Amnesty International flays Buhari for reinstating major general implicated...
Amnesty International says Nigeria has reinstated a major general implicated in mass murder, underlining the government’s “monumental failure” to stamp out impunity for war crimes. The London-based...
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Messi to meet Afghan boy who wore a plastic jersey with his name
“I love Messi,” young Murtaza Ahmadi says The five-year-old Afghan boy who became Internet-famous last month — for a viral photo of him wearing an Argentina soccer jersey, improvised from a plastic...
View Article‘Send Lai Mohammed to address a press conference from Sambisa’| Fayose tells...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State believes the Nigerian government is lying to the people when it postures that it has “technically defeated” the Boko Haram terrorist sect. The “technically...
View ArticleBiafra agitators seize ship with foreign crew, threaten to blow it up if...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian separatists have hijacked a merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if authorities do not release a detained leader agitating for a breakaway...
View ArticleBudget minister says fall in oil price won’t affect budget implementation
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma has given a strong assurance that the decline in oil prices will not derail Nigeria’s 2016 budget. Prices on the world market for oil have...
View ArticleAso Villa warns staff to desist from gossiping during office hours
Nigeria’s seat of power will go high handed on staffers who leak memos or other such official documents to the public or the hovering press. Worse, small talk will no longer be a thing in the...
View ArticleJude Egbas: Buhari having an orgasm in Ogun while Borno burned
Last weekend, something grisly happened in Dalori, a farming community which lies some 12 kilometers off Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Boko Haram terrorists arrived Dalori in Golf cars and...
View ArticleMuktah Dan Iyan (@MrAyeDee) analyzes the 2016 budget
Let’s start with the State House, Nigeria’s seat of Executive Power N536,295,924– Linking Cables to Driver’s Rest Room at Aso Rock N33,277,595– Stage Curtains + Electrical Drive at Aso Rock...
View ArticleBuhari bemoans squander of Nigeria’s oil wealth
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday lamented Nigeria’s management of its oil wealth, saying it was regrettable that the country could not produce enough refined petroleum products for its domestic...
View ArticlePassengers, crew members survive helicopter crash in Lagos
A helicopter belonging to Bristow Ltd which was earlier declared missing in Lagos, has now been found; with all passengers and crew members aboard the chopper declared safe and sound by the emergency...
View ArticlePoor Ibori was released from a UK prison and immediately re-arrested
Former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori has completed his prison terms in the United Kingdom. But he is yet to be a free man, as he was immediately re-arrested. TheNEWS learnt that Ibori;...
View ArticleCourt orders police to arrest Ekiti PDP secretary, Tope Aluko, for perjury
A Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital has ordered the State Commissioner of Police to arrest former State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Temitope Aluko...
View ArticleMTN hires former U.S attorney general to fight its case with Nigeria
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – MTN Group has hired a former top U.S. law enforcement official to help challenge a $3.9 billion fine imposed by Nigeria for failing to disconnect unregistered users, the...
View ArticleOn Rev Sam Adeyemi’s birthday, Davis King pays glowing tributes to the man
This is Sam Adeyemi. He pastors a congregation of about 20,000 people. He runs his own businesses unrelated to the church. He doesn’t receive salary or allowances from his church’s purse. He is a...
View ArticleSupreme court upholds Governor Udom Emmanuel’s election
Governor Udom Emmanuel of the PDP validly won last year’s governorship election in Akwa Ibom State, the apex court has just ruled. The APC’s Umana Okon Umana has been challenging Udom’s victory from...
View ArticleOkezie Ikpeazu affirmed as Abia Governor by the Supreme court
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has dusted the challenge from Alex Otti and will continue to oversee the affairs of the south east state, the justices of the supreme court have declared. Otti of...
View ArticleREPORT: Ex-Military chiefs stole Nigeria’s money in the names of their wives...
Some of Nigeria’s loot perpetrated by former military chiefs have been traced to the wives and children in the family tree, a report in The Nation today details. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
View ArticleDear men, talking too long on the cellphone or keeping it close, is damaging...
Men who speak on their cell phone for more than one hour a day or keep their phone close to their groin risk significant damage to the quality of their sperm and their ability to father a child,...
View ArticleIn tears, Celine Dion returns to the music stage to honor her late husband
Three weeks after René Angélil died from cancer, Céline Dion returned to The Colosseum stage at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to honor her late husband. “This is my home away from home,” a tearful Dion...
View ArticleSupreme court is savior of Nigeria’s democracy–PDP Governors
Governors under the aegis of the PDP Governors’ Forum have hailed the supreme court as the last hope of the people and the savior of Nigeria’s democracy. On Wednesday, the apex court upheld the...
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