyed Jihadist Belmokhtar

The Chadian army claimed that its troops in northern Mali on Saturday killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed jihadist commander who…

Jonathan in Abidjan urges leaders adhere to rule of law

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan warned Saturday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast that African leaders must work harder to strengthen democracy and…

The exploits of Kenya’s Superman: In Pictures

He is 67 years old, but Conrad Njeru Karukenya, aka ‘Tiger-power’ is reputed to be Kenya’s superman, capable of several…

Wanted Al Qaeda leader killed in Mali

Al-Qaeda’s top commander in Mali has been killed, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno said Friday, in what would be one…

Jonathan presented with keys to Yamoussoukro

President Goodluck Jonathan pledged Friday in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, that he will continue to work with President Alassane Ouattara and…

Court Clears Jonathan To Contest 2015 Election

A Nigerian court in Abuja has ruled that President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the forthcoming 2015 Presidential election…

Multiple bomb explosions as APC govs meet in Maiduguri

Nine Nigerian Governors of the All Progressive Congress met in Maiduguri, Borno state, today, same day the city recorded three…

Pope Benedict XVI says the final official goodbye

VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Benedict XVI became the first pope to resign in over 700 years on Thursday, waving a…

Gunmen ambush taxi, abduct 5 passengers

JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A new dimension has been introduced into the flourishing business of kidnapping in Nigeria as five out of…

Hip hop artist Damoche, LASU student shot dead

Bayo Adetu Upcoming hip hop music act and a student of the Lagos State University, LASU, Olaniyan Damilola, popularly known…

Outrage Over Attack On Ojukwu Library

Prominent Igbo leaders this morning took umbrage at the reported demolition of a library built in memory of the late…

Emir of Kano returns from UK

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Emir Ado Bayero, the traditional ruler of Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city has returned home, after spending 38…
Former governor of Niger State, Muazu Aliyu Babangida paid three ghost firms

2015: Gov Aliyu Alleges Blackmail Plot

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Governor Babangida Aliyu of Nigeria’s central state of Niger has alleged that some highly placed politicians based in…

Can it happen in Nigeria as Greece sends ex-mayor to life jail

A court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday handed life sentences to the city’s ex-mayor and two other municipal officials…

Pope Benedict admits a stormy reign as he bows out

Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday admitted “stormy waters” during his papacy as he gave his farewell speech in St Peter’s…

Nigeria’s Female Banker Steals Customer’s N26m

A staff of a mortgage bank in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Folayemi Oluwayemisi Adedayo, 41, has been charged to court for…