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UK Election: Nigerian Chuka Umunna wins Streatham seat

It was all good news for the Nigerian community in UK as three of five Nigerian-Britons contesting in UK’s general election 2010 emerged victorious in UK’s...

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is dead

President, Umaru Yar’adua, has died after a long illness, an official at his office has said. He reportedly died on Wednesday evening at the Aso Rock presidential...

FG officially drops criminal charges against Ribadu

Nigeria’s state broadcaster says the government has dropped criminal charges against the former anti-corruption czar. NTA said the charges against former Economic...

United, Continental merged to form world’s biggest airline

The United Continental merger has been formally announced on Monday, May 3. The recent Continental United deal will create the world’s largest airline in terms of...

Terror attack averted in New York City

Police found a suspected car bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through...

Militant group claims responsibility for fresh oil attack

A Nigerian militant faction on Friday claimed it had attacked a Shell-operated oil facility in the Niger Delta, but the Anglo-Dutch firm denied any such incidents in the...

White house supends oil drilling

The US administration has banned oil drilling in new areas of the US coast while the cause of the oil spill off Louisiana is investigated. White House adviser David...

New video shows Abdulmutallab in Al-Qeada traning camp

The video, obtained and broadcast Monday by “ABC World News,” shows  Abdulmutallab,  23-year-old firing weapons and speaking in Arabic about his impending...

Greece seeks for emergency loans from EU,IMF

Greece has formally asked for the activation of an EU-IMF financial rescue package to help pull the debt-ridden economy out of its crisis. It had hoped that just the...