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The Director of Dams in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, has vindicated Cameroon for releasing excess water that caused massive flood, affected about 22 states of the Federation and left thousands of Nigerians Homeless. The Director during his visit to the project site of Otukpo multipurpose dam in Benue ...

A new book by Lord Sebastian Coe has revealed that FIFA president Sepp Blatter thought English football was being ‘run by idiots’ prior to the failed 2018 World Cup bid. Coe was an important part of England’s bid process which only garnered two official votes and he admits that the ...

Reports say the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has offered a ceasefire giving certain conditions for its workability. The group was said to have demanded that the federal government arrests the former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. Ali Modu Sheriff is also reported to be on the ...

This is really hard to believe! Sometimes situation like these are mostly photo-shopped, but trust me’ Stories like these are hard to believe!!! According To Source: Obinna,21, a 200 level student of UNIPORT was reported to have developed multiple sex organs after an intensive 2 night sexcapade with his gay ...

The Lagos State Government has set in motion a bill proposing the prohibition of smoking in designated places. The bill yesterday scaled through the first reading at the Lagos State House of Assembly. The private member bill is sponsored by a member representing Eti-Osa Constituency 2, Mr. Gbolahan Yishawu, and ...

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday warned residents of the state to prepare for the ripple effect of Hurricane Sandy in the state. Hurricane Sandy is a 2012 late-season violent tropical storm that has affected Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the eastern seaboard of the United ...

Nollywood’s prolific actor, Jim Iyke is gradually stamping his authority the more as a force to reckon with as one of Africa’s most successful actors. The ‘bad boy’ actor has now sealed a mouth watering deal worth $1.5million own reality show deal. Titled ‘Jim Iyke Unscripted‘, the show is a ...

Residents of the commercial city of Onitsha were thrown into fears in the early hours of yesterday when dare-devil armed men suspected to armed robbers stormed the city in what looked like coordinated attacks in which one person was shot dead and another kidnapped. Daily Sun gathered that the incident ...

The 2012 FIFA Ballon d’Or nominees list has been released. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano are two strong players who are contending for the prestigious award. The Ballon d’Or ceremony will take place in Zurich on January 7, 2013. -FIFA BALLON D’OR NOMINEES Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) Mario ...

Radio has come a long way from the days of Radio Nigeria and Voice Of Nigeria. Despite the advent of television, the internet, and mobile media, Nigerian radio has not only stood its ground, it seemingly expanding is to a wider audience, and going further to exploit new media in ...

Man killed, dumped inside well for snatching another man’s fiancée in Kwara Community Hell was let loose recently in Abayawo, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Southwest Nigeria after a middle aged man’s corpse was recovered from a well at Ile Alowo-Eru in the area. A mob, suspected to be kinsmen of ...

Four persons were shot dead on Sunday night by suspected Fulani herdsmen at a local drinking spot in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. About seven others were injured and are now receiving treatment at Plateau Specialist Hospital during the attack on the drinking joint for local brew ...

Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the US East Coast, threatening serious flooding and power cuts that could affect 50 million people. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been ordered to evacuate New York City and New Jersey, reports the BBC. Public transport has been suspended in cities up the ...

LAGOS (AFP) � A dead body has been found in the wheel well of a plane operated by Nigerian airline Arik for its London and New York routes, a spokesman said Saturday, in a case similar to past instances of stowaways. The man’s body was found on Friday in an ...

A lull in business activities caused by insecurity in Kano State alone has cost the Nigerian economy N1.3trillion ($6 billion). The figure is contained in the 2011 World Investment Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The report says that the Nigerian economy lost over $6 ...

Barely 24 hours after the Eid-El-kabir celebration, a middle age man whose name is yet to be known engaged in an indiscriminate slaughtering of human beings in the form of a ram leaving two persons dead and other Four in a critical condition at the Saint Gerard Catholic Hospital in ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on a Catholic Church in Kaduna. The President, who was extremely saddened by the explosion, described it as �barbaric, cruel and uncalled for.” According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, President Jonathan noted that the apparent objective ...

GARY Glitter was arrested this morning – by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal. The 68-year-old former pop star was held at 7.15am at his home in central London and taken to a police station for questioning. He was held for several hours but has been released this evening. A ...

Security details attached to the wife of Enugu State governor, Mrs. Clara Chime, attacked a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Mike Agada, on Friday evening. The mobile policemen attacked Agada at the burial of an in-law to one of the special advisers to the governor, at Amebota ...