Nigerian senator says 228 killed in gunfight with Islamists
... fishing town on the shores of Lake Chad, adjacent to the Chadian border, April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 27 (Reuters) - A gunbattle between security forces and Islamist...
View ArticleNigeria: PDP, APGA, ACN, LP, others draft Ngige into Anambra guber race
By Ada Bosa For Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, Senator representing Anambra Central, the sun yesterday literally rose at 5.00pm and stood still in Awka, Anambra State political capital as a rainbow coalition...
View ArticlePini Jason: The Mourning After
... Pini J was a versatile commentator with nationalistic fervour. Pini J's death is a painful loss to journalism and Nigeria. May his good soul rest in perfect peace with the Lord and may God console...
View ArticleShettima Ali-Monguno regains freedom
ABDUCTED elder statesman, and former minister of petroleum resources during the Gowon military regime, Dr Shettima Ali-Monguno, was in the early hours of Monday released by members of the Boko Haram...
View ArticleNigeria: FG's N74 Billion CCTV Project in Jeopardy
Abuja/Lagos - A multibillion naira Federal Government project for the installation of security cameras in Abuja and Lagos has become dormant three years after it was awarded under the National Public...
View ArticleAttack on northeast Nigeria church, market kills 10
Gunmen killed 10 people in an attack on a market and a church in northeast Nigeria before fleeing over the border to Cameroon , police said on Monday.
View ArticleNigeria: Jamb - Candidates Paid N5,000 - N20,000 to Cheat
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB said yesterday that only 10 candidates scored 300 marks and above in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the country even as...
View ArticleNigeria: Boko Haram Abducts Shettima Mungono, Kills LG Boss
... in order to bring to an end, the culture of violence under control not only in Borno and Yobe States but through out Nigeria." Mungono, had been a strong agitator for the withdrawal of JTF troops...
View ArticleNigeria: N36 Billion Fraud - EFCC Declares Ex-Governor Turaki Wanted
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared ex-Governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki wanted after a Federal High Court in Dutse the Jigawa State capital ordered his arrest over a N36...
View ArticleDelegates flood Houston for Offshore Technology Conference
... she said. Just last month, 3Invest Limited launched what it tagged 3Investor Loyalty Program (Card) in Lagos, Nigeria - dedicated to helping real estate investors and consumers save up to 50% of...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Unpacking The South Africa - Nigeria Relationship
Since the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Pretoria's relationship with Nigeria has been a mix of rivalry, tension and cooperation.
View ArticleChinau Achebe: Memorial service in London on May 18
... literature at the nearby Millwall Football Club's reception hall. There will be cultural troupes from all over Nigeria performing as well as those from Ghana, Kenya, the Caribbean and Congo, and a...
View ArticleNigeria, SA to discuss trade
... discuss with Zuma and top South African government officials "ways of improving trade and economic relations between Nigeria and South Africa," it said. Jonathan will also address the South African...
View ArticleDSS parades Sen Etok's phantom assassin
The Department of State Security Service, DSS, yesterday unveiled the identity of the man, who claimed to have been sent by agents of Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State to eliminate Senator...
View ArticleFashola makes case for security agents
In the wake of rising security challenges facing in the country, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged Nigerians to appreciate the efforts by the security agencies to curtail crime and...
View ArticleGhanaian jailed 5 months for stealing
An Ebutte-Metta magistrate court presided over by F. J Adefioye, yesterday, sentenced a Ghanaian, Mohammed Daniel, 22, to five months imprisonment without an option of fine, for stealing tricycle...
View ArticlePini de man
... and we observed on minute silence in honour of his Soul, and work on this earth, and especially for our nation Nigeria. I called his colleagues and latter read the papers to gather details of what...
View ArticleGUO Motors boss' kidnap: Court issues bench warrant
By OKONKWO EZE NNEWI - An Onitsha High Court in Anambra State, presided over by Justice Chudi Nwankwo, yesterday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of five suspected kidnappers of an Onitsha-based...
View ArticleLook into stalled investigation of Oyerinde's death, NLC tells Jonathan
NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan, to look into the stalled investigation of the May 4, 2012, killing of its Deputy General Secretary and Principal Private...
View ArticleThe split in Afenifere
... and members of the Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG that is believed to be inclined towards the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Asked about Fasanmi...
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