Three secondary school students writing on-going West African School Certificate Examination, WASCE have been killed and over 200 others injured when the building of the examination hall located at Alpha Academy, a private secondary school in Mararaba, Donga local government area of Taraba State collapsed. The tragedy which occured late on Wednesday was confirmed today by the Chairman of Donga local council ...

  Margaret Thatcher, the most dominant British prime minister since Winston Churchill in 1940 and a global champion of the late 20th-century free market economic revival, has died. She was aged 87. Her spokesman, Lord Bell, said on Monday: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning. A further state ...

Deputy governor of Ekiti state, Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka is dead. The 52 year old banker turned politician died in Lagos today after a protracted battle with cancer. Mrs Olayinka became the state deputy governor after a long legal battle to reclaim her joint ticket electoral victory with Kayode Fayemi on 16th October 2010 from the PDP installed Segun Oni. She is said to be survived by her husband and three ch ...

Blood sucking demons appear to be on the loose today as fresh information from South East Nigeria indicates that no fewer than 36 passengers in two buses owned by the Rivers State Transport Company have been killed in collision with a long truck along the Onitsha-Owerri express way in Ihiala local council area of Anambra state. The accident was said to have occured when a truck loaded with alcoholic drinks ...

An early morning explosion by a petrol tanker laden with petrol has killed over a 100 passengers trapped in the inferno along the everbusy Benin-Ore federal highway. An iReports-ng.com contact in the area close to Ugbogui village said over 30 passengers in a luxury bus which belongs to a transport company, Young Shall Grow, were among those roasted to death in the fire. Besides, several occupants of other v ...

Son of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was also the Publisher/ Vice Chairman of the African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Pls, Publishers of the Tribune titles, Chief Oluwole Awolowo died today at the age of 70 in a London hospital where he has been receiving treatment for sometime. Chief Awolowo died 5.40pm Nigerian time at Wellington hospital, St Johnswood, London following complications arising from a car c ...

Convicted Police Pension thief, John Yusufu today caused a stir in an Abuja court room where he was standing trial for false declaration of his assets as he slumped in the dock, prompting the trial judge, Justice Adamu Bello to adjourn the case abruptly. Trouble began for the former Deputy Director at the Police Pension Office, when the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs stood on the way of the bail applica ...

The true story about the ailment that kept wife of Nigerian president, Patience Jonathan in Germany for almost two months last year emerged today when the first lady declared at a thanksgiving service in Abuja that she actually died for seven days in a German hospital before she could be brought back to life. While narrating the details of her ailment and treatment in Germany at a special thanksgiving servi ...

Enugu state governor, Sullivan Chime who returned to the country recently after 140 days abroad has opened up on why he has to stay that long outside the country, stressing that he was away to treat cancer of the nose and of the neck. Chime who spoke with a select group of journalists in Enugu Monday night at the Government House said that though he is still recuperating from the terminal ailment, he is how ...

No fewer than nine female government officials deployed on the field for polio immunization were today shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram Sect, leaving about four other female officials seriously wounded in two separate but well coordinated attacks in Kano. The sect has in the past kicked against the vaccination exercise which it described as unislamic. The two attacks tod ...