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The Boko Haram insurgency has taken a dramatic turn with as the Federal Government deports more than 83 Nigeriens to their country for being inclined to the Islamic sect. The Nigerien government decribed the situation as unfortunate, and undiplomatic o...
The Imo State Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mr. Mshelia Kaku has disclosed that most cannabis dealers in the state had begun to trade in cocaine and heroin. Kaku who promised to make Imo drug free disclosed that since Ja...
Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has painted a gloomy and depressing picture of the activities of the dreadful Boko Haram, advising all stakeholders in the nation’s politics to handle the matter with utmost care in the ongoing efforts to tackle t...
Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed yesterday finally brought to an end their nearly three year political feud at a public reconciliation parley in Abuja yesterday. The ...
Popular Nigerian actor, Ahlaji Yinka Quadri, popularly known as ‘Kura Matete’ with Buga Maestro, Jesse King and other Nigerian film practitioners will be storming the United States this week for the 2011 annual Yoruba Youth Convention takin...
A United States based non-governmental organisation, Justice For All Nations (JFAN), has said that the final report of the probe panel set up by the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate alleged unethical conduct against the Chief Justice of N...
Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned. Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the...
Two persons including a student were killed yesterday during a clash between two rival factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State. The clash, which began around 9am, left many commuters coming in from Sango axis of ...
Ja Rule has been sentenced to an extra 28 months in prison on tax evasion charges that will run concurrent with his current sentence. “I was a young man who made a lot of money. I didn’t have the best people guiding me. I made mistak...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno has presented 11 vehicles and N1.815, 000 to those who lost cars and cash in the recent Boko Haram and Joint Task Force clash in Kalari London Ciki ward of the metropolis. Presenting the cars and the money to the victi...
The fate of the former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi and three erstwhile officials, Amanze Uchegbulam, Taiwo Ogunjobi and Bolaji Ojo-Oba will be determined today as the substantive suit instituted by the...
The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has postponed the group stage games of this year’s Federation Cup competition, earlier billed to take place between July 20 and 24 in four centres across the federation. At a meetin...
Samson Siasia is still in the hunt for at least three quality additions to his back four as he gets set to name his squad this week. At centre back, he is in the hunt for someone to partner captain Joseph Yobo. At left back, he requires a capable depu...
In only his first season in Portugal, Nigeria international defender Elderson Echiejile was part of the Sporting Braga team who went all the way to the final of the Europa League as well as finished fourth in the Portuguese championship. However, injur...
Flying Eagles captain, Ramon Azeez and teammate, Olarenwaju Kayode will today join the rest of the team as they continue the build-up for the world U-20 championship slated for Colombia. It is now exactly two weeks before Nigeria’s opening match ...