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Canada cuts ties with Tehran
Canada has closed its Tehran embassy and ordered Iranian diplomats expelled, in a damning severance of ties in which it…
US Open: Serena meets Azarenka in final
Three-time champion Serena Williams cruised into her sixth US Open final on Friday with a 6-1, 6-2 mauling of Italian…
News Analysis: The demise of Air Nigeria
Jon Gambrell, AP Reporter Almost half the aircraft had been pulled out of service at Air Nigeria, the country’s second-largest…
Nigeria acquires more gunboats for maritime security
Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday in Port-Harcourt inaugurated 10 new patrol gunboats to boost the operations of the Joint…
2 journalists take refuge in South African embassy
In what may appear to be a trend after Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder sought refuge in the Ecuadorain embassy in…
All set for burial of Cynthia, Facebook tragic girl
Simon Ateba All is now set for Friday’s burial of Cynthia Udoka Osokogu, the 24-year old daughter of retired Major…
Boko Haram claims attacks on telecom firms
Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram on Thursday claimed a set of fires yesterday at telecom masts across the north, while…
Clinton asks Americans to believe in Barack Obama
Bill Clinton asked American voters on Wednesday to believe that Barack Obama had brought them to the verge of renewed…
Arik Air, Lufthansa Technik seal partnership
Simon Ateba Arik Air and world renowned aircraft maintenance service provider, Lufthansa Technik of Germany, have sealed a new partnership…
2 killed in Plateau attacks
The Plateau Police command on Wednesday confirmed the killing of two persons in two separate attacks by gunmen on some…
Nigerian king flogged by kidnappers…then freed
A Nigerian king abducted for eight days in Bayelsa state, has regained his freedom, after days of flogging by his…
Sources: Patience Jonathan hospitalized in Germany
Patience Faka Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has been receiving medical treatment in Germany for an illness suspected to have…
ACN tells PDP to forget Offa council
The Action Congress of Nigeria has advised the People’s Democratic Party to banish from its thoughts the hope of ever regaining political…
7 Ekiti pilgrims fail Quranic test
The Ekiti State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board has disqualified seven intending pilgrims to this year’s Hajj for failing a test.…
UK varsity plans legal action over visa status
A London university on Monday announced it was launching legal action over the government’s decision to revoke its right to…
Hajj Commission to issue free SIM cards
The National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) is to issue free SIM cards to all intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year,…
Shell shuts leaking pipeline
A Shell pipeline taking crude oil to a processing station in Nigeria’s Rivers state was closed after a leak was…
Cholera kills 348 in S/Leone, Guinea
A cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone which was declared a national emergency in mid-August has claimed 244 lives and affected…
US Democrats invite Tinubu to Convention
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of the Nigeria’s opposition Action Congress of Nigeria will from Monday join the…
Lottery body stops unsolicited lottery SMS
The Nigerian Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) has directed the stoppage of unsolicited lottery text messages on cell phones, its Director-General,…
Villagers in Katsina count losses as diseases kill animals
Farmers in Majen Gobir village, Rimi Local council area of Nigeria’s Katsina state are counting their losses as an outbreak…
Jonathan to launch YOUWIN! 2 for ladies
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, launch the second edition of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation (YOUWIN!), a Federal Ministry…
Ogun PDP plans big party for Obasanjo
The Ogun state chapter of the People Democratic Party on Thursday inaugurated a 17-man committee to organise a reception for…
Lagos Traffic Law: Things You Must Not Do
•Driving against traffic (one way drive) – One year imprisonment (1st offender) 3 years imprisonment (repeated offender). Seized vehicle to…
2 students arrested for robbery
The police in Ekiti State, western Nigeria have arrested two students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, for alleged robbery.…
Court affirms Governor Wada’s election
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Federal High Court in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja on Wednesday affirmed the victory of Capt.…
Nigeria’s Power Minister, Nnaji resigns
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Bureau Chief Professor Bart Nnaji, Nigeria’s minister of power has resigned. His resignation was made known in a…
Taliban behead 17 party goers
The Taliban beheaded 17 party-goers, including two women dancers, in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province as punishment. The brutality reawakens the…
Over 80 per cent of Ogun state prisoners await trial
No fewer than 1,660 inmates out of the 2,016 inmates in prisons in Ogun State are currently awaiting trial for…
27 oil workers freed by Nigerian soldiers
Nigerian military forces stormed the hideout of a militant gang operating on the waters of oil-producing Cross River State and…