Chiefs of defence staff from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin met in Abuja on Tuesday to determine strategies for a new, African Union-backed regional force...
Officials in India say a law minister from an opposition anti-corruption party at the state level was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of forging his law...
Banking company HSBC says it is carrying out a global restructuring, that will see it withdrawing from Brazil and Turkey, and cutting off about 25,000 jobs,...
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is one politician who understands the back and forth movement in politics. He was a member of the PDP...
Confusion and uncertain drama trailed the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly as a proclamation letter from President Muhammadu Buhari was read out by Clerk of...
Senator Ike ekweremadu has been elected to retain his position as deputy Senate president in the 8th Assembly. He has subsequently been sworn-in. He garnered 54...
Senator Ahmed Lawan, a strong contender for the position of the Senate president and 51 other Senators-elect were missing from the floor of the Red Chamber...
Senator Bukola Saraki has emerged the new Senate president. He was elected unopposed, and was sworn in accordingly. Saraki got the PDP lawmakers’ support when he...
Just in from his visit to Germany, President Muhammadu Buhari is holding a meeting with federal legislators elected on the platform of the APC, to resolve...
In efforts to avoid further loss of lives from the consumption of local gin, popularly known as kai-kai or ogogoro, the Federal Government has banned consumption...
President Buhari returned to the country in the early hours of Tuesday from Germany where he went to attend the G7 summit. As he returns, he...
Nigeria now needs to put on its thinking cap, and figure out ways to attract new buyers for its crude oil, as China, the second largest...
Super Eagles goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama, says he plans to retire from the nation’s national football team, the Super Eagles and give way to others, after the...
The leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations met for a two-day summit in the Bavarian Alps with a heavy agenda including global terrorism, Ukraine...
Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mike Okiro has said that there was an attempt to blackmail him over an allegation that he defrauded the PSC...
Leaders of the APC are in a last meeting rush to avoid more crisis in the party over the choice of Senate president and House of...
The PDP has adopted Senator Bukola Saraki for the position of Senate President, and Yakubu Dogara for position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives....
Authorities say Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be freed on parole August 21 after serving about 10 months in jail for the killing of his girlfriend,...
In line with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, military authorities have put in motion steps to move the control and command centre in the fight...
A six-propeller drone was deployed on Sunday to monitor students taking part in China’s university entrance exam. It was flown over two testing centres in Luoyang...
A heat wave bringing temperatures to about 46 degrees has hit Pakistan, and has already killed about 25 people, officials said on Monday. A rescue official,...
Olympic athlete Usain Bolt may be famous for his lightning sprints, but to fellow residents in his Kingston housing complex he is a nightmare neighbor, whose...
A Nigerian student, Ufot Ekong has solved a 30-year-old maths equation and achieved the highest grades at the Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan for 50 years....
Contrary to popular perception, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase says among public institutions in the country, the Nigerian Police has the least number...
An advocacy group, Friends in the Gap Initiative Advocacy, say that the last constitution amendment exercise embarked upon by the seventh Assembly which was not seen...
Top on the list of what President Muhammadu Buhari wants from the Group of Seven (G7), an informal bloc of industrialized countries of the world is...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s unemployment rate jumped to 7.5 per cent in the first quarter of the year (Q1 2015) compared to...
The deposed Deji of Akure, Prince Adesina Adepoju, has faulted the nomination a prince from the Osupa Ruling House in Akure, Ondo State, Prince Kole Aladetoyinbo,...
If the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) does not restore liquidity to foreign exchange market to allow foreign investors tracking the benchmark to transact with minimal...
National leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu has called on youths not to ever give up on their ideas “even if no one believes in you.”...
The crisis in the ruling APC over candidates for the leadership of the National Assembly may come out full blown on Tuesday as the legislature meets...
There is nothing as comforting as to know that there is always someone to share your burden with. Someone to rejoice with and to talk to....
A major investigation is underway in the oil and gas sector as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and The Department of State Security (DSS)...
You may have heard the story a few months ago about an Atlanta-based minister who claimed he needed a $65 million private jet so he could...
President Muhammadu Buhari will today (Sunday) travel to Germany for the G7 summit scheduled to take place in Bavaria from June 7 to 8, 2015. Senior...
The APC on Saturday settled for Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate president, and Senator George Akume as Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate. This was...
Recently, US officials said hackers broke into US government personnel office stealing identity information of at least 4 million federal workers. This forced a call from...
A South Korean robotics team has won the Darpa Robotics Challenge. The contest is a battle of robots on an obstacle course meant to simulate conditions...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday explained that the delay over the contents of his assets declaration form being made public is not his fault, but that...
Barcelona lifted the Champions League by beating Juventus 3-1 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany. Barcelona rode goals from Ivan Rakitic and Luis Suárez, and an...
Tragedy was avoided in two separate events in Lagos at the weekend that could have led to the death of hundreds of Nigerians. In one instance,...
The crisis in the ruling APC is spreading by the day as more opposition seems to trail the mode which the party’s leadership wants to adopt...
According to published reports, the Prime Minister of UK Mr. Cameron asked President Buhari (PMB) to bring along his shopping list to the G (7/8/10 whatever)...
Technology has advanced and while hackers continue to infiltrate systems across the world for money, information and vital trade secrets, lovers, husbands and wives on the...
Salim Khan, a senior police official, said on Friday that eight of the 10 people charged with organising the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl activist...
The senator-elect for Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, posted a tweet that President Muhammadu Buhari locked out an ambassador who arrived 15 minutes late for...
The 2015 UEFA Champions League final between Barcelona and Juventus is a clash of European footballing titans. An additional element is added to the match with...
This power couple, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are out to give their daughter, North West a fairy tale birthday party, and they intend to make...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has called on the newly inaugurated members of the state’s House of Assembly to learn from history, and not try...
Wale Adenuga, chairman of Wale Adenuga Production (WAP) says film producers can beat pirates at their game by first taking their products to cinema houses, thereby...
