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Flood destroys 85 houses, injures 8
No fewer than 85 houses and 146 farms have been destroyed by flood in Kofa and Tofani villages in Kusada…
Farmer shoots son dead, mistaking him for monkey
A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old…
Governor Ajimobi signs 18 bills into law
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has assented to 18 bills recently passed by the state House…
Teenage Chinese sex workers arrested in Lagos
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE Officials of the Nigerian immigration Service have arrested 13 teenage prostitutes who were brought in from China by…
Killed Irish man wanted to leave Nigeria
The Irish engineer, Robert Gray, killed by bandits in Taraba state, north eastern Nigeria had worked for a number of…
Flood kills 11 in Northern Nigeria
Flooding in two areas of northern Nigeria has killed at least 11 people and displaced hundreds, officials and residents said…
Irish project manager killed in Nigeria
Ben Adaji/Jalingo An Irish expatriate, Mr. Robert Gray, 45, working with PW Construction Company and handling the $25 million Wukari-Takum…
Jonathan: Nigeria planning agriculture revolution
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Friday in Abuja that his administration was wholly committed to actualizing its plans to positively…
Nigeria: NUPENG shelves strike
Nigeria’s main oil workers union NUPENG on Thursday shelved a planned strike to protest the refusal of government to pay…
Amosun lifts ban on transport unions, launch 77 buses
The Ogun Government on Thursday lifted the ban on the activities of transport unions in Ijebu-Igbo and Ijebu-Ode local government…
Youth group sues SSS
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A national youth organisation, Peace Corps of Nigeria, on Thursday dragged the State Security Service, SSS,…
Subsidy Fraud: Economic Council backs FG
As residents of Abuja, continue to groan from fuel scarcity that has grounded the capital city for some weeks now,…
Boko Haram threatens media, denies peace talks
Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect has debunked stories that its representatives are holding peace talks with the government and threatened to…
Man bites snake to death in revenge
Newsmen like defining news by the absurdity of a man biting a dog, instead of the more commonplace, dog biting…
Atiku sets record, gives $750k to US peace corps
The United States National Peace Corps Association, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization supporting Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace…
3 weeks after, 4 foreign oil workers freed in Nigeria
Four foreign oil workers who were kidnapped when unknown gunmen attacked their vessel in the Gulf of Guinea off Nigeria…
402 radio, TV stations licensed in Nigeria
The Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr Yomi Bolarinwa, on Wednesday in Sokoto said the commission had in…
Many Nigerian governors absent at forum
Nigeria Governors` Forum (NGF) on Wednesday in Abuja ended without the usual media briefing by its Chairman, Gov. Rotimi Amaechi…
Magistrates begin strike in Nasarawa
Magistrate courts in Lafia and other towns in Nasarawa State were shut down on Wednesday as the state’s chapter of…
Adamawa least developed Nigerian state
Nigeria’s Adamawa State, home of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, ranks lowest on the country’s human development index in education,…
Killer of S/Africa’s racist leader jailed for life
A South African farmworker was jailed for life Wednesday for killing the country’s white supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche, two years after…
Good Samaritan jailed for catching a ‘thief’
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, Nigeria on Wednesday sentenced an employee of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Ibrahim Fasasi,…
How Jonathan spoils Niger Delta Warlords
America’s Wall Street Journal today revealed the mind-boggling million dollar sums that the Nigerian government has been paying Niger Delta…
Bomb factories uncovered in troubled Nigerian state
The Police in Nigeria’s central state of Kogi said they have uncovered two bomb-manufacturing factories in Abu Limit Estate and…
Cameroonian prince, companion kidnapped in Bakassi
Pirates have kidnapped a Cameroonian traditional prince and his companion on the country’s volatile Bakassi peninsula, a security source and…
Anambra set to join oil producing states
The Anambra state government, in eastern Nigeria, has completed its Orient Petroleum Resources Plc drilling lines and support equipment for…
Jonathan visits Senegal
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday begin a two-day official visit to Dakar, Senegal. According to Dr Reuben Abati,…
Court orders Mandela’s grandson arrested
An arrest warrant was issued for a grandson of Nelson Mandela on Monday after he failed to appear in a…
Police, Prisons not in sync on Nigeria’s Jail Break
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin More than 36 hours after the jail break at Oko Minimum Prisons in Benin City, the Police and…
Kwara state suspends urban law
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Nigeria’s Kwara state has suspended the implementation of the Urbanisation Law 2009, which empowered the state…