A boat traveling from Oron in AkwaIbomState to Malabao in Equilateral Guinea, yesterday, capsized at the Calabar Waterways with no fewer than 166 passengers feared dead.

A top female police detective attached to AIG zone 1, Kano was shot death yesterday during the rush hour in the city.

The Joint Military Task Force, JTF, in Kano, yesterday, morning captured and destroyed an armoury belonging to suspected militants at Gida Ajawa along the Western By-pass in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state.

IN other words, Nigerians will like to know on what basis the amnesty would be granted? Will it be on the basis of the Federal Government acceptance of the demand of the Boko Haram for the establishment of an Islamic State bound by sharia laws in the same manner the demands of the Niger Delta militants were accepted; or will it be on the basis of an outright denunciation of the global jihad project which is sanctioned by the Holy Quran and enlivened by the February 23, 1998 Fatwah of Osama bin Ladin, which called for an unstoppable jihad against Jews and crusaders?

…”we kidnap victims from Imo State, take them to Rivers state …
Suspected leader of a kidnap syndicate that abducted the Managing Director, Naija Plaza Hotel, Oguta, Imo state and a pregnant woman and killed them after collecting ransom from their relatives, has been arrested by Policemen attached to Ilemba Hausa division in Lagos.

Parents of 25-year-old nurse and mother of two, Mrs Moyinoluwa Osire, who was murdered by unknown persons in Ado Ekiti, EkitiState capital last Sunday have called on the security operatives to fish out the killers of their daughter.

Heartland striker, Jolly Osas has said his side will not promise anything in the mid-week Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Matchday 2 encounter at Warri Wolves.

AWKA — CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Andy Ubah, has described his short stay in office as governor of Anambra State in 2007 as ‘’divine.’

THE Nigerian ambassador to Vietnam, Mazi Mathias Orji Okafor, disclosed yesterday that no fewer than 24 Nigerians were currently languishing in different prisons in Vietnam.

ON Wednesday March 13, 2013, Rebekah Havrilla, a former sergeant and bomb disposal expert in the US Army appeared before the US Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel investigating sexual offences.

RECTOR of Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, Dr. Jacob Oboreh, has vowed to expel any student of the institution, caught involved in cultism, examination malpractice and other anti-social vices.

The Federal Government has terminated the offer it made to the BFI Group, BFIG, to buy majority stake of the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot-Abasi, Akwa Ibom State.

Microsoft Nigeria and Leap Africa recently provided a platform for youths to assemble and learn leadership and life skills that would help them build up their career in social entrepreneurship.

Super Eagles returnee striker, Obafemi Martins touched down in Calabar yesterday and vowed to sink the Harambee Stars of Kenya in a World qualifier in the CrossRiverState capital this weekend.

Twelve governorship candidates in the February 2012 election in Bayelsa State, who allegedly negotiated a pact with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prior to the poll, to ensure stability and rapid socio-economic development of the state, have accused Governor Seriake Dickson of abandoning them.