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N47bn Theft: Akingbola Challenges Court Jurisdiction

Henry Ojelu Former Managing Director of  Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola, today challenged the jurisdiction of a Lagos High…

Boko Haram: Nigerian Students Protest In U.S.

A group of Nigerian students protested outside the Mountainlair on Sunday against the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Boko…

National Confab: Delegates Queue For Hours To Enter Venue

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja with NAN Delegates to the ongoing National Conference on Monday in Abuja queued for about two hours before…

Ezekwesili, Kumuyi Charge Youths On Character Development

Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, and the General Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, have…

Egypt: 529 Morsi supporters sentenced to death

A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a mass…

Police probe Nigerian house of horror

Nigerian police said they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned…

APC wins 6 LGAs, PDP 4 in Nasarawa poll

The Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) has released the results of Saturday’s local government elections, with the PDP winning…

Nigerians topple Russians as third biggest spenders in UK

Nigerians accounted for four percent of shopping in the United Kingdom in February, spending an average of 628 pounds per…

Experts warn over Nigeria’s ‘viagra drinks’

Nike Ajibade and three of her colleagues sit on a Lagos pavement with small plastic bottles of liquids tucked inside…

Sierra Leone bids farewell to Tejan Kabbah

Thousands of Sierra Leoneans gathered under a tropical sun in Freetown’s national stadium on Sunday to pay their last respects…

Suspect Knocks Down EFCC Operative

An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde,has been knocked down by a Honda Accord…

20 die in Bama market bomb

Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in a village near Bama,Borno state, northeastern Nigeria killing…

Reports: US spies on China’s telecom giant Huawei

The US National Security Agency has secretly tapped into the networks of Chinese telecom and internet giant Huawei, the New…

Ailing Algerian leader eyes 4th term in office

.Bouteflika says he is hearkening to the people’s wish Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Saturday his ailing health does not…

Tinubu says Amosun’s projects people-oriented

Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…

Senator Oduoye dies

A former military administrator of Ebonyi state who later became a Nigerian Senator, Simeon Oduoye, is dead. He was aged…

Nasarawa council polls: Voters protest in Doma

Some voters in Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Saturday staged a peaceful protest against the non-availability of…

Fayose to slug it out with Fayemi in Ekiti

A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, was on Satuday declared winner of the PDP governorship primaries in…

Free train riders attack traders, bus drivers

EROMOSELE EBHOMELE There was pandemonium early Saturday at the Agege area of Lagos state, western Nigeria as some free train…

Horrible Day for Arsenal, Wenger at Stamford Bridge

Chelsea ruined Arsene Wenger’s 1000th match celebration, with a humiliating 6-0 bashing of Arsenal, their London neighbours in the Barclays…

Michele Obama backs human rights in China

US First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday emphasised the importance of universal rights, telling a crowd of students in Beijing…

NIS Recruitment Tragedy: 5 more bodies released

The Management of National Hospital, Abuja, has released five more bodies of those who died during Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment…

Arsenal legend Parlour for launch of Airtel Premier

Arsenal legend and former England international, Ray Parlour, is set to visit Nigeria as part of the Arsenal team to…

Teachers boycott Gov. Oshiomhole’s competency test

JEHTRO IBILEKE/Benin Fewer than two hundred school teachers in Edo state, in southern Nigeria, participated in Saturday’s controversial competency test…

China’s satellite picks image of possible MH370-linked object

China has a new satellite image of a large floating object in the Indian Ocean that could be related to…

Borno schools shut because of Boko Haram

Nigeria’s Borno state has ordered all its schools shut to protect children after Boko Haram terrorists killed dozens of pupils…

In Pictures: Award to Jonathan highlights Namibia’s day

President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia has conferred the “Order of Welwitschia”, the highest national honour of that country on President…

Chinese anger mounts over missing Malaysian plane

Police were forced to intervene on Saturday as relatives of Chinese passengers aboard vanished Flight MH370 rushed towards Malaysian officials…

Turkey’s Twitter ban backfires

The global Internet community rallied to help Twitter users in Turkey circumvent a block on the popular messaging service on…