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The usual weekly adoration crusade organized by Rev. Fr Emmanuel Obinma of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, for prayers, healing and spiritual retreat at Uke in Anambra State turned tragic in the early hours of Saturday. Governor Peter Obi, who was accompanied to the crusade by 10 other dignatries, including ...

In a last ditch effort to resolve the ASUU strike, President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa. This was part of the resolutions of the meeting between the ASUU leadership, Vice President Namadi Sambo and the Supervising Minister of ...

      Forbes just released its World’s Most Powerful People list and put Russian president Vladamir Putin ahead of US president Barack Obama. Dangote was placed 64th most powerful person in the world, Jonathan didn’t make the list. See more below

Abiodun Kazeem is the first graduate to bag the first class grade in the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, If you call him a jinx breaker, you are not far from the truth. The reason is that many students had tried to graduate from the University of Ilorin with ...

INDICATIONS emerged on Tuesday that the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may have agreed to end their face-off. The meeting between the Supervising Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike and ASUU, led by its president, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge, held behind closed-door, was said to be ...

Four�days after an orderly attached to All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 16 election in Anambra State, Chris Ngige, allegedly assaulted a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Evaristus Ezeokwonna, the controversy raised by the action has refused to die down. A group in the church, Catholic Youth Awareness Group, ...

There was a minor accident yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, involving a Turkish Airline aircraft and a Max Air plane. The Turkish Airline plane wings collided with that of Max Air plane which had brought in Pilgrims from Saudi Arabia. The Turkish Airplane had landed safely but ...

After a four-week delay, BlackBerry announced today that BBM will be available to download today. The highly-anticipated messaging service has been tested and is now stable, ready for prime time. In a blog post, BlackBerry’s Andrew Bocking stated,�”In the next few hours, people will start seeing BBM in Google Play, ...

A 16-year-old mother of two, Ebere Ogu, has allegedly stabbed his 35-year-old husband, Patrick, to death in Akure, the OndoState capital, during a fight, and has fled with her children. Detectives from the criminal Investigation Division of the state Police Command are presently looking for her. Vanguard gathered that the ...

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has signed Death Penalty Law for kidnapping in the state. The new verdict, which is an alteration of the Edo state kidnapping law, also stipulates that any avenue used by abductors would be destroyed. The governor was recently indecisive on whether the death penalty ...

Despite continued efforts and promises of more financing made by the Federal Government, striking lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have refused to budge. According to reports, despite a meeting to seek resolution yesterday, the lecturers insisted that the three-month-old strike would go on. ...

In an effort to end the ongoing ASUU strike, the Federal Government has said it is committed to spending N200 billion in the 2014 budget on universities in Nigeria for about three to four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard. This is in addition to the N100 ...

Unless a miracle happens, or the Federal Government urgently intervenes to fly Mrs Queeneth Owolabi abroad for treatment, she would have her toes and fingers amputated due to gangrene infection. Mrs Owolabi is a surviving cabin crew on the ill-fated Associated Airlines plane that crashed in Lagos two weeks ago. ...

A natural disaster has occured at the famous Obudu Mountain Resort in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State rendering over 20 persons stranded at the top of the mountain. The landslide which occured early this week led the Cross River State government swinging into action by contacting different ...

Barely 48 hours after operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) killed six suspected kidnappers in Ihiala Council Area of Anambra State, a business magnate and transporter, Chief Godwin Okeke (GUO motors) escaped death by the whiskers yesterday when gunmen suspected to be hired assassins attacked his car. The ...

Sharia Law has taken a new dimension in Kano State.According to Yahoo news…Police also have orders to arrest any cabbie carrying men and women together in the confined space of the three-wheeled�taxis �The way and manner some of the commercial�tricycle�operators�engage in indecent dressing and carry men and women together is ...

Researchers in the Netherlands studied teen brains and behaviour and determined what anyone who’s seen “Mean Girls” already knows: Teenagers are self centered little a**holes. Yep, apparently teens lack certain empathy skills! Who knew? This, scientist say, is because their brains are still developing and the areas dealing with not ...

The former Senegal coach Bruno Metsu has died of cancer at the age of 59. Known as “The White Sorcerer”, Metsu was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2012 having replaced Diego Maradona as coach of Al Wasl in Dubai. The disease is said to have spread to his lungs ...

Another air disaster was averted today Sunday as a plane belonging to IRS Airline made anemergency�landing in Kaduna.It was reported that the aircraft’s�hydraulic�system developed a problem warning, thereby forcing the pilot to take a precautionary measure by asking ground control to confirm that all gears were down and locked. �The ...

Nigeria’s first Lady, Patience Jonathan pose for pictures with President of Hansei University, Sung-Hae Kim Wife of Nigeria’s president, Patience Jonathan, on Thursday added one more Honorary Doctorate degree to her gallery after a South Korean University honoured her. It is Mrs. Jonathan’s fourth doctorate since becoming Nigeria’s First Lady. ...