Angelina Jolie unhurt after car crash
Angelina Jolie had a big scare Sunday when her SUV skidded on an oily L.A. road, hitting a median and blowing 2 tires.Jolie was on the way home from a screening of her new film, “Unbroken.” The L.A....
View ArticleI will end insurgency if elected as president – Atiku
Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and a leading presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised to end insurgency if elected president of the country in...
View ArticleBalotelli apologises for social media post
Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli apologised on Tuesday for his social media post which appeared to contain potentially racist and anti-Semitic references. Balotelli, who made the post on his Instagram...
View ArticleStates of Jersey to return £315m Abacha loot
The States of Jersey the biggest territory in the Channels Island is set to return £ 315 million Abacha loot to Nigeria. Mr Micheal Birt, the Ballif of Jersey stated this at a dinner in honour of Dr...
View ArticleFrench parliament recognises Palestinian state
French lawmakers have voted 339 to 151 in favour of a symbolic motion to recognise Palestine as a state. The National Assembly’s vote on Tuesday is likely to raise domestic political pressure on the...
View ArticleSpain officially free of Ebola – WHO
The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared Spain free of Ebola after going a month and a half with no new cases since an infected nurse successfully beat the disease. “There have been no further...
View ArticleFG urges states, LGs to partner against terrorism
The Federal Government has called for greater cooperation between state and local governments in the area of community policing to help check terrorism in the country. Mr Mike Omeri, Coordinator,...
View ArticleNew injury woe for Barca’s Vermaelen
Barcelona says defender Thomas Vermaelen has had surgery to treat a right leg muscle injury and is expected to be sidelined for another four months. The 29-year-old has yet to play for Barcelona since...
View ArticleUniMaid bans students from entering campus with vehicles
The authorities of the University of Maiduguri on Tuesday banned students from entering the campus with vehicles.The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Tanko Mohammed, said the measure was...
View ArticleSoyinka likens Jonathan to Nebuchadnezzar
The Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has come hard on the present administration in Nigeria, criticising President Goodluck Jonathan on what he described as the reign of impunity under his watch...
View ArticleFG to deliver higher national value system to Nigerians – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday the Federal Government was determined to deliver to Nigerians an enhanced value system that would promote peace, hard work and love for one another. Jonathan...
View ArticleCollege students protest school’s merger with institute in Akure
Students of the Ondo State Cooperative College, protest located in Akure, have staged a peaceful protest against the state government’s decision to merge the college with the Public Service Training...
View ArticleLagos Airport cargo terminals reopened
The two cargo warehouses of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport have been reopened. This comes after two weeks that the Nigeria Customs Service sealed the two cargo warehouses at the Lagos...
View ArticleFire destroys popular market in Port Harcourt
The popular Mile 1 market in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, has been destroyed by fire.Eyewitnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the fire started at about 2.00 am on Tuesday morning and...
View ArticleGabon shuts oil refinery
Gabon’s only oil refinery, the 21,000-barrel-per-day Sogara plant, has been forced to halt output as a sector-wide strike entered its second day, union and industry sources said on Wednesday. “Sogara...
View ArticleNigeria’s reserves fall to 6-month low of $36.7bn
Nigeria’s foreign reserves fell to a six-month low of $36.7 billion by Dec. 1, down 4.5 percent from the previous month as the central bank stepped up its defence of the naira currency, figures on the...
View ArticleFootballer gets 10-match ban for ref attack
The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) said it has banned Lokomotiv Plovdiv defender Diyan Moldovanov for 10 matches for trying to hit a referee with a bottle on Saturday. The 29-year-old centre back was...
View ArticleAnother Egyptian dies of bird flu, death toll rises to 7
Another Egyptian has died of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the total number of deaths in Egypt from the virus to seven, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The 26-year-old man died in the province of...
View Article2014 poised for hottest year on record – UN
This year may end as the hottest on record, the UN’s weather agency said Wednesday as it recounted a tale of rising seas, crippling droughts and floods since January. “The year 2014 is on track to be...
View ArticleEbola: 5m children out of school in West Africa
Some five million children are out of school in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because of the deadly Ebola outbreak, according to a report by the Global Business Coalition for Education. Schools and...
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