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Sadiq Sani Abacha is one of the sons of late military dictator Sani Abacha. Below is an open letter he wrote to professor Wole Soyinka days after the Nobel Laureate said it was an insult to share an award with his late father, Sani Abacha. Sadiq says Prof Soyinka attacking ...

The Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has again made changes to his�cabinet�this morning�by sacking the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Bolaji Abdullahi. Dr Tamuno Dangogo will be taking over from the sacked minister. The reason for his sack has not been announced.

Contrary to claims by the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that the fuel scarcity was caused by hoarding, fresh investigations reveal that the problem is a result of late release of import allocation to oil marketers, gap in importation and short-supply of petroleum products to filling stations. It was gathered that ...

        Using David and Bethsheba’s case to answer the question, Pastor Chris said despite David’s prayer and fasting, the child who was a result of David’s sin still died. His words: No child should be brought into this world by force, if a lady has been raped, ...

In a startling revelation, the daughter of Ugandan President Yoweri �Museveni admitted today during a radio talk show in Mbarara, in Western Uganda that she is homosexual, and that she is revealing this fact as a protest to the anti-gay law her father signed only a few days ago. Diana ...

FIFA today has officially authorised the use of head covers for religious reasons during football matches for both male and female. It concluded today after a two-year trial proved that ‘wearing of head covers while playing competitive football posed too great a risk of injury to the head or neck’ ...

According to Vangard A twin explosion, Saturday evening, rocked a football viewing centre in Ajilari ward, Jere Council area of Maiduguri, �the Borno state capital killing several football fans. The Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), said to have been planted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists at the viewing centre in Ajilari ...

Extremist Syrian organization named ISIS – Islamist State in Iraq and Syria – cut off a man’s hand for allegedly stealing and tweeted the event and photos live. Daily Mail UK reports that ISIS claimed the man had asked for the punishment to be carried out in Maskanah, northern Syria, ...

Abductors of Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year old uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded a N500m ransom, Sahara Reporters report. A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money. The source also said the family had constituted a committee to ...

Over 40 students were brutally murdered during an attack by Boko Haram gunmen on the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi, Yobe state in the early hours of Tuesday February 25th. Many of the students are still unaccounted for. Below are the names of 24 students confirmed dead. Sale Mamiski, Musa Muhammad, ...

One of the students who was shot by the terrorists but managed to survived, said: �I was shot on my left leg, while I was sleeping. When I woke up, I could not walk and was later taken to the girls hostel where the insurgents gathered us with the female ...

To mark Nigeria’s Centenary anniversary ,GEJ addressed the �nagging Boko haram issue �My dear compatriots, as we�celebrate�our centenary, the security situation in some of our North-Eastern States, sadly remains a major concern for us. Just yesterday, young students, full of hopes and dreams for a great future, were callously murdered ...

  Mass killing of school children at the Federal Government College in the Buni Yadi area of Yobe was shrouded in mystery after reports revealed that only male students were killed. It has been learnt, however that the extremists intentionally spared the female students. According to the officials, female students ...

President Goodluck Jonathan Ousted Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has finally concretised his threat to sue President Goodluck Jonathan over his removal as head of the bank last week. According to a suit filed at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja late on Monday, ...

A Ugandan newspaper has published a list of the country’s ‘top 200’ homosexuals, a day after their president signed their anti gay bill into law which punishes ‘aggravated homosexuality’ with life in prison. The Red Pepper, a Ugandan tabloid, ran the names of 200 people it claims are homosexuals, and ...

According to Nationonlineng.net, without fear of President Goodluck Jonathan, ten gunmen sneaked into Otuoke, his hometown in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, and whisked away his first cousin, Chief Inengite Nitabai. In a daring move, the heavily armed men stormed the expansive compound of Nitabai located before Otuoke bridge, ...

Yesterday, most courts in the Ikeja High Court complex� opted to conduct their proceedings in darkness following persistent power outage. Vanguard reports that there has been persistent power outage in the court in the past one week. On Thursday morning all the courts could not initially seat until about 11 ...

Governor Fashola of Lagos state has banned all form of indecent dressing among female public servants� Worried by the way some ladies dress, the state government had to introduce new dress code among public servants, especially the female folk.According to Pm news.. A circular issued by the Head of Service, ...

Officials of the State Security Service, SSS, have seized the travelling documents of suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, shortly after he arrived Lagos from Niger, where he had gone to attend a meeting of governors of central banks in the West African sub-region. Shortly ...

Sanusi tells CNBC AFRICA “I have been told by my office that a letter was received. As you know, I flew in this morning to Niamey along with other Governors of West African Central Banks to meet with the President of Niger and President of Ghana. Fortunately, I came in ...