Condemnation on Monday trailed the request by the violent Boko Haram sect that President Goodluck Jonathan should become a Muslim or resign from office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the sect had in an internet broadcast on S...
An as Asaba Chief Magistrates' Court on Monday sentenced a businessman, Edwin Asoro, to six years imprisonment for attempted kidnap The Chief Magistrate, Mr Sylvester Ehikwe, who did not give the convict an option of fine, said that the p...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said that it impounded 50 vehicles during a special patrol on the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway. Mr Fatai Bakare, the Itori Unit Commander in Ogun, told the News Agency Nigeria (NAN) ...
A 43-year-old commercial bus driver, who allegedly raped a teenage food vendor, on Monday appeared before a Yaba Magistrates' Court in Lagos on a one-count charge. Felix Adedayo is standing trial before Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya, but he pleaded ...
Aug. 6, 2012 (Reuters/NAN) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met her friend and former South African President Nelson Mandela at his country home on Monday. Clinton visited Mandela after taking a break from her multi-nation trade and security tou...
The U.S. embassy in Nigeria is expanding its ``American Corner’’ to cover the South-east zone, Mrs Suzanne Miller, an Information Resource Officer in the mission, said on Monday in Abuja. Miller said in an interview with t...
The government of South Africa will be partnering with its Nigerian counterpart on the development of the energy sector which it considers as a major way to boost its economy. According to a news release made available to Journalists in Cape Tow...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) believes labour market regulations are not too rigid in South Africa and cannot be blamed for high unemployment, it was reported on Monday. According to the reports, ILO South African director Vic van ...
The pinning of service delivery violence on the African National Congress (ANC) and its youth league in the Western Cape is a publicity stunt, the party said on Monday. "It is typical of the Democratic Alliance to shift the focus ...
Against many odds South African intern manger, Keagan emerged as the winner of the seventh season of the Big Brother Africa show. In a nerve-wracking grand finale in his home country yesterday, Keagan overcome six other finalists in claiming the $300,0...
Team Nigeria has described as ‘’baseless’’ reports linking it to black market tickets at the London 2012 Olympics. Unconfirmed reports spread like wild fire yesterday mentioning a number of countries as having their delegation t...
Nigeria’s national basketball team, D’Tigers will this afternoon at the Basketball Arena of the Olympic Stadium in London play European powerhouse in their last preliminary game. The clash remains the only chance for the Nigerian men’...
Former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, has been appointed to the Board of Diamond Bank Plc, making her the third woman on the bank’s board. Okauru’s appointment which is subject to the app...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Presidency and the National Assembly to urgently investigate claims by the State Security Service (SSS) that it has arrested the suspected killers of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, a former senior aide ...
The Jamaatu Ahlis Sunnah Lil Daawati wal Jihad, popularly called Boko Haram, has said that it would not negotiate with any government representative and had no plans to do so. In a half-hour video made in Hausa and posted on YouTube, the sect called on...