Boko Haram insurgents  reportedly captured Gudumbali, a community in Gudumbali Local Government Area of Borno State on Friday, forcing its residents to flee to neighbouring towns and communities.  The...

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 75 people, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death and jailed more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of...

Prominent American rap artiste, Mac Miller has died of an apparent drug overdose. According to reports from TMZ, the 26-year-old rapper who was the former boyfriend to Ariana Grande had reportedly struggled...

The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose on Saturday announced that he has withdrawn his plan to run for the position of Nigeria’s President during the 2019 general elections. Fayose who had earlier...

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised its members not to pitch tents with any aspirant for elective position in the 2019 elections. Chairman of the Board,...

Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has asked Nigerians to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2019 general election in order to rescue Nigeria from becoming a failed state. Speaking...

  A gun duel between soldiers of ‘Operation Whirl Stroke and armed herdsmen in Tse Chiata, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State has left several casualties in its wake. Reports say the exchange...

  Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will stick to indirect primaries in electing candidates that will fly the party’s flag in the 2019 elections despite pressures from...

According to the latest figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the number of eligible registered voters in Nigeria has hit 84.27 million The Chairman of the electoral...

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday hosted a team of young girls who made the country proud by winning gold at the World Technovation Challenge held in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco,...

Omoyele Sowore, a presidential hopeful in Nigeria and publisher of an online newspaper, Sahara Reporters says he will make the country a marijuana exporting hub if elected as the country’s president. The...

A South Sudanese military court on Thursday sentenced ten soldiers to jail terms ranging from seven years to life for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in an assault...

The Presidency on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari was not power drunk and had no intention of clinging onto power against the wishes of millions of Nigerians. He however vowed not to change his...

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has maintained that corrupt politicians defecting from one political party to another would not be shielded from...

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday claimed that it is concluding discussions with six state governors and 27 members of the National Assembly elected on the platform of the ruling...

President Muhammadu Buhari will not have to pay for the nomination forms of the ruling All Progressives Congress for the 2019 presidential election because it has been allegedly paid for by a group of...

The Abuja High Court 14 presided over by Hon. Justice A. O. Musa on Tuesday, September 4  granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman,...

Dr. Mahmoud Halilu Ahmed, the younger brother to Nigeria’s Fist Lady, Aisha Buhari has formally joined the governorship race in Adamawa State under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress...

  A former governor of Kano State and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ibrahim Shekarau has debunked a claim by his spokesman, Sule Ya’u that he has dumped the party...

Manchester United of England’s manager, Jose Mourinho has accepted a one-year suspended prison sentence to settle a £2.9 million tax evasion fraud case he was facing in Spain. The settlement comes...