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The world’s largest gospel music concert, The Experience, has announced Friday December 6th as the date for this year’s edition.The announcement was made by the conveners of the concert, House on The Rock.The Experience has been held every year…

Nigeria’s government on Thursday stepped in to stop a long-running strike by university lecturers, ordering an immediate end to the dispute and vowing to sack teachers who refused to cooperate. Education minister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike said he was dismayed…

Air strikes on Boko Haram camps in northeast Nigeria have killed “many” insurgents, the military said Thursday of latest operation aimed at crushing the four-year Islamist uprising. The bombardment last Sunday targeted the notorious Sambisa Forest area…

Nigeria is to revert to paper banknotes, the country’s central bank has announced, in a policy switch bucking a growing trend around the world for tougher polymer-based currency. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) signed a deal in 2006 with Australia…

A senior Nigerian football official has been banned for 10 years for corruption, the country’s football federation announced late Monday. A Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) emergency committee handed Leye Adepoju the sanction excluding him from all…

Gunmen in central Nigeria’s Plateau state killed 37 people in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday, the military said, the latest unrest to hit the area gripped by a decade-long sectarian conflict. “At about 2:00 am (0100 GMT) unknown gunmen carried out an attack…

A group of Nigerian state governors who defected from the ruling party on Tuesday joined a new opposition mega-party, officials said, in the latest political blow to President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has controlled…

Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed “immoral” in the area. The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming…

As calls for the Sovereign National Conference dominate daily public discourse, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said that the Federal Government does not need a conference to perform its constitutional duties, saying that the sudden U-turn of the central government is diversionary. Delivering a lecture at the 4th Convocation lecture of the Joseph …

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi at the weekend said Nigerian leaders across all walks of life must begin to mentor young people and help them build a future that they will be proud of. Speaking at the Annual Awards night of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI) held in Lagos, the Governor stated that any …