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Guinean President, Alpha Conde escaped a sustained rocket and gunfire attack on his residence yesterday that killed one person and left his home riddled with bullet holes. There was no official word on who was behind the attack on Conde, who came to po...
Côte d’Ivoire faces multiple challenges after emerging from its recent post-electoral crisis, but none more critical than restoring law and order throughout the West African nation, the top United Nations envoy there said early this week. &ldquo...
On July 11, in the boardroom of the Bank of Industry, a groundbreaking partnership was unveiled to the media. The partnership between the Bank of Industry and the Nigeria Olympic Committee is to exploit all the business opportunities that would be avai...
The zonal co-ordinator of the Association of Nigerian Licenced Customs Agents (ANLCA), in the western zone, Mr. Ozo Chukwurah, has appealed to the Standards Organisation of Nigeria(SON) to save time at the ports while carrying out their regulatory func...
In spite of the reduction of cement price by manufacturers, retailers in Lagos are still selling the product at the old price of N2,100 per 50 kg bag of the leading brands in the market, a survey conducted by LEADERSHIP has revealed. Last week, the Dan...
Africa now accounts for about one per cent of global manufacturing, and cannot realistically hope to reduce widespread poverty if its governments don’t take effective measures to expand this vital economic sector, said a new report by the United ...
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...