Malabo boat mishap: Survivors narrate ordeal
‘We held on to cylinder for 2 days as fellow passengers went down with ill-fated MV Soni’ … With the name MV Soni boldly inscribed on its dark body, the...
NIGERIA: The North, Atiku and 2015
In 2010, the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) met and constituted a committee chaired by a former finance Minister, Adamu Ciroma. The committee had, in its terms of reference, the ...
World Cup Qualifier: Oduamadi rescues Eagles from Kenyan jail
Harambee Stars of Kenya were three minutes away from causing a major upset in African football, but Nnamdi Oduamadi spared the Super Eagles the embarrassment of losing the 2014 World...
NIGERIA: Prophetess drags pastor husband to court
Titilayo Oluokun, a prophetess, has pleaded with an Agege Grade ‘A’ Customary Court to dissolve her 22-year-old marriage. The 51-year-old woman, who lives at 8, Aina Aladi Street, Agbado, Lagos,...
NIGERIA: Opposition wants to destroy PDP governors’ Forum- PDP cries out
THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Saturday raised alarm that opposition political parties have concluded arrangements to destroy the PDP governors Forum. According to PDP, the opposition...
NIGERIA: Igbo youths declare 7 days mourning for late Prof Chinua Achebe
EXACTLY 161 days after releasing his latest and most controversial book: There Was A Country, literary giant, Emeritus Professor Chinualumogu Achebe, yesterday, died of complications arising from old age in...
NIGERIA: Boko Haram, Police arrest 500 foreigners in Lagos
No fewer than, 500 nationals of some neighbouring countries resident in Lagos, were yesterday arrested by the state police command in connection with Thursday’s arrest of two Boko Haram suspects...
NIGERIA: Expert calls for improved security infrastructure
Transport facility operators in Nigeria have been advised to urgently protect their facilities against the terrorist threat. Reacting to the deadly bombing of the Sabon Gari Kano land transport terminal...
NIGERIA: Let’s take more territories, Onyali-Omagbemi tells AFN
Nigeria’s most decorated track and field athlete, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi has urged Nigerian coaches and the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN to launch an aggressive training programme that will produce quality...
NIGERIA: Soldiers Storm Suspected Boko Haram Hideouts in Lagos
Fear gripped many residents of Lagos on Thursday when news filtered in that troops numbering about 100 stormed terror suspects’ hideouts in Ijora, a densely populated part of the city....