EFCC secures order to evacuate stolen crude
Justice E. S. Chukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to evacuate for safe keeping the petroleum products...
View ArticleFamily of 3 escapes death as mast falls on building
A FAMILY of three, a couple and their only daughter, narrowly escaped death, Tuesday night, when a communication mast pulled down by rainstorm landed on their house at Udoka Housing Estate in Awka,...
View ArticleSecurity operatives pick up MASSOB chieftain in Onitsha
Perturbed by a successful outing of members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, during last Tuesday's sensitisation campaign on the proposed June 8 sit-at-home...
View ArticleMTN offers Nigerian kids scholarship abroad
By Solomon Nwoke TELECOMMUNICATION giants MTN Nigeria are offering about 20 school kids between the ages of 15 and 18 scholarship opportunity of combining education and football career in its season...
View Article38 die, 206 injured in Ondo road crashes
No fewer than 38 persons died and 206 injured in various accidents in Ondo State in the first quarter of 2013.
View ArticleMasterCard to take 4 Nigerians to Wembley
... Explaining the purpose for building exciting experiences around the football contest for Nigerians, Ojomuyide said ''Nigeria is very important to MasterCard and is the hub for MasterCard in...
View ArticlePrivate jet owners fault FG's move to curb operations
Reactions have started trailing the move by the Federal government to check the use of private jets in Nigeria.
View ArticleWar against terrorists begins
... These border communities have become bases for terrorist training, insurgency and other criminal activities against Nigeria. Borno State, the major base of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, has a...
View ArticleFEC endorses medium term debt management strategy
... a total of over N6 trillion worth of debt. However, it is not just the level but the cost of servicing the debt. "Nigeria has one of the highest interest rates in the developing world and if you...
View ArticleAbductors of Rhodes-Vivour family demand N300m
... by unknown gunmen along Benin-Sagamu Expressway and taken to an unknown location. Meanwhile, operatives of the Nigeria Police led by the Commissioner of Police, Folusho Adebanjo and members of the...
View ArticleHow to curb Boko Haram insurgence, by ex-British military chief
FOR Nigeria to curb the Boko Haram insurgency and restore peace to the troubled northern states, the Federal Government needs to effectively combine hard and soft power in approach, says former...
View ArticleHow we escaped death - OAU Students
Johnson Olawale Ikudayisi and Temitope Orebe are student leaders from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. When they set out to their home state, Ekiti to sort things out concerning their...
View ArticleNigeria deploys troops to combat extremists
... in Baga village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, in the north-eastern state of Borno May 13, 2013. (Tim Cocks/REUTERS) Nigeria rumbled to a war footing Wednesday as soldiers and equipment moved into...
View ArticleNigeria rumbles to war footing as soldiers head to northeast for Islamic...
Nigeria rumbled to a war footing Wednesday as soldiers and equipment moved into its northeastern states as part of an emergency military campaign against Islamic extremists waging a bloody insurgency.
View ArticleNigerians Debate Amnesty for Boko Haram
- As Nigerians debate the possibility of granting amnesty to militants in Nigeria's north, the country marks the fourth anniversary of its amnesty program for militants in the South. Some former...
View ArticleMay 18 2013 Town Hall Meeting - Text of my sensitization broadcastSAM ...
... willing and it is going to take place at Olufunmilayo Hall, Circular Hotel, New Yidi Road Ilorin, stating 10.00am . Nigeria is a blessed country. God in His kindness and mercy to us has put money...
View ArticleCan Nigeria quell Boko Haram's insurgency?
There is no doubt that the situation in northern Nigeria is deteriorating fast and now President Goodluck Jonathan has admitted as much.
View ArticleNigeria busts another baby factory, saves 6 pregnant teens
... same 23-year-old man, who since has been arrested on charges related to human trafficking, various media reported. Nigeria is known for human trafficking, which the United Nations lists as the...
View ArticleNigeria deploys army to northeast to fight rebels
Nigeria rumbled to a war footing Wednesday as soldiers and equipment moved into its northeastern states as part of an emergency military campaign against Islamic extremists waging a bloody insurgency.
View ArticleSuspected Nigerian baby factory raided, pregnant girls freed
Children and adults rescued from child traffickers sit in a disused building at Amukoko police station in Lagos, Nigeria March 7, 2005.
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