The Revolutionary Council, JRC, of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF has said it jettisoned its planned missile launch against some targeted areas across the...
One of the arrested members of a five-man gang group who kidnapped a four-year-old boy, Alonge Oluwa Tumishe, on his way to school at Ishaga area...
According to a monitoring service tracking armed groups’ online activity, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for the killing...
Two people aboard a small plane have been reported dead after the jet they were in crashed into a town house in the Los Angeles suburb...
Researchers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), are helping librarians to get some robotic help in keeping books in their proper place. A*STAR...
Top-seeded Roger Federer earned a spot in the Mercedes Cup semifinals with a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (1) victory over German qualifier Florian Mayer on Friday. Federer...
49-year-old Jafaru Sougie who allegedly killed his wife, Roseline in the Oshodi area of Lagos State and was also accused by his in-laws of using their...
Andy and Jamie Murray will lead Great Britain’s bid for more Olympic tennis glory after the brothers were officially named in the squad for the Rio...
Lionel Messi scored three goals in a dazzling second-half display in his return from a back injury, and Argentina beat Panama 5-0 on Friday night to...
A South African court has ordered that a woman who referred to blacks as monkeys pay a fine of 150,000 rand ($10,000) to charity after she...
Another crisis may be brewing in the ever restive Niger Delta, as militants numbering over 600, Friday, demanded that the Federal Government reclaim the ceded Bakassi...
The Secretary to the Benue State Government, SSG, Mr. Targema Takema Thursday night, suffered a stroke when he slumped and went into coma at his Makurdi...
Manchester United are reportedly trying to seal the transfer of Zlatan Ibrahimovic before the start of Sweden’s Euro 2016 campaign. The Red Devils are understood to...
Dimitri Payet’s spectacular late strike has earned France a 2-1 win over Euro 2016 Group A rivals Romania, giving the host nation a flying start to...
The House of Representatives on Friday threw its weight behind the Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation board while warning controversial club owner, Chris Giwa, to stop...
Few days after the shocking death of former Super Eagles coach and captain, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, another blow has befallen Nigerian football. Another former coach of...
The Nigerian Army on Friday announced that it had sacked “quite a number” of very high-ranking officers, adducing “service exigencies” as reason for the exercise. A...
A former Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, Mr. David Paradang, on Friday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, how the tragic...
The federal government may have concluded plans to relocate some of its offices to buildings seized from alleged looters. This was disclosed by the Minister of...
The umbrella body of football coaches in Nigeria, the Nigeria Football Coaches Association (NFCA) has mourned with other Nigerians and football stakeholders in the world the...
The League of Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria (LEPAN) on Wednesday congratulated young Nigerians for their tenacity as a bill seeking to reduce the age of candidacy...
Doctors in Arauca, in the eastern part of Colombia were able to successfully extract a live grenade that was accidentally shot and lodged itself in a...
By Tony Ogunlowo… It’s very good that the governor of Ekiti state, Governor Fayose, can take time out from his busy schedule to feed the people...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Friday, threatened to revoke the Certificate of Occupancy, C of O, of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, while also...
Most people rationalise that life is already hard enough, without voluntarily depriving yourself of necessities like food, sleep and habits that one normally indulges in. However,...
In yet another brazen act, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, Friday morning, bombed a crude oil pipeline belonging to Agip ENI in Bayelsa state. This was...
The National Hospital, Abuja, has been accused by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, for transferring a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic...
Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, has agreed to pay the Nigerian government $1.7 billion as settlement of the fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission,...
By Reuben Abati . . . “Have you eaten today? If not, let me show you this new restaurant. Good food, the service girls specially attractive,...
The Federal Government and the Nigeria Football Federation will play an active role in the burial of late Stephen Keshi who died in the early hours...
Just days after Ahmed Adeeb was slammed with a separate 10-year conviction on “terrorism” charge, the ex deputy leader of the Maldives has been handed a...
By Ndem Nkem . . . She finally said yes and you are filled with excitement. I mean, it is finally happening! You set the time...
Getting a gift for any male no matter the occasion can be a stressful undertaking. Brothers and boyfriends are tricky enough, but dads are the hardest...
The sleepy community of Banku Estate, Wawa, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State is now a grave yard of some sort as...
The board of directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) through its private sector window has approved a $150 million line of credit (LOC) to...
After three successive negative trading sessions, quoted equities on Thursday rallied back as investors sought to take advantage of the recent declines in share prices. With...
There are indications that the Federal government has opted to reduce total budgetary spending on 2016 capital expenditure by half, as it envisages that the budget...
The Niger Delta militants, continued with attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta, Thursday evening, with the bombing of a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian...
The Nigerian Army, on Thursday, said its ground troops have continued to make progress in the ongoing clearance operations across the North East, with more Boko...
The Department of State Services, DSS, Thursday, said it has busted an Islamic State, ISIS, training Cell in Kano and arrested five suspects who were on...
World leaders and celebrities including former US President Bill Clinton and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to attend the funeral of legendary boxer Muhammad...
Chief Executive officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, Mr. George Uboh has been arrested by Operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS). He was picked...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday effected a minor shuffle in the Budget Office with a fresh assignment handed down Ben Akabueze as the new Director General...
By Enite Benjamin . . . I must say, Nigerians are really ‘busy bodies’. I have made it a point of duty to always take a...
Adeola Aderounmu… One year after the official emergence of the APC mandate, the most unexpected scenarios are here. The current situation in Nigeria today was unimaginable...
The police in Gambia have issued a press statement through the Inspector General of police warning the general public that all ceremonies, festivities and programs that...
Dele Awogbeoba… A cursory look at the Niger Delta and the damage done to its environment as a result of the huge cross the Niger Delta...
By Kennedy Emetulu… Okay, I strongly supported President Goodluck Jonathan in the last election, even though I’m not a PDP member and I have condemned and...
Farouk Martins Aresa… Niger Delta Avengers are bombing their own lives and that of next generations out of existence. If it was a foreign power, oil...
A filmmaker Mathew Fulks is seeking legal redress after claiming that Beyonce Knowles’ visual album was an uplift of a movie he made more than a...