Scores were feared dead at Dakasoye village, Garun Mallam local goverment area of Kano, Friday, when a suicide bomber blew himself up among the Shia procession on their way to Zaria witness says.

FOR the fourth time, Lumen Christi International High School (LCIHS), Uromi, Edo State, has won the Augustus Bandele Oyediran award for producing the best aggregate result in the May/June 2014 WASSCE.

Awosan remanded the accused in custody at the Ile-Ife Prisons, pending legal advice from the Office of the DPP.
The case was adjourned then to Jan. 11, 2016.

Forty one ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos from Nov. 27 to Dec. 18.

Gunmen have kidnapped five Polish sailors from a cargo ship off southern Nigeria, in the latest incident in a region known as a piracy hotspot, Poland’s government said Friday.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has urged the media to galvanize support among the populace for the war on terrorism, which he described as a major challenge facing the nation.

Nine out of 14 professors have been shortlisted to contest for the post ‎of the Vice-Chancellor at the Lagos State University (LASU).

Former FIFA president Joao Havelange, a controversial figure who spent more than two decades in charge of world football, is being treated in a Rio hospital with respiratory problems. A spokeswoman for the Samaritano Hospital, Andresa Feijo, told AFP that the 99-year-old’s condition was “stable.” There was no further information available but a statement was […]

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said that Ankara has crossed the line by shooting down a Russian warplane this week and warned the incident could severely undermine Turkey’s interests.

The family of a Shiite activist sentenced to death after protesting in Saudi Arabia has voiced concerns for his fate as a rights group warned of his imminent execution.

THE Nigerian Navy in the Delta state has arrested a self propelled barge loaded with estimated 4000metric tonnes, equivalent of 400 truck load of suspected crude oil in what the Central Naval Command, CNC, described as “a big break in the fight against oil theft” in the Niger Delta.

Respite came the way of Nigerian insurance industry yesterday as the federal Government promised to offset all outstanding premium owed to the sector as soon as the economic situation of the country improves.

A former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, yesterday blamed rising incidents of electrocution in Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, on lack of proper installation of electric appliances.

The Ebonyi State Government has warned individuals currently lobbying for permanent secretary positions in the state’s civil service, to desist from the act as government was taking its time to fill the vacancies.

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 32-year-old clearing agent, Olabamiji Samson, to two years imprisonment over a N320,000 fraud.