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Another Nigerian arms deal has been botched By South African authorities, SAf newspaper, Rapport has reported. This time, a sum of $5.7million, which was going to be used to purchase arms from a Cape Town firm, Cerberus Risk Solutions, was intercepted by the Asset Forfeiture Unit of SA’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). However, unlike the […]

Indication that the Boko Haram sect may after all be correct over the missing Nigerian Air Force fighter jet has emerged with the video released on Thursday that showed the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of the missing. Also the video showed what looked like burnt parts of a plane, a further […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo does not look like a figure that any serious politician can jettison. This proof manifested on Friday when Senate President David Mark and a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, had separate closed-door meetings with the former President. The meetings lasted for more than two hours. Since […]

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that his decision to run for re-election in 2015 would depend on the greater need for Nigeria’s harmony, cohesion, unity, security, political stability, progress, equity, justice and fairness above any personal ambition or sectional agenda. In a personally signed statement, the President, who stated this in a Sallah message […]

Abubakar Shekau, the acclaimed leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, on Thursday released a video in which he claimed he was not killed as claimed by the Nigerian and Cameroonian troops recently. The alleged death of Shekau and photographs as proof resulted in jubilation across Nigeria last week as the troops said they killed […]

Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Ayo Fayose, has faulted the appointment of new permanent secretaries by the outgoing administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi, saying Fayemi is engrossed with playing politics with issues that have dire consequences on the welfare of the state. In a statement released by his  Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, […]

Former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oluremi Oyo, is dead. She was aged 62. Her Husband, Vincent Oyo confirmed the death, saying his wife succumbed to death in the United Kingdom after a battle with cancer. In an announcement on Thursday, Vincent wrote: “with gratitude to God for a life well […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to remain patriotic in their support for the Armed Forces fighting the insurgents in the North-eastern part of Nigeria. The president condemned the actions of the terrorists, saying it is now obvious that they do not mean well for anyone. In his Independence Day broadcast on Wednesday, Jonathan thanked […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday said in Osun state that it had displayed notice of the 2015 general elections, adding that this is in line with its timetable and schedule. In the notice, INEC confirmed that presidential and the National Assembly elections would hold on 14th February 2015 while the state Houses of […]

…Jonathan isn’t a father, he should be born again, says Dino Melaye Over 500 protesters under the aegis of Citizens Arise Movement of Nigeria (CAMON) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Eagle Square in Abuja to register their displeasure  over the alleged insensitivity of the Federal Government to the plight of the more than […]

On 27th November 2005, 16-year-old Moses Akatugba was awaiting the results of his secondary school exams when his life changed forever. He was arrested by the Nigerian army and was shot in the hand, beaten on the head and back, and then charged with stealing mobile phones. He was initially held at the local army […]

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that only 58 of the total number of universities in Nigeria have approval to run postgraduate programmes The commission expressed concern that a lot of tertiary institutions are currently awarding post-graduate degrees against approval and warned the public and prospective students against patronising institutions awarding such illegal degrees […]