Six days after he was injured by shrapnel in the head while covering a Syrian army bombardment in the province of Homs, Al Jazeera cameraman Zakaria...
The Momotombo Volcano in Nicaragua has erupted for the first time since 1905. Although volcanoes can experience periods of dormancy and activity, very little is known...
Nifemi Daniel The financial crisis in the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, is already affecting the U-23 Eagles who are currently participating at the African U-23 Championship...
Controversial businessman cum politician, Donald Trump, may have ruffled some feathers after calling for an outright ban of Muslims entering the United States. The Republican presidential...
Nifemi Daniel The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) are not leaving any stone unturned in their quest to qualify for the 2017 Nations Cup at the expense...
Mohamed Abdulahi Hassan, an American fugitive, has turned himself in to authorities, the State Department announced today. Known as ‘Miski’ online, officials say he is suspected...
Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, has confirmed the death of a senior leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya. According to the Pentagon...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved N6 trillion expenditures for 2016 Budget under the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). He made the presentation at the Federal...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday alleged there was a plot to frustrate the trial of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime...
Dangote Cement Plc upturned what was visibly a down market to sustain the overall market position in the positive. With 30 losers to 16 gainers, the...
In from Ali Smart . . . As part of his campaign promises during the political hustling, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to pay all unemployed Nigerian...
The crisis rocking the governorship election in Kogi State appears far over as the state’s deputy governor elect, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, yesterday insisted that he...
Nigeria will require a N79 billion budgetary allocation to provide health insurance for vulnerable Nigerians in 2016, the acting Executive Secretary of Nigeria Health Insurance Scheme...
By Ishola Taiwo . . . Common sense informs us that war between nations – or within a nation between antagonistic groups – is a bad...
By Chido Onuma I am a child of Biafra. I was born on the eve of that avoidable and internecine civil war. My father fought in...
By Reuben Abati A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be...
By Adeola Aderounmu One day my phone rang 5 minutes after l returned home from a shopping mall. I had done the weekly grocery shopping for...
Sir Alex Ferguson believes it would be “foolish” for Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, to sack manager Jose Mourinho and backed the Portuguese to turn things around...
President Muhammadu Buhari was on Monday at the Book Launch of Minister of Science & Technology Mr Ogbonnaya Onu at the Yar-Adua Conference Centre Abuja Photo:...
Nifemi Daniel Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has invited Nigeria Premier League highest goal scorer, Gbolahan Salami, to lead the home-based team for the first phase...
In from Nifemi Daniel . . . Super Eagles striker Anthony Ujah was in fine form Sunday as he helped his German club, Werder Bremen salvage...
The prestigious annual Grammy awards returns to L.A’s Staples Centre on the 15th of February 2016 and the first batch of nominees across 83 categories have...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Seasoned Nollywood filmmaker and director Don Pedro Obaseki is gunning to become the next governor of Edo State, much...
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . YBNL honcho Olamide has been accused of copyright theft by Divine Austen Peters better known as Deevee who makes...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday announced the cancellation of the election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in the Bayelsa State governorship election....
In from Ahmed Boulor . . . Early last month, Chinedu Okoli popularly known as Flavour sparked a cold war between his baby mamas when he...
The FBI are investigating Sepp Blatter’s role in a bribery scandal where $100million was paid to FIFA officials. The outgoing president is being investigated by the...
Arsène Wenger is hoping Arsenal can qualify for the Champions League knockout stages for the 16th consecutive season. Arsenal know exactly what they need to do...
Manchester United are reportedly plotting a sensational £50m summer bid for England striker Harry Kane. The 13-time Premier League champions, who dropped to fourth in the...
The suburb of Onicha-Ukwani community, Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State was thrown into disarray at the weekend when suspected Fulani herdsmen abducted three building...
In from Ahmed Boulor The rocky union between radio personality Toke Makinwa and her estranged husband Maje Ayida may not be over after all as the...
In from Success Allantee . . . Rwanda and Uganda have become the first East African countries to become members of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), bringing...
A recent study has shown that meditation can help reduce stress and ease symptoms of anxiety and depression, which are related to myriad health conditions. Want...
Mars may one day have rings similar to Saturn’s famous halo, new research suggests. In a few tens of millions of years, the Red Planet may...
Four months after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that doctors had told him that four spots of cancer had spread to his brain, he announced...
Senior security officials in Burkina Faso reveal that General Gilbert Diendere who was the ring leader in a failed coup last September has been charged with...
The growing trend of radicalism which has resulted in countless suicide bomb attacks and senseless massacres around the world and recently in America when a young...
In from Etaghene Edirin . . . It hit Nigerians, especially users of the social media, with a bang, more so because no one had any...
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the Bayelsa governorship election and incumbent governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, has taken an early lead with the results...
Nifemi Daniel U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has expressed confidence in his team’s ability to shock host, Senegal, in the semifinal of the ongoing Under-23 Africa...
Nifemi Daniel Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has praised manager Quique Sanchez Flores’ game plan which he described as the inspiration behind the team’s a 2-0...
Tragedy struck on Sunday when a car bomb killed the governor of the Yemeni city of Aden, Major General Jaafar Mohammed Saad and five of his...
An activist group in Syria claims that at least 32 Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed and 40 more injured during an airstrike on the...
The Department of State Services, DSS, Sunday, disclosed that it had arrested two of its operatives out of five that were involved in an armed robbery...
The Peoples Democratic Party, Sunday, described the declaration of the All Progressive Congress’ Yahaya Bello as governor-elect of Kogi State as a waste of time, resources...
The federal government at the weekend described agitation by pro-Biafra protesters in the Southeast as completely legitimate. The FG stated this at the weekend through the...
The FCT Police Command has started Investigation into the death of a teenage hawker who died while trying escape arrest by officials of the Abuja Environmental...
Donald Trump has been hit with a below the belt attack after a major supporter of Jeb Bush sponsored a full-page newspaper advert targeting Trump as...
About 44 million French nationals will troop out today to cast their votes in the first round of regional elections, the first electoral challenge since the...
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West welcomed a new son to their family on Saturday, the couple announced. “Mother and son are doing well,” the couple said...
