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Imo State Governor and a presidential aspirant under the All Progressive Congress (APC), Owele Rochas Okorocha has accused prominent Nigerians of reaping large profits from the insurgency in the north.
Gov. Okorocha made this allegation when he paid a visit...
A staff of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Precious FM, Lafia, Miss Fatima Garga, on Monday slumped and died inside her car in Nasarawa State.
Punch reports that Miss Garga (pictured) was a senior administrative staff, and was given...
Two hundred and fifty volunteer health workers from Nigeria will on Thursday travel to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to join legion of other volunteers fighting the Ebola virus disease in West African countries.
The 250 volunteers are the first...
Governor Babatunde Fashola has appealed to banks to desist from mounting pressure on female marketers in its employ who are forced to sleep with potential depositors so as to win fat accounts and meet their quarterly targets.
The governor made...
Kaduna State coordinator of Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, Benjamin Daniel has said that over 600,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS in the state.
The figure he added, raised the HIV/AIDS prevalence in the state from 5.2%...
Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the medical doctor who died from Ebola after contracting it from a Liberian patient (Patrick Sawyer) she treated in Lagos has won the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Nigeria Integrity Award with a cash prize of...
Opinions are sharply against Independent National Electoral Commission's plan to print election materials for the 2015 polls abroad, orijoreporter was told.
The Commission under the chairmanship of Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega is believed to be finalizing arrangement to print and...
Tottenham striker and Togo star Emmanuel Adebayor has blamed his poor form this season on his mother, who he accused of using juju to stop him from scoring goals.
Adebayor has only scored two goals in twelve matches for his...
Omonigho Abraham(pictured) who was bitten by dogs at Igando in Lagos State and his skull was seriously wounded has been flown to India for adequate medical care.
Omonigho and his mother left the country on Saturday to India where he...
The family of Justina Ejelonu (pictured), one of the health workers at First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, Lagos who died of Ebola after contracting the deadly disease from Liberian Patrick Sawyer has accused government and the hospital where the deceased...
Chief Raymond Dokpesi has left his role as the chairman of Daar Communications Plc, owners of Raypower and African Independent Television, AIT, DAAR Sat and Faaji FM for his son, Chief Paul Dokpesi Jnr(pictured).
The transition was announced at the...
14-year-old child bride, Wasila Tasi’u who allegedly poisoned her husband, Umar Sani to death after lacing the food she prepared for him with rat poison appeared in High Court in Gezawa, a Local Government Area in Kano State on...
Information has emerged that actress, Stephanie Okereke’s nephew, Daniel Okereke who is charged with raping a University of Lagos undergraduate is a gospel artiste.
An obscure artiste, Daniel dropped a single last year, titled “Seek Ye First” via his record...
A member of a kidnappers' gang has been arrested after posing as Aliko Dangote on facebook to lure a beauty queen and daughter of the Special Adviser to the Kwara State Governor on Political Matters, Alhaji Usman Bibire, Saadat...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday in Abeokuta gave a shocking revelation of how he was diagnosed as having prostate cancer December last year and was cured of it about two months ago.
He made the disclosure at the...
A lecturer and a final year student have been killed by suspected cultists in Kogi State University, KSU, Anyigba.
Olurotimi Otitolaye (pictured) was an Associate Professor and lectured in Faculty of Agriculture in the Department of Agric Economics and Extension...
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned Nigerians against smuggling frozen chicken into the country, saying the Ebola Virus Disease could be back due to such activities.
The warning was contained in a statement issued in Abuja...
A cash officer of a new generation bank (name withheld), four police escorts, and a driver have been arrested in connection with the recent bullion van attack by armed robbers at Elemoso Village in Ondo East Local Government area...
Daughter of a federal lawmaker was burnt to death in a raging inferno that gutted a secondary school in Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa State on Saturday.
Hon. Hassan Adamu Abunabo (pictured), a House of Representatives member who represents...
A woman who abducted a baby during a church service at Redeemed Christian Church of God, Celebration Parish, Asaba, the Delta State capital has returned the baby after about 10 days of keeping the baby in her custody.
The woman,...
