Despite the suspension by African Union (AU) and the barrage of condemnations around the world, the general who led a coup in Burkina Faso this week...
In what the army described as a “high level of desperation on the part of the Boko Haram terrorists”, scores of people are feared dead in...
There appears to be a palpable crack in the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra ( MASSOB) as its leader, Chief Ralph...
The federal government has adopted a new security measure at entry points in the nation’s airports in a bid to enhance safety of lives and cargos...
Germany auto maker, Volkswagen, has promised to launch a full investigation into the ‘emissions allegations’ that made US to order for the recall of half a...
Armed security agents have been deployed to Ikenne, Ogun State, following the death of Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu (HID) Awolowo on Saturday. They include soldiers, Police...
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has rubbished the claim by the Nigeria Army that the group has been decimated in recent days saying the group was...
In from Ali Smart … Following the dismissal of the immediate past Comptroller-General of the NIS, David Parrandang, under whom they were recruited, some of the...
In from Ali Smart … The once cordial relationship among ex-militants and their former benefactor, Mr. Kingsley Kuku has gone sour as the former warlords are...
Nigerians from all works of life have continued to mourn the passing away of Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Dideolu Awolowo, wife of the late Premier of Western...
For being a worthy envoy and his role in the peaceful resolution of the recent political crisis that left Guinea Bissau without a government for 37...
The matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, is dead. She died on Saturday at the age of 99 years. She would have...
After weeks of silence about the whereabout of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwase, the Itsekiri kingdom has formally announced his passing away, and a new...
Members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect that have wrecked havoc in some parts of north east Nigeria have been given a leeway to escape death,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent coup d’etat in Burkina Faso, and the detention of some officials of the transitional government, and called for the...
For making ripples.com.ng your favourite site, you deserve plenty. That is why every week we reward a reader with N10, 000 for the funniest and most...
The policeman, Aremu Musiliu, who shot at a family riding in a tricycle (keke) killing the wife, and injuring the Husband (driver) along Ijegun road, Alimosho,...
It seems government has found a new way to tackle pipeline vandalisation in the country as the Nigeria Security & Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it...
Following the demise of Ogiame Atuwase II, the Olu of Warri Kingdom in Delta State the Itsekiri people may today pick a candidate to seat on...
Determined to protect the people against any environmental hazard, the Obama administration on Friday directed Volkswagen to recall nearly a half million cars from the road,...
For daring to break the new ‘convention’ in Africa that forbids military regime, the continent’s apex political body, the African Union (AU) on Friday suspended Burkina...
Fake fertilizer producers will have to discard their criminal trade or else they would soon have their days in the dock as the federal government has...
After keeping him incommunicado for a reason best known to them and raising fear about his safety, Burkina Faso interim president, Michel Kafando, has been freed...
As the whereabouts and health status of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba Erediauwa remains shrouded in secrecy and mystery, a quiet struggle has ignited...
Two West African presidents – Senegal’s Macky Sall and Thomas Boni Yayi of Benin – are going to Burkina Faso to mediate with the leaders of...
Cuba has appointed an ambassador to the US – the first since 1961 – as part of the ongoing thaw in relations between the two countries....
For refusing to stop and allegedly giving out the regular bribe, a police corporal fired shots at a family travelling in a tricycle, popularly called keke,...
Five persons including a Bureau De Change operator were yesterday arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) while in the process of...
In what can be described as a defilement to their callings, a pastor and a Mallam, have been jailed for fraud in Ekiti State. Pastor Anjorin...
The military show of might in Burkina Faso on Wednesday was a rehearsal for a full-fledged coup as a shadowy spy master, and former right-hand man...
It’s that time again…. It was hectic trying to decide which of the funny captions deserves to win, but one reader had to get the N10,...
The wife of Mr Steve Nwosu deputy managing director of the Sun Newspapers, Toyin who was abducted on Monday from their Festac, Lagos residence has regained...
The authorities in Saudi Arabia have offered to pay families of the 110 victims who died in last Friday’s crane collapse in the Mecca grand Mosque...
The struggle for who becomes the new Ooni of Ife is taking a new turn as the contestants have involved the court to decide who should...
Mr. Emmanuel Osita Okereke who once signified interest to be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the Nigeria Liberation Party (NLP) is nowhere to...
About 24 hours after some representatives of the League of Imams and Alfas in Ekiti State had ordered Muslims in the state not to collect any...
Apparently unable to come to terms with the reality that their beneficiary, Blasie Campaore, has been toppled by popular uprising, Burkina Faso army troops loyal to...
Following International Criminal Court (ICC) charge to South Africa for not arresting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during a recent visit, the country has been trying every...
As way of quickly rectifying the gaffe of Tuesday, Zimbabwe’s Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has submitted a speech to parliament that the president was supposed to give...
Suspected pipeline vandals went on the offensive on Wednesday killing nine security personnel at Arepo, Ogun State. Details of the incident are still sketchy. Arepo plays...
A surgical scissors that may have been forgotten in the belly of a Nigerian was discovered in Saudi Arabia where he went to perform the annual...
In spite of the ongoing crisis in his country, and the attendant out spill of refugees flocking to Europe, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he would...
Ninety one-year-old President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Monday read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament. He gave the same one during his...
Having being driven from their homes and towns by the insurgency war, occupants of camps set up for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are not finding life...
The kingmakers of Ile Ife kingdom may have decided which ruling House the new Ooni is to come from, but the crisis trailing the emergence of...
The Police in Anambra State does not believe that the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is all about self-actualization, but that...
Located in Gora of Karu local government area in Nasarawa State, about 40 kilometres from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) along the Abuja-Keffi expressway, the Tukur...
Worried by the influx of migrants across its borders, Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two southern counties as tough new laws to stop...
There is no doubt that the Niger-Delta, in the South-South region, is the hub of illegal oil bunkering. But it now has a stiff competitor in...
Nigerian refugees in neighbouring Cameroon are gradually dying as Toby Lanzer, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Africa’s Sahel region, said the Nigerian refugees in the country...
