A mobile policeman attached to a bank in Minna, Niger State allegedly shot himself. to death with his service rifle.…
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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…
The Rolling Stones Sunday said they will play Paris’ Stade de France in June for the first time since 2007, after postponing a tour Down Under due to the death of Mick Jagger’s girlfriend. The British band will play a single gig in France’s national…
Indian police Sunday said they had arrested a key terror suspect of the home-grown Islamist militant group the Indian Mujahideen, blamed for a string of deadly attacks across the country in recent years. The arrest comes as India is on high security…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In an operation early this morning, Somali National Army backed by…
An Egyptian court released a leading leftwing activist on trial for joining an unsanctioned and violent protest on bail Sunday, as the army-installed regime seeks to quell political unrest. Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others are accused of taking part…
Hundreds of Shiite Huthi rebels protested Sunday in northern Yemen and blocked a road leading into Amran city, a day after clashes with government forces left 12 people dead. Tension remained high after the rebels set up a protest tent in the middle…
French voters went to the polls on Sunday in the first round of local elections set to represent a landmark for women in politics and, possibly, for the far-right National Front. The first nationwide vote since Francois Hollande’s 2012 election as president…
Adolfo Suarez, the prime minister who led post-Franco Spain to democracy, died on Sunday at a Madrid hospital, his family’s spokesman said. He was 81. “Adolfo Suarez has died,” the spokesman Fermin Urbiola told reporters at the Cemtro hospital where…
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s campaign chief promised on Sunday that constitutional changes would create a “broad democracy” if the ailing incumbent wins re-election next month. Former prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal gave scant details…
Kiev braced for a unity rally on Sunday after elite Russian forces stormed one of Ukraine’s last Crimean bases in a march that has defied both sanctions and global isolation. Saturday’s takeover involving machinegun fire into the air and stun grenades…
British murder suspect Shrien Dewani will be extradited to South Africa next month to face charges he arranged to have his wife killed during their honeymoon, officials said Sunday. South Africa’s Justice Department said Dewani, 33, is expected to leave…
Visiting US first lady Michelle Obama toured China’s Great Wall on Sunday, after her arrival at the US embassy in Beijing earlier in the day sparked a minor security alert. She and her daughters strolled along a popular section of the wall and rode…