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Suspect in ESUT’s VC kidnap arrested
One of the suspected kidnappers of Professor Cyprian Onyeji, the Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT),…
Judgement date in IBB’s $12.4 billion oil windfall
A Federal High Court in Abuja will give a verdict 23 November on the controversial $12.4 billion oil windfall that…
Tycoon offers $65m to marry off gay daughter
Are you an eligible bachelor ready to marry? Can you play a lovey-dovey and win the heart of a 33…
SWF: Court Gives Further Room For Settlement
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The case instituted at the Supreme Court by Nigeria’s 36 states challenging the legality of the…
Labaran Maku bows to Nigerian Senate
Labaran Maku, Nigeria’s Minister of Information has eaten the humble pie as he apologised to the Senate over his comments…
Honest Abuja taxi driver gets his reward
Mr Imeh Usuah, a taxi driver, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International, Abuja, on Tuesday emerged the winner of the Securities…
Lagos Assembly Approves Gov. Fashola’s N80B Bond
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE/Assembly Correspondent Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State can now access a bond of N80 billion as part of…
IBB, Otedola, Elumelu win bids for Nigeria’s power plants
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Amperion Power Distribution Limited, a consortium made up of Israeli-based BSG Resource Limited, State Grid Corporation of China…
Another Boko Haram commander killed in shootout
A Nigerian Boko Haram sect commander known as Abubakar Yola has been killed by Nigerian soldiers in a shootout while…
Nigerian Mint worker arrested for selling fake currency
An employee of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, for…
Fashola endows research council
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday inaugurated the state Research and Development Council with an initial working grant…
Flood: 5 bodies found at River Niger banks
The Nigeria Red Cross Society said on Monday it had recovered three corpses washed ashore River Niger in Lokoja. It…
Sacked NIMC Workers Calls For DG’s Sack
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The recently disengaged former employees of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, who allegedly lost their…
35 Boko Haram militants killed, says JTF
Nigeria’s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group in…
PDP commends Jonathan over N5000 decision
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for hearkening to the views of Nigerians by stopping…
4 Boko Haram suspects killed, 3 Arrested in raids
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order said on Saturday that it had killed four and arrested three…
Petrol tanker fire: Burns victims in intensive care disappear
Eleven surviving victims of the 12 July Okogbe Petroleum Tanker fire disaster in Ahoada West local Government area of Rivers…
Cameroon ex-minister jailed for aircraft scam
A court in Yaounde on Saturday jailed former Cameroon minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya for 25 years for embezzling $29 million…
Arik Air, Aviation Agencies Summoned To Abuja
Simon Ateba/Aviation Correspondent Nigeria’s Federal Government on Friday summoned Arik Air and aviation agencies to a meeting on Saturday in…
Abducted Cameroonian prince freed in Bakassi
A Cameroonian traditional prince and his companion kidnapped last month on the country’s volatile Bakassi peninsula have been freed, security…
Kenya appoints new interior minister
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday appointed Katoo Ole Metito as the country’s new internal security minister, following the death…
N5000: NBA Calls For Sanusi’s Sack
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, on Thursday in Abuja, continued its criticisms on the proposed N5,000…
NNPC: Nigeria targets 52m tons of gas yearly
Nigeria plans to attain over 52 million tons per annum liquefied natural gas production capacity on completion of ongoing projects,…
Jonathan to address UN assembly next week
President Goodluck Jonathan has been listed among 38 Heads of State that will speak at the general debate of the…
Plateau senate race: Pwajok PDP candidate
Mr Gyang Pwajok, the former Chief of Staff to Plateau Governor, on Wednesday emerged as the PDP senatorial candidate for…
Rain wreaks havoc in Ibadan again
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN After less than three hours rain, Ibadan, Capital of Oyo State, South west Nigeria suffered yet another…
Jonathan barrages Senate with requests
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded to the Senate the medium term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper for…
Atiku backs restructuring of Nigeria
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the current clamour for the restructuring of Nigeria…
Guinness Nigeria Plc declares N8 dividend
Guinness Nigeria Plc has published its end of year result, announcing a dividend payout of N8 to its shareholders. Alternatively,…
Nigerian Reps move to stop super N5000
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja Nigeria’s House of Representatives this morning returned with a criticism of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the…