An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde, was on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, knocked…
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THIRTY-ONE suspects including a 28-year old Pastor Okpara Emmanuel Chigozie, who allegedly demanded for N50 million ransom after kidnapping a…
A mobile policeman attached to a bank in Minna, Niger State allegedly shot himself. to death with his service rifle.…
CONTROVERSY over representation at the ongoing National Conference yesterday made the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to threaten to boycott…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Special Congress for the nomination of the party’s candidate for the June 21 governorship election…
About 20 bodies of people believed to have been killed for ritual purposes were discovered, yesterday, in Soka, Oluyole local…
At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in Borno State in an attack…
President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived Amsterdam, Netherlands, ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) scheduled to hold in The Hague…
The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has said that consumer’s right is not observed in the country. . Head of CPC,…
FOR going ahead with the competency test for secondary and primary schools in the state, despite a court order stopping…
The Registrar of a Magistrate’s Court in Enugu State has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for demanding bribe in…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In an operation early this morning, Somali National Army backed by…
Nigerian police rescued 16 people from an underground dungeon believed to be a ritual killing site, the local newspaper Leadership…
Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a “House of Horror”. Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering…
TOWARDS A HEALTHY ELECTIONEERING SEASON …LET THE CONVERSATIONS BEGIN An Address by His Excellency Dr. Kayode FAYEMI Governor, Ekiti…
Its shimmering azure chimney stacks towering into the sky, the latest cement works launched by Africa’s richest man lies idle in a Senegalese meadow — stopped in its tracks by legal action and cut-throat competition in a rapidly growing industry. Nigerian…
At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in northeast Nigeria in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote…
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu has described the various…
Senate President, David Mark last Thursday escaped death as his convoy was allegedly attacked by yet to be identified gunmen…
The joint meeting of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) and the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company…