About three quarters of the 2,490 casual workers engaged by the Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board as street cleaners, are ghost workers, and about...
Nigeria, which in 2012, accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide, on Saturday recorded a major breakthrough in its fight against polio, as...
Even as officials of the country’s pilgrims’ board are still compiling the list of Nigerians involved in the stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabi that killed over...
The headquarters of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) in Kogi State has come under attack by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram....
For going against their constitutional duty of protecting the country and its institutions, a unit of guards that carried out a coup in Burkina Faso last...
Elder statesman and former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, has said that the herdsmen that kidnapped him on Monday behaved in a manner...
The military has alleged that the fight against Boko Haram was made difficult because ‘some highly-placed individuals’ in the North East, particularly Borno State were trying...
A police constable has turned his gun the other way round killing himself and two of his colleagues. The incident, which happened at Nangere Police Division...
Apparently taking advantage of the call that if they surrender, they will be granted amnesty and reintegrated into the society, over 200 Boko Haram members have...
Aftermath of the stampede that claimed hundreds of lives, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered a safety review for the Hajj pilgrimage. At least 717 people...
Unsatisfied by the application sought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that he withdraw from a fundamental rights suit brought by a businessman, Jyde...
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, who regained his freedom from kidnappers on Thursday after four days in captivity, recounted...
The Boko Haram terrorist group has suffered another set-back as soldiers have raided the insurgents’ fuel depot at Ladu Bumbawa Ward of Guzamala Local Government Area of...
The 14th Dalai Lama is the supreme spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and he is known to also support women’s causes. When asked by a...
After months of diatribes over Ukraine crisis and Syria war, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will on Monday meet with U.S. President, Barack Obama, in New York,...
The world is in turmoil. Wars and crises are dominating the political space in many countries and thousands of people are bearing the brunt. Many of...
The war against insurgency is gaining momentum as the police have now deployed a total of 4,000 men to partner the troops who are on the...
The death toll in Saudi Arabia pilgrimages’ stampede has continued to rise with the latest figure standing at 717 while about 863 were also confirmed injured....
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Chief Olu Falae who was kidnapped from his farm in Akure Ondo State on Monday, has been...
Another tragedy has struck in the holy land of Mecca, as at least 310 people have been killed and more than 450 injured in a stampede...
Worried that the migrants’ influx is getting out of hand, the European Union leaders have agreed to beef up controls at the 28-nation bloc’s outer borders...
It was one of the most controversial acts of his U.S. visit. Pope Francis’ canonization of an 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra at the Basilica of...
A trado-medical doctor, Olawale Onalaja has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly selling a two-month-old baby of a student who had kept...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that if not for the death of the wife of the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Hannah Idowu Dideolu (HID),...
The abductors of Chief Olu Falae may not have their demand fulfilled as the Ondo State Police Command has directed the family not to pay a...
In from Ali Smart … Apparently discomfited with the way and manner Justice M. N. Yunusa of the Federal High Court, Lagos handled the matter involving...
To ensure safety of lives and property especially in areas of the north east of the country most vulnerable to terrorist attacks, President Muhammadu Buhari has...
One week after he was sent out of power by the Presidential guards who staged a coup, Burkina Faso’s interim President Michel Kafando has said he...
Almost 48 hours after a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Chief Olu Falae was kidnapped from his farm in Akure, Ondo State,...
Following the resolutions of the Extra-ordinary session of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders in Abuja on Tuesday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) will...
Pope Francis has arrived in US. And in a rare departure from protocol, the president, vice-president and their families turned up to greet the pontiff, underlining...
Volkswagen said a scandal over falsified U.S. vehicle emission tests could affect 11 million of its cars around the globe as investigations of its diesel models...
Even as security agents and others are hot on the trail of criminals who abducted a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Chief...
Central European countries have reacted angrily after plans to relocate 120,000 migrants across the continent were approved by EU interior ministers. Under the scheme, migrants will...
The rising profile of Ripples Nigeria, an independent online news platform currently reshaping the nation’s newspaper industry landscape, received a further boost weekend when its team...
Terrorists suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect again struck killing 16 people and wounding over 62 in Monguno Local Council Area of Borno...
The Nigeria armed forces have asked Nigerians to disregard the claim by Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a recent audio that its group was having...
Tension is now very high in Burkina Faso as troops loyal to the deposed government said they were preparing to attack the Camp Naaba military base...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Some Workers at a construction site in Osapa London, Agbogi in Lekki are feared dead after the building caved in on...
President Muhammadu Buhari who will be leaving Nigeria next week for the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York is also billed...
The pan-Yoruba socio cultural group, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) is seriously upset by the abduction of one time Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … The recent visit of President Muhammadu Buhari has begun yielding results as a crack team of United States top counter-terrorism delegation...
Done with writing the memoirs of his life’s experiences in the military, and the corridors of power, former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, launched a children’s...
Burkina Faso’s army has reached the capital Ouagadougou to seek the surrender of the presidential guard who staged a coup last Thursday. Negotiations between army chiefs...
As the migrant crisis worsens, EU ministers are to meet and try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently...
A new twist was added to the Republican Party’s controversies in the race to occupy the White House, as a presidential hopeful, Ben Carson said no...
The number of people who lost their lives in the multiple explosions that hit Maiduguri, the Borno State capital has risen to 53, while about 100...
President Muhammadu Buhari will host an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government tomorrow, Tuesday,...
A former secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Dr. Olu Falae has been kidnapped from his farm in Akure, Ondo State. It was gathered...
The joy of a family in Ilesa, Osun State was cut short yesterday as two of their siblings of the same parents aged three and five...
