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At least two people were killed early Tuesday in violence-torn Kano city during a raid by Nigerian security forces on a suspected hideout of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, a civilian witness said. The sound of explosions and gunfire rang out for several...
Calling for independent probes, Commonwealth and United Nations Secretary-Generals, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma and Ban Ki-moon have expressed their revulsion at the attacks on innocent people in Kano state, Nigeria, on 20 January 2012. “We condemn these...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has commenced the process of full implementation of the second batch of 29 mega projects sited across the Niger Delta region. A break-down of the mega projects indicated that eight of such projects are site...
Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as illegal and unconstitutional the delay in conducting election into local government Councils in the state yesterday called for the immediate dissolution of the 18 LG’s. The ...
The Action Congress of Nigeria in Kogi State has concluded arrangements to drag the state commissioner of police, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo to court, for human rights violation. The chief strategist to Prince Abubakar Audu, Hon. Dino Melaye who disclosed thi...
A new joint security outfit named Operation Thunder has been launched in Akwa Ibom state. Performing the ceremony yesterday at the operational base of the squad in Uruan local government area, Governor Godswill Akpabio said the action was a demonstrati...
Rogue groups in several nations are engaging in cyber warfare, targeting financial and high level technological assets. These attacks create panic in the world financial capitals as they take down websites, infiltrate computers and steal corporate and ...
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday, continued his rendition of account of his stewardship as he marked his 1,700 days in office. He urged Lagosians to voluntarily pay their taxes in order to provide his administr...
Secretary General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP-Group), Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambers, on Sunday endorsed the candidature of Nigeria’s Aisha Abdullahi, for the post of Commissioner for Political Affairs of the AU Comm...
The wife of the President, Mrs Patience Jonathan, yesterday, in Lagos commissioned the new naval ship, NNS THUNDER, a war ship donated to Nigeria by the United States Government. The NNS THUNDER, which was handed over to Nigeria on May 13, 2011, set sa...
The ad-hoc investigative panel of the House of Representatives into the management of subsidy funds failed to sit yesterday because of the absence of members who were away to Kano State following Friday’s multiple bomb blasts. Some agencies who h...
A former Imo State federal commissioner at the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC), Dr. Otuokere Njaka, yesterday, in Abuja, called on the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to help revive the Njaka Community Medi...
Arsene Wenger was blasted by his own fans — and even skipper Robin van Persie — as chants of ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’ echoed around the Emirates. Supporters lost patience with Arsenal’s boss after his...
Nigeria has 60 out of 600 polio cases worldwide, the Minister of State for Health, Dr Muhammad Ali Pate, has said. Speaking at the National Consultative Stakeholders’ Conference on Polio Eradication in Nigeria, organised by the National Pri...
A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Orufa Jusline Boloubo, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare the nomination of Hon. Seriake Dickson as the PDP governorship candidate for the February 11, 2012...