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President Jonathan has canceled his proposed trip to Ibadan Oyo State today to visit the scene of the bomb blast at Nyanya Motor Park Abuja with Four Service Chiefs & the National Security Adviser. President Jonathan was supposed to be in Ibadan to felicitate with the Olubadan of Ibadan who ...

A bomb blast rocked a crowded bus station near Abuja the capital city of Nigeria early this morning. The loud blast rocked Elrufai Park Nyanya Bridge, packed with commuters heading to the capital Abuja on Monday, with many people feared injured, the rescue agency spokesman told AFP. �This morning there ...

Unknown terrorists are said to have taken control of the missing plane and forced it to land near Kandahar. A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by “unknown terrorists” and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed ...

Pope Francis on Friday said he felt responsible for the child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church, and has issued an unprecedented apology. He made the remarks during a meeting with the International Catholic Child Bureau (Bice), a non�governmental organization. Pope Francis said: �I feel compelled to ...

Wasila Umaru,a 14 year old child bride who was forced to marry 35-year-old Umaru , killed him and three of his friends by lacing his rat dish with rat poison According to assistant superintendent Musa Magaji Majia, after their wedding last week, Umaru invited his friends to celebrate in northern ...

A delegate at the ongoing National Conference has stated that the name �Nigeria” has outlived its usefulness and as such should be changed.Akin Oyebode, a professor and lawyer from Ekiti advised that the name of the country should be changed to United States of Songhai..Professor Oyebode stated this yesterday while ...

A female delegate, Ezenwa Ifeanyinwa, on Wednesday slumped at the National Conference, shortly after the resumption of the afternoon session Premium Times reports. Mrs. Ifeanyinwa, a representative of the Market Women Association, was returning from lunch break and was heading towards the plenary chamber when she suddenly fainted. The ailing ...

� Pistorius said he woke in the middle of the night and noticed the fans were still running in his bedroom and that the door was open. He told the court: ‘Reeva rolled over to me and asked: “Can’t you sleep Baba?” ‘I stood up and got to the fans. ...

  An elderly delegate is playing games on his laptop, while deliberations are on at the National Conference.�12 Million naira Waste? Playing scramble after being paid this huge amount as delegate Fee?

On March 31th, passengers on an Arik flight from Lagos to New York were subjected to hardship as there was almost an hour flight delayed departure plus the airplane’s air condition was not working, leading to passengers protesting on board��The Airline company has issued a statement this morning apologizing for ...

Yesterday, Nigeria was declared Africa’s biggest economy by officials. Even though this does little for the 70 percent of�our citizens living in poverty, it gives us continental bragging rights and our dear President Jonathan took to his Facebook page to make this announcement. Read: Yesterday, our Gross Domestic Product was ...

  While ministering in church on Sunday, March 6, General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and former Vice Presidential candidate under the Congress for Progressive Change, Pastor Tunde Bakare reportedly stated that anointing oil was like mosquito repellant. Condemning its the use and those of�anointed handkerchief, Holy Communion, communion ...

A source just informed us� that the president’s daughter got about 80 cars as gifts yesterday at her traditional wedding ceremony which held this weekend

A 65 year-old retired Chief Magistrate, Funmilayo Timeyin, would have hoped to live out her days off the bench in peace and relaxation. With no young child around the house, as all her children are grown up, she employed 21-year-old David Idah, a Benue State indigene, as housekeeper who killed ...

The president has arrived his home town, Yenegoa for his daughter’s traditional wedding which will take place tomorrow, 5th of April, 2014 in the state. He was welcomed by the State Governor.

A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services from arresting or harassing the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido. The court also ordered the DSS to release Mr. Sanusi’s passport to him immediately while also awarding the ...

Report pouring in from Abuja has it that twitter activist and public speaker, Japheth Omojuwa and another protester Uche have been arrested. Live Tweets from Twitter has it that Omojuwa is still in NSCDC custody. Original plan of the protest was to carry multiple coffins to Abba Moro’s house. Reports ...

Details are sketchy, but what is known is that several people were injured at both locations. It began at about noon on Monday when Saint Theresa was targeted. Eyewitness said� that an armed gang barged-in to the Saint Theresa church compound, and interrupted services. Several attendees were attacked physically, and ...

One of the delegates at the ongoing National Conference, retired police AIG Hamma Misau, whose sleeping pic at the conference was shared on social media some days back, has died. He died last night at the National Hospital Abuja of an undisclosed illness. He was 67. He will be buried ...

  Ok, this reminds me of Korean Movie “City Hunter”, this guy got busted big time An international undercover investigation filmed by ITV’s Exposure has exposed a worker at the Nigeria High Commission (NHC) who claimed he could transport items, including stolen art, out of “any airport” using his diplomatic ...