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A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia in May after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was back in the United States on Friday and at the center of an international mystery over how a (more…)

Sources tell E! News the child, reportedly named Blue Ivy, arrived via C-section Saturday We were so ready for this belly, and now we're so psyched to meet this baby! Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed a (more…)

Works minister Mike Onolememen says he sees about 750,000 jobs coming up in the road construction sector in two years as projects are being executed with savings made from fuel subsidy removal. (more…)

Sen. Gyang Dantong, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health on Sunday criticised Nigerian universities, declaring that the ivory towers ``are not contributing to nation growth. ``Worldwide, universities undertake (more…)

Transport operators have expressed optimism that the removal of subsidy on fuel by the Federal Government will end the persistent smuggling of premium motor spirit out of the country. Speaking in an interview in Abuja on Sunday, one of the transporters, Alhaji Musa Isewele, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Musa Shehu Isewele Motors, said that the removal of the subsidy would make fuel smuggling unattractive and put a stop to the problem. (more…)

By Bayo Onanuga President Jonathan’s handlers did him a disservice Saturday night when he delivered another address to Nigerians on his controversial removal of the fuel subsidy. (more…)

- Lawmakers Urge Halt to Fuel Subsidy Removal Nigerians, who started marking time on whether President Goodluck Jonathan would live up to his Saturday night live promise to cut down on foreign trips (more…)

- Express Solidarity with Occupy Nigeria Marchers Below is a full text of the statement: Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian People (more…)

Work on the abandoned N2.97 billion Utor Bridge on the Asaba-Uromi road being constructed by the Federal Government is to resume, this year, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa (PDP-Delta), has said. He said that the planned (more…)

Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, says increased capacity building, cooperation and the right entrepreneurial spirit among Nigerian engineers is a sure way to position them to compete favourably (more…)

DESPITE assurances by Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Afeez Ringim, that his men and officers would ensure the safety of life and property as workers and citizens from all walks of life occupy streets across Nigeria to denounce the removal of fuel subsidies, some of his trigger-happy operatives open unprovoked gunfire at under-aged children in Lagos on the first day of the mass protests. The policemen allegedly moved in a convoy of three pick-up vans marked “Rapid-Response Squad” and reportedly opened fire at children who were playing soccer on abandoned roadway in Ogba, Ikeja. One of them, Ademola Aderinto, was hit and later died of injuries sustained, even as several of his colleagues were injured. The killing was allegedly carried out by one CSP Segun Fabunmi and Victor Okaf...

. Three Protesters Shot Dead by Police in Lagos, 2 in Kano. Oyo Govt Raises Alarm on Political Plans to Cause Chaos News and Photos from Ibadan by Alaba Taoreed, in Ibadan The strike action embarked upon by labor Unions in Nigeria today received the blessings of a majority of Nigerians who took to (more…)

  - Balarebe Musa, Col.Ahmed Ali, Comrade Shehu Sani, Festus Okoye lead protestBy Haruna Salami, Kaduna Business and office activities in Kaduna were paralyzed Monday due as a result of the nationwide strike action and (more…)

In this interview, the leader of the Ibadan-based Achievers Rock Commission International, Apostle Perez Iyiola Oluyemi spoke on the issue of fuel subsidy removal as well as some other national issues. (more…)

Lawrence Anyanwu, one of the 109 Nigerian-born soldiers, currently serving in the U.S. Army, has been listed for promotion to the rank of colonel, making him the first Nigerian in active service to (more…)

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Cross River have threatened to sanction members who failed to join the ongoing strike to protest fuel subsidy removal. (more…)

Microsoft Nigeria said that it had started training some youths in tertiary institutions in the country on programming so that they could be more productive and useful to the society. Mr Emmanuel Onyeje, Microsoft Country (more…)

Paucity of funds may hinder the progress of work on Nigeria’s application to extend its continental shelf, currently before the UN, investigations revealed. Nigeria had on May 7, 2009 submitted its (more…)

* Mark Challenges Security Agencies to Redouble Effort President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday in Abuja said that the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which had claimed responsibility for many (more…)

Opposition political parties in Nigeria, under the aegis of Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria (PAN), on Monday expressed unhappiness at the senate for "sitting on the fence during the nation’s time of distress". The National Coordinator of PAN, Chief Maxi Okwu, said in Lagos that ``the Senate has not done well for the nation”. (more…)