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Two students of the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, were on Sunday reportedly beheaded in a clash between ex-militants and suspected cult members. Scroll down for photo… 15 people were also reported injured, and over 50 vehicles burnt, during the clash between ex-militants, who were registered in the Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State and suspected cultists. The ex-militants held the ...

CONVENER, Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, says Managing Director, Zenon Oil and Gas Limited, Femi Otedola and the suspended Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management, Farouk Lawan, are both culpable in the bribery scandal currently rocking the House. Bakare said this during a news conference in Lagos on Sunday. He submitted that if Nigeria ...

The death toll from today’s multiple bomb attacks on churches in Kaduna state is at least 31, reports said, and over 100 have been injured. Police sources expect the death toll to be much higher even as religious tension worsens in the northern city. A photo journalist with the Daily independent, Nath Jibrin, is said to be among the victims ...

LOS ANGELES – Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, died Sunday. He was 47. King’s fiancé called 911 at 5:25 a.m. to report that she found him at the bottom of the swimming pool at their home ...

By Premium Times President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed sadness over the multiple explosions that rocked churches in Kaduna and Zaria on Sunday. Jonathan expressed his sadness in Abuja at a special service to commemorate the 2012 Fathers Day. When called upon to give his remarks, the visibly gloomy Jonathan said he received the news of the blasts in the course ...