In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . A former Chairman of Madagali Local Government Area, Maina Ularamu, Monday, confirmed that 12 persons were killed...
As Egyptians go to the polls in the first round of long-delayed elections to choose a new parliament, security has been tightened across the country with...
The plan of a suspected female suicide bomber was yesterday thwarted in Maiduguri, Borno State, when soldiers shot at her and exploded the bomb she was...
Donald Trump says he’s not blaming George W. Bush for 9/11, but he claims that if he’d been president, the attacks never would have happened. In...
At the end of it all, and after a near death experience when she was stabbed in the neck while campaigning in the city of Cologne...
These are indeed trying times for embattled immediate-past governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam. Barely one week after being quizzed for over nine hours by the...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Reactions have continued to trail the arrest of acclaimed Director of Radio Biafra and the leader of the Indigenous...
The World Bank has asked for more time to make a full disclosure of the detailed breakdown of disbursement of monies recovered from the late Head...
Guinness Nigeria has handed over some essential medicines as part of efforts to empower the National Youth Service Corps Rural Dwellers’ Health Initiative. The drugs were...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Director of Radio Biafra and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has reportedly been...
Super Typhoon Koppu’s eye smashed into northern Philippines’ Luzon island with ferocious winds and rain early Sunday, just the early stages of what forecasters fear could...
Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has won a second term, the country’s election commission has announced, six days after polling ended. Mr Conde, 77, won in the...
Eighty four Church of England bishops have revealed that they wrote to David Cameron last month urging him to accept at least 50,000 refugees from Syria....
Police released two composite sketches and are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects responsible for stabbing U.S. airman Spencer Stone in Sacramento, California,...
Reacting to media enquiries on the reported dismissal, and jailing of a former commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force [MNJTF] in Baga, Borno State, Brigadier...
The United States of America has reportedly deployed predator drones over the notorious Sambisa Forest, in North Eastern Nigeria to monitor and gather intelligence reports on...
A man was severely burnt beyond recognition in the early hours today at the Owode-Ijako area of Ogun state when the truck he was driving exploded...
United States President, Barack Obama has called for a reform of the US criminal justice system, saying much of it “remains unfair” and that punishments should...
The ongoing wave of unrest in the middle-east points to the fact that this wave of violence comes in response to an on-going campaign to desecrate...
Hungary has closed its border with Croatia in an effort to stem the flow of migrants through the country en route to Western Europe. This recent...
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are sparring again over comments Trump made that appeared to criticize George W. Bush for 9/11. Trump is...
A Brigadier General, Enitan Ransome-Kuti who is son of late Human Rights activist, Beko Ransome-Kuti, and nephew to the late afro beat king, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has...
Hundreds of vehicles have been left stranded after flash flooding triggered mudslides across two California highways. Floodwaters brought mud and rocks across the carriageway at Fort...
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has told troops that the defeat of Boko Haram will determine the future of Nigeria, as the existence...
in from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in Northeast Nigeria, was again thrown into mourning as suspected Boko Haram...
EU states have backed an action plan with Turkey, which it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe. Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached...
A Chinese woman Yang Feng Glan nicknamed the “Queen of Ivory” has been arrested in Tanzania and charged with smuggling at least 706 elephant tusks that...
The wave of violence in Jerusalem which is proving to be especially hard to stop has witnessed an increase with attackers often acting alone wielding low-tech...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . An 18-seater commercial bus which was coming from Lagos and heading to Ondo town unfortunately plunged into Arun river,...
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital) . . . Witnesses have confirmed that at least 42 people died in a deadly bomb blasts that rocked a...
In from Ali Smart . . . In order to forestall incessant herdsmen/farmers clashes in the country, the House of Representatives on Thursday mandated the Federal...
An angry mob in Ungwan-Rukuba New Road, around the Nasarawo area of Jos, on Wednesday, preferred to mete out instant jungle justice on a 25-year-old man,...
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In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Victims of Tuesday’s bank robbery which threw residents of Festac Town have continued to count their losses over the...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to White House on Monday July 20 which saw him being hosted by the United States president Barack Obama has triggered positive...
The friction between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Aerosmith front man, Steven Tyler seems to have bubbled over with Trump tweeting recently that Steven has...
The escalation of the war in Syria and the approach of winter have given added urgency to an EU summit on migration – the fourth one...
Violent scenes continue to play out even after Israel’s cabinet authorised police to seal off “parts of Jerusalem”, in an attempt to halt a wave of...
In from Ahmed Boulor … . A few days after the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, confirmed that145 Nigerians were killed in the September 24...
The unending unrest in Burundi has claimed another set of lives when police killed a state TV cameraman and his family at their home during an...
There was some tension of confrontation when two Russian and two U.S. aircraft came within visual range of each other — separated by just 10 to...
It was a heated session but eventually Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament endorsed the landmark nuclear agreement struck earlier this year with world powers. The question now is...
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Another set of multiple explosions on Tuesday rocked the town of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital killing an unspecified number of people. Details re still sketchy,...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Even though it may have saved his life, the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha seemed to have preferred to be at home...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . The United Kingdom (UK) is no longer a safe haven for looters of African resources and treasury, the UK Minister...
The trial of one David Iornem who is charged with obtaining various sums of money from innocent Nigerians under the guise of running degree awarding universities...
In from Ahmed Boulor … . Residents of 4th Avenue in Festac Town, Lagos were thrown into fear and disarray when a gang of robbers numbering...
With intelligence reports that commanders of the Boko Haram sect and some of its foot soldiers have infiltrated Lagos and other southern states, security agencies have...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … . Former Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was on a life support before he passed on last Saturday at the University...
