A car bomb exploded along a busy roadway Sunday morning in a central Nigeria city, killing at least 38 people in the latest attack on a region beset by religious, ethnic and political violence, an official said. The blast struck Kaduna, the capital of ...
A total of 22 worshippers died on Saturday during an Easter vigil mass when their Church collapsed on them. An eye witness on Sunday in Makurdi said that the incident happened at an outpost of the Christ the King Parish Church Adamgbe, Vandeikya Local ...
Suspected Islamists have killed seven people in a market in northern restive city of Maiduguri in the latest deadly attacks in the region, police said Thursday. “There was an attack yesterday afternoon at Monday market. Some gunmen suspected to b...
All Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and Area Commanders in the FCT have been directed to remain at their duty posts throughout Easter to take charge of the security of their areas. Mr Jimoh Moshood, the FCT Command Public Relations Officer, disclosed...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has resigned as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP. In a statement he personally signed and made exclusively available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday, Obasanjo said he had sent...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday dismissed the criminal charges filed against the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank (now Access Bank), Dr Erastus Akingbola, for lack of diligent prosecution. The EFCC had on Dec. 31, 2010 arraigne...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Alhaji Saidu Dakingari of PDP the winner of the Kebbi re-run governorship election held on Saturday. The Returning Officer, Prof. Suleiman Bilbis, said that Dakingari s...
A bomb reportedly exploded on Friday at the popular Oye Market, Awgu in Enugu State, forcing people to scamper for safety. Sources said the blast suspected to have emanated from an unexploded ordnance used during the civil war, occurre...
Contrary to widely held views that people serving terms of imprisonment are not eligible to sit for entrance examinations until they serve out their terms, the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, c...
Apparently trying to ward off criticisms over his choice of Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan has advanced reasons why he prefers the former governor of the old Gongola State to other co...
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has instituted a legal action against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for deliberate exclusion from the Kebbi State rerun election that holds today. CPC National Publicity Secretary,M...
Nemesis finally caught up with 43-year-old AbdullahiHaruna, who was arrested by the Kaduna State Police Command for defrauding 101 unsuspecting unemployed youths by issuing them fake employment offers with the letter headed papers of the Nigerian Secur...
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State Security Service (SSS) on Thursday paraded seven suspects in connection with the kidnap of a national of United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Khamis Majed Ishmael AI Ali. The suspects are aged between 22 and 33. Marilyn Ogar, the Deputy Director, Publi...
An elder statesman and chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, has hit hard on the party over its recent convention which, he said, fell short of the dreams and aspirations of its founders. Kaita, who described the emergen...