In Algeria, Bouteflika rallies voters, opponents smell fraud
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika urged Algerians to defy boycott calls and vote in Thursday’s election, as his rival Ali Benflis said an “army” of supporters would monitor the poll and warned against...
View ArticleAbuja blasts: NEMA wants blood donors as one more person dies
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Twenty four hours after the fatal attack masterminded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents at a Bus park at Nyanya, 16 kilometres outside Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city centre, the...
View ArticleBrazil’s scientists clone goat to treat rare disease
Scientists in Brazil have genetically modified a goat to produce milk with an enzyme to treat a rare genetic disorder, O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported Tuesday. The goat, named “Gluca,” is the...
View ArticleNigerian Rebasing And The Making Of A Phantom Economy
By Peter Claver Oparah And so storm tossed and weather beaten Nigerians woke up on Saturday, 5 April to hear from the figure crunchers that people her so-called economic bureaucracy that it is the...
View ArticleMissing Aviation Minister
More than two months after Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation, was sacked, there has been no one to replace her and Nigerians are beginning to say the absence of a new minister is a big scam. Oduah...
View ArticleGenuine Consultations Will End Boko Haram Attacks
Adesola Samuel Adedayo, Chairman, Apapa/Iganmu Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, in a chat with P.M.NEWS bares his mind about the Abuja-Nyanya bomb blast, APC congress, security...
View ArticleThere’ll Be More Bomb Blasts
Founder, Inri Evangelical Spiritual Church, Oke Afa, Isolo, Lagos, Primate Ayodele speaks with Oluwole Adeboye, on the state of the nation You predicted the bomb explosion in Abuja and it came to pass....
View ArticleNyanya Blasts: ‘My Wife Died On Way To Buy Wedding Items’
Sola Adeola/Abuja Understandably, Alpha Moro became disturbed on the whereabouts of his wife who left home less than an hour before, immediately he heard about the bomb explosion that rocked the Nyanya...
View ArticleDStv Plans Exciting World Cup Coverage
Taiwo Adelu For a paltry sum of N1,500 Nigerians can watch all the 64 matches of Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup at the comfort of their homes. DStv says Nigerians irrespective of the platform they are...
View ArticleRobbers Raid Badagry Suburb, Kill Pharmacist
Jef Ezemadu Armed robbers last night unleashed terror on the residents of Ibereko, a suburb of Badagry, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, killing a popular pharmacist and shooting a soldier. The pharmacist,...
View ArticleExtra-Judicial Killing: Judge Orders Police To Pay N25m Damages
Daniel Ekugo A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, western Nigeria has ordered the Nigeria Police Force to pay N25 million as damages to the family of Femi Michael Ilesanmi, who died while...
View ArticleBuhari To Sue PDP Over Boko Haram
Eromosele Ebhomele Unable to bear the continuous wild accusation linking him with the Boko Haram terrorists by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a former Head of State and a chieftain of the All...
View ArticleMen Wired To Love Breasts, Says Lagos Lawmaker
Eromosele Ebhomele A female lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Ramotallahi Akinola-Hassan, has added to the debate concerning the actual owner of a woman’s breasts between her husband and...
View ArticleHow Nigerian Youth Stabbed Mom To Death In UK
A court in the United Kingdom has heard how a cross-dressing Nigerian youth stabbed his mother to death in a frenzied attack before dressing up in women’s clothes to try and fool neighbours into...
View ArticleLagos Gov Race: Ashafa, GOS, Hamzat To Fight For Ticket
Jamiu Yisa & Jide Osokoya Following the zoning of the 2015 governorship ticket to Lagos East Senatorial District by the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, it is going to be...
View ArticleLagos Hosts Milo U-13 Africa Tourney
The city of Lagos, Nigeria will play host to the third edition of Milo U-17 African Championship, which will hold from 29-31 May at the Campos Mini Stadium, Ajele, Lagos Island. The championship, which...
View ArticleRufai: Eagles Can Go Far In Brazil
Ex-Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Rufai, has predicted a good outing for the Super Eagles at the Brazil World Cup, which kicks off on 11 June. Adebobola Alawode reports that the former Deportivo La...
View Article115 schoolgirls still missing after kidnap – principal
•Secondary school girls in northern Nigeria. Photo… Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Asabe Kwambura, principal of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State has denied reports from the...
View ArticleFG confident of adequate security for World Economic Forum
Alhaji Bashir Yuguda, Supervising Minister of National Planning Commission, has assured delegates to the forthcoming World Economic Forum that the Federal Government would ensure their security....
View ArticleFRCN Probe: Court Fixes 12 May For Verdict
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, Friday adjourned till 12 May this year to deliver judgment in a suit filed before the court by the suspended Governor of...
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