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President Goodluck Jonathan has given a marching order to all the security agencies and Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima,…

Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has slashed his salary by 25 percent and also proposed a five percent cut in…

Rivers State COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, TUNDE OGUNSAKIN The general state of insecurity in the country was again brought to the…

South Africa’s ruling ANC swept aside a weak economy, fierce criticism of its president and questions about the party’s future at a massive Soweto rally on Sunday, in a pre-election show of force. More than 90,000 jubilant and defiant ANC cadres packed…

Segun Oyeyiola’s parents were always telling him, “you better find something better to do. Your siblings have completed their first degrees and rather than you do some stupid things.” Those “stupid things”, in Segun’s case, included building…

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…