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Aborted Coup: Yahya Jammeh hurries back to Gambia

Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh said he was returning home from Chad late on Tuesday, after gunfire erupted around the presidential…

UN Security Council defeats Palestine Statehood resolution

The UN Security Council failed Tuesday to adopt a resolution on Palestinian statehood by a vote of eight to two,…

Jonathan ill? Concern over Nigerian leader’s visit to London

*A News Commentary on Jonathan’s private visit abroad Nigerians have expressed concerns over the reason for President Goodluck Jonathan’s private…

2015: Vote Jonathan, Vote Hunger, says Osinbajo

Kazeem Ugbodaga Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, running mate to General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year’s…

Air Asia Crash: I Predicted It —TB Joshua

Prophet T.B. Joshua has released a video via his YouTube channel Emmanuel TV showing a prophecy he gave regarding the…

Aborted Coup in Gambia: Heavy Shooting in Banjul

An attempted military coup in The Gambia was foiled early Tuesday, while President Yahya Jammeh was in France on a…

40 bodies retrieved in AirAsia search

An Indonesian warship recovered more than 40 bodies from the sea Tuesday in the search for the AirAsia jet, a…

Taxation: Sambo is ignorant and deserves pity, Lagos Govt

Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has replied Vice President Namadi Sambo over his accusation that the Lagos Government imposed…

INEC unveils deployment of state commissioners: Full list

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has deployed its Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in the thirty six states and the…

We are yet to endorse presidential candidate, say Igbo traders

Nigeria’s South-East Amalgamated Market Traders Association (SEAMATAS) said on Monday that it had not adopted any candidate for the 2015…

Minister Sells National Theatre Secretly

Barely one year after Nigerians stopped him from turning the National Theatre into a hotel, the Minister of Culture and…

Cameroon Air Force bombs Boko Haram out of seized military camp

Some 1,000 suspected Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria attacked five towns in northern Cameroon over the weekend and briefly occupied…

Jonathan’s victory inevitable, says Asari Dokubo

The leader Of Niger Delta People’s Salvation Front (NDPSF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, has declared Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan the…

Jonathan: Nigeria will be better in four or five years time

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said if Nigeria continued to progress in the manner it is doing under him, the…

Jonathan travels to UK on private visit

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan left Abuja Sunday afternoon for a brief private visit to the United Kingdom. The President was…

Cameroon army routs Boko Haram fighters again, over 100 killed

More than 100 suspected Nigerian Boko Haram militants were killed and over 200 arrested during an operation conducted by Cameroonian…

Weah, ex-Liberian world football star wins senate seat

Former world soccer player of the year George Weah has won a seat in Liberia’s Senate to represent the capital,…

Rumpus in Kano APC over choice of governorship running mate

A major crack has occurred between the supporters of the presidential candidate of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen Muhammadu…

Babangida backs Jonathan, stirs political dust

Nigeria’s former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida has urged Nigerians to support President Goodluck Jonathan in his bid for re-election,…

Trader arrested for gruesome murder of Austria-based lover

Jethro Ibileke/Benin ‎ A Nigerian spare parts trader based in Benin City, Festus Aimufua, has been detained by Edo state…

In video: Buhari’s Lagos meeting with volunteers, what he said

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari today released the videos from his meeting with passionate volunteers…

Where is audit report on missing $20b? APC queries Okonjo-Iweala

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the PDP-led Federal Government of trying to suppress the audit report on the…

Labaran Maku: My governorship ambition alive

He has lost the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party. The Labour Party flatly denied that he has been…

Exclusive: INEC redeploys state commissioners

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta In preparation for the 2015 general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC has redeployed its Resident…

North Korea calls Obama ‘monkey’

North Korea on Saturday blasted US President Barack Obama as a “monkey” inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a…

Buhari: APC will defeat PDP this time

In the first interview he granted since he became the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), retired General…

News analysis: US plagued by doubts as it exits $1trillion Afghan war

by Dan De Luce/Washington After 13 years, the United States is winding down its war in Afghanistan, plagued by doubts…

Buhari’s record at PTF: Tweets of facts

Each time General Muhammadu Buhari declares his aspiration for the highest post in Nigeria, his opponents usually dredge up wild…

APC: WikiLeaks revelations about Jonathan’s incompetence

President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaigners started it by latching on WikiLeaks revelations about US Embassy dispatches on Nigeria’s opposition politicians, such…

N30bn for Buhari campaign? Wike unintellingent, says Rivers Govt

From: Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt Nigeria’s Rivers State government has described the allegation made by governorship candidate of the Peoples…
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