Nigerian troops have continued to gain more grounds in their fight against Boko Haram insurgency as they have taken over four more enclaves of the sect....
After a 16-year-old girl was killed in the new outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone, the health authorities said on Tuesday that they had quarantined almost...
Deputy Managing Director of The Sun Newspapers, Mr Steve Nwosu whose wife, Toyin was kidnapped in the early hours of yesterday does not believe that the...
Just few days after a journalist kidnapped in Port Harcourt, River State regained her freedom, the hoodlums struck again, this time in Lagos State, abducting the...
The controversy trailing the Ooni stool in Ile-Ife, Osun State, may have finally been put to rest as Ife kingmakers have asked the Giesi Ruling House...
The Islamic community in Nigeria is enmeshed in a controversy over the actual date for this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. Jamaátu Nasril Islam, the umbrella body for...
In a bid to support students to keep them attentive in classes and stay healthy by eating balanced diets, Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria,...
After taking in hundreds of migrants and many are still struggling to come, Germany on Sunday re-imposed border controls after Europe’s most powerful nation acknowledged it...
Job seekers angling to get employed into the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) will have to be extra vigilant and exercise caution, in dealing with agents...
The noose appears to be tightening against the Boko Haram insurgent group as scores of its members have surrendered their arms. Army spokesman Sani Usman in...
There was global outrage after footage appeared of Taliban stoning a man and woman to death over allegations of a love affair. The incident was the...
Three Nigerians pilgrims were among the injured in the heavy-duty crane collapse in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday. They, however, sustained...
Coming from the cold about two days after he was reportedly arrested in Saudi Arabia over false claims, a former Chairman, Senate Committee on Culture and...
In from Ali Smart… Worried at the rate at which the nation’s human capital is being wasted through avoidable road accidents, the Federal Roads Safety Corp (FRSC)...
Henceforth any officer or soldier who involves in a proven case of human rights violation should be ready to face tough disciplinary actions, President Muhammadu Buhari...
A French man, who displayed an usual bestiality towards his three-year-old son by stuffing him into a washing machine and setting it on for five minutes...
The death toll in Saudi Arabia crane collapse is now 107 while the number of the injured stands at 230. The authority has commenced investigation into...
Tragedy is gradually taking the shine off this year’s pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as a crane collapsed on Friday killing several people. Just on Wednesday, five...
A former Chairman, Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism, Senator Hassan Barata, is presently cooling his heels in a detention facility in faraway Saudi Arabia, for...
For the roles they played in backing ex-president Blaise Compaore’s failed bid to cling to power last year, Burkina Faso has barred its former foreign minister...
It’s a case of double trouble for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in one of the camps in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, as the place was...
In its first specific commitment towards increasing its acceptance of refugees from war-torn Syria, The United States’ President Barack Obama has directed his administration to prepare...
Intrigues surrounding the selection of a new Ooni of Ife have continued to climb as one of the ruling houses, the Giesi Ruling House has made...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again given clear indications that he is not done with cleaning the public service, especially agencies of the Federal government. He, on...
The judiciary, which is the last hope of the common man, has been hit with serious scandal in Ghana, a country regarded as being ahead of...
Widespread flooding and landslides in north-east Japan have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes. The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo,...
What could have led to the death of four people, one of them a Grade Level 14 officer with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in...
A few weeks after Justice Folahanmi Oloyede received a query from the National Judicial Council (NJC) to explain her role in a divorce mess, Chief Justice...
The death of a female student, Ouchi Anekwe, at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka, on Tuesday has led to the closure of the institution as...
Determined to wear the crown despite the unease that they say usually lies on the head that wears it, the Giesi ruling house has presented a...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Still basking in the euphoria of its recent successes against the Boko Haram terrorist group, the Nigerian army today released 128...
The life of affluence exhibited by some ex-militants who depended on the lucrative contracts of protecting the nation’s oil pipelines may now be over as the...
Though her mother is contesting for the same position, Chelsea Clinton, former first daughter of America is surprisingly one person that thinks Kanye West’s announcement that...
A British Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides. Airport...
Just days after the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, decried the rot in the nation’s civil service, the sad tale has again been brought to the...
The Northern Christian Youth Solidarity Movement for Emancipation, Justice and Self Determination, has condemned what it described as campaign of calumny against the leader of the...
As the refugee crisis leaves a scar on Europe, France has announced a 10 million euro ($11.16 million) emergency fund for housing, health and education of...
It is rare to see people working against their countries in a trying period like war time. But in Nigeria, this seems to be the stock-in-trade...
North and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to hold a further round of reunions of family members separated during the 1950-53 Korean-War next month, the South...
An Unknown number of people may have lost their lives in a mid-air collision involving two planes in Senegal. The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency had...
With the holiday periods fast approaching, with its attendant increase in number and rate of travellers across the country, Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has promised...
A council appointed by Thailand’s military rulers has rejected a controversial new constitution drafted after last year’s coup. A new committee must now be appointed to...
Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx. Critics at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Jordan after calls for Tel Aviv to take...
Bauchi State governor, Mohammed Abubakar, has said that the state’s missing plane has been found in Morocco. He said the plane was hidden in the country...
An aircraft carrying seven people, including a French patient, went down off the coast of Senegal at 7:08 p.m. (1908 GMT) on Saturday. The medical evacuation...
Palpable anxiety now pervades the air in the city of Warri, and the Itsekiri nation is in animated suspense over the health status of the Olu...
The first group of what are expected to be some 10,000 migrants has been greeted in Munich after an arduous journey through Hungary and Austria. German...
In from Ali Smart … Chief Asuquo Ekpenyong Ekpe, the elder brother of the immediate past Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS) Ekpenyong Ita,...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa … Ekiti State government has forwarded a bill to the House of Assembly proposing life imprisonment for any individual convicted of kidnapping....
