Family members, friends and relations of a Lagos-based drycleaner are now at a loss as to what might have come over their son, Henry Nnamdi, who two Sundays ago killed his one-year-old son before using a hot iron to burn the grieving wife, thereby putt...
Survivors of the Kaduna Bomb explosion have continued to recount their ordeals on how God save their lives from the deadly explosion. One of the Kaduna reporters of The Sun Newspaper, Abdulgafar Alabelewe who narrowly escaped death in his effort to get...
An Ilorin Chief Magistrates' Court on Friday remanded a 35-year-old herbalist, Ibrahim Abubakar, for alleged possession of roasted human hand and palm. Police prosecutor, Insp. Moshood Adebayo informed the court that the accused had cut off the hea...
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, says the media are being attacked because of the ``crucial and significant’’ role they play in the quest to end acts of terrorism. Maku made the remark on Friday when he visited the office of Th...
The Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, has urged journalists to be resolute and not deterred by Thursday’s attacks on media houses. Omeri, in a statement, signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Paul Odenyi,...
Google Nigeria on Friday said it had assisted many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria to create their individual Website. Mrs Juliet Ehimuan, the Country Manager of the company, disclosed this in Lagos at the closing...
Mr Aliou Dia, the Head of the UN Team on National Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity Assessment in Nigeria, has called for improved coordination between the national and state emergency management agencies in the country. Dia made the call in Abuja on Fr...
Two Fulani community leaders in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau were on Friday arraigned before a Jos Senior Chief Magistrates’ Court, over their alleged complicity in the violence. The community leaders - Mohammed Adamu, 50 and Mohammed B...
The Nigerian Air Force on Friday in Abuja decorated its first female pilot, Flying Officer Blessing Liman, along with 29 other male pilots. Decorating the officers in Abuja, the Minister of Defence, Dr Bello Mohammed, said that the Air Force had justif...
Nollywood star actress Genevieve Nnaji will star alongside Hollywood’s Chiwetel Ejiofor and British actress Thandie Newton in the upcoming movie ‘Half Of A Yellow Sun’, a film adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s bestselling...
Unknown gunmen have killed two persons, including a policeman in two separate attacks in Yola and Mubi in Adamawa. Confirming the incidents to newsmen on Friday in Yola, the Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa State Police Command, ASP....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday April 27, 2012 secured a landmark victory in its suit against former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu at the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, when the panel of three justices led by Jus...
A federal judge on Thursday refused to order President Barack Obama's administration to release photos and video of the U.S. military operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan almost a year ago and the al Qaeda leader's burial at sea. ...
The Vice-Chancellor of the Gombe State University (GSU), Prof. Idris Mahdi, has said that Thursday’s bombing of the Senate Building of the institution will not affect academic activities in the university. He said this in an interview with...
Kaduna State Government said on Friday that it had cancelled the April Environmental sanitation exercise due to the 33th Kaduna International Trade Fair that will be officially declared open on April 28. Mr Solomon Guruza, the Director of Environ...