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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Former President Obasanjo Registered For His PhD.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has registered for a Doctor of Philosophy programme at the National Open University of Nigeria.
The former president says he does

The Defence Headquarters has said it is aware that members of the outlawed Islamist sect, Boko Haram, are in the habit of looting its

A new walkout by Lufthansa pilots on Tuesday forced the cancellation of 50 flights in Frankfurt, Germany’s busiest airport,

The United Kingdom said it conducted its first airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq on Tuesday, striking targets four days after Parliament voted to approve the country's involvement.

British planes helped Kurdish troops who were fighting ISIS in northwestern Iraq, dropping a bomb on an ISIS heavy weapon position and shooting a missile

Following the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) election which was held today 30/9/2014 in Warri, Delta State The Chairman, Delta State Sports Commission, Mr. Amaju Pinnick, emerged the winner

Thousands more people have been joining pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, ahead of what organisers hope will be the

PA Taiwo Akinkunmi The Designer Of Nigeria Flag Gets Lifetime Salary.

The president of Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan as placed Mr Taiwo Michael Akinkunmi, the designer of the National Flag, on

A 39-year old man, Adekunle Omoyiwola, has been remanded in police custody for attacking a pastor, Olalekun Sodiq, with cutlass

The All Progressives Congress has vowed not to allow strangers to take over Ekiti State.

Its Chairman in the state, Chief Jide Awe, said during the state Congress in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, that the party had “men and women of honour who are

The United States may be touting its strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, but one of the terror group's fighters says the hits are trivial at best.

Less than two week after a church building collapsed in Benin, capital of Edo State, another church building collapsed in the ancient city.

The church auditorium which belongs to the Liberty Power Bible Church Incorporated,

Ashraf Ghani has been sworn in as Afghanistan's new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of

Mr. Remi Olowude, Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Industrial and General Insurance Plc, IGI, who was born in

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters are blocking Hong Kong's streets, shutting down its business hub and ignoring appeals

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ICT News: Six Good Things And Bad Things About iPhone6.

1) The rounded edges. The iPhone 6 feels really, really good in

British jet fighters have been sent to fly over Iraq and "are now ready to be used in an attack role as and when appropriate targets are identified," the UK Ministry of Defence said Saturday.

Veteran actor, Kayode Dosunmu, popularly known as Pa Kasunmu, who was diagnosed with heart and liver-related diseases in 2013,

Militants with the Islamic State group tortured and then publicly killed a human rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-proclaimed religious court ruled that she had abandoned Islam, the U.N. mission in Iraq said Thursday. Gunmen with the group's newly declared police

Islamist sect, Boko Haram has said it will let go of over 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno state only if the Federal Government agrees to swap the kidnapped school girls with

Airstrikes against ISIS militants are a "psychological operation," not a military one, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told CNN's

The political crisis rocking Ekiti State deepened on Friday as Governor Kayode Fayemi declared dusk till dawn curfew in the state.

In a live broadcast in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, Fayemi said, “There would be no

Bill and Hillary Clinton are grandparents. The couple's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, has given birth to her first child, a daughter named

The head of Nigeria’s football association has sought a court injunction against the security services to prevent further “harassment” in the run-up to a crucial meeting, his lawyer said.
Human rights advocate Festus Keyamo said

Islamic State fighters besieging the Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border have been targeted by air strikes, reports from the

Breaking News: Ado Ekiti Boils As Ekiti State NURTW EX-Chairman Assassinated.

News reaching us now from the capital of Ekiti State, Ado Ekiti says the capital is currently boiling as many house and property were set on fire in the capital by some thugs and members of National Union Of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) over the assassination of their state chapter chairman Mr Omolafe Aderiye last night on his way home at Ijigbo a popular area of the capital Ado Ekiti. Source says the

The Attorney General Of Ekiti State Vowed To Sue Fayose.

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Ekiti State, western Nigeria, Mr. Olawale Fapohunda, has vowed to sue the state governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, for allegedly ordering that a judge of the High Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, be beaten up

US officials have no indication of a plot by Islamic State militants to attack underground rail systems in the US and Paris.

Iraqi Prime Minister

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has widened a quarantine to include another one million people in an attempt to

The Defence authorities have confirmed the killing of the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, during one of the four encounters

The US-led coalition against Islamic State has targeted 12 oil refineries in Syria during a third night of air strikes against the

The Nigerian military on Wednesday said a total of 135 members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect surrendered with their weapons to

Sports News: Sharapova Crashes Out Of Wuhan Open.

Fourth seed Maria Sharapova crashed out of the $2.4 million WTA Wuhan Open in two sets Wednesday, while Wimbledon champion

Police forces in the European Union have made more than 1,000 arrests in their biggest-ever co-ordinated crackdown on organised

The United States on Wednesday said it was willing to assist the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in delivering credible elections, especially in 2015.

Two suspected car snatchers, who were paraded by the Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday, said they snatched a Honda Accord

A Frenchman who was kidnapped over the weekend in Algeria appears to have been beheaded in a video that was posted online Wednesday.

The video shows armed men beheading a man who appears to be Herve Gourdel -- a man who the French foreign ministry said was kidnapped

Tension was still high at the Rivers State judiciary on Wednesday after the forceful entry into the state’s High Court Complex in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

On Tuesday team of armed

US warplanes have carried out new air strikes on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria, hitting vehicles and arms dumps, the US

Breaking News: Chibok School Girls Release False Says Nigeria Military.

The Defence Headquarters has denied reports that over 200 girls kidnapped from a girls’ college in Chibok, Borno State on 14 April, 2014 by the insurgent group Boko Haram have been released.