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Ghastly road accident kills 3 Ekiti Poly students
Three students of the Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti have died and five others critically injured in a ghastly road accident weekend…
Nigeria Police: How we found the Spanish doctor
Nigeria’s Enugu State Police Command has spoken on how the kidnapped Spaniard, Jose Manuel Machimbarrena Corcuera, working with the Niger…
Ekpoma bank workers urge action on banditry
Bank workers in Ekpoma in the Esan West Local Government Area of Edo have vowed to paralyse commercial activities in…
Oil Subsidy Scam: Nigeria sacks 2 Auditing Firms
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja In a surprise, but suspicious move, the Federal Government has announced the termination of its contract with Akintola…
Under fire G/Bissau junta backpedals
The junta in Guinea Bissau on Saturday said its plan for a two-year transition had only been a suggestion, in…
Nigeria: Kidnapped Spanish doctor freed
A Spanish doctor kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Enugu on April 4 has been freed and is in…
No survivor as plane crashes in Pakistan
Up to 130 people are feared dead after a Boeing 737 crashed while trying to land in bad weather near…
Nigeria: 8 Boko Haram suspected killings recorded
Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram have killed at least eight people, including a policeman, in separate attacks in…
Justice Musdapher retires in July
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Chief Justice, Dahiru Musdapher has clarified a news report that he has resigned from office.…
Jonathan: Nigeria safe for investors
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on a visit to Germany Thursday that Western investors had nothing to fear in his…
Army, ministries owe Nigeria’s power coy N41billion
DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja A whopping N41bn is owed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. This revelation was made at the…
G/Bissau junta adamant, dissolves civilian government
Guinea-Bissau’s junta and opposition parties on Wednesday formally dissolved the government and called for a two-year transition period before new…
Boko Haram plans to bomb Abuja hotels, US warns
The US embassy in Nigeria warned on Wednesday that Islamist group Boko Haram may be planning attacks in the capital…
13 Boko Haram members arrested, one killed
Nigerian soldiers killed one suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect and arrested 13 others in dawn raids Tuesday…
G/Bissau junta set for crackdown
Guinea-Bissau’s new ruling junta banned marches Tuesday and warned it would crack down on demonstrators as the African Union suspended…
Nigeria convicts 288 over internet crimes
The EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde has revealed that the Commission has convicted over 288 persons over sundry Internet crimes. He…
Jonathan: I am eligible for 2nd term presidency
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Following attempts by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to scuttle President Goodluck Jonathan’s…
Nigerian driver commits suicide
A 45-year-old Nigerian has committed suicide by hanging. The man, identified as Dare Amoo lived at Idigba Compound in Oke-Ose,…
Mali wants peace talks with northern rebels
Mali’s putschists and politicians called Sunday for talks with rebels holding the north of the country, as Islamists holding key…
Robbers Kill Journalist In Nigerian City
Robbers have shot and killed Chucks Ogu, a cameraman with Independent Television (ITV), a privately-owned station based in Benin City,…
Nigerian town gets monarch 4 years after
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun has installed Kehinde Olugbenle as the new monarch (Olu of Ilaro) for Ilaro in Yewa…
INEC blocks ACN lawyers access to poll materials
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in Adamawa State have blocked lawyers of the Action Congress of Nigeria from…
New Nigerian university admits pioneer students
One of Nigeria’s nine new universities is ready to begin academic programmes. It is the Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State…
Lagos doctors end strike
Activities resumed fully on Saturday at the various Lagos government owned hospitals and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH)…
Gani Adams: My wife had 18 Miscarriages
The National Co-coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams whose family was recently blessed with a baby boy…
Algeria buries first leader, Ben Bella
Algeria buried its first post-independence president Ahmed Ben Bella, hailed as an anti-colonial hero and the father of the nation,…
Sterling Bank plc in upswing as 18 stocks wobble
Sterling Bank Nigeria plc recorded a second day of stock price increase as the market got information on how the…
Nigerian banks neck deep in Pension fund theft
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja In the wake of tales of mind blowing sums pilfered from the nation’s pension funds, a worrisome development…
Jonathan signs the N4.7 trillion 2012 Budget
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday morning signed the N4.697 trillion 2012 Appropriation Bill into law. The President had…
Sex crazy woman makes German call police
A desperate man in Munich, Germany, fled onto a balcony and called police for protection after his insatiable companion for…