Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday approved a request by President Muhammadu Buhari seeking $5.5 billion in foreign loans to finance the national budget and service debts. The external borrowing will...

After playing out a barren draw in the first leg of their inter-continental 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers with Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Australia on Wednesday booked their place in the Mundial with...

The Federal Government on Tuesday linked the 2,671 pump action rifles illegally imported from Turkey but intercepted and seized by men of the Nigeria Customs Service some months ago to the leader of the...

Less than four days to the gubernatorial polls in Anambra State, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim  Idris has withdrawn all the security aides attached to the state governor and candidate...

  Unconfirmed reports this morning claim that President Robert Mugabe who has ruled  Zimbabwe for 36 years has been placed under house arrest by soldiers in what looks like a military coup . Also...

  Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as the ‘boss of bosses’ saying any politician who ignores the elder statesman does so at his or her own...

    Iran’s state-run news agency, IRNA says the  death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit the Kermanshah Province on the Iran-Iraq border has risen to 450. IRNA said the magnitude 7.3...

  The Ministry of Mines and Steel development has debunked claims that it spent ₦700 million to build and update a website. A statement issued on Sunday by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry,...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has recovered a total sum of $64.6 million out of about $115.91 million owed operators in the electricity industry from two of her West African neighbours namely the...

An American woman, Martha O’Donovan charged with subversion in Zimbabwe for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter has been freed after paying the required $1,000 bail. O’Donovan who...

David Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State who was elected into office under the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wants President Muhammadu Buhari to seek re-election  in 2019. Addressing...

A Spanish judge has jailed the Speaker of the Catalonian parliament, Carme Forcadell on a rebellion charge connected with the region’s independence declaration. The judge of the Supreme Court, Pablo...

Eighty-one days after he returned from a medical vacation in the United Kingdom, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday returned to his office which he reportedly abandoned due to an invasion by rats. Since...

Pope Francis has banned the sale of cheap cigarettes to employees and former employees resident in the Vatican City on health grounds. The ban which is expected to take full effect in 2018 is to ensure...

    A German nurse who used lethal drugs on patients out of boredom has been held responsible for the death of 106 people, a figure which could rise as more bodies are exhumed and studied. Investigators...

  The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) is set to embark on the identification and arrest of antagonists of the federal government on social media over what it describes as acts that...

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin has stated that if former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar returns to the party, he will not be given...

According to the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) report released by the International Police Science Association (IPSA) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the Nigeria Police...

 President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presented the sum of ₦8.612 trillion as the 2018 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. The President stated during the session...

Scotland-born tennis star, Andy Murray who got married to his wife, Kim in 2015 has welcomed a second daughter, a year after their first child, Sophia was born. The new child was born in a hospital in...