Political pressure mounted on President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday with scathing editorials and growing anger at a seven-hour delay in deploying a Special Forces Unit that...
U.S. reality TV star, Kim Kardashian received a rapturous welcome in her ancestors’ homeland, Armenia, on a visit that could draw attention to the 100th anniversary...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Monday Tommy Joshua as the Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO). A statement issued from NECO and made...
The wife of Ekiti governor, Feyisetan Fayose, on Thursday condemned the act of dumping babies on refuse heaps. She spoke during a visit to the Erelu...
Islamic State (IS) extremists on Thursday executed around 300 Sunni Iraqis. Security sources said the action was in retaliation for the government’s launch of a major...
The Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered restriction of vehicular movement in the 36 states, from 8 a.m to 5 p.m for the governorship and...
An unidentified young man with earphone on, was on Wednesday killed by a passenger train at Cappa area of Oshodi, Lagos. A Correspondent of the News...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it would cooperate with the in-coming All Progressives Congress (APC) government for improved development of the country. The party’s National...
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, has congratulated Harold Ekeh for gaining admission into 8 Ivy League schools in the United State at the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday warned individuals and corporate organisations against the use of foreign currency to carry out transactions in the country....
Burkina Faso Lawmakers have modified the electoral code to prevent people from standing for office if they supported a failed move in 2014 to allow then...
Nigeria’s in-coming First Lady, Aisha Buhari, said women would enjoy a better deal under the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as soon as he was inaugurated. This...
The French parliament has adopted an amendment to a sweeping health law that would prohibit fashion models from having an abnormally low body mass index (BMI)....
Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab is again threatening Kenya with more bloodshed. “Our message will be written to you not with words, but with the blood of...
The European Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s concession of defeat before the announcement of the presidential election result as an...
Germany’s Lufthansa Group on Tuesday announced the cancellation of its 60-year anniversary celebration to respect the crash victims of flight 4U9525. Lufthansa spokesman, Michael Lamberty announced...
Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman recognised as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records, died on Wednesday. Okawa was born on March 5, 1898...
Yemi Osinbajo, the Vice-President-elect, on Wednesday said that God had done an awesome thing in giving his party victory in the presidential election. Osinbajo, who ran...
Remi Sonaiya of KOWA Party on Tuesday congratulated Muhammadu Buhari on his victory in the presidential election, and reminded him that the expectations of Nigerians were...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday advised the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to demonstrate magnanimity over his victory in the Saturday’s presidential election. Obasanjo gave the advice...
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