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Nigeria postpones event to mourn victims
The celebration of the World Environment Day slated for Tuesday, June 5, has been postponed until further notice by the…
Ekiti teachers defy government, snub tests
Teachers working in the public schools of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti on Monday defied the state government by…
Dana Air Crash: the full names of victims
John Ahmadu, Onyeka Ayene, Hurriya Lawal, Berkisum Yindadi, Ebuka Enuma, Oluchi Onyenyiri, Sunday Enuma, George Moses, Noah Anyene, Kamsi Anyene,…
Plane crash: Jonathan declares 3-day mourning
President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a three-day period of national mourning in memory of the 153 people who died in…
No survivor as Dana plane Crashes in Lagos
A Dana Airline passenger plane, carrying 153 passengers, including 6 crew members has crashed into a residential suburb of Nigeria’s…
Muslim group vows to contest 2015 polls
Nigeria’s Muslim Student Society (MSS) said on Sunday that some of its members would be sponsored to contest the 2015…
Ex-civil servant shot dead in Gombe
The Nigerian Police in Gombe state have confirmed the killing of a retired civil servant, Tijjani Magaji, 43, of Idi…
NMA orders Lagos doctors back to work
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Saturday directed all the doctors on strike, including those in Lagos State, to resume…
Mubarak, ex-Egyptian strongman jailed for life
An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in…
Enugu govt buys Colliery Hospital
Nigeria’s Enugu State Government has purchased the Nigerian Coal Corporation headquarters and the hospital complex located in Enugu at the…
Australian,81, loses bid to stop wife rape trial
An 81-year-old Australian man on Wednesday lost a bid to have charges that he raped his wife in the 1960s…
Abiola’s son shocked by protest over UNILAG honor
The family of the late Chief MKO Abiola, on Tuesday said that they were ecstatic over the renaming of the…
Commission to monitor Nigerian prisons
Mr. Ewa Udu, Head, Legal Unit of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) has said the commission will henceforth monitor the…
Governor slams rights groups over Bida polygamist
The Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu, has criticised human rights groups for defending the Bida-based record polygamist, Alhaji Abubakar Masaba,…
Rivers ACN scores Governor Amaechi low
The Rivers State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has said that Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s administration has not done…
2 killed as gunmen attack cleric, muslim worshippers
An anti-Boko Haram muslim cleric in Potiskum, Yobe state in Nigeria’s north east has escaped death after gunmen opened fire…
Salafists, Muslim hardliners on the rampage in Tunisia
Hardline Islamists, who have been running rampage in Tunisian towns, torching police stations and attacking bars, have sparked an outcry…
Mali in Chaos as North forms Islamic state
Mali’s embattled transitional government on Sunday rejected a rebel alliance’s declaration of an Islamic state in the vast desert north,…
4 poker players shot dead in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Unidentified gun men at the week end invaded a fun spot at Gada, Kwanra Cashew in Panshekara, Kano,…
On Children’s Day, Nigerian group urges right to education
As Nigerians and the world celebrate the Children Day, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a letter to…
Cocaine ingestion kills Nigerian trafficker
Simon Ateba A 34-year old suspected drug trafficker has died after a wrap of cocaine he ingested burst in his…
Boko Haram kills Muslim cleric, prison guard
Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and a retired prison guard on Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, residents and a medic said,…
Gunmen strike in Borno, kill party leader
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead in Maiduguri Amodu Gombe, the Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Nafada Local…
5 suspected bandits killed in shootout with soldiers
Five suspected armed robbers were on Friday shot dead by the 243 battalion troops of the Nigerian Army, Manguno, in…
Nigerian student jailed for knife attack
An Upper Area Court in the Nigerian central state of Plateau Friday sentenced an 18-year-old student, Yahaya Mohammed to three…
China: Chinese arrested in Nigeria freed
China’s foreign ministry claimed this morning that tens of its nationals arrested in Nigeria Tuesday for violating immigration rules have…
Nigeria boosts power supply with 120 megawatts
The Omotosho Power Plant Phase 2 in western Nigeria is ready to contribute 120 megawatts to the national grid, the Niger…
Nigerian minister promises better electricity June
Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, has accepted that there is a “gross” deficit in the electricity tariff in…
Nigerian police in frantic search for abducted girl
The Nigerian police in Enugu State has launched an operation to rescue a six-year-old girl, who was kidnapped more than a week ago. The…
Special court for election violence
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja To tackle the problems of violence before, during and after elections in the country, the Federal Government on…