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Assange, Wikileaks Founder Eyes Aussie Senate
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is planning to run for election to the Australian Senate, the organisation announced Saturday on Twitter.…
Nigeria: Another 22 police recruits charged with forgery
Twenty two police recruits attending training at the Nigeria Police Training College in Ilorin, were on Friday charged, in two…
Corruption: German Group Seeks Ties With ICPC
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A German socio- political organisation, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, on Friday in Abuja, indicated willingness to partner…
Nigeria: Man docked for contract scam
Ayorinde Oluokun The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned Williams Inalegwu Okpe before Justice Babatunde O. Quadri of…
Pastor, 8 others killed in Kaduna
By Femi Adi/Kaduna The pastor of the Assembly Church of God at Chikun district of Chikun local government area of…
UK universities expect 30k Nigerian students
Mr Iain Stewart, a Member of the British Parliament said that about 30,000 Nigerian students would be studying in various…
Nigerian student Docked for wearing army camouflage
A 28-year-old student, Tijani Aliyu, has been arraigned before an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for wearing a Nigerian Army uniform.…
Nigeria: N22k is minimum wage in Ondo
Ondo State will pay N22, 000 as minimum wage to its workers with effect from April, 2012. Governor Olusegun Mimiko…
National Assembly Jacks Up Budget
Nigeria’s National Assembly on Thursday approved a $31 billion budget for 2012 , setting up a possible showdown with President…
Reuters: Nigeria opens indirect talks with Boko Haram
Nigeria’s government has in the last week held its first indirect peace talks with Islamist sect Boko Haram, meeting mediators…
Mastermind of killed hostages in Nigeria dead
Abu Mohammed, the leader of the faction of Boko Haram behind the abduction and killing of Christopher McManus, a Briton…
Anti-smoking campaign saves lives in the US
A study in the United States has revealed that higher taxes on cigarettes, limits on selling to kids and campaigns…
Nigeria: Copter Crash kills new Police chief, 3 others
A helicopter belonging to Nigeria’s Special Task force has crashed in Jos, the Plateau state capital, northcentral Nigeria, killing all…
Saudi pledges to tame soaring oil prices
Oil prices, on the upswing in recent times, because of supply disruptions over Iranian crisi, may be tempered with the…
Worker Pays Spiritualist N11m To Kill Chivita Boss
A self acclaimed spiritualist, Adewale Salami, 35, has been arraigned before Oshodi Magistrate’s court, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria for allegedly…
Congo warlord convicted by ICC
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted Congolese militia boss Thomas Lubanga of war crimes for conscripting children into his…
Nigeria: Power companies complain of bottlenecks
Ayorinde Oluokun/abuja Representatives and chief executive officers of independent power producers (IPPs) on Tuesday March 13, 2012 met with the…
Man climbs mast to press ex-VP pay debt
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A mild drama played out Tuesday afternoon at the Federal High Court in Abuja as a…
Nigeria: 5 Die as Patrol Van Ambushed
Gunmen opened fire and threw explosives at a military and police patrol in northeast Nigeria, killing a policeman, a soldier…
2 Beheaded In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a Saudi who killed a man in a tribal feud as well as a Syrian…
Italian hostage killed in Nigeria buried
The hometown of an Italian hostage killed by his captors along with his British colleague in a botched rescue attempt…
EFCC rewards families of deceased staff
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 12, 2012, paid tributes in memory of four of its…
Ex-Union official jailed for fraud
An Adamawa state High Court sitting in Yola, has sentenced a former Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Teachers in…
Cook Disappears After Stealing N68m
A Togolese cook, Alex Flole Timo, has absconded with his employer’s $425,000, equivalent of N68 million. The incident occurred at…
3 Die In Fresh Terror Attack In Jos
.Police station also attacked in Kano Gunmen shot dead three Christians in Nigeria near the flashpoint city of Jos, hours…
Jos Bombing: Jonathan offers words as balm
After another terrorist attack, it’s words, words and words again oozing from Nigeria’s presidency to the victims and their relations.…
Boko Haram attack foiled in Bama
Police in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have repelled an attack on a police post in Bama, Borno state, by gunmen…
Mourinho world’s highest paid coach
A study by website futebolfinance.com has revealed Real Madrid’s Jose Mourinho to be comfortably the world’s highest-paid coach, according to the Sportinformations…
EFCC announces more appointments
In keeping with his promise to reposition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Executive Chairman of the Commission,…
Nigerian terrorists explain killing of hostages
Nigeria on Saturday interrogated suspected kidnappers of two Europeans killed during a botched British-Nigerian rescue operation amid a row between…