To checkmate rising cases of kidnapping, the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) has passed a bill with stiffer penalties including death sentence for offenders. The...
The rumble in Kogi All Progressives Congress (APC) over rumoured choice of Bola Tinubu’s crony, James Faleke, as a Minister in President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed new...
Stanbic Bank, Ghana has assured that it is working with the relevant authorities to apprehend a worker who reportedly made away with about N75 million naira...
The Nigerian Army says it has found another Chibok girl, Rakiya Abubakar and her six-months-old baby. The teenage mother and her baby were said to have...
Barring any last minute change, at least five lawmakers from Imo State who are current members of the Eight House of Representatives, may soon dump the...
Of the more than hundred countries, surveyed for possible deployment of the latest technology-driven aircraft (electric aircraft), Nigeria was not among 17 of those selected. Only...
Former Ekiti State Governor and current Minister of Solid Minerals and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi has described Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose’s allegation of a...
It appears there is gradual improvement and stabilisation in Nigeria electricity generation as Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Wednesday, wheeled out about 4,009 megawatts of...
What was expected to bring a long lasting peace to the Niger Delta area seems to have been lost following an announcement on Wednesday by the...
The Turkish city of Istanbul is said to be on high alert as security operatives are on the look out for the Reina night club attacker...
Four suspected kidnappers who raped a woman in front of her husband after which they threatened to kidnap his mother have been arrested by men of...
A leading Chinese tabloid Southern Metropolis Daily has developed and released a new app named Bingdu which not only allows users to read the news, but...
Sustained selloff in the shares of many leading banks and cement-manufacturing companies exerted further pressure on the tenuous market situation at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)....
A military spat between two often uneasy Asia-Pacific neighbours may have been quelled after Australia expressed regret on Thursday and promised a thorough investigation of “insulting”...
As Nigerians expect quick recovery of the country from the economic recession, it is also expected that the Federal Government would drive the recovery plan by...
It appears there is no end yet to the present administration’s perceived investigation of former President Goodluck Jonathan as security operatives on Wednesday raided a house...
The detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has now been extended by Egyptian authorities by 15 days pending investigation to the dismay of friends, colleagues...
An attempt to lift the immunity against prosecution being enjoyed by the president, vice president, state governors and their deputies has suffered a setback in the...
Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, Wednesday, assured that Nigeria’s new national airline will commence scheduled flight operations before the end of 2017. Speaking to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday sanctioned the deployment of three federal permanent secretaries, Dr. (Mrs.) Folashade O. Yemi-Esan, Dr. (Mrs.) Jamila Shu’ara and Mr. Christian Chineyeaka...
There has been heightened fear over what has become of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow following a report that he may have been assassinated. The CBN Television...
The unequivocal former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has called the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Dr. Sikiru Kayode Adetola a serial liar...
General Ousman Badjie, Gambia’s army chief has pledged his support for President Yahya Jammeh in the face of a possible regional military intervention by ECOWAS to...
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has alleged that the ruling APC is plotting with the help of two former governors of the state, Engr. Segun Oni...
There was uneasiness and usual tension Wednesday at Okposi, Ohaozara local government area of Ebonyi state following reports of an object suspected to be Improvised Explosive...
Preparations are in top gear for another visit to Nigeria by a delegation of the African Development Bank (AfDB) before the end of January 2017. The...
Crude oil output from the United States has sent signals that hope of sustainable increase in price of crud oil in the first quota of 2017...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been hit by flash floods which caused a river to burst its banks in the south of the country,...
Sultry singer Janet Jackson is said to be over the moon after giving birth to her first child at the age of 50. Janet, the music...
Five suspected Islamic State group militants believed to be linked to the attack on the Reina club in Istanbul, Turkey have been arrested by police in...
“The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny” -Wole Soyinka By Remi Oyeyemi… From Lagos Island to Lake Chad; Calabar to...
Mayfield Robotics, an independent subsidiary of appliance company Bosch, unveiled the Kuri at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday. The 20-inch-tall, 12-inch-wide home robot is packed...
There may not have been any country with the name Nigeria any longer had President Muhammadu Buhari failed to win the 2015 presidential election, Northern Governors...
The Agent of Chelsea ace and Nigeria international John Mikel Obi has denied reports going round in some quarters that his client is set to move...
There is disquiet in the All Progressives Congress (APC) over some governors’ visits to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dragged Sule Yusuf Saulawa, a permanent secretary formally attached to the office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to suspend 100 of its officials this month over various amounts of money they allegedly collected from the...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has revealed what its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has against Nigeria that he recently said will sink the country if he...
Men suspected to have links to rebels attacked a prison in the Philippines killing a guard and freeing no less than 150 prisoners. Reports say the...
The electoral commission chairman in Gambia, Alieu Momar Njai is now on the run after he fled the country following threats on his life. According to...
The Nigerian stock market reopened on Tuesday for the 2017 business year with a wide selloff amidst profit-taking transactions after the equities market rallied a massive...
Nigerian foam-manufacturing company, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, on Tuesday announced that it would be paying a total of N125 million as cash dividends to shareholders despite posting...
Buhari did not remove the embattled Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, as chairman of the presidential committee on the reconstitution of...
The Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Col. Hammed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) has sanctioned and ordered the redeployment of eight Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs), and 238 Deputy Comptrollers...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been dragged before the Federal High Court in Abuja, by Incorporated Trustees of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), over accusations of fighting a...
President Muhammadu Buhari has removed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawan as chairman of the presidential committee on the reconstitution of...
Rafael Nadal’s desire to add to his 14 grand slams in 2017 received an early boost as the 30-year-old dismissed Alexandr Dolgopolov in straight sets at...
A planned attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Dar village in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa state was on Monday thwarted by men of the Nigerian Army. Lauding the efforts...
A court in China has ruled in favour of a transgender man identified as Mr. C who was born a woman but identifies and dresses as...
Two private radio stations in Gambia’s capital of Banjul have been ordered shut by security forces sent by Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh. That much information was...
