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AAG: Nigeria’s Onyema sets world record in powerlifting

Team Nigeria have once again put the name of the country on the world map setting a new world record…

Niger increases budget on Boko Haram – govt

Niger increased its 2015 budget by 53.40 billion CFA ($92.16 million) to factor in higher spending on the fight against…

Corporate social responsibility should be voluntary— Fashola

Former Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Wednesday described Corporate Social Responsibility in its purest sense as business…

“Office boy vacancy” attracts 2.3 million applications

More than 2.3 million people have applied to be general assistants in regional government offices in northern India, officials say…
Court grants EFCC interim order to freeze 1,146 bank accounts being investigated for unauthorized dealing in forex exchange, others

EFCC arrests 3 men trying to blackmail Water Board director

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday September 16, 2015 arrested the trio of Yakubu Dankaba (aka Yakubu…

PICTURES: Wives of APC governors dazzle at National Women Conference

The wives of Lagos, Kebbi and Niger state governors dazzled at the National Women Conference at Eko Hotels & Suite…

Saudi Arabia diplomat accused of rape withdrawn from India

A Saudi Arabian Diplomat, identified as Majed-Hassan Ashoor, the First Secretary at the Saudi Embassy in New Delhi, accused of…

Landlord arraigned over tenant’s missing $6,000

Izuekwe Cyriacus A 60-year-old landlord, Cletus Egwuatumba, and his secretary, Ngozi Onuaju, 36, have landed in trouble after they illegally…

Abducted son of UNIPORT VC freed

Ejire Lale, son of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, abducted on Monday by gunmen has been…

Nigerian refugees in ‘atrocious’ situation in Niger – UN

AFP – Thousands of Nigerian refugees who fled to southeast Niger to escape the Islamist group Boko Haram are in…
Vice President Kashim Shettima

Cholera kills 16 Borno, medical charity MSF calls for help

Cholera has killed 16 people in three camps in Nigeria housing over one million people who have fled the Boko…

Ogun NUJ decries detention of 7 journalists by judge

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Ogun state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has condemned the detention of seven of…

What PDP needs to learn – Ondo guber aspirant

Odunayo Akinrinsola, a governorship aspirant in Ondo State, Nigeria on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), believes the Peoples…

2019: PDP regroups, plots to recapture power from APC

FEMI ADI/Kaduna Five months after they were dethroned by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State, Peoples Democratic Party,…

Outrage over Burkina Faso coup

Outrage has continued to greet the military take-over of the government in the tiny West African country of Burkina Faso.…

‘Wada must go protesters’ block Abuja-Lokoja Highway

Taiwo Adelu Travellers going from Abuja and those coming to the capital city had a hectic journey as workers of…

Kidnappers release Toyin, wife of The Sun DMD, Steve Nwosu

Femi Anjorin Unconfirmed report said that the wife of the Deputy Managing Director/ Deputy Editor-in Chief of the Sun Publishing…

A Letter To My Friend Dimgba Igwe By Mike Awoyinfa

My friend, my brother, my Ogbeni Dimgba Igwe. One year after your painful exit, the wound is yet to heal.…

Bayelsa guber: APC raises security concerns

The All Progressives Congress (APC) seven-man Bayelsa State Election Committee on Wednesday in Abuja raised concern over insecurity during the…

Fuelling of ships to combat sea pirates a major challenge – Ango

Rear Admiral Jonathan Ango, a former Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy, on Wednesday said…

Daily habit that’s hurting your liver

It’s well known that sitting has been associated with obesity, diabetes and even anxiety, but the simple act of sitting…

Centre for Crisis Communication lauds Buhari’s dialogue with Boko Haram

The Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC), a Non-governmental Organisation (NGO), has expressed satisfaction with the recent pronouncement by President Muhammadu…

South Africa’s new human ancestor sparks racial row

Some prominent South Africans have dismissed the discovery of a new human ancestor as a racist theory designed to cast…

Malaria deaths down 60% since 2000, thanks to diagnostics, mosquito nets

Geneva (AFP) – Malaria deaths worldwide have fallen by 60 percent since 2000, the UN said, with improved diagnostic tests…

Burkina Faso guards detain president, prime minister

AFP – Burkina Faso’s presidential guard detained the interim president and prime minister, plunging the west African country into uncertainty…

A decade after write-offs, Africa sliding back into debt trap

By Ed Cropley Reuters – With their economies floundering and currencies sinking, African states that have borrowed heavily in dollars…

Mugabe plans law for public officials to declare assets

President Robert Mugabe’s government will introduce a law in Zimbabwe’s parliament that requires senior public officials to declare assets as…

Amnesty urges Cameroon to investigate abuses in Boko Haram fight

Reuters – Amnesty International urged Cameroon on Wednesday to investigate the death of 25 prisoners and disappearance of 130 people…

A’Ibom guber tribunal rejects INEC’S objection on destroyed ballot papers

The Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja on Wednesday September 16, 2015 overruled an objection by the…

Oshiomhole nominates new Commissioners in Edo

The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has nominated Chief Tom Uloko and Mr Gideon Obhakhan as Commissioners-designate in the…