Uganda played a 0-0 away draw in Ghana in the opening game of Group E in 2018 World Cup qualifying on Friday. Ghana dominated the game...
If Nigeria must come out of recession and benefit from recent reforms, it must embrace increased structural adjustment, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has said. The...
By Femi Fani-Kayode… Professor John Paden, President Muhammadu Buhari’s official biographer, is a man that is very comfortable with distorting the truth and telling lies. He...
The Federal High Court in Ibadan has sentenced a former employee of Wema Bank, Ademola Oni, to 12-year imprisonment for conspiracy and money laundering. The court,...
The Presidency has urged Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups in the coastal region to leave the creeks and enlist in the amnesty programme for...
A frontline academic staff of Bayero University, Kano, Saminu Aliyu Kiri has been abducted by hoodlums in Kaduna. Aliyu Kiri was said to be on his...
A member of the House of Representatives, Mr Johnson Agbonayinma said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost Sept. 28 governorship poll in Edo due to disunity...
Troops of the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East have arrested fleeing members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in Maiduguri and Mafa, Borno...
The kidnapers that abducted four students, a teacher and JSS principal of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, have reportedly contacted the families of their victims...
The Presidency has said that there is no truth in allegations made by a group of protesters in Bayelsa state that the bank accounts of former...
Several months after the bloody clash between soldiers and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, that claimed hundreds of life in Zaria, Kaduna State,...
The 20th in the series of the famous Nigeria Cup, a tournament put in place to celebrate the nation’s Independence anniversary came to a thrilling end...
Zambia’s new interim coach Wedson Nyirenda has dropped defender Lawrence Chungu from the squad set to face Nigeria in the 2018 Fifa World Cup Group B...
Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, has revealed that the cash donation of $390,000 made to the team by Japanese doctor and philanthropist Katsuya Takasu is...
The black head of the South African Anglican Church, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has said he would prefer to be assisted to die. Archbishop Tutu, who had...
President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Award for his efforts at ending the 52-year conflict in that country....
Three days after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has replied the national leader of his...
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu today described the verdict of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory dismissing the charges...
To Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) officials, a spanner has been thrown into their wheel, going by the Federal High Court order on Thursday that...
The governorship candidate of the PDP, in the recently concluded governorship election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, on Friday led members of his party in...
Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would take legal actions against Senator Joshua Dariye if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fails to...
A suicide bomber who tried to enter Maiduguri and unleash havoc in an unidentified location was on Friday intercepted by troops of Operation LAFIA DOLE in...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) National Chairman, Dr Victor Oye, has debunked his alleged suspension and said he was still in charge of the party....
The Federal Government on Friday explained that it let go the forgery case against Senate President Bukola Saraki, his Deputy Ike Ekweremadu and others due to...
Though both men belong to different political divides, which have been trying to take control of the south west geo political divide, Ekiti State’s Governor Ayodele...
By Joseph Edgar… If you have been conversant with the news in the past few days, you would have learnt that, finally, what I have been...
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has rewarded its Indigene Mrs. Lateefat Omolola Tijani, who won silver medal at the just concluded Paralympics in Brazil alongside her...
Ijaw youths in their hundreds on Thursday protested what they said is President Muhammadu Buhari’s continuation of persecution of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Some of them...
Barring any last minute injury, Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr may confine assistant captain Ahmed Musa to the bench in his starting eleven against Zambia in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has come to the rescue of the Super Eagles after lack of funds threatened their World Cup qualifiers against Zambia billed for Sunday.Nigeria...
Brazil and Uruguay scored easy victories to maintain their lead at the top of South America’s 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament on Thursday as Chile lost...
Argentina, held 2-2 by Venezuela in their last game in September, dropped another two points in their trip to Lima to face Peru. The Argentinians, missing...
Arsenal could be on the lookout for a new manager come the end of the season after the club’s chief executive, Ivan Gazidis, hinted that Arsene...
Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez’s contract extensions are expected to cost Arsenal at least £36m ($44.7m), which is much more than the Gunners had budgeted ahead...
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Thursday gave Attorneys-Generalof the 36 states of the federation fiat to...
House of Representatives committee probing the alleged diversion of funds and materials meant for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), has lamented the supposed used of N270million...
Duolingo, the maker of a variety of language training solutions, is joining the bot club, according to Mashable. Learning a language is difficult enough without opportunities...
The kidnap incident which occurred at the Igbo Nla Model College in Epe, Lagos, which saw the abduction of four students, a teacher and the...
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has vowed to meet Afe Babalola in court for accusing him of stealing the idea for the Federal...
Rescue operatives in South Korea are having a hard time saving lives after a strong typhoon battered the southern resort island of Jeju killing seven people...
In what would seem as pettiness taken to a ridiculous level, the Rochas Okorocha administration in Imo State says its decision to turn the most popular...
The death toll arising from the destruction caused by Hurricane Mathew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade has now reached 339 according to civil...
Three suicide female bombers met their waterloo on Thursday as they were intercepted and killed when attempting to attack a military location in Gwoza, Gwoza Local...
Hard stance Pilipino President Rodrigo Duterte has declared that his country will not beg for foreign aid following criticism over his war on drug dealers in...
After two consecutive negative trading sessions, Nigeria’s most capitalised quoted company, Dangote Cement rallied the stock market to its first positive closing position in the fourth...