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Despite colossal investment, Angola’s goal of pumping two million barrels of oil a day and even upstaging Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer remains a pipedream. To be sure, Angola’s oil industry is going gang-busters. State-owned oil firm Sonangol…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered top security chiefs and officials to secure the safe release of 223 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago by suspected Islamists, his spokesman said. Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed…

More than 50 houses have been razed at Ibrede in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, after an…

Four killed in well trying to retrieve bucket ONE after another, Four men have drowned in Cross River State after…

A-20-year-old man, Segun Ogunleye, has appeared before an Abeokuta magistrate court, sitting in Isabo, for attempted murder of a police officer. The…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State and former Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly,…

The death toll in Nigeria’s Nyanya bomb blast has increased to 20 after one of the victims died in hospital, the West African country’s ministry of health said Saturday. The number of injured according to the ministry is 85. Also, 14 of the 85 victims…

The United Nations is considering the use of unarmed drones to monitor sectarian violence in the Central African Republic, a UN official said, ahead of the deployment in September of 12,000 peacekeepers in the restive nation. UN under-secretary-general…

THE DAWN OF A NEW BEGINNING….An Inaugural address presented by his Excellency, Chief T A Orji (Ochendo) May 29th 2011.May…

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) says cloudy conditions will be experienced on Sunday, with chances of localised thunderstorms over eastern highlands…

First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has promised to stage a protest march to Chibok, Borno State, if the abducted schoolgirls…

The United States is ready to help fund the demobilisation of Democratic Republic of Congo’s rebels, a senior US official said on Saturday as Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the country on the latest leg of an Africa tour. “I can say categorically…

Desperate parents of the more than 200 abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria called on Saturday for authorities there to bring in foreign help to secure their release. Frustrated by the lack of progress so far in trying to free their daughters, the parents…

Troops deployed Saturday to Nigeria’s main airports in a security clampdown ahead of a major international economic conference next week in Abuja after two bomb blasts left scores dead in the capital. Armed troops have been deployed to the departure…

Erstwhile political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has resigned his position as the national coordinator of Goodluck…

Hundreds of exhausted illegal migrants reached the safety of a northern Sudanese town Saturday, an AFP journalist said, after 10 died when human traffickers abandoned them in the desert. A convoy of six Sudanese army trucks delivered the migrants to…

Barely two weeks after it was reported that the number of policemen posted to the Adamawa State Government House were…

Governors of the 19 northern states have paid tribute to the late Second Republic Deputy Senate President, Senator John Wash…

With the rampant bombings by the Boko Haram insurgents, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has written an open letter to the Islamist sect…

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do “everything possible” to help Nigeria deal with Boko Haram militants, following the kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls. “Let me be clear. The kidnapping of hundreds of children…