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A 22-year-old Nigerian, Jude Ejikonye Ilechukwu who resides in Thailand was recently apprehended by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 1.295kg of substance discovered to be methamphetamine. Ilechukwu was arrested at the international wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. The drug which was concealed ...

France will not negotiate with gunmen claiming to be from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram who have taken a French family of seven hostage, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday. The three adults and four children were seized in Cameroon’s far north near the Nigerian border last week. ...

There was a serious protest Nasarawa state university this morning reason is� that, the school authority has failed to provide them with water for so many days on campus. Armed soldiers were called dispatched to the school campus (Just like what was done in ABU and OAU in 1979) and ...

As a follow up to the story on the relocation of Ikeja Computer Village, our correspondent, during a visit to Katangowa Market, along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, gathered that Katangowa is the proposed site where the Ikeja traders may be resettled. In terms of size, Katangowa is bigger than the Computer Village, ...

Police are believed to have seized a computer belonging to a young woman who was badly scarred in an acid attack amid suspicions that she may have caused the injuries herself. But her family fear that detectives are not doing enough to catch the perpetrator of the attack and are ...

Ghana defender John Paintsil has been arrested by the Legon Police in Accra for allegedly stabbing his wife, Richlove, in the eye on Friday afternoon. The 31-year-old has been denied bail and is likely to spend the weekend in police cells to help with investigations, the Greater Accra Regional Police ...

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has expressed surprise about speculations that he was nursing an ambition to contest the 2015 presidential election allegedly in a joint ticket with Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. Presidential campaign posters of the Jigawa governor and that of Amaechi cropped up on some ...

Former United States President Bill Clinton Thursday joined President Goodluck Jonathan and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), among others, to unveil the Eko Atlantic City, about five million square metres of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Clinton, who spoke at the dedication ceremony of the Eko Atlantic ...

Ten personages, including renowned industrialist, Mr. Oba Otudeko, retired Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Diocese, Olubunmi Cardinal Okogie and Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, are to be conferred with the Life-time Achievement Award at the 18th edition of the THISDAY Awards, slated for Abeokuta, the Ogun State ...

South African blade runner Oscar pistorious has been granted bail as he awaits trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

SONY have announced the PlayStation 4 is coming this Christmas � but gamers have been left guessing how much the device will cost, or even what it will look like. Tonight’s New York Playstation Meeting confirmed many of the rumours about the latest console, the follow-up to the wildly popular ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has reversed his decision to change the name of the University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University of Lagos The chairman of the university council, Prof Jerry Gana disclosed this in Abuja yesterday.

WIFE of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan Thursday boasted that 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. Also aspirations of some politicians to the most exalted position in the land may have been dashed as the PDP through the ...

Very few Nigerians have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world the reason been that Forbes estimates the wealth of individuals and rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (companies listed on the stock exchange). The few Nigerians that have made ...

West Brom striker Osaze Odemwingie� on Tuesday night, took some time to vent his anger � most of which were directed at the Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi � on Twitter. He warned Coach Stephen Keshi saying he could soon be sacked even after leading Nigeria to AFCON glory. �A ...

8-year-old Sanele Masilela marries 61-year-old Helen Shabangu in Zimbabwe to appease the ancestors for ancestral ritual order. The grooms family and �the bride’s husband and her five children were also present at the wedding. The boy’s aunt, Patience Masilela (46), explained why the wedding took place. She said: �The boy ...

Philo Nkem Ajufo, the acting General Manager of Delta State Tourism Board, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja over her role in a financial scheme. Ms. Ajufo is reportedly being quizzed for conniving with her boss, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD), to embezzle N50 ...

Another day another incredibly sad news. Legendary actor Justus Esiri has died. The Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), famous for his role as the Village Headmaster in popular 80’s sitcom of the same name, passed on last night. No details yet on the cause of death, but ...

The first lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has broke the long time silence on her allegation of Germany trip for illness and surgery allegation. During a thanksgiving service at the state House chapel in Abuja, Mrs Jonathan said she died and woke up during the period of� her ailment which ...

Delta State governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has towed the Federal Government’s line, rewarding members of the victorios Super Eagles team to the just concluded African cup of Nations with millions of naira. At the reception held at the Asaba internationalevent center, Mr. Uduaghan also named the Asaba stadium after the team ...