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President of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has been arrested by the men of the Department of State Security, DSS for making inciting comments on the 2015 election. The former Niger Delta militant was arrested this morning, less than 24 hours after Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, called on ...

A �57-year old man, Denis Amayo, has threatened to commit suicide on Valentine’s Day (14 February) should Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State fail to pay his eight-month pension arrears. Amayo who addressed journalists in Benin said he served the state meritoriously for 35 years in the Ministry of Agriculture ...

The Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State was in a state of chaos and confusion yesterday Tuesday Feb 4th as some students of the school came into the school premises wearing their religious apparels such as Hijab, choir robes, white garments, fetish veils and Orunmila attires, ditching the approved uniform ...

First Lady Patience Jonathan’s NGO� The A. Aruera Foundation, paid the� medical bills of 800 children to undergo heart related surgeries in India. While receiving the last batch of the children from India, Dame Jonathan expressed her gratitude to God for the safe return of each child, noting that since ...

    That’s the Chairman of Oshodi Local Government, Hon. Bolaji Ariyo proudly showing off his party’s Champagne bottle. You like?

Nelson Mandela‘s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been left out of his will, it has been revealed. The former South African president has divided up his $2.5million estate between family members, staff and the ruling African National Congress. However, he has chosen to give nothing to Ms Madikizela-Mandela – his second ...

Plumbing and Fitting, Photography, Salesmanship, Upholstery, Painting and Interior decoration are amongst 39 subjects recently added to the examination syllabus of The West African Examination Council, WAEC by the examination body. Of the 39 subjects, four of them, Computer Studies, Insurance, Store Management & Office Practice would serve as electives ...

The police in Osun State have arrested a member of the National Youth Service Corps in the state for allegedly stealing a�motorcycle. The corps member, Kazeem Adebisi, was said�to have�stolen the red Bajaj motorcycle with number plate, FST 680 QB, at Agunbelewo area of Osogbo on Thursday. The owner of ...

Justice has finally come the way of the family of slain Emmanuel Victor (pictured above), a 20 year old young man who was killed in front of his mother by a trigger-happy Policeman, Mathew Egheghe, two years ago in Yenogoa, Bayelsa state. Victor was shot dead after he confronted a ...

According to Vanguard, the children’s hands were securely tied to a wheelbarrow while the man was soliciting for buyers for the children, saying he was fed up with his dwindling economic fortunes. Following a tip off, a team led by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Nma Onyechere, quickly went ...

  He’s was on the cover of TIME magazine and now Rolling Stone. He’s the first pontiff to grace the cover of Rolling Stone. The pontiff joins other high profile celebrities who have featured on the cover including US President Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Snoop Dogg and Justin ...

The suit filed by over 80 Igbo ‘deportees’ against the Lagos State Government came up on Thursday at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, with the plaintiffs demanding a compensation of 1 billion Naira (about 6.3 million dollars). Seven plaintiffs filed the suit on behalf of 66 others and ...

President Jonathan is currently in an attempt to make the death penalty for any person who is found guilty of hacking into Criminal National Information Infrastructure or any computer network that would lead to loss of lives. The bill called the Cyber Crime bill 2013 is currently before the House ...

According to a report by Sahara Reporters, 11 PDP senators have defected to the All Progressive Congress APC. A formal letter to this effect has been handed to the Senate President, David Mark, and would be read to the general house this afternoon. The defected senators are: Senator Bukola Saraki-Kwara ...

The Federal Government may have concluded plans to raise the domestic price of natural gas to $1.5 per 1,000 standard cubic feet as it aims to ensure efficient supply of abundant natural gas to thermal power stations� This represents a 50 per cent increase in the current $1 price for ...

  Corp members serving in Victory Model College, Efodo – Okpo, Olamaboro L.G.A of Kogi State, are currently in hiding as their lives are being threatened by students. �Read the full details below: It’s no good news to hear that NYSC Corp Members are treated with discontentment in Kogi State, ...

One of the wives of late Chief MKO Abiola, Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, has announced her intentions to contest the governorship seat in Lagos State in the next general elections. Mrs Onitiri-Abiola says she has ‘all the formula to solve unemployment, electricity&education problems plaguing Lagos state’ Mrs Onitiri-Abiola has not revealed ...

    A 14-seater bus is reported to have gone up in flames at Iyana Oworosoki. This accident has caused a standstill on the ever busy bridge. Unconfirmed reports say one person died.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has confirmed that the next presidential election, will be staged on Febraury 14, 2015. �The commission has scheduled the presidential and National Assembly elections for 14th February 2015,” the INEC said in a statement. The electoral body, also announced that governorship and elections for ...

The State Security Service, SSS, has finally secured a warrant of arrest for the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nasir El-Rufai, and has now launched a manhunt for him, the spokesperson for the agency has said. � This is even as armed operatives of the Service ...