The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped Cameroon of the hosting rights for the 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON). The decision was reached on Friday after the CAF executive committee...

World War II and former United States President, George Herbert Walker Bush has died at the age of 94. According to a statement released by his family on Friday night, Bush, who was elected the 41st President...

Congolese authorities have confirmed that the security threat against the United States government facilities that has kept its embassy in the country closed all week was real and serious. The US embassy...

Troops of 6 Division of the Nigerian Army on a routine surveillance on Thursday discovered what it called an ‘illegal militia training camp’at the NYSC Orientation Camp at Nonwa Gbam in Tai Local Government...

Ahead of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to a debate. Speaking at the meeting...

The Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Thursday said the crisis currently rocking the state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has gone beyond reconciliation. Speaking when...

In a renewed bid to curb the activities of Boko Haram, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held a one-day consultative meeting with Heads of State and Governments of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC)...

The Kano State caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the National Assembly on Thursday declared their full support for President Muhammad Buhari and their state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje...

The Nigerian government has asked the United States not to create an impression of endorsing the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election of...

Celebrated American television host and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey has urged young people in South Africa not to give up on their dreams by emulating the life of the country’s first black president,...

Preferred governorship candidate of Ogun State governor, Adekunle Akinlade, has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Allied People’s Movement (APM). Mr Akinlade lost to Dapo Abiodun...

A massive Australian cow named Knickers has been spared the slaughterhouse and the dinner table due to its sheer size. The behemoth bovine hails from a farm in the town of Myalup in Western Australia...

Nigerian artiste, Modupe-Oreoluwa Oyeyemi popularly known as Mo Cheddah has revealed that she once battled depression to the point of considering jumping off the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The 28-year-old,...

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has attributed the huge military losses in recent weeks to Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East to the use of drones and foreign fighters by the...

A Nigeria Police inspector attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Ikeja on Wednesday allegedly shot and killed an official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA)...

Business mogul, Femi Otedola on Wednesday insisted that a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan demanded a $3 million bribe to exonerate his company from alleged subsidy fraud. Lawan...

The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha on Wednesday announced the movement of his son-in-law and Chief of Staff, Mr. Uche Nwosu, other aides and some members of the state House of Assembly from...

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the good-natured, pineapple-dwelling yellow sponge and a motley crew of sea creatures of the Television programme, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ has died at 57. The programme,...

The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs in the country following the killing of over 100 Nigerian soldiers in Metele, Borno...

There was mild drama on Tuesday when Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki walked the Managing Director  of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), Mrs. Funke Osibodu out of his office for allegedly...