Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday in Yenagoa said he remained grateful to Bayelsa people for the support he enjoyed during his political career from 1999...
Only six out of the 109 senators who will serve in the 8th National Assembly are women, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN also...
President Goodluck Jonathan said in Abuja on Wednesday that those calling for the probe of his administration should ensure that all past administrations were subjected to...
Senate Unity Forum, the group supporting Ahmed Lawan for Senate President and George Akume as deputy, said it had the support of 40 senators-elect of All...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has predicted cloudy to partly cloudy weather conditions over the central states of the country on Thursday. The predictions are contained...
President Goodluck Jonathan has signed two bills recently passed by the National Assembly into law. The new Acts are the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015...
Authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI) on Monday asked its students to vacate the premises immediately, pending the time the problem of shortage of water...
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Sunday in Abuja, thanked out-going President Goodluck Jonathan for conceding defeat to Muhammadu Buhari in the...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday urged Nigerians to pray fervently for the incoming administration to enable it succeed and for the peace and unity of the...
Washington police said manhunt has began to apprehend a suspect in the slayings of a wealthy family and their housekeeper. Cathy Lanier, Washington Police Chief, said...
Libya’s court of appeal has set the final sentence date for former leader Muammar Gadaffi’s regime officials’ trial. Al-Seddig Al-Sur, the Chief of Investigations office of...
The U.S. government has condemned the intensified fighting and violence in Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei states in South Sudan by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army....
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday adjourned till May 28 to rule on a preliminary objection seeking to reverse the 20 percent increment on...
Suspected assailants on Wednesday stabbed two pupils of Fagge Special Primary School, in Kano metropolis. The school’s security guard, Malam Ibrahim Dansarki, told the New Agency...
The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan in Oyo State, says it has carried out a mass burial for many unclaimed corpses in its mortuary. Deji Bobade,...
The Deputy Consul-General of the U.S. Consulate-General in Lagos, Dehab Ghebreab, on Wednesday said 40 young Nigerians have been selected to participate in this year’s Mandela...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Accra declared that democracy had come to stay in West Africa. In his valedictory speech at the 47th Ordinary Session...
The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said it was strange for the Governors Forum to allege that 20 billion dollars were missing from the Excess Crude...
A 62-year-old woman, Joy Shittu, and her 25-year-old daughter, Toyin, were on Tuesday arraigned before an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court for concealing a corpse. The...
The corruption trial of Thai former Premier Yingluck Shinawatra has begun on Tuesday. Yingluck, flanked by supporters and party members, arrived at the Supreme Court to face...
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