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Twitter user, @CharlieAnekwe tells an amazing story of how some children were miraculously saved from an impending disaster. See his tweets after the cut…

Politics issues should never be a do-or-die thing people, why the anarchy? There were various political conflicts in Rivers state (and different parts of Nigeria) yesterday. Here are a few pics of a percentage of the loss in Rivers. Keep ...

The US RC-135U reconnaissance plane was flying towards the Russian border with its transponder switched off, a Defense Ministry spokesman said in Moscow Saturday.  Maj.-General Igor Konashenkov said that an unidentified airborne target was spotted over the Baltic Sea by Russian air ...

John Oyegun, the national chairman of APC said today Saturday April 11th that the gale of defections by politicians was not good for Nigeria’s political development. Mr. Oyegun, who spoke to newsmen in Benin shortly after casting his vote, advised ...

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said he is ready to congratulate whoever emerges the winner of the governorship election in the state, if he loses the poll. He stated this in an interview with journalists minutes after casting his ...

Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief  Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the candidates of the party will win some seats in the Osun State House of Assembly. Fani-Kayode said this in an interview with ...

Five persons have been feared killed in Akwa Ibom State during the governorship and state House of Assembly elections on Saturday. A reporter with one of the local tabloids, Radar Newspaper, Mr. Aniedi Ukoenang’s whereabouts is unknown. The killings occurred ...

Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Joseph Mbu, has said the threat he issued to kill 10 people for every policeman killed made the conduct of the Lagos State election peaceful. Mbu spoke on Saturday at the state’s Command ...

Voting did not take place on Saturday at Ohokobe-Ngume ward one, in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, following rumours that the electoral materials were not the original. It was gathered that voters had finished their accreditation as of ...

The mobile telephone numbers of Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, were cloned by unknown persons hours before the governorship and House of Assembly elections on Saturday. The cloned phone numbers were thereafter used to send fake text messages, discouraging people ...