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* Uche Nwafor spoils Madiba’s party in Durban Two second half goals from Uche Nwafor were enough to hand Nigeria...

State of Emergency records huge success in three months – FG

Precisely three months into the state of emergency declared in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe in May, the Federal Government on...

Maku: I don’t need political structures to win Nasarawa governorship seat

FG approves N8.7bn for purchase of textbooks, library materials for schools

The Federal Government on Wednesday approved N8.7 billion for the procurement of textbooks and library resource materials for immediate distribution...

Drama in court as police attempt to re-arrest Amaechi’s loyalist

THERE was drama on Wednesday at the premises of the Magistrate Court Wuse Zone 2, Abuja as supporters of the...

ASUU to Okonjo-Iweala: Our demand is N87b, not N92b

LECTURERS, on Wednesday, faulted the claim of Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that they were demanding for N92 billion from...

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi flee from tear gas and rubber bullets fired by riot police during clashes, around Cairo University and Nahdet Misr Square, where they are camping in Giza, south of Cairo.
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Egypt declares state of emergency

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi flee from tear gas and rubber...

Egypt’s Interim Vice President ElBaradei resigns while clashes across Egypt leave more than 100 dead

Mohamed ElBaradei, the No. 2 man in Egypt's embattled interim government, abruptly resigned Wednesday in an apparent split with the...

Nigeria ratifies arms trade treaty

Nigeria has joined other UN member states to sign the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) adopted in April. This is contained...

Egyptian police kill 30 in protest crackdown – Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people on Wednesday clearing a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the...

Fashola orders sealed Kalu’s house re-opened

FORMER Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, and Lagos State government, Tuesday, disagreed with the reason given for...

Obasanjo: Abacha, Atiku, Tinubu, Buhari, Alamieyeseigha, Ibori, others are ‘bad’ leaders

It was a bad day for some politicians, especially the younger elements, on Tuesday as former President Olusegun Obasanjo took...

Criticism over deportation of Igbo: Fashola seals Kalu’s house‏

Property of former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, in Park View Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos sealed on Tuesday,...

Army kill two Boko Haram field commanders, arrest 6

The Nigerian Military Special Operation Unit, Mubi Battalion, Adamawa, on Tuesday said it killed two notorious Boko Haram commanders during...

Akpabio: PDP reconciliation giving opposition sleepless nights‏

The ongoing reconciliation within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is giving chieftains of the opposition party sleepless nights, the...

European Union insists on Okonjo-Iweala as WTO DG

FG can’t meet your N92b demand, Finance Minister tells ASUU

Dan Atori - Minna MINISTER of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala on Tuesday told the Academic Staff Union of Universities...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (5th left), Speaker House of Representatives, RT Hon. Aminu Tambuwal (4th left),Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (6th left), Governor of Kogi, Captain Idris Wada (7th left), Governor of Jigawa, Mallam Sule Lamido (4th right), Niger State Governor, Dr Babangida Aliyu (right) , Governor of Kano, Dr Rabiu Kwakwanso (2nd right), Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole (3rd right), Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji (2nd left ) Governor of Adamawa, Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), (3rd left), during the 8th Day Fidau Prayers for Governor Fashola’s father, late Pa Ibrahim Ademola Bayo Fashola at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos, on Tuesday, August 13, 2013.

Buhari, Tambuwal, governors attend Pa Fashola’s 8th-day Fidau prayers

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN (5th left), Speaker House of Representatives, RT Hon. Aminu Tambuwal (4th left),Governor of...

Obuah-led PDP faction lied, Rivers not owing workers salary, says Amaechi

The Rivers State Government has dispelled rumours being peddled by the Felix Obuah-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) that...

JTF arrests 11 suspected oil thieves, destroys 27 illegal refineries

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Niger Delta said it arrested 11 suspected oil thieves and destroyed 27 illegal refineries...

Suspected Islamic militants kill 44 at mosque in Borno; Boko Haram threatens to confront U.S.

August 12, 2013

Suspected Islamic militants wearing army fatigues gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, while another 12...

Amnesty International publishes satellite images, says 9,000 evicted in Lagos, thousands more threatened