Modified direct primary system’ll favour APC — Femi Pedro
A FORMER deputy governor of Lagos State, Otunba Femi Pedro has said the adoption of Modified Direct Primaries System,MDPS, by the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the preferred way of choosing its candidates in the upcoming 2015 elections, will ensure the emergence of an acceptable party candidate in the presidential election.
Pakistan army says 900 militants killed in anti-Taliban operation
Pakistan’s military said Wednesday it had killed more than 900 militants and lost 82 soldiers since the start of a major operation against the Taliban in the tribal northwest in June.
Ukraine says agree to ‘permanent ceasefire’ in east with Russia
Ukraine’s beleaguered President Petro Poroshenko announced on Wednesday that he and Russia’s Vladimir Putin had agreed to a “permanent ceasefire” in the east of the former Soviet country.
British High Commission confirms death of envoy at Lagos Airport
The British High Commision has confirmed the death of its Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Peter Leslie Carter, who slumped and died yesterday, from a possible heart attack on arrival at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
Premiership: Spurs would have been easy option – Van Gaal
Louis van Gaal says he has no regrets about becoming Manchester United manager and claims that if he had wanted an easy life, he would have gone to Tottenham Hotspur.
Infidelity crashes septuagenarian’s 35-year-old marriage
The 35-year-old marriage of a septuagenarian, Isreal Sanusi, was on Tuesday in Lagos dissolved on grounds of the wife’s infidelity.
Japan says to target Antarctic minke whale despite ban
Japan plans to resume its slaughter of minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean next year, an official said Wednesday, despite an order from the UN’s top court to stop all whaling in the area.
I can swear in Oba shrine PDP did not offer us money —Edo Dep Speaker
LAGOS—Suspended Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr Festus Ebea, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, did not offer any of the members that defected to PDP from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, money to defect.
Woman remanded for jilting lover
LAGOS — A 43-year-old event planner, Miss Omolola Shittu, is currently biting her fingers for jilting a 55-year-old man, Prince Hilary Unachukwu with whom she had enjoyed benefits of love affair since August 2012.
Cameroon army ‘kills 40 Boko Haram fighters’
Cameroon’s army claimed on Tuesday to have killed more than 40 Boko Haram fighters who tried to storm a strategic border crossing from Nigeria.
Panic as Ebola hits Kaduna; fear in Lagos
Fear of fresh cases of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, yesterday, gripped residents of Lagos and Kaduna, following news of the death of a suspected Ebola patient at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi- Araba, just as a 19-year-old student of Law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was allegedly diagnosed with the Ebola virus in Kaduna.
