Recently sacked Borno State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mr. Inuwa says he saw his exit coming. Governor…
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ORJI UZOR KALU (RIGHT); Gov. RAUF AREGBESOLA, MRS. TITI LOAYE-TOMORI; AKINTUNDE ADEGBOYE AND OTHERS, DURING THE 15TH EDITION OF WALK…
Sen. Remi Tinubu has donated 20,000 US dollars (N3.2 million) as take-off fund to assist Nigerian students studying in various universities…
The Ijaw Youths Congress, has commended security agencies for freeing Mr Ebikeme Clark, son of Chief Edwin Clark from his…
The All Progressives Congress ward congress in Kano State has been shifted to Wednesday, April 9, an official said. Dr…
Gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen stormed a meeting in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state and killed 30 people, police said…
Acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar has disclosed that the state government has purchased two aircrafts to be…
Residents of Soka, Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State, where scores of decomposing human bodies and captives were discovered…
A jihadist group in Libya says it plans to take over security in the restive eastern town of Derna and impose sharia Islamic law, in a posting on Facebook. Witnesses said the group “Majlis Shura of Islamist Youth in Derna” staged a show of force on…
Boko Haram militants attacked a village in restive northern Nigeria, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars alight, the local government said Sunday. Among the dead were Muslim worshippers shot as they prayed in the village mosque, said Abdullahi…
Sri Lanka fans at home burst firecrackers and danced on the streets as the national team won the World Twenty20 title beating India by six wickets in Dhaka on Sunday. Instant celebrations broke out at cricket grounds and public parks in the capital…
The controversy over a “selfie” photo of President Barack Obama and baseball star David Ortiz now is in the hands of attorneys, a White House official said on Sunday. The White House last week warned Samsung against using the president’s likeness for…
Nigeria on Sunday became Africa’s biggest economy, leap-frogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product. The new calculations take into account changes in production and consumption…
Gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen stormed a meeting in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state and killed 30 people, police said Sunday. “Thirty people were killed and several others injured,” Zamfara state police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi told AFP. “The…
Cameroon’s security forces Sunday were sweeping the remote northern region where two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, a local government official said. “We are everywhere. We have been on the ground since…
The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri will stand trial in Egypt along with 67 others on charges of forming a “terrorist group”, state media reported on Sunday. Mohamed al-Zawahiri was arrested last August for supporting Islamist president…
President Goodluck Jonathan will never support any attempt to divide Nigeria, Vice-President Nnamadi Sambo has said. Sambo made this known…
Following the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum opposition to any attempt by the Federal Government to extend the emergency rule in the…
Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman, Chief Edwin K. Clark has finally regained freedom after spending days in the den…
Labour Party (LP) flag bearer in Ekiti State, Opeyemi Bamidele, has vowed to give priority to those he termed ‘local…