FG to UN: No going back on same-sex marriage law
BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI & VICTORIA OJEME ABUJA—The Federal Government, Thursday, told the United Nations that no amount of pressure would force it to reverse the law that criminalised same-sex...
View Article380 dead bodies abandoned in Anambra mortuaries
BY ENYIM ENYIM A total of 380 unclaimed dead bodies have been abandoned in mortuaries in Anambra State since 2006. A break-down of the corpses showed that most of them were victims of religious crisis...
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President Jonathan Visits Yar’Adua’s Mum in Katsina
President Goodluck Jonathan in Katsina on Friday paid homage to Hajia Aya Dada, mother of late President Umaru Yar’Adua. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Jonathan, who was on a two-day state...
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Governors Have A Lot To Learn From Fashola, says Amaechi
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers in Lagos on Friday said that governors have a lot to learn from the development stride of Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state. He said this in his opening remark at...
View ArticleOduah’s achievements will be used as yard stick for future leaders – Union
Abuja – The Joint Consultative and Negotiating Council (JCNC) on Friday said the council would use Stella Oduah’s achievements in aviation industry as a yardstick to measure future leaders’...
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Confab: S’East govs appoint Ike Nwachukwu leader of Igbo delegates
From PETRUS OBI, Enugu The South-East Governors’ Forum yesterday in Enugu appointed General Ike Nwachukwu (retd) as the chairman of the South-East delegates to the national conference. The meeting,...
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Police blockade Kalu’s Abia home
Police on Friday at Igbere in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, barred members of Reality Organization and other supporters of Chief (Mrs.) Eunice Uzor Kalu from attending a scheduled event in...
View ArticleUPDATE: Lost Malaysia plane ‘may have flown on for five hours’
The missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been flying for more than five hours after it disappeared, the BBC has learned. It is believed the plane was sending automated signals to a satellite...
View ArticleRibadu admonishes governors on exuberant lifestyle
The former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has advised governors and other political office holders to avoid extravagant lifestyles capable of encouraging...
View ArticleDefence Headquarters explain why Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri Army Barracks
Major General Chris Olukolade, Director, Defense Information, has explained why members of the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri army...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines pilot’s last recorded words gave no hint of danger
The last recorded words by the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 gave no hint that anything was wrong with the jetliner that disappeared from radar, a recent report said. An air traffic...
View ArticleUS reports rare female-to-female HIV case
A 46-year old U.S. woman has likely acquired HIV from her female partner in a rare female-to-female sexual transmission of the AIDS virus, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
View ArticleOver 100 killed in Kaduna villages
Not less than 100 persons were reported massacred late on Friday night in three Southern Kaduna villages of Bondon district in Kaura local government area of the state by unknown gunmen suspected to be...
View ArticleImmigration recruitment : 3 pregnant women die, 20 others injured in Benin
Three pregnant women participating in the Benin zone of the immigration recruitment exercises slumped and died immediately inside the main bowl of Samuel Ogbemudia stadium on Saturday. The applicants...
View ArticleImmigration recruitment: 3 applicants die in Niger
Three of the over 11,000 candidates for the aptitude test for recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service were on Saturday feared dead in Minna, Niger State capital. They died following a...
View ArticleStampede: Hospital confirms four dead in Port Harcourt
Hospital authorities at the Rivers government-owned Braithwaite Memorial Hospital in Port Harcourt have confirmed that four candidates died during a stampede at the Nigeria Immigration Service...
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Terror in the sky: Police raid home of Malaysian pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah
Police searched the luxury home of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah on Saturday after it was revealed the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 turned back from its scheduled flight path over the South China...
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Money, Massive Armory Captured From Terrorists – DHQ
By SaharaReporters, New York Nigeria’s military authorities said on Saturday that troops have captured a massive armory with an arms and ammunition dump belonging to the Boko Haram terrorists in one of...
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Immigration Recruitment: Four Dead In Port Harcourt
Hospital authorities at the Rivers government-owned Braithwaite Memorial Hospital in Port Harcourt have confirmed that four candidates died during a stampede at the Nigeria Immigration Service...
View ArticleNational Confab: History beckons Nigeria
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor FACED with debilitating socio-economic, ethno-religious and political challenges worsened by the Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives...
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