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UNILAG College of Medicine graduates 6,700
The College of Medicine, University of Lagos, has produced 6,687 graduates in its 50 years of existence, according to the…
Mark: Nigeria’s $1.7 billion pension fraud disgraceful
Nigeria’s Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday said that the level of fraud uncovered in the administration of pensions in…
Air Nigeria suspended over financial distress
Simon Ateba Air Nigeria, the airline belonging to business mogul, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, has been suspended by the Nigerian Civil…
A Nigerian state goes in the right direction
Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s vision for the revival of the State of Osun yields bumper dividends BAMIDELE JOHNSON The mess was…
Gombe’s security chief assassinated
Remorselss gunmen have shot dead, Malam Adamu Mamman the acting director of security matters in the office of the governor…
Jonathan Under Fire for Rio Trip
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has criticized President Goodluck Jonathan for embarking on a trip to Brazil for the…
Italian in Nigerian custody commits suicide
Ayorinde Oluokun/abuja Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday said a 52 year-old Italian, Mr. Mauro Zanin, a…
Clash at Igbinedion varsity caused by cultists
The Presidential Amnesty Office has explained that the clash between former militants and cultists at Igbinedion University was orchestrated by…
Nigerian army seizes stolen $9million crude oil
Nigeria has in the last five months seized 17.5 million litres of oil worth around $9 million (7.2 million euros)…
Nigerian town hit by a cocktail of bombs, gunshots
Fresh explosions and gunfire have rocked Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, a day after suicide attacks claimed by Islamists and…
Air Nigeria’s office stormed over tax evasion
Simon Ateba Officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, accompanied by mobile policemen, today, stormed Air Nigeria’s office in…
Pakistan tells pot-bellied cop to diet or quit
A Pakistan police commander has ordered tens of thousands of pot-bellied officers to diet or quit frontline duties, officials said…
Bombed Nigerian state relaxes curfew
By Femi Adi/Kaduna After observing that relative calm has returned to Kaduna state, Kaduna State government has relaxed the 24…
Official: 36 dead, 101 injured in Nigeria blasts
Bomb attacks on five churches in Nigeria’s Kaduna State and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims killed at least…
No panic buying of forex, CBN warns
Nigeria’s Central Bank has warned against the speculative buying of foreign exchange because of the depreciation in the value of…
Jonathan in Church sad over bombings
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed sadness over the multiple explosions that rocked churches in Kaduna and Zaria on Sunday. Jonathan…
24 hour curfew slammed on Kaduna
The Kaduna state government has imposed a 24 hour curfew, following the bombings today of no fewer than five churches…
Riots break out in Kaduna
Riots have broken out in the Nigerian city of Kaduna, hours after several churches were bombed by Boko Haram elements.…
Nigerian soldiers cordon off bombed churches
Femi Adi/Kaduna Soldiers and policemen have cordoned off all the scenes of bomb blasts in Kaduna state this morning, denying…
3 churches bombed in Kaduna state
Bombs have exploded in three churches in the volatile Nigeria’s North western Kaduna state, two of them in Zaria and…
Lagos residents scramble for ‘free’ kerosene
Residents of Ikeja area of Lagos on Saturday trooped out in their hundreds to scoop kerosene from a gutter along…
Egypt’s military dissolves parliament
On the day, Egyptians filed out to elect a new president, the ruling military government told parliament on Saturday it…
Cook docked for stealing kitchen utensils
A 39-year-old cook, Michael Bassey, has appeared before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court on a one-count charge of stealing kitchen…
Court to decide PDP candidates in Ogun council polls
An Ogun State High Court in Ilaro, Western Nigeria, has fixed June 19 for ruling in the case brought before…
Student Docked Over Sale of Father’s House
Ayorinde Oluokun The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned an undergraduate of the Federal University of Technology, Yola,…
Nigerian House passes vote of confidence in Speaker
Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives has gotten the overwhelming endorsement of his colleagues. At the emergency plenary…
N17 billion paid for oil subsidy in 2012
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said on Thursday that the Federal Government had released N17 billion as part of the…
Nigerians arrested in Israel
Israeli immigration authorities said on Thursday that they had arrested 300 African illegal immigrants, among them Nigerians, since the start…
Bandits kill 2 soldiers in an ambush
Two Nigerian soldiers have been shot dead by suspected armed robbers while escorting workers salary of Guzamala Local Government Council in Borno…
Nigeria to issue visitors visas at point of entry
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council has approved a new visa policy for the country designed to boost tourism, attract foreign investment…