Remember those SA policemen who dragged a taxi driver to his death in 2013?...
Johannesburg (AFP) – Eight South African policeman were found guilty on Tuesday of murdering a Mozambican man who died after being dragged behind a moving police van in an incident that provoked...
View ArticleLamorde shuns Senate invitation; sends representatives who were walked out
Members of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions were visibly miffed that chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, couldn’t honor the...
View ArticleNigeria’s electricity generation hits new numbers
The management of Transmission Company of Nigeria, said in Abuja on Wednesday that it had attained a new peak of 4,810.7 megawatts of generated electricity. This is contained in a statement signed by...
View ArticleDangote, First & Zenith banks grace the launch of the Stock Exchange’s new...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange launched a new listing platform – the Premium Board and the associated Premium Board Index on Tuesday, August 25. According to a press statement, the board will feature...
View ArticleTrial begins in Chad for Boko Haram suspects over deadly June twin attacks
N’Djamena (AFP) – Ten suspected Boko Haram members went on trial in Chad on Wednesday over their alleged roles in twin attacks that killed 38 people in the capital N’Djamena in June. It was the first...
View ArticleThis American who killed 12 people in a movie theatre has been sentenced to...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The man who unleashed a murderous attack on a packed Colorado movie theater was ordered Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years — the maximum allowed...
View Article‘An attack on Fashola is an attack on me’| The Bola Tinubu statement you...
The media has been awash with stories of a growing rift between the two former Governors of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu and Tunde Fashola. This rift, political watchers have insinuated, has resulted in...
View Article‘We appeal to all Nigerians to come and join us’| The PDP needs you like...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wants to return power to the people at long last. An electronic registration scheme open to all Nigerians has since kicked off and the e-membership committee was...
View ArticleLawmakers have finally agreed to have their jumbo pay slashed
Nigerian lawmakers are among the highest paid in the world, as statistics from the Economist Intelligence Unit and other media, has shown. Nigerians have taken to the streets as well in the past to...
View ArticleThis is why Buhari is stopping work on the 2nd Niger bridge
Work will stall on the construction of the 2nd Niger bridge until a review of the books and processes has been carried out by the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari, Director-General,...
View ArticleThe EFCC has commenced the probe of Amaechi’s time as Governor of Rivers
ThisDay is reporting that there are strong indications that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced a detailed investigation into some financial transactions carried out...
View ArticleWhat Google couldn’t fix in solar tech, some South African scientists may...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — By thinking small, a group of South African scientists may have pioneered solar technology that has stumped Internet giant Google. The Helio100 project, based at Stellenbosch...
View ArticleAustria says it has found more than 70 bodies in an abandoned refugee lorry
VIENNA (Reuters) – A truck full of refugees discovered abandoned on an Austrian motorway on Thursday contains more than 70 bodies, the interior ministry said on Friday, announcing an updated death...
View ArticleOur anti-corruption war has no ethnic agenda–Osinbajo
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, said on Thursday that the battle against corruption by the present administration had no ethnic agenda. He said this when traditional rulers of the Yoruba...
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This is how the #BringBackOurGirls campaign marked 500 days since the...
Relatives of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram marked 500 days since their abduction Thursday, with hope of their rescue dwindling despite fresh efforts to end the insurgency. The...
View Article#Afrobasket2015: Nigeria’s D’Tigers pummel Gabon to stroll to semifinals
RADES (AfroBasket 2015) – Nigeria became the first team to reach the AfroBasket 2015 Semifinals after trouncing Gabon 88-64 on Thursday. Al-Farouq Aminu, Michael Umeh and Michael Gbinije combined for...
View ArticleOkorocha ‘with a high sense of honesty’ says private jets are his personal...
Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha, says the private jets he uses are his and not the state government’s. In response to calls from that he should sell his jets to pay the salaries of state employees,...
View ArticleSouth Africa set Oscar Pistorius parole review case for September 18
Johannesburg (AFP) – The South African review board that will decide on the release of Oscar Pistorius is to meet on September 18, his family said Thursday, after the paralympian’s parole was delayed...
View ArticleDangote Cement announces $4bn construction deal with a Chinese company
Lagos (AFP) – Nigeria’s Dangote Cement has announced a $4.34 billion deal with Chinese construction company Sinoma International Engineering to build plants across Africa. The project is expected to...
View ArticleMeanwhile, another Arik Air staff has been nabbed in the cocaine smuggling ring
A few days after making a show of nabbing an Arik Air crew member, Mr.Chika Egwu Udensi, at the Heathrow Airport in London for peddling substances believed to be cocaine, the Nigeria Drug Law...
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