There was drama at INEC office in Benin, during announcement of results from the governorship election, as two parties refused to sign the final result sheet....
‘African Queen’ Crooner Innocent Ujah Idibia returned to Rwanda for the first time in 10 years to honour an invitation to perform at an event but...
Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to change its “brutish strategy and style” of arrest and...
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) and launchers of Operation Crocodile Tears, has bombed another Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) delivery line in Delta State....
With results from about 16 local governments so far announced by INEC, Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is set to emerge winner of...
Amnesty International has accused Sudanese forces of killing scores of civilians using chemical weapons in the Darfur region of the country. According to reports by the...
A 35-year-old man, Ejike Onyejekwe, has been killed in the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State by yet to be identified person. PUNCH Metro learnt that...
Nigerian Federal Government has announced Monday, October 3, as Public Holiday to mark the country’s 56th Independence Anniversary. This is contained in a statement signed by...
Residents of FESTAC Town area of Lagos State were left in a state of shock when the body of a 35-year-old man, identified as Ejike Onyejekwe...
The Somali government has suggested that the US was deceived into launching an airstrike in northern Somalia which claimed the lives of 22 soldiers. An official...
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government is yet to decide on the sale of national...
For the second time, a 17-year-old blogger based in Singapore has been sentenced to jail for “wounding religious feelings” with his comments. Amos Yee will now...
Steve McClaren feels Sam Allardyce has paid the price for a lack of privacy in sport following a damning newspaper report that led to the premature...
Jurgen Klinsmann has distanced himself from the England job in the wake of Sam Allardyce’s departure. Klinsmann was interested in the job this summer, according to...
Wayne Rooney may not start Manchester United’s Europa League match against Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk for his own protection as he is struggling with a back...
Arsenal midfield maestro Mesut Ozil has described Super Eagles striker, Alex Iwobi, as the perfect blend of Jay-Jay Okocha and Edgar Davids. Iwobi, 20, has been...
Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of suffocate freedom of expression through constant arrest and detention of journalists, bloggers and peaceful protesters. According to Amnesty...
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has described as unpardonable the criticism by a United Kingdom-based magazine, on its ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaign. The magazine in...
Arsenal beat Basel 2-0, Paris Saint-Germain won 3-1 at Ludogorets Razgrad, Besiktas drew 1-1 with Dynamo Kiev and Napoli defeated Benfica 4-2. Alexis Sanchez twice set...
Bayern Munich’s perfect start to the season under coach Carlo Ancelotti came to an end as Jannick Carrasco’s first-half goal gave Atletico Madrid a 1-0 home...
Barcelona battled back from a goal down and scored twice in the second half to beat hosts Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 in their Champions League Group C...
Moussa Dembele scored twice as Celtic took the lead three times to draw 3-3 against Manchester City in the Champions League. Manchester City’s winning streak under...
Abdulmumin Jibrin said he has instructed his lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), to file charges of contempt against Speaker Dogara and the House of Representatives over his...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised an alarm over what it called plans by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rig the Edo State governorship...
Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, acclaimed leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday met behind closed-doors in Lagos. Both had been...
The First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama has hit the trail to campaign for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Michelle according to reports...
Separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has faulted comments by President Muhammadu Buhari who remarked during a recent media event in New York, USA that...
Super Eagles and Arsenal striker, Alex Iwobi, says he has put behind his absence from the football event of the Rio Olympics describing it as a...
Mobile phone makers BlackBerry has announced that it plans to stop phone production as the struggling company continues to focus on its software and security products....
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot deny igbo people the right to a referendum. The separatist group was reacting to...
Man who claimed to be a pastor, Raji Michael Ayoola, has been arraigned at the Federal High Court in Lagos for trying to export banned narcotics....
Heavy typhoon rains in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on Wednesday has caused landslides to crash into Sucun village state media reveals. At least 27 people have...
A report by international prosecutors reveals that the ill-fated Malaysian MH17 airliner which was downed in eastern Ukraine was shot down by a Russian-made Buk missile...
Former Vice President and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has asked Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the party national Chairman to retrace...
Former Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Sir Etim Okon Inyang, was on Wednesday confirmed dead by the family. The family, in a statement signed by the...
Wife of the governor of Lagos state, and chairman, Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO), Mrs. Bolanle Ambode has said that the committee will...
Nigerian House of Representatives on Wednesday suspended Abdulmumin Jibrin for 180 legislative days and banned him from holding positions of authority for the rest of the...
A day after the media was awash with reports that Nollywood actor Kalu Ikeagwu was arrested and later released by men of the Nigerian police over...
323 entertainment record label boss, Tunji Balogun aka TeeBillz turned a year older two days back and what has got many talking is the fact that...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has handed down harsher conditions for Nigeria to meet before being bailed out of its present economic recession. This was disclosed...
The death of former leader Shimon Peres who passed on in a hospital after suffering a major stroke when his condition worsened following a stroke two...
An Akure Customary Court has dissolved a 15-year marriage between Mr Adeniyi and Mrs Olayinka Adebayo over wife’s desertion of matrimonial home. Mrs Adebayo, a housewife...
Lawyer to the Federal Government, Aliyu Umar, has told a High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Yusuf Haliru to adjourn the alleged forgery trial...
A pastor with a Pentecostal ministry, Chinedu Rockson, has accused the management of Ilogbo Central Hospital in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos State of removing his...
Borno State Commissioner for Environment, Waziri Imam died on Wednesday morning (today) after a brief illness. The former commissioner reportedly died at the University of Maiduguri...
The crisis of leadership bedevilling the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to be drawing to an end. The two factional chairmen of...
The world has welcomed its first baby with DNA from three parents in the embryo in a controversial new technique by US scientists. According to a...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wants the Supreme Court to remove Cross River State Governor Benedict Ayade from office over alleged falsification of age. PDP had...
A former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo Dudafa, has prayed the court to nullify the guilty plea by four companies linked...
Egyptian rescue officials have revealed that the death toll arising from the wreck of a boat which drowned hundreds of migrants at the Mediterranean Sea has...
