New Market Report: Nigeria Telecommunications Report Q3 2013
... available from Fast Market Research After a wave of regulatory penalties, including fines and a ban on promotions, Nigeria's mobile operators have announced plans to expand and upgrade their...
View ArticleEmployer Cuts Off Maids Toes
An employer in Sokoto ,Nigeria cut off the toes of her maid for failing to open for her the gate when she returned from an outing.
View ArticleAfrican Religious Beliefs Clash with Christian Traditions in New...
... in anesthesiology. An author and poet, Dr. Akamnonu had his early education at St. Brigid's School Enugu, Nigeria, and Government Secondary School Afikpo, where he was a college scholar and School...
View ArticleNigeria's Over-the-Top Weddings
Groom Shadrach Uchenna, a wedding photographer, and his bride Ekpo Peace Emem sit at the front of a banquet hall during their wedding as guests greet them on October 27, 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria.
View ArticleNew rules, products lay groundwork for Nigeria Islamic finance sector
Nigeria is gradually opening up to Islamic finance, a move that could bring non-interest banking to over 80 million Muslims and develop one of Africa's fastest-growing consumer and corporate banking...
View ArticleNigeria: Arms Cache - Mossad Interrogates Suspects
... of the bunker containing a cache of arms discovered by the SSS in Kano, in May, said he could not wish any harm on Nigeria and Nigerians, particularly as he has invested trillions in businesses...
View ArticleNigerian prelate lauds priests, laity for fidelity amid persecution
Bishop Oliver Doeme of Maiduguri - the northeastern Nigerian city that has been a center of Boko Haram's Islamist terrorist activity - praised his priests and laity for remaining faithful amid...
View ArticlePa Fashola's death a glorious transition - APC
The All Progressives Congress has commisserated with Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his family on the loss of their patriarch, Pa.
View ArticleGunfire, explosions continue in restive north
... remaining indoors until the curfew is lifted." It gave no indication of how long the curfew would remain in place. Nigeria will celebrate Eid al-Fitr on Thursday and Friday. "I have been able to...
View ArticleJTF imposes 24-hour curfew on Potiskum
The security Joint Task Force in Yobe on Tuesday, imposed a 24-hour curfew on Potiskum, the commercial nerve centre of the state.
View ArticleNigeria acts on US request for extradition
... Babafemi, 33, admitted to FBI agents that he traveled to Yemen with AQAP members and was given $8,600 to return to Nigeria and recruit English speakers to radicalize others. Nigeria requested his...
View ArticleNigeria acts on US request for extradition
... Babafemi, 33, admitted to FBI agents that he traveled to Yemen with AQAP members and was given $8,600 to return to Nigeria and recruit English speakers to radicalize others. Nigeria requested his...
View ArticlePDP, NGF, Oshiomhole, others commiserate with Fashola
Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF; national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, among others, yesterday, commiserated with him.
View ArticleINEC has vindicated my Ondo guber claim - Oke
THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Ondo State Chief Olusola Oke, yesterday, said that he has been vindicated by INEC Chairman Prof.
View ArticleNigeria seeks extradition of Al...
ABUJA: Nigeria has asked a court to grant an extradition request for one of its citizens to the US over charges of aiding the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda, court documents showed yesterday.
View ArticleJonathan never planned Ramadan visit to IBB - Presidency
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, denied media report that his request to break the Ramadan fast with former Military President, Gen.
View ArticleGodogodo: Police nab armourer, stolen goods receiver
Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, are said to have arrested the mother of a gang member, who also served as the amourer to the group led by the notorious one-eyed robbery kingpin,...
View ArticleThe hapless surrender of the states to the Federal Government
... its lethal venom had by then so completely damaged every social cell and sinew of the new "nation" that before long Nigeria had become a federation-in-name-only, FINO. Ironsi had sought to...
View ArticleNNPC to enforce N50/litre kerosene price; allays fears of scarcity
... is distributed through allocations to licensed marketers such as Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, (IPMAN), Depot And Petroleum Products Marketers Association, (DAPPMA), Major...
View ArticlePDP reconciles Fayose, SWC members
... new baby who cannot stand the heat of this election." He equally described the change of name of Action Congress of Nigeria to APC as a face saving device for ACN members. He, however, called on...
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