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Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram on Friday claimed a spate of attacks on mobile phone masts belonging to MTN, Airtel,…

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos,  on Tuesday remanded a 49-year-old woman, Josephine Jacob, in Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly strangling one…

Egypt’s first veiled newsreader on state television has drawn support from many viewers for ending an unwritten rule under ousted…

The Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Dr Tahir Mamman, on Thursday in Abuja disclosed that a recently qualified lawyer…

A Greek-operated oil tanker seized off Togo was tracked down on Wednesday off the coast of Nigeria under the control…

** Two 70-yr-old photographers affected. The management of Nigeria’s leading news magazine, Newswatch, has paid salary arrears owed its entire…

Amnesty International says it has received “credible reports” that Gambia executed nine death row prisoners on Thursday.

The African Union has asked Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh to renounce plans to execute all death row prisoners next month.

Tanzania has suspended the head of its ports authority and six other senior port officials over allegations of cargo theft…

Nigerian police said they found two bomb factories and arrested five suspected militants on Wednesday in the central state of…

The Yobe State Police Command said on Wednesday in Damaturu that two persons were killed by unknown gunmen on Tuesday…

President Goodluck Jonathan today warned Ministers to avoid the temptation of leaving their jobs in the hands of Permanent Secretaries…

The government of Nigeria has published an updated list of oil marketers recommended for criminal investigation in the on-going saga…

The Jetties and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners Association has said it will from Wednesday (today) shut down its depots across…

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has suspended one of her sons from the post of central bank deputy governor for…

Royal Dutch Shell spent almost 40 percent of its $1 billion global security budget between 2007 and 2009 in Nigeria,…

The United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said that scheduling challenges made her trip to Nigeria very…