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Prof. Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s Novelist Dies
Nigeria’s literary icon, Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe is dead. He died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United…
Goni Aji heads Nigeria’s bureaucracy
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji, OON as the new Head of the Civil Service of the…
Scores of bus passengers dead in multiple blasts
Maduabuchi Nmeribe/kano with agency reports Scores of bus passengers at the New Road Luxury Terminal, Sabon Gari, Kano northwest Nigeria…
French family captured in Cameroon, freed in Nigeria
The seven members of a French family who were seized in northern Cameroon earlier in the week have been found…
Pope to resign 28 February
A Vatican Spokesman has said that Pope Benedict XVl will resign 28 February, an unusual development from the Papacy today.…
Nigeria: Pension thief re-arrested amidst outrage
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arrested John Yakubu Yusuf, a former director in the Police Pension Office who…
90 die in Brazil night club fire
At least 90 people died early Sunday in a fire that erupted at a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city…
Breaking news: 5 killed in fresh attack in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano No fewer than five persons were killed by gunmen on motor bike Tuesday evening in Kano, capital of…
Revered Nigerian Emir survives gun attack
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Emir of Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, Alhaji Ado Abdullahi Bayero narrowly escaped death on Saturday in the…
Nigerian paratroopers depart for Mali
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigerian Air force contingent made up 69 Paratroopers and Seven officers departed for the crisis-ridden West African…
Gunmen burn council office, police station
Nigerian gunmen have attacked and razed the Song divisional police station and local government secretariat in Adamawa state. It was…
Obasanjo’s mansion gutted by fire
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta A section of the multi-million naira mansion of the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was up in…
Nigerian Suicide bomber hits Airtel Kano office
A Nigerian suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday when he rammed his car into the office gate of Airtel, one…
Nigeria’s Helicopter crash kills Kaduna governor
A Nigerian military helicopter carrying very important people in Nigeria has crashed in Bayelsa state. Reports said a former national…
Nigeria nabs 28 terror suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria have renewed raid on hideouts of terrorists recording 28 arrests within the…
Ghana election: Mahama set to edge out Akufo-Addo
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama held a slim lead over presidential election rival Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday with nearly all…
Hugo Chavez: My cancer is back
Venezuelan President, 58 year-old Hugo Chavez has admitted a relapse of his cancer and designated vice president Nicolas Maduro as…
Nigeria: Gunmen attack police detention centre
The detention centre run by Nigerian Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Garki Abuja, came under the fusillade of bullets this…
Heavy Bombing in Potiskum
Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Potiskum, the Yobe state capital Wednesday, residents said, after violence this week left at least…
16 Christians massacred in Nigerian church
Sixteen persons have been killed and many others wounded by unidentified gunmen, who stormed the Deeper Life Church at Otite…