South Africa’s Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s has announced that an additional 57 billion rand ($5bn; £3.5bn) will be allocated to free university education for students from poor and working-class families. Initially announced by former...
All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has accused National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun of sabotaging his reconciliation efforts in the party. In a February 21 letter of complaint to Oyegun, Tinubu said the...
Ten senators are facing sanctions over their stand on the amendment of the Electoral Act. They may be suspended. The controversial amendment reordered the sequence of elections. It placed the Senate and the House...
A Dana aircraft overshot the runway while landing at Port Harcourt international airport on Tuesday. An aircraft overshoots the runway when it moves past a specified point unintentionally. The Cable reports that the aircraft,...
A couple identified as 35-year-old Ifeanyi and Emmanuel Elijah, 30, have been arrested by the Imo State Police Command for allegedly selling their daughter, Chinecherem, for N400,000, a few hours after delivery. The husband...
NO CONFLICT since the 1940s has been bloodier, yet few have been more completely ignored. Estimates of the death toll in Congo between 1998 and 2003 range from roughly 1m to more than 5m—no...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly rejected a request by Patience Jonathan, former first lady, to settle out of court in a case involving her and the agency. The agency has...
Mahmud Hassan, one of five men being tried for alleged importation of guns into the country, says the group paid N1 million to security agents to smuggle in gun consignment through Apapa Port, Lagos....
During the Civil War, the precious document was hidden behind wallpaper in a home in Virginia to keep Union soldiers from finding it. Later, it sat in a closet in Kentucky, in a broken frame,...
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to back off on his administration’s legal battles against the principal actors in the controversial Malabu Oil deal. The...
