Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan sacked four cabinet ministers on Wednesday, including his controversial aviation minister, in a move seen as linked to his expected re-election bid next year. Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is racked…
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Nigeria on Wednesday said it would open a probe into claims of state-sponsored killings dating back to the era of military rule, raising hopes that perpetrators will finally be brought to book. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said a public…
A gruesome attack by Boko Haram Islamists has killed 39 people in a village in the northeast, the area governor said after visiting the scene on Wednesday. “Up to 39 people have been killed and over 70 percent of the village has been razed to the ground…
NORTHERN leaders yesterday engaged in war of words over the allegation that the Presidency was behind the emergence of the…
Dr. Bisola Clark, wife of elder-statesman, Senator Edwin Clark, yesterday, flayed former President Olusegun Obasanjo and daughter, Iyabo for a…
Contrary to criticisms that have trailed the recently released time-table for the 2015 general elections by the Independent Electoral Commission,…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the PDP of using public funds to lure back some of the federal…
The Kogi Government may soon close down 449 illegal private primary and secondary schools operating in the state, Mrs Grace…
Nigeria has received grants totalling 23 million dollars in four years from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), under its “Big…
Multinaltional technology and consulting corporation, International Business Machine (IBM) while expanding local reach has predicted that cloud technology adoption in…
The management of the Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, Effurun, Delta has shut down the institute in order to address the…
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram militants on Tuesday evening stormed Konduga Local Government Area of troubled Borno…
Mr Carlos Maluta, the Minister-Counsellor of the Kenya High Commission in Lagos, on Wednesday said that 17, 556 Nigerians were…
The Nigerian Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe has reported that Newsday (Daily) Newspaper of Zimbabwe dated 29th November, 2013) featured an…
Mines & Steel Development Report The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has deployed a…
National Sports Commission News As part of the activities to herald the commencement of the 19th National Sports Festival (NSF),…
SURE-P Reports “The unfortunate incident which occasioned the 2013 kidnapping of seven foreign workers at the Shuwarin Junction in Jigawa…
The leader of Nigeria’s upper chamber of parliament on Tuesday blocked 11 lawmakers from defecting, saying their break from the ruling party to the main opposition would not go through until a court challenge was resolved. Senate leader David Mark,…
The Nigerian Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe has reported that Newsday (Daily) Newspaper of Zimbabwe dated 29th November, 2013) featured an…
The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola yesterday said that his government neither approved nor disapproved the…