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Oritsejafor: I am not ashamed to own a plane
In an interview published today, President of Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who has been under criticism for…
Late Turkish president’s autopsy finds poisons
An autopsy of the exhumed remains of Turkish president Turgut Ozal, who died in office in 1993, revealed the presence…
Was Yasser Arafat poisoned to death by Israel?
What really happened to 75 year-old Yasser Arafat in 2004 when he died? Theories about his death abound, with many…
ACN loses another Lagos council to PDP
. Tribunal orders Fresh poll in Yaba Reported by Cyriacus Izuekwe & KAZEEM UGBODAGA After losing Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development…
Koroma takes oath, begins second term journey
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma was sworn-in as president Friday night after a convincing win and vowed to transform the…
Reports: 20 ladies in mini-skirts killed in Maiduguri
Twenty Nigerian ladies in trousers and mini-skirts were killed overnight by yet to be identified gunmen in the troubled Nigerian…
School vandal jailed 18 months
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An Oredo Magistrate Court sitting in Benin, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state, has sentenced 18 year-old Ogunbajo Olumide…
Ibori’s $15m: Court dismisses interloper
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declined to grant…
Governor Uduaghan budgets $2.7 billion for 2013
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented a budget of N398.31 billion, about…
N50m offered for capture of Boko Haram’s Shekau
Nigeria’s military went the way of USA’s FBI, offering Friday hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards for information leading…
D8 trade ministers to meet in Nigeria
Nigeria will host trade talks among the Developing Eight in February as part of efforts to increase business within member…
Nwankwo Kanu: I can’t be a coach
Former captain of the Nigerian national team, Nwankwo Kanu has revealed that he will never become a coach. Reports in…
Lagos to demolish 20 houses at Jakande Estate
The Lagos State Government has marked more than 20 houses for demolition at Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, near Isolo, Lagos following…
Faroukgate: Lawan Battles Otedola
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigerians’ hope of unraveling the truth behind the alleged demand and receipt of $620, 000 by…
Kano restricts motorcycles
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Disturbed by the incessant attacks by gunmen on motorbikes which have claimed lives in recent times, the Kano…
Nigeria quells sectarian riot
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano But for the timely intervention of security forces, the bubbling community of Bichi in Kano, northwest Nigeria would…
Lagos raises N80b bond for key projects
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has signed financial deal raising N80 billion through Bond, with Chapel Hill Limited as…
Ex-governor Fayose faces fresh trial
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday re-arraigned a former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose over…
How Fire Gutted TheNEWS/PMNEWS office
It all began like a joke. A reporter came into the newsroom around 7 p.m saying he could smell a…
Shekarau: I’m still Sardauna Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former Governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau on Wednesday in Kano, northwest Nigeria, cleared the air over…
Cocaine hidden in steam roller
Cocaine hidden in a ship; cocaine liquified and then packed as coconut milk, cocaine hidden inside pendants or ingested—innumerable tactics…
Babalakin slammed with N2b money laundering charge
Henry Ojelu/Judiciary correspondent Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today filed a 20 count-charge against Dr. Wale Babalakin, a…
Must Nigerian governors have security vote?
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Must Nigerian governors continue to vote for themselves billions of Naira that they do not account for, in…
Nigerian’s hand amputated in Saudi over theft
Saudi authorities on Wednesday chopped off the hand of a Nigerian muslim convicted of theft, in compliance with the Islamic…
Exxon Mobil issues force majeure as pipeline shut
US oil giant ExxonMobil’s Nigerian subsidiary warned on Wednesday it may not meet production expectations following the shutdown of a…
APGA leader, Sadiq Masalla jumps bail
The Nigerian police on Wednesday told an Abuja High Court that a suspect in a forgery case, Alhaji Sadiq Masalla,…
Nigeria records 40,000 maternal deaths yearly
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin As the 2015 deadline for the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) programme approaches, Nigeria continues to…
Cairo’s Al Jazeera office bombed
An office of Arab satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera in the Egyptian capital was firebombed on Wednesday, a security official said, as…
Jonathan arrives Islamabad for D8 summit
Nigeria’s leader, President Goodluck Jonathan, was among the early arrivals for the summit of eight countries with Islamic ties in…
Fatigued President Obama is just human!
Barack Obama, fresh from his re-election for a second term has embarked on a tour of East Asian nations of…