Barely 24 hours after the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Uyo, Professor Comfort Ekpo, drew the attention of security operatives…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission inaugurated a National Inter-agency Advisory Committee on Voter Education and Publicity to provide effective strategies for…
A hairdresser, Mrs Suzy Adeleke, on Friday urged an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her six-year-old marriage over…
A suspended judge of the FCT High Court, Abuja, Abubakar Talba, resumed sitting after one year suspension by the National…
A 29-year-old woman, Lucy Samuel, on Thursday, appeared before a Yaba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly assaulting her 13-year-old step-daughter…
SECURITY AGENCIES AT A JOINT PRESS BRIEFING IN Abuja ON MONDAY (ENLARGED PHOTO OF AMINU OGWUCHE ARROWED) The Department of…
Members of the Volunteer Vigilance Youths Group also known as “Civilian JTF” in Borno State on Thursday condemned the move…
Culture clashes and concerns over sovereignty will undermine efforts by foreign experts to help Nigeria’s military find the schoolgirls held hostage by Boko Haram but cooperation can work, experts said on Friday. US military experts have been in Nigeria…
Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi, making his debut at the World Cup finals, will be crucial in determining how far Nigeria go in Brazil. According to former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia, Mikel and forwards Victor Moses and Emmanuel Emenike will be the…
A group of gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls’ school, a police spokesman said on Thursday. Dozens of gunmen in cars and on motorcycles stormed the neighbouring villages of…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday cancelled a visit to the hometown of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic militants, provoking fresh criticism of his handling of the crisis. A senior government official told AFP that Jonathan…
The allegation by a national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the Peoples Democratic…
The Presidency has denied reports that President Goodluck Jonathan was scheduled to visit Chibok, Borno State on Friday. The media…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Federal Gvernment to immediately put an end to the discordant tunes…
Electricity consumers in the country should expect a review of electricity tariff if the price of gas to power plants…
Prominent Pentecostal preacher and Presiding Bishop of Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Francis Wale Oke, has asked the Sultan of…
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State berated the Federal Government last night over what he termed its slow response to…
The planned visit by President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok, Borno State, the scene of last month’s abduction of over 200…
The House of Representatives yesterday said it approved the letter forwarded by President Goodluck Jonathan requesting a six months’ extension…
The Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu’s endorsement of Mr.…