A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr. Austin Oniwon, has told the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Crude...
In a show of professional solidarity, 99 lawyers, including 32 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, have risen in defence of another Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ricky...
Washington Post’s bureau chief William Booth and the newspaper’s West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha have both been released after they were briefly detained while they were...
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt the 45 percent tariff increase being implemented by electricity distribution companies. This development...
One-time Secretary General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali who served the world body in a topsy-turvy five-year term which ended in 1996 died Tuesday in...
The Federal Government has hinted of plans to launch two more satellites in the orbit in the next two years, the Minister of Communications and Technology,...
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Liberian counterpart, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Tuesday said both countries will ensure the conduct of free and fair elections in five...
One-time Secretary General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali who served the world body in a topsy-turvy five-year term which ended in 1996 died Tuesday in...
The embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Tuesday, threatened that he would not be ready to stand trial until the Federal Government obeys the order...
Authorities in Bahrain have detained four journalists in the Gulf nation with freelance journalist Anna Therese Day among those arrested. The journalists were reported detained after...
Newly sworn-in governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has made a massive sweep of the parastatals and local governments in the state by embarking on a...
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos has warned the federal government and electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs not to act in any way...
Following recent recurrence of accidents on the waterways involving boat operators, leading to loss of lives, the state’s government has sent a warning signal to operators...
It was not all fun for some who went out to mark Valentine’s Day as a senior police officer who went to hang out with friends...
Top presidential candidate and main opposition leader Kizza Besigye who heads the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party was detained briefly days before general elections in...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied reports making the rounds that a former Director of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Letam Wiwa,...
Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has begun his 19-month prison sentence at the Maasiyahu jail for bribery and obstruction of justice conviction becoming the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is on the trail of £22.5m (N6.18billion) loot which the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, is alleged...
President Kim Jong-un of North Korea is testing the resolve of world powers and the UN Security Council in particular after he ordered for the launch...
After successful completion of second round run-off elections between former prime ministers Faustin Touadera and Anicet Dologuele, vote counting is underway in the Central African Republic....
Governor, Nyesome Wike has capsized to pressure and recalled the suspended state’s Commissioner Finance, Dr Magnus Kpakol, and the state’s Accountant-General, Abere Dagogo. Wike made the...
The foreign minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir has cast aspersions over the political process in Syria especially of late with UN brokered talks put on...
The rescue mission to pull out bodies from the rubble of a high-rise building which collapsed under a 6.4 magnitude earthquake which hit the city of...
As the forthcoming American Presidential elections draws even closer, the battle for White House has become tougher with Republican candidates trading sharp blows over foreign policy...
The Federal Government, on Saturday, announced the sack of all the 12 Vice Chancellors of the Federal Universities established by the administration of former President Goodluck...
Retired chief of the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was former top military intelligence official to President Barack Obama has called on...
China has hit back at the UK for comments made about the arrest and detention of a Hong Kong bookseller accusing the former colonial power of...
About 1,000 refugees putting up at a makeshift jungle camp in Calais, France have been given the marching orders to leave due to the fact that...
A mortar attack by militants has killed five UN peacekeepers stationed at their base located in Kidal, northern Mali. The attack claimed by Mali jihadist group...
A group of school girls in Nigeria who participated in the First Lego League challenge, built a robot developed to tackle waste as their project in...
A suspected kidnapper, Kenneth Levi, has narrated how he came into kidnapping, and later formed his own gang of kidnappers, by leveraging on his friends who...
Following the renewal of a bench warrant issued by a Federal High Court in Lagos for his arrest, and his being declared wanted by the Economic...
A mild drama ensued at the headquarters of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) on Friday as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
Incoming reports from Turkish media outlets suggests that a five-storey building housing a cafeteria among others has collapsed in the country’s largest city of Istanbul. As...
A jail break plot attempt by Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and local al-Qaida branch to free 100 prisoners in Hyderabad has been foiled by Pakistani military police. The...
After lengthy talks in Munich, Germany, world powers have agreed to seek a nationwide “cessation of hostilities” in war-torn Syria with implementation expected to begin in...
National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) Otunba Gani Adams has called on the Chiefs of Benin Kingdom to steer clear from making historically unbalanced statements...
At least 49 prison inmates lost their lives after a riot by rival gangs broke out in Monterrey’s Topo Chico prison. According to Nuevo Leon governor...
The former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The anti-graft...
The dust raised by the scandal of the alleged mis-appropriation of $2.1 billion meant for arms procurement is yet to settle, and more victims have been...
As part of a peace deal to calm frayed nerves, South Sudan President Salva Kiir has reappointed his biggest rival Riek Machar as vice-president in a...
The Senate on Thursday sanctioned the prosecution of top civil servants over the discovery of 23, 000 ghost workers on government payroll reportedly uncovered during the...
Residents of a suburb in Jos, Plateau State woke up to behold a suspected robber whose head was hooked to a burglary proof after a failed robbery...
Two senior education officials have been sacked and two others were suspended by the Kaduna State Government for allegedly diverting children’s oranges and biscuits. Addressing pressmen...
President Muhammadu Buhari today played host to the visiting President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck who is on a state visit to the...
The already frosty ties between North and South Korea is about to get even worse with the North moving to cut two key hotlines with the...
Six children who were heading for school lost their lives on Thursday morning when their minibus crashed into a truck in France a day after police...
The United States say it is disturbed by the role being played by Rwanda in the ongoing crisis rocking its East African neighbours Burundi. Reports say...
The death of 30-year-old journalist identified as El Hadj Mohammed who was killed at an opposition rally in Guinea has sparked a media blackout in the...
There seems to be no respite in sight in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency, as two suicide bombers reportedly killed more than 60 people...
