BREAKING: Iran shoots down US Fighter Jet, pilots missing as crisis escalates 

Follow Us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube
LATEST SCORES:
Loading live scores...

News

Turkish police detain 30 suspects over links to failed coup

Police raid opposition news website office

Turkish Police raided the office of a left-wing opposition news website on Thursday, breaking into the office and searching the…

Army neutralises 6 Boko Haram terrorists, rescue 33

Troops on clearance operations have neutralised six Boko Haram terrorists in Damboa and Bama Local Government Areas of Borno.

South, North Korea agree to modernise cross-border

South and North Koreas have agreed to modernise cross-border roads between the cities of the North Korean border city of…

Rainstorm: Katsina spends N60m on relief materials

The Katsina State Government says it has spent N60 million to provide relief materials to victims of windstorm and torrential…

Migration: Finland ready to cooperate with Germany bilaterally

Finland is ready to cooperate with Germany bilaterally on the issue of migration, the country’s Prime Minister Juha Sipila, said…
Razor blade

Trader slashes landlady with razor blade

A 30 -year-old trader, Mariam Amos, was on Thursday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly inflicting life threatening…

Pope accepts 2 more Chilean bishops’ resignations

Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of two more Chilean bishops caught up in the country’s sexual abuse scandal,…

Britain’s population passes 66 million mark

Britain’s population has officially passed the 66 million mark, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Thursday.

Sultan urges Nigerians to utilise NYSC

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has challenged Nigerians to utilise the advantages of the National Youth Service (NYSC)…
computer-based exams

JAMB: Buhari approves N133m for acquisition of CBT facility

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday approved N133 million for the purchase of…

Pakistan placed on terror financing watch list

Pakistan has been placed on a terror financing watchlist by a global money-laundering watchdog, a move likely to mean even…
Queen Elizabeth II

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth feeling ‘under the weather’

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 92, is feeling unwell and will not attend a special service on Thursday at St Paul’s Cathedral,…

Kaduna fixes June 29 deadline for 2018 Hajj payment

Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board on Thursday said it had fixed Friday, June 29, as the final date for…

India plane crash kills five

Police said five people were killed after a plane chartered by a state government crashed in India’s Mumbai on Thursday.
Fashion designer

Benghazi attack organiser sentenced to 22 years in prison

A court in the U.S. has sentenced Ahmed Khatallah, the organiser of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack on diplomatic…

South Korea, U.S. agree to continue peace measures

Defence chiefs of South Korea and the United States agreed on Thursday to continue peace measures as long as talks…

Australia set to stamp out ‘modern slavery’

Australia is set to halt modern slavery by forcing 3,000 businesses to report what they are doing to avoid using…

Naira hedges against dollar at parallel market

The Naira on Wednesday exchanged at N359.80 to the dollar at the parallel market in Lagos gaining 20 kobo from…

ECOWAS committed to 60% electricity access by 2020

ECOWAS says it is committed to enhancing access to electricity in the sub-region by 60 per cent in line with…

2nd Niger bridge: Nigerian Govt committed to early completion – Minister

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says Federal Government is committed to early completion of the ongoing…
Drama at Enugu Radio Station: EFCC seizes Presenter during live broadcast

Workers drag Energy Commission DG to EFCC

Staff members of the Energy Commission (ECN) of Nigeria have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over alleged…

ECA expects West Africa to grow by 3.3 per cent

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) says the West African States are expected to grow by 3.3 per…

Merkel to boost defence spending amid U.S criticism

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has vowed to significantly boost defence spending amid criticism from the United States that it is…

ANCOPSS tasks government on emphasis on technical education

The Association of National Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) has urged the Federal and State Governments to take…

Iran oil import ban, ‘not binding’ – Turkey

Turkey’s Economy Minister, Nihat Zeybekci, says the U.S. demand for countries to stop importing Iranian oil or face sanctions is…

Ambassador denies recruiting Nigerians to work in Saudi Arabia

Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Justice Isa Dodo, has refuted media report that he connived with human traffickers to recruit…
Child marriage still prevalent in Nigeria

Child marriage increases in South Sudan, Kenya

Child marriage is increasing in parts of war-torn South Sudan and drought-hit Kenya as parents swap their daughters for cows…

Pakistani court bans another Sharif loyalist from politics

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ‘s on Thursday banned another loyalist of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from politics for five years,…

U.S. lawmakers reject Trump-backed immigration bill

U.S. lawmakers in the lower house resoundingly defeated an immigration reform bill on Wednesday with the so-called moderate legislation coming…

Knife-wielding man kills 2 primary schoolchildren in Shanghai

A man armed with a knife attacked students at the entrance to a primary school in Shanghai’s central Xuhui district…