A sizeable deficit in the United Nations peacekeeping budget has led to a backlog of payments to some of its...

A vicious would-be suicide bomber is heading for Nigeria’s vast metropolis of Lagos and only a down-on-her-luck prostitute can stop...

In Hosni Mubarak's final days in office in 2011, the world's gaze focused on Cairo, where hundreds of thousands of...

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) says it will shut down the power sector of the country should thefederal government and the...

Former rebel gunmen freed Libya's prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture...

Is he dead? Is he alive? Who? Well i’m talking of nigeria’s enemy number one- the boko haram leader ibrahim shekau....

  A 30-year-old man, Ejike is lying in critical condition in a private hospital in Nkpor near Onitsha after cutting off his manhood with...

Five significant yet separate events occurred this week: on Monday, the Federal Government, through the joint failures of its ministers of...

A Nigerian pilot, Captain Benson Ikponwosa, has warned that there may be more disasters in Nigeria’s air space if the...

The controversy over lawmakers’ pay has taken a new shape, with a senator proposing the scrapping of the National Assembly – if...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to tackle the crises in the education sector to prevent a shutdown...

A university graduate and two other suspects were on Wednesday paraded by the Lagos State Police Command, following their arrest,...

Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden 's father arrived in Moscow on Thursday and said he hopes to see his...

A fierce gunfight launched against the fundamentalist Islamist group, Boko Haram, by Camerounian soldiers has led to the killing of...

  Stallion Group, the  Renault-Nissan Alliance and West African conglomerate have signed an agreement to start vehicle assembly in Nigeria.The agreement is to...

  Chief Solomon Daushep Lar, one of Nigeria’s veteran politicians, was born 80 years ago in Plateau State, North Central....

The governor of Niger State Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu has accused Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) of not disclosing the...

More than 700 Australian police swooped on the Hells Angels biker gang Thursday in a series of heavily-armed raids in Melbourne and...

Africa, the world’s fastest growing emerging market, is now home to 55 billionaires, with an average net worth of $2.6bn. The...

A 37-year-old man, Ajibola Idowu,  has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly kidnapping the daughter of his...