A Deputy Detective Superintendent with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrahman Mohammed Biu, has been arrested by his agency for allegedly collecting $150,000 (about N45...
A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber, Friday, attacked a busy market in Gombi, Adamawa State, killing at least ten people and injuring about 25 others. According...
President Muhammadu Buhari departed for Ethiopia after his three-day state visit to Kenya, to attend the 26th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, holding in...
French and British journalists among 17 arrested in Burundi crackdown Tension continues to be on the high in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, which has been...
The hope of the Director of Radio Biafra and leader of Indeginous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to enjoy temporary freedom was dashed on Friday,...
Years after fatally stabbing a South Korean university student at a Seoul Burger King restaurant, a Central District Court in the capital of South Korea sentenced...
A gang of three-conmen who specialise in duping unsuspecting people by faking foreign accents while leading them into fake deals around the Ikeja Computer Village, have...
The government of Morocco says it has agreed to accept its citizens who have failed to be admitted as refugees in European countries such as Norway,...
After initially waving aside North Korea’s claim of testing a hydrogen bomb, the U.S. says it now has cause to believe that the Asian country actually...
Former Niger Delta militants leader, Government Ekpumupolo, popularly called Tompolo, has said that ex-militants who joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, after the 2015 presidential election...
The spate of dangerous sea crossing by desperate Asian descents especially from war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan seeking refuge in Europe has claimed the...
Activists in Syria have called on Syrian opposition to boycott peace talks scheduled for Friday in Geneva via its #DontgotoGeneva campaign. The activists are using Twitter...
Luck ran-out for a 28 year-old nursing mother who was arrested by men of the Nigerian police in Bayelsa State for allegedly selling her baby for...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held audience with the Nigerian Community in Kenya at the Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi Kenya on 27th Jan 2016 as part of...
The Swedish interior minister, Anders Ygemen has revealed that as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers face expulsion from the Scandinavian country. Ygemen also informed that in...
Former President of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo will be standing for trial as he faces allegations for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court...
An attempt by ISIS militants to infiltrate a residential compound near a strategic air base in western Anbar province of Iraq was thwarted by security forces...
Ekiti-State born legal practitioner, Femi Falana has implied, that former Minister of Finance and coordinating minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is ignorant of the...
In from Ali Smart . . . President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday wrote to the Senate seeking the repeal and reenactment of the Money Laundering Prohibition...
After what seems like a lull in their activities, Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked Chibok town on Wednesday, detonating two bombs. According to reports, the explosions...
After what seems like a lull in their activities, Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked Chibok town on Wednesday, detonating two bombs. According to reports, the explosions...
Despite protest by international human rights organisations, the Danish parliament has passed a bill considered to be detrimental to refugees. The law in-the-making is a...
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday morning left Nigeria, for Kenya for a three-day visit to be participate in the 26th Summit of African Union Leaders. While...
The police in Senegal have gone on an overdrive following the arrest of 900 people in an attempt to foil possible militant attacks that happened in...
The Yoruba Socio- Political organisation, Afenifere on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle Nigeria’s ailing economy, and be cautious of not making the anti-corruption...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami has expressed optimism over the recovery of $750 million “Abacha loot” anytime soon....
After weeks of telling the world some of its members have been missing since the clash between it and tje Nigerian Army 12 December, 2015, the...
Iran’s continued execution of juveniles over the last 15 years has been slammed by rights group, Amnesty International. According to the group, dozens of juveniles have...
Pandemonium struck at a home for asylum seekers younger than 18 when a boy stabbed a refugee worker to death at a refugee centre which is...
With just only 48km from achieving his goal of reaching Antarctic on a solo attempt, 55 year-old British explorer Henry Worsley has collapsed and died of...
More trouble came the way of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, Justice Raliat Adebiyi of a Lagos...
Authorities in China have released and deported Swedish rights activists Peter Dahlin who was made to admit his wrongdoing on Chinese TV. 35 year-old Dahlin was...
The detained Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, will have to wait till Friday to know if temporary freedom will come his way, as a Federal...
The trial of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, git underway on Monday with the witnesses called by the...
A 56-year-old suspected drug addict Kehinde Olatunbosun who was arrested by men of the Lagos State Command of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS has narrated to...
Eastern Asia is the latest to be hit by extreme weather conditions following the death of 50 people in Taiwan with at least 60,000 tourists stranded...
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media centre has released a video showing the last images and statement of the terrorists that took part...
It was another bloody day in Adamawa State on Sunday, as Fulani herdsmen attacked four communities in Girei Local Government Area of the state, leading to...
The ongoing investigation and prosecution of suspects in the arms procurement money fraud had taken a new twist, as Human rights activist, Femi Falana, has petitioned...
The embattled former Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Oweize Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) may be in for a tough time at the courts, as the Federal...
Hundreds of migrants who have been living in squalid conditions in the “Jungle” camp offered by French authorities broke into the northern French port of Calais,...
There seems to be no respite in sight as several American cities including New York and Washington DC are at a standstill as mammoth snowfall grinds...
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...
Dozens of Nigerians residing in South Africa on Saturday led a protest match outside a medical facility in Johannesburg, following the death of a Nigerian in...
FG sacks senior civil servants over job racketeering The Federal Government has summarily sacked some senior civil servants for extorting money from 400 applicants and offering...
The upper legislative chamber has queried the N19billion vote allocated to the Police out of the N53billion initially earmarked in the 2016 budget. The lawmakers also...
At least three people have been confirmed dead after a weekend snowstorm which now dangerously looms over Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York. Meteorological sources have...
Following the spate of attacks on hotels and resort centres by militants in the West African region, Senegal’s government has told hotels in its domain to...
The growing demonstrations and unrest in Tunisian cities over the spate of unemployment has inevitably led to the intervention of President Beji Caid Essebsi who has...
Tragedy was averted in Maiduguri which has been hit in recent times with a lot of suicide bombings when military personnel intercepted three suicide bombers just...