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Sterling Bank plc pays cash dividend
Nigeria’s Sterling Bank plc will release its full audited accounts for 2011 Friday, but 24 hours ahead, the bank could…
First Bank Plc gets a date at the Exchange
THE management of First Bank plc has a date with the Nigerian Stock Exchange to present the company’s Facts Behind…
Robbers give Auchi banks the fright
Banks in Auchi area in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo state, west of Nigeria, have vowed to remain…
Spanish doctor Missing in Nigeria, feared kidnapped
Spain said Wednesday that one of its nationals had gone missing in southern Nigeria and was feared kidnapped. The disappearance…
Tsunami warning as big Quake strikes Indonesian coast
An earthquake of 8.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, sending residents there and in India dashing…
Nigerian charged with stealing chicken, bone and cheese
A 45-year-old Nigerian, Oharuike Hycent, has appeared before an Abuja Magistrates’ Court charged with stealing chicken, cheese and chicken bones.…
Fashola’s convoy intercepts robbery gang
The convoy of Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, on Monday night intercepted a suspected three-man armed robbery gang on…
Oshiomhole appoints ex-school head permanent secretary
Mr Uyi Orhue, a former Principal of Western Boys High School, Benin and 17 others were on Tuesday sworn-in as…
Adigun Agbaje Heads Awo Institute
The Obafemi Awolowo Institute of Government and Public Policy (OAIPP), Lekki, in Lagos State, has appointed its first director-general. He…
Jonathan opens school for Nigeria’s Street kids
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan said Tuesday in Sokoto that his administration was committed to providing quality education for the 9.5…
Sex-change women can contest Miss Universe
The Miss Universe contest on Tuesday threw open its doors to transgender models, allowing men who have had a sex…
Survivors Of Benue’s Collapsed Church Speak
Some of the survivors of last Saturday’s collapsed church building at Adambge Community, in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue…
Mugabe Not ill, say aides
Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was seriously ill in Singapore, saying he was well and…
Over 60 die in Nigeria’s Easter Holiday Horrors
A seven-year-old girl shot dead by Boko Haram gunmen in a failed attempt to kill her policeman father, was one…
Girl, 7, six others die in fresh Boko Haram attacks
Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have shot dead a seven-year-old girl during a failed attempt to kill her policeman father hours…
Malians wait for military junta to resign
Mali waited anxiously Monday to see if the military junta that seized power on March 22 would restore democracy after…
Arsenal Go Third, Dent City’s Title Chances
Manchester United all but sealed a 20th English title as they moved into an eight-point lead over Manchester City at…
Witnesses: How The Kaduna Easter Sunday bombing Happened
Femi Adi/ Kaduna More than thirty persons today were feared dead as a suspected suicide bomber in a Honda car…
SSS aborts Dawn Attack on School
Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) operatives in Bauchi State on Sunday repelled an attack by gunmen on their training school,…
Nigeria: 36 Die In Kaduna Bomb Explosion
.Updated Security warnings about a possible bomb attack by the deadly Boko Haram strike in Northern Nigeria during Easter, have…
Sick Venezuelan leader begs God to spare him
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made an emotional plea this week that put his health and political future in the spotlight,…
Robbers Raid Council Office
The premises Ikpoba-Okha local council, located at Idogbo, Edo State was Friday morning raided by armed robbers who vandalized about…
Malian Group, EU, France Denounce Independence Proclamation
The military chief of an Islamist rebel group that controls the city of Timbuktu said his movement opposes Tuareg independence…
Mali Tuareg Rebels Declare Independence
Mali’s Tuareg rebels declared independence Friday in the north, splitting the coup-wracked country in two, as warnings rang out of…
Boko Haram: Army Raids yield Bombs, guns, rocket launchers
Amidst travel warnings to foreigners coming to Nigeria and the security alert in the country itself, the Nigerian authorities have…
Suitor demands dowry refund over HIV positive lady
A farmer, Muhammad Baban-Iro of Rigasa Area in Nigeria’s Kaduna on Thursday appeared before a Sharia Court for refusing to…
Police To Arrest Derailed Cops
The Nigeria Police Force will henceforth monitor its personnel serving as orderlies to important personalities to ensure that they are…
Ex-World Bank Execs endorse Okonjo-Iweala
A group of former World Bank officials on Wednesday endorsed Africa’s candidate, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to lead the…
5 Igbo Traders Killed by Boko Haram gunmen
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed seven people in a market in the Nigerian north eastern city of Maiduguri in…
3 terror suspects killed in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security blanket is up in Kano as intelligence reports reveal a plot by a group of terrorists to…