President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of State for Petroleum Mr Ibe Kachikwu, Wednesday met with the leadership of the NUPENG and PENGASSAN in efforts to resolve...
The Igbokoda area of South West Nigeria which is the headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State witnessed the an unusual sight when two...
20-year-old Egyptian teenager Mahmoud Hussein has been released from jail after spending 787 days behind bars for protesting while wearing a T-shirt condemning torture. Hussein who...
Authorities in Belgium have launched a massive manhunt for the third bomb suspect from the Brussels airport bomb attack who is believed to be on the...
The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has released detained Ekiti Lawmaker, Afolabi Akanni, who had been in their custody for several days. Ripples Nigeria gathered...
Terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks at the Brussels airport earlier today with the number of people killed in attacks now standing at...
Still nowhere to be found, Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) was on Tuesday arraigned in absentia before a Federal High Court in Lagos over N34billion fraud. In...
Joan Egemba a 20-year-old UTME candidate is no more after she was stabbed and strangled to death by suspected rapists in the Ijebu Igbo area of...
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has issued a stern warning to tyre dealers declaring that henceforth, fake tyre dealers will be charged with murder. SON...
Former Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Kingsley Kuku has been served with a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and fraudulent...
In its quest to attain a high level of compliance, in its fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, the Inter-Governmental Group against Money Laundering in...
Barack Obama of the United States and Raul Castro of Cuba went toe-to-toe over human rights issues even as they both pledged to set aside their...
Soldiers from the 22 Brigade Garrison have killed a notorious Boko Haram commander, popularly known as Ameer Dalore, and 18 other members of the sect. This...
Sven Mary, lawyer to prime surviving suspect of Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam says he plans to sue a French prosecutor for breach of his clients confidentiality...
Authorities in Australia have taken delivery of two possible parts of the missing MH370 flight which went missing about two years ago. The two pieces of...
The lower legislative chamber has hinted of plans to probe the $470m Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) project under the National Security Communications System (NPSCS) delivered to...
According to authorities, the pilot flying the ill fated FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 plane voiced concerns over weather before the crash in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don,...
Hours after a deal aiming to cut off refugee routes to EU came into force, about five boats carrying Syrians arrived Greece from Turkey. The arrival...
Sensing that the incumbent President Muhamadou Issoufou is expected to win a second term, the opposition in Niger is calling for a boycott of run-off election...
The massacre of over 500 people in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen has continued to generate angry reactions, as the...
The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, has revealed that the board will reschedule exams for candidates who missed the Unified...
The deal by European leaders which will see Europe-bound migrants returned to Turkey has been criticised by Amnesty International with the body accusing leaders in Europe...
Salah Abdeslam the mastermind behind the Paris attacks and Europe’s most wanted fugitive has been captured by Belgian authorities after a raid on Friday. After four...
According to Russian officials, a passenger plane from Dubai carrying at least 55 passengers crashed on landing in the city of Rostov-on-Don with preliminary reports by...
Amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, North Korean government led by defiant Kim Jong-un fired two medium-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, US and...
A Federal High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba, Friday, convicted 14 foreigners bunkering and dealing illegally in petroleum products in Nigeria. Justice Buba...
A businessman, Jyde Adelakun, has accused the EFCC of forging a Department of Homeland Security, United States’ documents to incriminate him, for refusing to part with...
Residents of Uwa Street, Benin City, were thrown into shock on Wednesday, after a tenant, Jeff Obasohan, allegedly set his 83-year-old landlord, Pa Joseph Iyen, ablaze...
Jason Dalton, 45, an Uber driver accused of killing six people last month has said the app controlled him ‘like a puppet’ forcing him to go...
A family in western Australia found a snake had sneaked into its garage, but was captured by one of nature’s trap-a venomous redback spider’s web. Jamii-Leigh...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Thursday in Enugu, inadvertently justified the use of force against civilians, when rationalize the option of...
The Federal Government is seeking collective efforts from the World Bank and West African nations to end conflicts emanating from cattle grazing. Minister of Agriculture and...
The Chief Magistrates’ Court in Karu, Abuja witnessed a mild drama when six men standing trial raced out of the court as the counsel announced the...
Citing recent terror attacks, the Pentagon, United States military on Wednesday restricted its service members’ from travelling to five West African countries. The order limits unofficial...
Reuters, quoting military sources in Cameroon, is reporting that the country’s soldiers killed 20 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday during a raid in northern Nigeria carried...
Unconfirmed reports say gunmen have attacked a Rivers community, Mgbuitanwo, in Emohua Local Government Area , killing and beheading a 28-year-old man. The victim, who was...
A Japanese journalist who went missing in Syria after entering the country from Turkey has appeared in a video which surfaced online. The Japanese journalist Jumpei...
Huge protests have erupted in Brazil as tens of thousands are calling for the resignation of Dilma Rousseff after she made her predecessor Luiz Inacio “Lula”...
The Nigerian Army have announced the recapture of an Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC, of the Army from Boko Haram. The APC was said to have been...
The Kaduna State government, on Wednesday, met with the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, over concerns raised relating to the Religious Preaching Bill...
The Acting Director General of Standard Organisation of Nigeria, (SON) Dr. Paul Angya has called on fake dealers of tyre to close shop or face the...
The Senate has taken up a petition forwarded to it by concerned Nigerians over what is alleged to be discriminatory promotions in the Nigerian Police Force....
According to a report prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world’s happiest...
Real Estate mogul turned politician, Donald Trump is now more confident about picking the sole ticket on the platform of the Republican Party while warning of...
A suicide bomber in the early hours of Wednesday blew himself up at a mosque in Umurari village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, killing at least...
France has said it will deploy a paramilitary force to be stationed in Burkina Faso in the event of fresh attacks by Islamic militants. This is...
A day after the Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode decided to run the rule by sacking the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency,...
As widely expected, the close confidant of Myanmar’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, known as Htin Kyaw, was chosen on Tuesday as the new president...
The Central Bank Governor of Bangladesh has thrown in the towel after hackers allegedly stole the sum of $81m belonging to the government from a U.S...
A former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, was Tuesday arrained before Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High...