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Supreme Court affirms Nyako’s victory in Adamawa
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Tuesday in Abuja affirmed the victory of Adamawa state Governor Murtala Nyako…
Gunmen attack cows in Plateau state
The Military Task Force (STF) keeping the peace in Nigeria’s Plateau state on Tuesday said that 12 migrating cows were…
UNIABUJA shut after protests by students
The University of Abuja has been closed indefinitely following two days of student protest over the non-accreditation of some faculties…
Tragedy in Nigeria’s First Family: Advise Mr. Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan not only marked his 55th birthday today, a month after his wife marked her own with the…
Ex-governor Sylva moves to stop trial
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former Bayelsa state governor, Chief Timipre Sylva on Tuesday mounted a legal campaign to stall his…
Faces at the investiture of the Tinubus as Egba Chiefs
The Faces at the chieftaincy installation ceremony for the Tinubus in Abeokuta today.
Oil subsidy scam: Suspect sent to Kirikiri Prison
Justice Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has ordered a suspect in the ongoing trial over multiple oil…
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: Nigeria sacks Bi-Courtney
Jamiu Yisa and Ayorinde Oluokun Nigeria’s Federal government has terminated the contract concessioning the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway reconstructiona and maintenance to…
Stampede at India’s Hindu festival kills 18
PATNA, India(AFP) – At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured following the collapse of a…
China buys up Nigeria’s oil industry
China has increased its hold of Nigeria’s oil industry with its purchase today of Total’s 20 per cent stake in…
South African prisoners hold officials hostage
Inmates took prison officials hostage on Monday at a privately operated maximum security jail in central South Africa, officials said.…
Saudi King undergoes back surgery
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 89, has “successfully” undergone a new operation on his back, the royal cabinet announced Sunday.…
Sierra-Leoneans troop to the polls
Sierra Leoneans cast their votes Saturday in the country’s third poll since the end of a brutal civil war, a…
Patience Jonathan steps out to douse illness rumour
Wife of Nigeria’s President, Patience Faka Jonathan has held court in Abuja, apparently to douse renewed speculations about her health.…
Governor Fashola visits Fela Museum
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Friday visited the Kalakuta Republic Museum dedicated in memory of late Afrobeat…
Governor Amosun unveils budget next week
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, western Nigeria will present 2013 budget to members of the Ogun…
Incredible: Nigeria’s Customs men can’t operate scanners!
Officers and men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are not fully equipped to operate and maintain very complex equipment…
Traffic gridlock on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
A multiple auto accident on Otedola Bridge on Nigeria’s busiest highway, the Lagos-Ibadan expressway caused a gridlock Thursday. Mr Bisi…
Kaduna family slaughtered by herdsmen
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Unidentified gunmen just after midnight today attacked villagers at Madauchi village in Zonkwa, Zango Kataf Local government…
UK charges Nigerian with fraud attempt on dead man
A Nigerian-born man appeared in a British court in Surrey on Wednesday charged with attempting to defraud a British-Iraqi family…
Court remands 7 suspects over Ilorin riot
Stephen Oni/Ilorin An Ilorin Magistrate Court presided over by Ibrahim Muhammed has ordered seven suspects linked with the violence in…
No words from kidnappers of Nigerian businessman
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Contrary to rumour making around and posting on the social network, Facebook that the kidnappers of the…
Nigeria docks 11 suspects in oil theft
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has charged 11 persons on suspicions of illegal dealing in petroleum products at…
Assassins on motor bike kill barber
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Assassins on a motor bike stormed Kawu Junction within Kano metropolis, northwest Nigeria on Monday, killing a barber,…
Oshiomhole begins new marathon, looks back, looks forward
Ademola Adegbamigbe &Jethro Ibileke Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo who was, this morning, sworn in for his second term in…
Oil subsidy scam: More Suspects for trial
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has concluded arrangement to arraign seven more suspects in the on going trial…
ECOWAS agrees on 3,300 strong force for Mali
West African leaders at an emergency summit on Sunday agreed on a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali…
Boko Haram: 5 Igbo iron welders killed in Yobe
Five Igbo residents of Gaidam in Nigeria’s Yobe state have been killed by gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members,…
Jonathan: Why West Africa needs the Mali Force
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan told a regional summit on Sunday that an intervention force was needed to flush out extremists…
Kano rejects state police, new states
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The people of Kano, northwest Nigeria on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected state creation, state police and rotational presidency. Opinion…