Members of the extremist Boko Haram group are presently making efforts to take over Biu, the largest town in Southern Borno state, residents have said. An...
President Barack Obama has vowed the US will not be intimidated, after Islamic State militants released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff....
About 500 soldiers have fled the battle front in Bama after initially overwhelming Boko Haram militants who tried to take over the city earlier today. Bama...
Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday, confirmed that a total of three new Ebola cases has been recorded in Port Harcourt, Rivers State....
Reports emerging from Bama, in Borno State, indicate that Boko Haram militants have taken over control of the city. The state’s second-largest city was attacked earlier...
President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Nairobi on Monday to participate in a meeting of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council in the Kenyan capital...
As soon as he opened his eyes, he felt it. A strange peace, a calm clarity. He stretched. Even his limbs were stronger and surer. He...
President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has closed down all the schools in the West African country in an attempt to address the spread of the...
At least five persons have died of a cholera outbreak at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Biu town, southern area of Borno State, the...
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said gifts distributed to the electorate during political campaigns should not be termed as bribe. He...
The Presidency on Friday insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan did not direct anybody to share money to the parents of the schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world’s deadliest to date. According to the UN, 729 people have died as health officials in Guinea, Liberia...
Ebola victim, Patrick Sawyer, 40, who died of the deadly virus in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 25 was scheduled to return to the United States in...
An operator in the cement industry has said that Nigeria does not need to import the product because the plants in the country have enough capacity...
Tragedy hit the home of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on Tuesday when his son, Hamsa, died in a road...
Commonwealth Games queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare has been rewarded with an instant bonus of $7,000 for her spectacular effort on Monday night, as she...
The Federal Government has been urged to improve access to quality malaria medicines, which is the country’s highest public health burden accounting for 25 per cent...
The European Union should not give Russia technical help to develop Arctic oil and gas fields if Moscow fails to help to defuse the Ukraine crisis,...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, is by all means an enigma. As an inscrutable man, he is fast developing a reputation as a governor, who likes...
The World Bank ranks Singapore as the easiest country in the world in which to do business. Indeed, business is what brought the Alattas, Aljunied, Alsagoff,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the electorate in the North-east will use the next year’s general election to show their displeasure against the Peoples...
The Federal Government has declared Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th, July as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-fitri Sallah celebration. The Minister of Interior, Comrade...
This is the first of a four-part series exploring U.S. President Barack Obama’s upcoming U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Aug. 4-6 in Washington, D.C. Part one illustrates the...
John Boniface Maina, a Kenyan artist popularly known as JB Maina, is no stranger to the entertainment news pages, but in March he achieved the feat...
Pro-Russian rebels have shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military operations said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the two were downed near...
The World Bank has asked Ethiopia to consider devaluing its local currency in order to boost its exports, which are mostly unprocessed products that need to...
The former Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Nyako’s whereabout does not appear to...
The World Bank Tuesday said there had been positive economic trend as well as significant progress made towards poverty eradication in the country. It said in...
After series of accusations by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the opposition political parties, particularly the All Progressives Congress (APC), are not concerned about...
Melbourne. – Former U.S. president Bill Clinton on Wednesday told delegates at the ongoing 20th edition of the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne that an end...
The Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Musa Maitafsir, said this in Sokoto when he spoke to 121 Masters’ Degrees students leaving...
Abuja – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it is working toward placing corps members on a public service salary scale to stop frequent agitation...
ABUJA—The Governor of Central bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, said, yesterday, that the apex bank was closely monitoring government spending and those of individuals...
A former Minister of Education and a champion of the #BringBackOurGirls Campaign, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has narrated her ordeals in the hands of security operatives at...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday met with parents of the girls abducted from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14 by Boko Haram...
