A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a crowded market in northern Nigeria, killing six people, security sources said, blaming the attack on the Boko...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has flagged-off a collaborative operation with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Red Cross Society and other critical stakeholders in...
More than 1.8 million Russian nationals living abroad will be able to cast their votes during the 2018 presidential election at more than 360 polling stations...
Motorists have had to abandon their vehicles in icy conditions in the Lake District and hundreds of passengers have been stranded at airports after their flights...
Music will play, fireworks will explode and shimmer; then at the stroke of midnight on 1 January, Bulgaria, the poorest and “most corrupt” country in the...
A Muslim indigenous community on the Philippine island of Mindanao has suffered widespread human right abuses that could intensify with President Rodrigo Duterte’s extension of martial...
The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar on Thursday called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to...
Ten ships laden with petrol are expected to sail into Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports from Dec. 28 to Dec. 30, the Nigerian Ports Authority...
Peru’s Minister of Culture, Salvador Solar, has resigned, amid outrage over the recent presidential pardoning of jailed ex-dictator, Alberto Fujimori. “I thank the president of the...
The Turkish police has detained 38 people, some of who are Syrian citizens, over suspected links to Islamic State in an operation on Thursday in the...
China on Thursday waived visas for visitors from 53 countries to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei for up to six days, state media said on Thursday. People’s...
The Presidency has dismissed as `fake news’ an online story that the President’s son, Yusuf Buhari was flown out of the country early Thursday morning following...
Media guru, Biola Alabi, has stated that she is currently not eyeing the job of incumbent Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Alabi’s reaction is coming following a...
Former President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton retained their titles among U.S. adults as the most admired man and woman anywhere in the...
Very long queues formed at petrol stations across Nigeria Tuesday, with motorists sometimes waiting up to 24 hours to fill up their tanks, as Africa’s number...
A 74-year-old man was charged on Thursday with posting a bullet and threatening letter to Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce. The man was charged with...
Retired army chief Constantino Chiwenga, who led a de facto coup in November that ended Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule, was installed as Zimbabwe’s vice president in...
Presiding Bishop and Founder of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo has called for a peaceful succession to the throne of Olomu of Omu- Aran...
Russia and the Vatican disagree with the decision of President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to relocate the U.S. embassy...
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, says allegations of theft at the airport from top artistes, Wizkid and Tiwa Savage is baseless and false. On...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) have increased the tempo of unscheduled visits to fuel stations in Abuja suspected to...
Residents of Ibadan metropolis have lauded the synergy between Oyo State Government and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Oyo State Office which led to the sealing...
Libya transported 142 illegal migrants back to Guinea with the help of the UN migration agency, officials said. The number of people stuck in Libyan detention...
The Federal Government says it is committed to bringing back all Nigerians who are willing to return from Libya. The Director General of the National Emergency...
The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission to Liberia has released its preliminary report on Tuesday’s presidential runoff polls in the country, declaring it as peaceful, transparent and...
Immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President AtikuAbubakar sent early messages to sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari over the motorcycle accident of his son. Yusuf....
Wounded son of President Buhari, Yusuf Buhari has been flown out of the country early Thursday morning following his severe head injury in a bike crash,...
President Muhammadu Buhari‘s son Yusuf Buhari was involved in a bike accident, the presidency has said. The announcement was made on the presidency’s official Twitter @NGRPresident, saying the...
Nigerian Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, raised over N300 million for charity during his 50th birthday celebrations, Punch reports. Present at the celebration...
• Alleges $1.1tr fuel diverted through 18 unregistered firms • NNPC denies non-allocation of product to marketers • Govt pays self N1.4 billion subsidy daily •...
The incessant fuel scarcity plaquing the country will soon become a thing of the past, a Bayelsa based industrialist, Dr. Azibapu Eruani, has said. Eruani, an...
Hon. Essien Okiemute, a former member of the Delta State House of Assembly, spoke with Polycarp Orosevwotu in Isoko on why President Muhammadu Buhari should be...
Ijaw youths, yesterday, lampooned shipowners in Nigeria following their call to sack the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) , Dr. Dakuku...
Deputy prime minister admits programmers gave the $45m device coordinates for Baikonur rather than Vostochny cosmodrome A Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying Russia’s Meteor-M 2-1 weather satellite and...
Paul Bayes, bishop of Liverpool, accuses some religious leaders of ‘colluding with a system that marginalises the poor’ Donald Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm...
Consent given to turn reactors at the massive Kashiwazaki-kariwa plant back on, but Japanese worry over active fault lines and mismanagement If a single structure can...
2017 was a brutal year for young people caught in conflict, UN agency says, citing their recruitment as fighters and bombers Children caught in war zones...
The Police on Wednesday in Lokoja paraded 30 inter-state armed robbery and kidnap suspects terrorising Kogi and the neighbouring states. Parading the suspects, the Force Public...
Israel wants to name a train station after Donald Trump to thank him for recognising Jerusalem as its capital, Transport Minister Israel Katz said in a...
A 71-year-old widow, Mrs Edna Osaghae has begged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to resolve the mystery surrounding the illegal takeover of her property in Magodo by government...
