A former Military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), said that he visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday to discuss national and international issues with...
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, had a closed door meeting for about an hour with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The...
Unrest in and around the West Bank settlement continues after an Israeli guard shot a young Palestinian girl following an alleged stabbing attack. Read also: Israel...
Six months after his prison break, Mexican drug lord Joacquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured and reports suggests that an interview he had with American...
Hours after three foreign tourists were stabbed by suspected IS militants who stormed a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Friday, Gunmen have...
North Korea’s fourth nuclear test has ruffled many feathers angering both the United States and China. And following its claimed hydrogen bomb test days ago, the...
Thomas Lubanga and Germain Katanga are the first ICC convicts to be allowed to serve sentences in their home country. Transferred from the Netherlands, the two...
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has gone ballistic with his comments again badgering political foes. As Bush’s campaign has languished, Trump has repeatedly said that he is...
Emergency response teams are intensifying efforts in a bid to find survivors at the collapsed building site using heavy machinery to remove the bodies and look...
A senior official at the University of Zimbabwe is fighting for her job after giving Robert Mugabe the wrong size graduate cap. Assistant registrar Ngaatendwe Takawira...
Top Buddhist figures, including the Dalai Lama, have called on world leaders to axe fossil fuels and tackle global warming at climate talks in Paris starting...
The key actors in the South Sudan war, President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have in the past committed to stopping the fighting, only...
By Pius Adesanmi Michael Woods, a columnist with the local Ottawa newspaper, MetroNews, starts his op-ed column of Wednesday October 21, 2015 thus: “Building a cabinet...
Pope Francis is to grant all Catholic priests the power to forgive women who have had abortions, in a significant softening of the Church’s stance on...
A West African migrant entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco curled up next to a car engine and another was hidden behind the back...
Welcome to 2015. You are living in a world where a watch is a computer and a table is an air conditioner. Samsung is the next...
A hurricane with winds of up to 120km/h (75mph) has hit the island nation of Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The government grounded...
The fatal brain-eating amoeba has struck once again, this time claiming the life of a 14-year-old star athlete. Michael John Riley Jr. had been just days...
By Bala Muhammad … Whereas in Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras citizens are out on the streets protesting against corruption and calling for the heads of their...
The European Union has called emergency talks on tackling the bloc’s escalating migration crisis. The EU presidency said interior ministers from all 28 member states would...
A mayor in Brazil is on the run after she was accused of siphoning off funds from the school system and running the town remotely through...
A 60-year-old man plunged headfirst to his death from the upper deck of a baseball stadium in Atlanta on Saturday, brushing past wires holding a protective...
