Facebook sticks by Gawker attack funder Peter Thiel
Facebook has chosen to keep the billionaire who helped fund a sex tape legal case against Gawker Media on its board of directors. The social...
Russian hacker gang arrested over $25m theft
Russia has arrested 50 people accused of using malware to steal more than 1.7bn roubles ($25m; £18m). The gang allegedly seeded websites with malware that...
Amaechi assures completion of Abuja-Kaduna rail line by July
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has assured that the Federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari will ensure the sustenance of the Abuja-Kaduna rail project...
Woman set 19 year old girl ablaze for refusing son’s marriage proposal
A young Pakistani teacher has died after being tortured and set alight by her former boss as punishment for refusing a marriage proposal from his...
Tax fraud trial: Messi pleads not guilty
The Barcelona and Argentina football star, Lionel Messi, who is on trial for alleged tax fraud in Spain, has told a court he had no...
Niger Delta Avenger kills 50 soldiers in the creek, as ethnic tension rises between Ijaw, Itsekiri
The rampaging Niger Delta Avengers has provided a grisly account of how 50 Nigerian soldiers deployed to the Niger Delta to protect oil and gas...
Casual staff scandal rocks Presidential Air Fleet…Gets N3 Billion, pays staff N18,000
A casual staff scandal is currently rocking the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF), in Abuja, as top officers subject over 50 junior workers to very unpalatable...
PDP: BOT storms party secretariat, sacks Sheriff, Makarfi
The PDP Board of Trustees today sacked both Ali Modu-Sheriff and the chairman, caretaker committee, Ahmed Makarfi. Pointblanknews.com learnt that the Wada Jibrin led Board...
The GEJ Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian economy and the Buhari cross
On the third of June 2014, Godwin Emefiele became the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Godwin Emefiele heads a Monetary Policy Committee where...
Gov. Dickson chaired militants meeting to make Nigeria ungovernable for Buhari – Ex-Militant
‘General’ Isreal Akpodoro, a former militant leader in the Niger Delta. In this interview, he spoke on the renewed militant activities in the Niger Delta....