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Suspected Boko Haram sect members destroyed three more schools on Wednesday night in an ongoing assault on schools in Maiduguri. Some residents told newsmen that the schools were destroyed around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, in spite of the dusk to dawn curfew...
Last week, Lagos based Events Company -R28 Events officially announced plans to bring Bobby Brown and his former boy band to Nigeria. With the event just a week away, the question many fans and industry practitioners have been asking is “H...
Three men, said to be bricklayers lost their lives yesterday in Awka, Anambra State capital when a two-storey building still undergoing construction collapsed at about 11am, trapping 12 of its workers including the site engineer. Nine of the trapped wo...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has assured Nigerians that the Senior National Team, Super Eagles, will qualify for the 2013 African Cup of Nations to be staged in South Africa. Maigari spoke in Abuja as...
Coffee drinkers have no more risk of getting illnesses such as heart disease or cancer, and are less likely to develop type two diabetes, a German study said. The study involved more than 40,000 people over nearly a decade. The findings, published in t...
His love life has played out like a soap opera, but could it be possible that Eddie Murphy has finally settled down with singer Toni Braxton? Apparently so, because the Tower Heist star, 50 , and the voice behind the anthemic Un-break My Heart, 44 , &#...
A Gwagwalada Upper Area Court on Thursday ordered the remand of a 26-year-old trader, Samuel Nathaniel in Kuje Prison for raping a five-year-old girl. Alhough Nathaniel pleaded guilty, the judge, Mr Babangida Hassan, deferred sentencing to March ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for alleged corruption. Charged along with the speaker is his Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi. They are facin...
Barely two weeks after the dismantling of checkpoints across the country, luxury bus operators in Abuja have called for their re-introduction. The Acting Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar had on Feb. 13, ordered the removal all checkpoints ...
Unknown gunmen on Thursday morning attacked the Brass and Nembe waterways and creeks of Bayelsa State, killing four policemen and four soldiers. A commanding officer of Brass JTF unit of L.T rank was also killed in the attack. The Police Commissioner o...
Dr Felix Igwe, the Chairman of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology Branch of ASUU, has advised the Rivers Government to follow due process in selecting a Vice Chancellor for the university. Igwe said on Thursday in Port Harcourt that ...
A 20-year-old woman, Joy James, on Thursday appeared before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates' Court for allegedly parading herself as a policewoman. The Police Prosecutor, Mr Isiaka Ajadi, alleged that the accused on Feb. 29, in Osogbo, “did parad...
Mr Elekwachi Ukonu, former General Manager, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) Channel 6, Aba, Abia, has called for the immortalisation of the late Chief James Iroha (Giringory). Iroha, popularly known as “Giringory”, was creator and one of...
Benue state Governor Gabriel Suswam has attributed the non-payment of pension and gratuity allowances of Benue pensioners which has accumulated to the tune of N8 billion to the inability of the previous administration to ensure up-to-date payment, sayi...
Nigeria has recorded 40 per cent sanitation coverage, up from 32 per cent that had spanned two decades, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has said. Dr Obioha Agada, the Director of Water Quality and Sanitation in the ministry, disclosed this on T...