After returning voluntarily from exile, Burkina Faso’s former Prime Minister, Luc Adolphe Tiao has been charged and arrested in connection with the violent attempts to put...
A week after he reportedly underwent a successful surgery, 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was readmitted...
The United Nations has disclosed that at least two million people are still trapped in areas in Borno State controlled by Boko Haram UNICEF’s Chief of...
Borussia Dortmund on Saturday recorded a 6-0 win over SV Darmstadt while FC Bayern München returned to the top of the table courtesy of a 3-1...
Mr Jide Omokore, Chairman, Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Nigeria Limited has reportedly returned N200 million to the Federal Government. Omokore, an associate of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described the current economic recession the nation is going through as nothing new. The Speaker, who...
A day after manager Diego Simeone reduced the length of his contract by two seasons, Atletico produced a dominant performance at the Vicente Calderon as Kevin...
Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger says Super Eagles kid striker is more dangerous when he moves forward while praising the youngster for creating two assists in the...
It was a great Saturday for Super Eagles youngsters Kelechi Iheanacho and Alex Iwobi as they were instrumental to their respective clubs victories in the English...
Hooded gunmen in military camouflage on Saturday morning invaded Channels Avenue, Isheri, Lagos State and whisked away three people. The victims, who are landlords at Oshorun...
Ekiti State Government has declared that its emergence as the state with the best performance in the National Examination Council result released on Saturday was earned....
Sudden appearances of snakes especially Cobras on streets and homes in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital is creating panic among residents. Some persons attributed the development to...
The Nigerian Army has announced that its troops, on Friday, recovered a large catche of arms and ammunition from the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The...
The candidacy of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the September 28 governorship election in Edo State, has received a major boost,...
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has revealed that 18 Nigerians died in Saudi Arabia in the just concluded 2016 Hajj in Saudi Arabia. The...
Passengers traveling by road to various cities in the country have been told to brace up for an increase in fares effective September 19, 2016. The...
Nigeria is among the five member-states of ECOWAS yet to tap from the $2.25 billion internationally backed environmental programme: the Green Climate Fund (GCF), according to...
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni, on Thursday said the Police had arrested a 31-year-old woman who allegedly abandoned her day-old-baby on...
An eight months old baby, a nursing mother including an eight year old boy and ten others have been confirmed dead in a bloody robbery attack...
Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women have harped on a comment referring to Edo women as prostitutes to further campaigns...
Three-year-old Darasimi Ogunwunmi, a Kindergarten One pupil, who drank caustic soda left carelessly around his classroom by teachers of his private school, Fahsal Children’s School, Ilupeju...
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has suggested that the Federal Government sell assets to remain afloat and get back to better times, instead of going for...
Ahead resumption of the House of Representatives from break, Abdulmumin Jibrin has said that the House can only be alive to its responsibility if it is...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is on a pleading mission as it seeks to avert punitive measures from the United States while asking it to support...
The United Nations has revealed that over 1 million refugees have fled war-torn South Sudan for safety in neighboring countries with women, children and survivors of...
A team of undergraduates at the University of Maryland has developed a four-rotor helicopter equipped with an array of solar panels. The craft took to the...
No less that 427 children have been freed by the military from Boko Haram enclave and handed over to Borno State government at a newly opened...
An armed passenger suspected of carrying a weapon barricading himself inside an Amtrak train outside Los Angeles has forced passengers to evacuate the coach for fear...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), appears to be on a no retreat no surrender mission to nail the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan,...
An investigation has been ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari over the insertion of a purportedly plagiarized paragraph into his speech at the launch of ‘Change Begins...
The billionaire Republican candidate for the November presidential candidate in the United States, Donald Trump, has finally admitted that President Barack Obama was born in the...
The 36 governors of the federation have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately declare the current economic recession in the country as a national emergency....
Crammed full of visitors, Lagos is a city in Africa that attracts tourists from all over the world. From National Arts Theatre to Lekki Conservation Centre,...
President Muhammadu Buhari will from September 19-23, 2016 be in New York, United States to participate in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly...
If the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, wins the September 28 Edo State governorship election, students in the state will have a lot to be happy about,...
The Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has admonished Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, to stop wasting Rivers State money on the Edo State governorship election....
The Federal Government has concluded plans to raise $1 billion on the Eurobond market. The move by the Nigerian government is part of its plan to...
After what appeared like foot dragging, the Federal Government, Friday, said it has launched a fresh move to get the abducted students of Government Secondary School,...
A Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Muslim Sule Hassan, on Friday dismissed a suit challenging the appointment of Col Hameed Ali (rtd)...
Former Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema on Friday turned himself in to the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The ex-governor reportedly...
Following reports that Nigeria and Libya may be re-entering the international oil market, prices of crude fell in the early hours of Friday by 0.06...
Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has fired the state Commissioner for Information, Tourism and Public Utilities, Dr Vitalis Ajumbe and some officials in his cabinet. ...
The Nigerian maritime industry with potential of over $2.1 billion annual revenue is yet to be fully harnessed by the government, due to some policy...
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has recalled four of the commissioners, Head of Service and Special Adviser on Land, he suspended recently. The news of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is said to have received names of governorship candidates of the two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), factions. The Armed Makarfi-led...
Luxury phone makers, Apple have been sued, this time for blocking members of its iPhone Upgrade Program from pre-ordering the new iPhone 7. The suit accuses...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has revealed on its website, that the British government has shut its embassy in the Turkish capital of Ankara for security...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the four men who allegedly robbed Mr. Wilson Onazi, the father of Nigerian footballer, Ogenyi Onazi. The suspects are...
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has berated the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, for rejecting calls for the restructuring the nation. According to the group,...
Opeyemi Esan, a former driver of Prof. Abdullahi Onimisi of the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, has been arrested with two other suspects,...
