Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has taken to the streets with a contingent of heavily-armed soldiers and detained activist Leopoldo López in a military uprising to...
29-year-old California-born Andy Ruiz, who has previously fought for a world title is expected to be confirmed as Anthony Joshua’s opponent for his first fight in...
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said seven ships containing various products are expected in the country. The ships which would berth at Apapa and Tin-Can...
The British Airways on Tuesday joined 11 other international airlines operating in Abuja to begin operations at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The relocation came...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said difficulties during rainy season is inevitable in power and road projects. Fashola who spoke...
Trading activities were on Tuesday grounded at the popular Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos, as traders protested the installation of female and male market leaders “Iyaoloja” and...
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age...
The men of the Ondo State police command have arrested an ex-convict, Deji Adenuga, who set ablaze nine members of his estranged girlfriend’s family. It was...
Seun Kuti, the son of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti is of the opinion that the culture of subjugating women was brought to Africa by...
How can African Christians conquer a vanishing population of Churchgoers in the Western or Eastern world? Go to any church in Europe and North America, Christian...
The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Monday took a swipe at Labour leadership for insisting on a particular individual as the chairman...
A team from Pakistan’s University of Health Sciences says it has created a way to produce artificial skin, complete with blood vessels, which can be used...
The long wait for an opponent to fight with world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is about to be over after Matchroom Sport chairman, Barry Hearn revealed...
For the first time in five years, ISIS has released what it says is a new video message from its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The footage...
The United States Consulate in Lagos has lamented the continued prevalence of sickle cell in Nigeria. It blamed it on low level of awareness, lack of...
Two men have been sentenced to life in prison after pouring acid on a couple in Ile-Ife. They were sentenced on Monday at a High court...
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has moved swiftly to deny claims of misappropriation leveled against him by elders within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in...
Embattled governor-elect of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed has declared that he has nothing to hide and will continue to appear in court over bribery charges leveled...
27 women arrested for prostitution by a task force raised by the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have been sentenced one month in prison....
In a rare show of bi-partisanship, the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has thrown its weight behind Governor Nyesom Wike’s efforts at...
The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari appoint a young person as the next substantive Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development...
The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, has insisted on the January 2020 date it has set for all teachers in Nigeria to have been registered...
A cultist, Chigbo Aniegbu, has confessed that members of his cult gang killed a former member of the Anambra House of Assembly, Frank Igboka for banishing...
To cover for the loses they incurred, the Federal Government is making plans to compensate manufacturers of codeine-based cough syrup in the country over the complete...
Board chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, and his daughter have been kidnapped by some armed bandits along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway....
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Bwari has restrained the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara...
80 days after it was presented by the state governor, the Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the state’s 2019 Appropriation Bill of N873. 532bn....
After losing his reelection bid, the lone Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dipo Olorunrinu (Amuwo-Odofin Constituency I), on Monday...
As the party presses on in its fight for its “stolen mandate”, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has levelled fresh accusations against the Independent National Electoral...
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has declined assent to the bill seeking life pension for former lawmakers from the state as proposed and passed by...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has fired back at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), asking it to desist from its unwarranted and frivolous media attacks on...
A coalition of local civil society organizations based in Bauchi State has appealed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to ensure speedy prosecution of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s travel to London without transmitting power as an act in disregard of the 1999 Constitution. According...
Incoming governors, to be sworn-in on May 29, have been asked to prepare for a possible cycle of fresh recession in Nigeria. The warning was giving...
A group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has called for the dissolution of the party excos in the state. The group, known...
The All Progressive Congress, APC, has reportedly filed fresh documents before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja to prove that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar...
The comments made by Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore president, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, against the acclaimed leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has...
Following the incident in which more than 250 people were killed in a series of attacks on Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka’s decision to ban face coverings...
At least five people, including a Senior Pastor, have died and two missing following an attack on a protestant church in Burkina Faso, local sources said...
As the race for the presidency of the ninth Senate intensifies, the Senator Ahmad Lawan for ninth Senate President Group has resolved to meet with two...
The trial of Bauchi State governor-elect, Bala Mohammed, before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Cout was on Monday delayed owing to the absence of the...
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Kajuru Local Government of Kaduna CSP Umar Faruku and several soldiers were among those injured in the crisis that engulfed...
Nigeria’s population has hit a new high of 201 million, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says in its 2019 state of the world population report...
Days after students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), were sent home and the school locked, students of Ondo State University of Science and Technology...
Ace comedian Ali Baba has reacted cynically to the unusual occurrence of a former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, of the All Progressives Congress,...
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) in its new analysis from academics has revealed that the number of dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2070....
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) may be on a collision course with Nigerians over its planned rehabilitation of the country’s ailing refineries even after similar...
Elders within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi sate have kicked against the second term bid of the state governor, Yahaya Bello. Among other allegations,...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Sunday said normal power transmission has been restored through its Apo Transmission substation after a fire outbreak. A fire...
Coach of the Super Falcons, Thomas Dennerby, has invited no less than 26 players to camp ahead of the 2019 Women’s WAFU Cup of Nations set...
