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The House of Representatives on Thursday ordered an investigation into a ‘multi-billion naria’ mansion said to belong to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe. The�property, located at Mabushi in the Federal�Capital�Territory, was said to have been built for the minister by a construction firm, SETRACO. The House ...

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, who was seriously injured when his plane crashed on October 25 in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, has suffered extensive brain damage and failed to recognize members of a presidential delegation that visited him at a hospital in Hanover, Germany, an authoritative source has ...

The family of Odumegwu-Ojukwu will soon meet to take a decision on the Will of their brother, late Chief Emeka Ojukwu, which was read on Friday at the Enugu High Court. One of the senior members of the family, and a younger brother of the late Ikemba, Mr. Ude Ojukwu, ...

Zulai Buhari, the first daughter of former Nigerian head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has died. Sahara reporters learnt Ms. Buhari died earlier today from sickle cell anemia, a source disclosed that she developed complications after having a baby two days ago Chasel Hospital, private clinic in Ungwar Sarki ...

Joseph Akindele, a middle aged man left people’s mouth agape when he confessed killing his friend, Mufutau, to relieve him of the persistent pain and agony he was going through due to an undisclosed ailment, affirming that Mufutau is now happy in death. Akindele was arrested with a bag containing ...

House of Representatives, yesterday, threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, over her refusal to honour invitations from its Committee on Pensions. Members of the committee also want the Finance Minister to explain her role in the take-over of Police Pension Fund ...

According to a new ranking released by Africa.com, University of Lagos is the 9th best University in Africa. Cairo University is the still the best University in Africa. 1. Cairo University � Egypt 2. American University in Cairo � Egypt 3. Mansoura University � Egypt 4. Makerere University � Uganda ...

Aba is really getting on the news lately for weird happenings Two prophetesses have been arrested by the police in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State for stealing and selling day-old baby girl, the child of one Grace, 23, from Abiriba in Ohafia Local Government Area of the state. ...

The Federal Government yesterday sacked the Director-General, Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa. The Presidency may be implementing a recommendation of the Senate ad hoc committee, which allegedly found her wanting over the privatization of Federal Government�s shares in Eleme Petrochemicals Company and the award of the $23 ...

The State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Lagos State, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, Tuesday dismissed the news making round that the condition of hostels at the Ipaja NYSC camp is not conducive for corps members. Adeyemi who was taking up by journalists after the official closing ceremony of the 2012 ...

A revelation that may rattle the Igbo race and indeed all Nigerians may soon be made over the death of the late Biafran leader and warlord Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. The Ikemba Nnewi died last year in a London hospital and was given one of the most honorable burials in ...

The Late girl who goes by the name: Annabel, Was said to be returning from a birthday party of a friend of hers�which was held at 4040 nite club, Owerri, with some of her friends. They left in the wee hours of the morning despite pleas from the celebrant for ...

The two pharmacists arrested in connection with the July 22nd murder of Cynthia Osokogu have been released unconditionally by a court in Lagos. Maduakor Chukwunonso and Orji Osita (pictured above) who are pharmacists at Oxpharm Pharmacy where the drugs used in sedating Cynthia was bought, were released based on the ...

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) tweeted earlier today that a BRT bus conveying passengers across the Third Mainland Bridge, had fallen off the bridge into the Lagos lagoon. Their tweet reads…�A fully loaded BRT bus fell off the 3rd mainland bridge into the Lagos lagoon, 26-11-12. Rescue work in ...

I cast my vote for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare in their demosthenic vitriol against spiritual megalomaniacs whose modus vivendi has become increasingly byzantine and repulsively narcissistic. We must all begin to deprecate this razzmatazz and Nestorian braggadocio in the “HOUSE OF GOD” because when there is ...

Kidnappers today snatched Professor Ilochi Okafor (SAN), a former vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka in Anambra state. Professor Okafor was kidnapped Sunday morning in front of residence at the Independence Layout in Enugu while on his way to church. The kidnappers later took off with him in ...

The Nigerian army said two blasts at a church in a military barracks in the restive north of the country on Sunday were suicide attacks. The twin explosions that rocked the St. Andrew Military Protestant Church has lead to the death of 11 people and injuring 30 others, the armyconfirmed. ...

Saudi Arabia has implemented an electronic tracking system to monitor women and inform their husbands if they leave the country. According to an Agence France-Press story, a new system implemented last week sends Saudi husbands text messages from the Saudi immigration agency when their wives are flying out of King ...

The CAN(Christian�Association of Nigeria) president, Pastor Oritsejafor came under heavy�criticism�for accepting a private Jet as a birthday gift.He finally opened up to the Vanguard on his position and I quote” This is my story about the plane. And I’m not ashamed to own a plane, I think it is a ...

Twenty ladies wearing mini skirts and trousers were yesterday slaughtered in their separate homes in the metropolis by yet to be identified terrorists suspected to be Boko Haram members. This is coming barely 24 hours after over ten people were slaughtered in Maiduguri. The slaughtering of these twenty different ladies, ...