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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 ...

Two male students of the Federal Polytechnic Auchi, in Edo state have been nabbed by the police for allegedly kidnapping, raping and killing a female student of the same institution. According to Vanguard, the students, Henry Edewo and Emmanuel Isikhuime kidnapped 21-year-old Mercy Peter on July 29, 2012, allegedly serially ...

UPDATE Here is a full statement sent by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. �President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on a Catholic Church in Kaduna state. �The President who was extremely saddened by the explosion, described it as �barbaric, cruel and uncalled for.” ...

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja described his wife, Patience, as a shining star in his life. This came as Patience took a retrospective look at her life, especially in the last few weeks she was believed to have spent in hospital abroad and said whatever might have happened ...

Call it a narrow escape or a close shave with death, you are not wrong in capturing the story of 25-year old Patience Bitrus who recently escaped from suspected ritualists in Bauchi State. However, her co-traveller was not as lucky as Patience painted a gory picture of how she was ...

PORT HARCOURT, THIRTEEN-year-old Jennifer Innocent is battling to save her life at University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, after being allegedly hit in the head by stray bullet from an army rifle. The incident happened Wednesday at the Mile 4 neighbourhood of Obio/Akpor locality in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, ...

The Taraba State Governor, Danbaba Suntai, escaped death on Thursday after a plane he was flying crashed in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. The Taraba State Governor, his aide-de-camp and chief security officer, who were also in the plane that took off from Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, and three ...

A 25-year-old unemployed man, Ade Akindele, has been arraigned before Ojo Magistrate Court in Lagos, for allegedly stealing a King James Version of the Bible valued at N1,000, from a shop. Akindele, who had no fixed residence, was said to have become dazed after allegedly removing a black purse and ...

The Federal government has declared thursday and friday, 25th and 26th of October public holidays to mark this years Eid-El kabir celebration.

The police yesterday successfully detonated a bomb and many improvised explosive devices planted at Gombe State University (GSU). A witness who spoke to newsmen said the bomb was concealed in a polythene bag and was planted between a faculty block and the administrative building of the university. The explosive devices ...

FOOD insecurity and youth unemployment have been identified as responsible for the violence and crises that have plagued most�African nations. According to leaders on the continent, the situation could remain unabated should unemployment and food insecurity persist. The opinion was reached at this year’s edition of Security Watch Africa lecture ...

Two weeks after four students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) were killed by a mob in Omuokiri, Aluu, tragedy struck in another host community of the institution as unknown gunmen killed another student of the school, his girlfriend and an ex-member of the National Youth Service Corps. The ...

Seven years after his absence, Nollywood hunk, Chidi Mokeme, finally makes a grand return as anchor of Nigeria’s number one reality television show, the Gulder Ultimate Search. Mokeme’s return was announced at the final selection party held to unveil before the public, the 12 finalists who would make the trip ...

Alex Okosi left Nigeria as a young boy in the late 1980s to seek a better future in the United States. By the early 2000s, the music executive was carving a successful career with broadcasting giant MTV, holding strategic positions within the influential medial company both in the United States ...

The minister posted the photos on her Facebook page showing the state of her own village in Akili, Anambra State. The flood, which began in September after the Lagdo Dam in Northern Cameroon broke, has displaced over 50, 000 people and killed at least one hundred so far! President Jonathan ...

At least 12 houses have been set ablaze at Omuokiri-Aluu by angry Nigerian students who descended the small village in their hundreds this evening protesting the violent murder of four students. UNIPORT students were mobilised by students of other universities under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigerian Students, ...

BREAKING NEWS!!! At Least 20 Students Killed By Unknown Gunmen In Fed Poly, Mubi At least 20 students have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Mubi, north-eastern Nigeria, a police source has told the BBC. The attack happened at a student hostel away from the Federal Polytechnic Mubi campus, ...

Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has said that those dismissing Igbo’s dream of becoming president in 2015 are insulting them. He reiterated his earlier position that the best thing that would ever happen to Nigeria as a nation is for an Igbo man to take over ...